Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes for Oct. 9-23, 2006

Featuring lectures and speakers on the Bloomington campus, including NPR's Michele Norris, recognizing the dangers of Facebook and "Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist."   Full Story >>

Center aims to improve cybersecurity in higher education

Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research is seeking ways to combat information security challenges. As part of its efforts to improve cybersecurity in higher education, the center will host the Indiana University Higher Education Cybersecurity Summit on Thursday and Friday (April 28-29) on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.   Full Story >>

IU tips from the DIMACS cybersecurity conference

Indiana University School of Informatics researchers will present new work this week at the "DIMACS Workshop on Theft in E-Commerce: Content, Identity and Service" at Rutgers University. The workshop is the first scientific conference devoted specifically to phishing and related e-commerce issues.   Full Story >>

Computer Science and Informatics agree to merge

Administrators, faculty and staff in Indiana University Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences, the IUB Department of Computer Science and the IU School of Informatics have agreed to move computer science from the College of Arts and Sciences to the School of Informatics.   Full Story >>

IU will use $53 million Lilly Endowment grant for life sciences

Indiana University President Adam W. Herbert announced that the Lilly Endowment Inc. is giving IU Bloomington $53 million to broaden and intensify its life sciences research, retain its distinguished scientists, attract new world class scientists and contribute to the state's economic development by transferring technology to new and existing life science businesses. The grant is the largest IUB has ever received.   Full Story >>

Wise elected ACM fellow, to oversee new computer

The world's largest society of computer experts has named Indiana University Bloomington computer scientist David S. Wise one of its fellows, the Association for Computing Machinery announced this week. Wise and several colleagues also expect to receive a pair of powerful new computing machines for scientific research next week.   Full Story >>