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.

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.

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.

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.

What happens when a digital artist, an opera director and a music ensemble decide to put on a show?

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).

Annunciation + Visitation, a unique musical performance exploring two vastly different expressions of female sexuality, stretches the boundaries of what defines opera.

Indiana University Bloomington holds more than 560,000 audio and video recordings and film reels, many of which are historically significant, all of which are actively deteriorating. And the window of time to save these materials is closing fast.

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.

Indiana University's Karl MacDorman, director of the IUPUI Android Science Center, has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look so bad after all.

University Information Technology Services (UITS) at Indiana University is opening a new Student Technology Center in the Indiana Memorial Union to support students' academic work. The facility was created in response to student recommendations from the Board of Aeons' and President Michael McRobbie's "Vision of the Ideal Campus Environment (VOICE)" taskforce.

Leaders in academia, industry, and government will brainstorm today's most pressing privacy and security challenges, and create scenarios that demonstrate the impacts of these challenges, at an October workshop hosted by Indiana University. The most critical of these concerns will be included in a final report presented to US government agencies at the completion of the workshop.

A group of information technology researchers at Indiana University has been chosen by the National Science Foundation to lead a four-year, $15-million project to develop new software to link together the supercomputers of tomorrow and enable new approaches to scientific research for problems of massive scale. The NSF will provide $10.1million, with project partners providing the balance.

The future of scientific computing will be developed with the leadership of Indiana University and nine national and international partners as part of a $15 million project largely supported by a $10.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will be used to establish FutureGrid—one of only two experimental systems in the NSF Track 2 program that funds the most powerful, next-generation scientific supercomputers in the nation.

Indiana University will announce a major National Science Foundation Award to lead a nationwide super-computing research project among several U.S. universities to create the next generation of super-computing networks.

All students, faculty, and staff are invited to experience the many information technology (IT) resources and services available at Indiana University during the Make IT Happen TechFest hosted by IU's University Information Technology Services (UITS). TechFest will kick off on Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 10am to 4pm, at the Herman B Wells Library on the Bloomington campus. Other Techfest events will be held on all IU campuses throughout fall.