If you had to miss our great 50th Anniversary Celebration of Information Technology at UNT - or if you just want to relive the memory of our fun time - video footage of the event is now posted online as part of the historical web project associated with this milestone.
Welcome, or welcome back, to UNT! If you're new, or if you've just been away for a while, it is our hope that this article will serve as a handy starting point to get you acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the resources that are available to you here at the University.
Dr. Jesse Hamner, Manager, Research and Visualization Environment (RAVE), is giving a series of lectures and workshops in support of the Toulouse Graduate School and their two poster/research competitions this semester. These events are free for all UNT students, faculty, and staff.
On December 21, 2012, the UNT System joined leading research institutions by implementing eduroam(education roaming), a worldwide network access service. eduroam allows users (researchers, faculty, students, staff) from participating institutions to securely access the Internet from any eduroam-enabled institution.
John Hooper will return full time to the role of UNT CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology on February 1. Provost Warren Burggren and UNT System CIO Michael DiPaolo praised Hooper recently, noting that he has had a pivotal role in helping shape and lead the formation of UNT’s IT Shared Services initiative.
Issue 2 (Jaunary 2013) of the ITSS Quarterly Newsletter is now available. It is comprised of IT-related news relevant to anyone who uses or has an interest in shared services and applications throughout the UNT System and its member institutions.
The personal web page site, people.unt.edu, will be shut down as of May 31, 2013. This service has not kept pace with contemporary developments in web publishing, so it will be retired in favor of some new services to be announced at a later date. UNT students or employees who still maintain information on people.unt.edu should download and save a local copy as soon as possible.
Academic Computing and User Services (ACUS) is now providing 12 computer kiosks in Sage Hall. Kiosks were popular in the building when it housed the College of Business and ACUS has expanded on the original kiosk offerings.
UNT System IT Shared Services recently announced that certain kinds of e-mail messages will be subject to quarantine, in particular, messages that contain a Google Doc link. According to a message from System CIO Michael DiPaolo, "These emails are being quarantined because of an increase in phishing attacks using Google Docs."
In order to try to keep up with ever changing technology and provide a good line of communication with our students, staff, and faculty, we have published a new official website for all things wireless. One of our biggest challenges has been to provide accurate and timely information regarding changes, updates, notifications, etc. for the campus wireless network.
Long time readers of Benchmarks Online will probably recognize the name "Randy Milholland." Randy, AKA R.K., was a UNT student and worked as a Documentation Services Assistant for me back in the late 1990s. He is now famous as the creator of the award-winning webcomic SOMETHING POSITIVE! and is the 2013 Keynote Speaker for the UNT Comics Studies Conference.
Spring Break is here! If you're not leaving town for the entire week, the hours for various areas noted in this article could come in handy.
In 2009, UNT made a major investment in supporting computational research with the purchase of a large-scale campus-wide High Performance Computing (HPC) installation that the University named Talon. The Talon system was expected to operate for three years, after which a replacement system would need to be purchased. Talon is now in its fourth year of operation, and since High Performance Computing stresses the compute servers by constantly applying 100 percent processing loads, disk and memory failures are becoming more common as the equipment ages.
By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor
Issue 3 (April 2013) of the ITSS Quarterly Newsletter is now available. It is comprised of IT-related news relevant to anyone who uses or has an interest in shared services and applications throughout the UNT System and its member institutions.
By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor
Summer is almost here! Summer 2013 consists of six sessions and not all campus facilities are open during all the sessions.*
By Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Director - Academic Computing Technical Services
Members of University Information Technology (UIT), Academic Computing and User Services (ACUS), and Information Technology System Services (ITSS) have been recently seeking student input about computing services through surveys and focus groups.
By John Hooper, UNT CIO and Vice Provost for Information Technology
On April 22, two new employees will join UIT. These two employees will be providing services to UIT that were formerly provided to UIT by ITSS.
By Jane Himmel, Associate Director, CLEAR
During regularly scheduled maintenance on May 11, 2013, Blackboard Learn server administrators in IT Shared Services (ITSS) will update our system to the most recent service pack Blackboard has released. This service pack includes bug fixes and introduces a few new tool enhancements (see below).
By JoAnn Luksich, Data Manager, Academic Computing and User Services
It's getting to be that time of the semester again. This is an edited version of an article that appeared this time last year. - Ed.
Make sure you have the latest information when you prepare departmental evaluations for processing by Data Management. Following are some tips that will help to ensure your evaluations are processed in a timely manner.
