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Indiana University has announced a cooperative agreement with USA Today to make the top-selling newspaper available through its e-Edition to students, faculty and staff at the Bloomington campus.
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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."
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Christopher S. Peebles, Indiana University professor emeritus of anthropology, has been awarded the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion by IU President Michael McRobbie. Recognized for his prominent achievement and dedicated service, Peebles is a distinguished expert on the ancient past whose contributions to IU's high tech present and future also are recognized with this honor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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