Teams of Indiana University students who created a real-time interactive platform for sports fans and an Internet-based tuxedo rental business that provides online fittings have won IU Bloomington's BEST Competition. Each start-up company, founded by students from Kelley School of Business and the School of Informatics and Computing, will receive a $100,000 investment.

With privacy concerns addressed, Indiana University has re-released the free app Kinsey Reporter, a global mobile survey platform for collecting and reporting anonymous data about sexual and other intimate behaviors.

NASA's Operation IceBridge mission wraps up its spring flight season this week, gathering radar data about Earth's polar ice sheets to help scientists better understand global climate change. The twice-yearly IceBridge missions generate massive amounts of data -- all stored and archived by Indiana University's research cyberinfrastructure.

Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).

Indiana University's new supercomputer is expected to further advance international collaborations reliant on big data research at a time when the globalization of education, science and research is omnipresent.

Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann will keynote the next event in the Indiana Life Sciences Collaboration Conference Series on May 10 in downtown Indianapolis. The theme for the conference is, "Public-Private Partnerships: Transferring Discoveries Out of Universities."

Indiana University and Internet2 announced a $2 million initiative to stimulate collaboration in higher education cybersecurity efforts in response to President Obama's cybersecurity challenge.

About 20 IU undergraduate women participated in a full day of tours and meetings at Argonne National Laboratory just outside Chicago as part of IU initiatives focused on science, technology and mathematics careers. Argonne employs 1,250 scientists, and also 650 graduate and undergraduate students, who work on some of the most advanced research topics related to energy, the environment and national security.

Indiana University has saved nearly $20 million by joining with other universities to reduce administrative costs for essential financial software systems.

IUanyWare, Indiana University's cloud software service, is a 2013 recipient of ACUTA's prestigious Institutional Excellence award. ACUTA (the Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education) is an international nonprofit dedicated to serving the needs of higher education, including nearly 2,000 individuals at some 700 institutions.

Indiana University shares its expertise in advanced networking with the launch of a new lecture series for state business and industry leaders. Hosted by IU's Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) and Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC), the IU NetTalk Series will kick off at 6 p.m. on May 7 in the ICTC building on the IUPUI campus.

Google has funded an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Education to develop a "Big Open Online Course," or BOOC. Daniel Hickey will offer a free course in September focused on educators and titled "Assessment Practices, Principles, and Policies" for as many as 500 students, funded by a $50,000 Google grant.

Two researchers at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing -- David Crandall and Apu Kapadia -- have each been awarded the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award in support of early career development.

Indiana University has signed agreements with Blackboard Inc. and Desire2Learn Inc. to join Next.IU, the two-year pilot program to assess the technologies that best support teaching and learning at the university. Next.IU launched in fall 2012 with exploratory studies of Instructure's Canvas learning management system (LMS) and CourseNetworking's social media-based learning environment.

Indiana University today announces SAGE as the latest publisher to sign on to its eTexts initiative. SAGE is now the 11th publisher to partner with the university to provide digital materials to students on all IU campuses.

Indiana University has announced an agreement with Cengage Learning to provide eTexts for students on all IU campuses. With this addition, IU reaches an important milestone: Faculty and students now have favorable pricing for and access to digital materials from all of IU's largest publishers.

IEEE Cluster 2013 conference organizers are seeking input from the high performance computing community, in an effort to make the "Clusters and Cyberinfrastructure Strategy" event as informative as possible. Hosted by Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, Cluster 2013 will take place September 23-27, 2013, at the Hilton Hotel in Indianapolis.

Nearly 10,000 Indiana University students are using digital textbooks (eTexts) this spring semester as part of IU's pioneering eTexts initiative. eTexts let students study with leading textbooks or faculty-edited course packs on just about any computer, tablet or smartphone.

The media called it "The Twitter Predictor," and some scoffed at the idea that by analyzing activity on the social media tool one could predict economic markets like the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But today, Indiana University associate professor Johan Bollen's work received a rare form of validation: a United States patent.

The Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) at Indiana University is hosting its first single-controller vendor Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Lab PlugFest this Feb. 19-21 in Indianapolis. The event will let SDN Lab members test the interoperability of their products with Big Switch Networks' commercial controller, the Big Network Controller. Equipment from SDN switch vendors Dell, Extreme Networks, HP, IBM and NEC as well as SDN testing manufacturers Ixia and Spirent will be tested at the event. Big Switch Networks is a founding member of the SDN Lab.

IU's new cloud software service, IUanyWare, is a finalist for a TechPoint Mira Award in "Technology in Education Excellence & Innovation." TechPoint is a nonprofit organization that represents Indiana's technology community. Since 2000, the Mira Awards have recognized the movers and shakers of the state's IT industry.

Indiana University and Adobe are partnering to present Adobe Days 2013 on the IUPUI and IU Bloomington campuses. The third annual event showcases Adobe tools and resources that help students and instructors of all disciplines connect, discover, create and inspire.

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order designed to improve the nation's cybersecurity by enabling the government to share more information with private industry partners and developing a new framework to reduce risks. Indiana University experts Fred H. Cate and David P. Fidler offer their comments.

Indiana University professor L. Jean Camp has a problem in that she can't keep her security informatics students in class: They keep finding jobs before they finish the master's degree program that IU initiated just five years ago.

New research from Indiana University has found that machine learning -- the same computer science discipline that helped create voice recognition systems, self-driving cars and credit card fraud detection systems -- can drastically improve both the cost and quality of health care in the United States.