http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/feeds/atnews.shtml Academic technology events and issues of interest to faculty and staff at The University of Iowa. en-us http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#g01 Nominations for the President's Instructional Technology Innovation Award are now being accepted. This award recognizes creative use of technology in teaching at The University of Iowa. The award includes a $3000 cash prize to the award winner... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#g02 Members of Academic Technologies and ITS' Systems & Platform Administration (SPA) are in the midst of creating a new central FileMaker 7-based configuration to replace the FileMaker 5.5 configuration that they have supported since 2000... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#g03 During the past few months, AT's Digital Media Solutions group has been exploring what High-Definition (HD) Video will mean to faculty, students and staff. The goal of the exploration is to not only understand the pros and cons of working with HD video, but to also incorporate HD into AT's video-related services... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#g04 A proposal developed by RS staff and collaborators in Engineering and Physics to prototype and develop an intracampus research grid has been funded... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#g05 ITS TNS Network Services has been working on upgrading the on-campus infra-building network. The core routers (BSB, CB, LC, OH) have been upgraded to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) and the connections from these core routers out to campus buildings are 1 Gbps... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#e01 Spring is the time to plan for SuperComputing, the IEEE/ACM international conference on state of the art computational science and applications. The University of Iowa sponsors and exhibit and we are looking for groups that use computational techniques to participate by providing materials to display in our booth... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#e02 (SC'05) will convene in November 2005, Seattle, WA. SC'05 is a premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage. This year's conference theme is "Gateway to Discovery" and will showcase how high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in research, education and commerce. It is one of the great annual events on the state-of-the-art in computer science, computational science and IT applications... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#e03 Studio 107, the faculty computing lab of Academic Technologies, will be getting a make-over in the next few months to accommodate AT's changing needs. Highlights of the make-over include more computing stations, an improved layout, and better workspaces for staff... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#s01 "GISolve: A Grid-based Problem Solving Environment for Computationally Intensive Geographic Information Analysis" at the Association of American Geographers 2005 Annual Meeting... http://at.its.uiowa.edu/news/200504/index.shtml#s02 the Computer Applications in Archaeology congress (CAA 2005) in Tomar Portugal. CAA was originally a British organization organized to promote and share computer applications in the field of archaeology, and it now includes members from across the European Union and globe. Technologies highlighted this year included GIS mapping, 3D visualization, and archaeological information systems...