2009 has been a year to remember for Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University computational scientist. And according to HPCwire, the popular computing publication, in 2010 Fox will be someone to watch. Fox has been named one of the high performance computing "People to Watch in 2010" by the online magazine. The annual list recognizes "the most influential, interesting and promising personalities having an impact on the world of High Performance Computing."

The Kuali Foundation, Inc., is pleased to announce that a group of leading academic research libraries is partnering in the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) (pronounced Oh-LAY) project to develop software created specifically for the complex business management and workflow operations of academic and research libraries.

How will emerging cloud technologies enhance scientific and medical research in the coming decades? How can meteorological scientists use digital data to visualize and predict future weather patterns? How will chemists, physicists, astronomers and other scientists gain easier access to the powerful new supercomputing resources increasingly required in research? The "Look to the Future" display and workshops, hosted by the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, will explore these and other questions at this year's Supercomputing Conference (SC), taking place in Portland, Oregon, November 14-19.

Elinor Ostrom, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, will give a keynote presentation as a part of Indiana University's GIS Day celebration on November 18. Ostrom's presentation, titled Using GIS and Remote Sensing to Study the Effects of Diverse Institutions, will explore the broader implications of mapping and geographic technologies. The distinguished professor will make her presentation at 5pm in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.

Indiana University's Innovation Center, a new $10 million home to university researchers and private start-up companies, was formally dedicated today (Nov. 9) by IU President Michael A. McRobbie.

Indiana University's $10 million Innovation Center will be formally dedicated by IU President Michael McRobbie in a 10 a.m. ceremony on Monday (Nov. 9).

Evoking Indiana University's late president Myles Brand as one of the first to "clearly see the emerging importance of information technology for higher education," IU President Michael McRobbie today (Nov. 5) formally dedicated IU's new $32.7 million Data Center.

The Indiana University Innovation Center, a new $10 million home to university researchers and private start-up companies, will be formally dedicated Monday, Nov. 9, by IU President Michael A. McRobbie. The facility is a key component of the President's Innovate Indiana initiative.

With a substantial increase in iPhones and mobile applications on campus, the IU community is more connected than ever. The upcoming iPhone conference invites students, faculty, and staff to get more out of Apple's developer tools for Mac and iPhone.

The Kuali Foundation has released the Kuali Financial System (KFS) 3.0 and Kuali Rice 1.0.1. These releases represent the culmination of many years of collaborative work among higher education institutions to build a financial system that meets their collective needs.

Dr. Thomas Sterling, renowned professor of computer science at Louisiana State University, will present the inaugural lecture in Indiana University's Peebles Lectures in Information Technology series. All interested parties are invited to attend. Sterling is best known as the father of the Beowulf cluster and for his work on petascale computing.

The Indiana University Data Center, a $32.7 million facility designed to ensure the safety and security of IU's most prized networking, computer processing and data storage equipment, will be formally dedicated on Thursday, Nov. 5, with a ceremony that will include remarks by IU President Michael McRobbie.

Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country.

As congressional leaders continue the debate over health care reform, a workshop hosted by the Indiana University Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) on Oct. 26-27 will bring together national leaders to discuss two critical components of the American health care system: privacy and security.

As computer network experiments increase in complexity and size, it has become increasingly difficult to fully understand the circumstances under which a network experiment was run, particularly when it comes time to reproduce the results. A collaborative team from Indiana University will lead the effort to provide essential tools related to the history and authenticity of an experiment's data set (called "provenance") for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) computer network.

A presentation on Saturday (Oct. 24) will examine how combining traditional arts and crafts such as embroidery with new technologies can spark creativity and learning for students. Leah Buechley, the "High-Low Tech Group" director at the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a free program called "How will Technological Artifacts Impact Society?" from 10-11 a.m. in room 102 of the School of Fine Arts, 1201 E. Seventh St., in Bloomington.

For John Walsh, an assistant professor in Indiana University's School of Library and Information Science, a picture will soon tell so much more than a thousand words. Backed by $400,000 just awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Walsh will collaborate with peers from the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the Digital Humanities Observatory in Belfast, Ireland, to develop a new technical infrastructure designed for unleashing all of the knowledge connected to any one image or document, from a historic manuscript or painting to an image in a children's book or a graphic novel.

An Indiana University strategy that harnesses the power of information technology to save energy reached a milestone today when its infrastructure of virtual machines and servers topped 1,000. Information technology uses massive amounts of electricity, and virtualization is of growing interest as universities confront the triple concerns of sustainability, security, and space.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $538,595 to the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research to support a two-year project titled "Protecting Privacy in Health Research." The IU-led project assembles a blue-ribbon panel of experts in medical research, privacy, security, law, ethics, and patient advocacy from eleven national and international partner organizations.

One of the world's foremost learning scientists says the educational system is at odds with technological innovation and change is imperative to ensure many students don't fall further behind. Allan Collins, professor emeritus of education and social policy at Northwestern University, will speak about the changing nature of schools' relationship to technology during an appearance at the IU School of Education on Thursday (Oct. 8).

The Kuali Foundation is pleased to announce the release of Kuali Rice 1.0, an enterprise class middleware suite of integrated products essential to all Kuali applications, which also advances agility and speed of development for any institutional applications on campus.

Colorado State University and San Joaquin Delta College have successfully implemented Kuali Financial System (KFS) 3.0 on their campuses—the first full-scale implementations of the open source enterprise system.

Top students and faculty at Indiana University will benefit from the selection of Indiana University as a "First Wave" participant in a new Sony scholarship program. Sony Electronics, with the support of Intel, has invited Indiana University as part of a select group of institutions, to participate in the program whereby select students and faculty are awarded grants that will provide the tools necessary to continue their academic excellence.

Don Tapscott, internationally renowned author and authority on the impact of information technology on business strategy, education, and culture, will speak at Indiana University. As the keynote speaker for the 14th annual IU Statewide Information Technology Conference, Tapscott is scheduled to present "The Net Generation and the Reinvention of the University" on Thursday, October 1, at 4 p.m. at the IUPUI Campus Center.