Declaring that Indiana University Bloomington's new Cyberinfrastructure Building (CIB) "reflects IU's status as a national IT leader," IU President Michael A. McRobbie joined a host of dignitaries and administrators today (April 29) in a ceremony breaking ground for IU's new, innovative headquarters for the university's technology staff. Full Story

The Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) at Indiana University has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to serve as operator of its new high-speed network for climate research called "Nwave." The three-year, $1.6 million contract is funded in part under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and will create seven new jobs within the GlobalNOC. The project adds to the growing list of national and international networks for which the Indiana-based GlobalNOC serves as network operations center. Full Story

A website designed by Indiana University's Office of Enrollment Management and a video game review website created by an IU student were named Official Honorees of 2010 Webby Awards. Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, the nearly 70 categories of Webby Awards range from "Activism" to "Student" and honor excellence on the Internet (including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video and mobile websites). Entries are judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. Full Story

Indiana University's Worldview, a real-time network monitoring and visualization tool developed by IU's Global Research Network Operations Center, received an Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications (IDEA) award. Representatives from Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium, honored Worldview at the Internet2 annual Spring Member Meeting held April 26-28. IU's GlobalNOC is one of four nominees to receive IDEA awards this year. Full Story

It's not uncommon for individuals to take as many as a dozen different prescriptions, each with its own set of possible side effects. If a patient experiences one of the potential hundreds of different adverse reactions such as nausea, headaches, insomnia or heart palpitations, how does the physician quickly and accurately determine which drug is the culprit? Jon D. Duke, M.D., a medical informatics fellow at the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine, has created an easy-to-use graphical tool called RXplore which expedites tracking down the cause of drug side-effects. His work is published in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Full Story

In the April 5, 2010, edition of IT Matters @ IU, a winning relationship was highlighted as a successful resident of Indiana University's Emerging Technologies Center incubator in Indianapolis announced that record profits and projected high revenues would allow it to move into a larger space in Indiananpolis. Also included in this issue is a release about the successful work the IU School of Medicine and Rutgers University are doing together to confirm that by adapting home video game systems, youth suffering from cerebral palsy may see benefits in hand function; announcement that IU's Twister software would improve Google's MapReduce to achieve higher performance rates; announcement by the IU School of Informatics at IUPUI that the school later this year would open the state's first undergraduate gaming lab dedicated to research and experiential learning; and a release about the availability of a new online graduate certificate available to clinical, licensed health care professionals. Full Story