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Employees in the former Division of Finance and Facilities might notice some minor disruptions in computer services Monday, Nov. 11, and Tuesday, Nov. 12, as Information Technology Services makes some behind-the-scenes changes to how Users, Groups, Printer Agents and Login Scripts are handled. The changes are being made to align the computing infrastructure with the...
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Information Technology Services is warning campus computer users of a new and “nasty”email threat called “Cryptolocker.” Cryptolocker, which generally comes in as an attachment to an email claiming to be a UPS delivery or some another realistic-sounding story, will: encrypt the victim’s files using a public key encryption; let the victim know their files are...
The DCL needs your help!
Ever thought about creating your own video game? NIU’s new student club, the Game Developer Club, will offer everyone from master game designers to coding noobs the chance to play, explore, and create video games. Students are welcome to attend the club’s inaugural meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, in the Digital Convergence Lab,...
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Every semester, thousands of NIU students go to computer labs to use course-specific software, access their H: drives and print. Information Technology Services has created a suite of applications, Anywhere Lab, that allows students to do all those things from any Internet-enabled device, on and off campus. Anywhere Apps Statistical applications SPSS and SAS are...
Media Services is offering training on how to use the audiovisual equipment in Office of the Provost-sponsored Smart Classrooms. Both new and returning instructors should benefit from these brief seminars in DuSable Hall 422. The seminars will include information about any recent changes to the equipment in the rooms. Wednesday, Aug. 21 8 a.m. to...
Jaron Lanier – the bestselling author of “You Are Not a Gadget,” the father of virtual reality, and one of Time Magazine’s most influential thinkers of our time – will be the keynote for NIU’s Celebrating Excellence event. The event begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at the Holmes Student Center’s Duke Ellington Ballroom....
Green Up NIU
The start of every academic year brings new changes. This year was no different with the implementation of student printing quotas in campus computer labs maintained by Information Technology Services (ITS) as part of its Green Up Initiative. This academic year, each student receives 300 free prints (one side of one sheet of paper). Any...
Abul Azad
Abul Azad, a professor in the NIU Department of Technology, recently published a book titled “Internet Accessible Remote Laboratories: Scalable E-Learning Tools for Engineering and Science Disciplines.” The book is the result of collaboration between three academics from NIU and MIT, as well as Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Austria. The book has five...
NIU’s Information Technology Services (ITS) is modernizing and improving the services they provide to students and faculty. ITS has involved the Experiential Learning Center (ELC) of the College of Business to help construct a go green marketing and strategy plan. Through the use of surveys, student and faculty feedback regarding campus-wide services such as Wi-Fi,...
Community-building is a concept associated with people living and working in close proximity to one another. Technology, however, has transformed the reality of community-building into a process that can be shared by people regardless of where they live, work or study. Successful building of online communities of students whose members communicate freely to share ideas...
Clyde Kimball (front) and Nicholas Karonis with NIU’s new computer cluster.
NIU scientists have acquired a new high-performance computer cluster that will exponentially ramp up on-campus capabilities to sort and analyze large quantities of research data. The hybrid GPU/CPU supercomputer has a capacity of more than 30 teraflops, meaning it can do more than 30 trillion calculations per second. It is expected to usher in a...
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Northern Illinois University computer science students turned in a top performance in the annual IBM Master the Mainframe contest. The contest, which allows students to distinguish themselves in mainframe computing abilities, drew nearly 4,000 participants from across the United States and Canada. Students compete in three rounds, each of which becomes more challenging. Those who...
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