Media Relations
Saturday,
November 25,
2006
Administrative Offices
Indiana University has been awarded $336,000 to help launch a new experimental network research infrastructure that one day will lead to the future of the Internet. Part of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Project, IU is among 29 academic and industrial research teams to receive subcontract awards totaling $12 million from BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, GENI prototyping supports the development of a national-scale suite of infrastructure for experimental research in groundbreaking network science and engineering.
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The Office of University Communications at Indiana University will publish a special "arts and humanities" issue of IU Home Pages, the faculty and staff newspaper for all eight IU campuses, on Monday (Oct. 13).
Fil Menczer, an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, recently received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled, "Social Integration of Semantic Annotation Networks for Web Applications." The project brings together complex networks and Web mining techniques to develop a new generation of search engines and collaborative Web applications.
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IU and Purdue may be oil and water when it comes to athletics, but thanks to the Indiana Innovation Alliance, an effort to foster life sciences research and partnerships throughout Indiana, they're more like . . . Indiana corn and butter. Persimmons and pudding. YouTube and viral marketing. A new, 30-second YouTube video, available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2F5i2lpoI, expresses the partnership in a humorous tone that gets the point across: IU and Purdue are actually working together. The spot hints at a new, research-based collaboration between the two powerhouse universities that will ultimately result in better health and more jobs in the state.
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Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will deliver his first State of the University address on Tuesday (Oct. 14) at 1:30 p.m. in the University Place Conference Center Auditorium on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.
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Indiana University today (Oct. 7) announced the creation of the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR), a collaboration among industry, government agencies and academic institutions to target research to pressing identity management challenges. Law professor Fred Cate took part in the announcement at the National Press Club.
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