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PearlDiver Technologies Inc., creator of what is believed to be the largest fully HIPAA-compliant, publicly available and searchable database of patient records in the nation, will use IU's Big Red supercomputer for advanced data analysis, thanks to the Indiana Initiative for Economic Development (IIED), a program that fosters technology development and job growth in the state of Indiana.
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Five teams of IU researchers are the recipients of more than $230,000 in internal grants that are designed to provide start-up funding for innovative research addressing critical cybersecurity needs. The grants were awarded by the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR), part of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University.
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Facilitating greater levels of collaboration between scientists and medical researchers in Europe and the U.S. is the goal of an announcement by information technology leaders from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany and Indiana University. The formal agreement of friendship and cooperation between the two universities will impact joint research in high performance computing and informatics.
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Indiana University's new enterprise license agreement with Microsoft Corp. will expand the path-breaking 1998 strategy to provide popular Microsoft products to all students, faculty and staff on IU campuses by including unlimited licenses and software maintenance to IU departments for server software such as SQL Server, Windows Server, SharePoint Server, and Configuration Manager Server.
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Butler University and University of Indianapolis recently joined the I-Light network, Indiana's high-speed statewide fiber optic network for higher education. Marian College is slated to connect to I-Light within the next two weeks. I-Light provides Indiana colleges and universities digital communications at least 20 times faster than a typical home Internet connection.
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IU has been recognized among the top 100 organizations in the nation by CIO magazine for its leadership in new software development models for higher education. The 22nd CIO 100 Awards recognized the IU Office of the Vice President for Information Technology (OVPIT) for its leadership in developing open source software with dozens of colleges, universities and commercial partners.
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