The GIS services at the DSS support teaching, learning, and research with geospatial technology across the University. The Spatial Data Repository (SDR) is a welcome addition to the GIS services long provided by the Data Service Studio.
Stern’s Use of Paperless Technology a Success
Though many predicted a paperless age with the proliferation of computers, that promise has remained largely unrealized. However, with recent developments in mobile device and tablet technologies that enhance portability and improve interactivity with digital documents, the idea may at long last be nearing fruition.
Nobel Prize-Winning NYU Economics Professor Aided by HPC Services
On October 10th, 2011, professor Sargent and Princeton University professor Christopher Sims were honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with the Noble Prize in Economics for “empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”
The NYU Open Education Pilot Publishes Its First Courses
The concept of sharing educational resources freely around the world, referred to as “open education” or “open courseware,” is now gaining mainstream acceptance both inside and outside of the academy and has been adopted by over 200 higher education institutions worldwide.
The New Everyday
The latest project from the MediaCommons network is The New Everyday. A website and an experiment in “middle-state publishing,” the New Everyday is a web publication “between a blog and a journal” where “middle state” describes the point between the initial idea and the final published format.
Introducing LibX
Recent years have seen a steady increase in the number of online tools intended to facilitate access to and organization of information. Libraries—including NYU—have been working hard to simplify the management of research and bibliographic data though software and web-based solutions; this article focuses on LibX.
The Summer Colloquium
Each summer, incoming NYU freshmen are typically given a reading assignment to serve as a shared intellectual experience. During Orientation Week, the book serves as a catalyst to stimulate student-faculty conversations under debate, such as multiculturalism, racism, immigration, or environmental ethics.
Moving a Data Center
A data center is a facility where an organization houses computer systems and servers, and the associated data storage, communications, and networking equipment. I thought back to the last data center move in which I was involved, about seven years earlier. Our task then was to move approximately 30 standalone servers and roughly 5TB of total disk storage.
Digital Scholarly Publishing
We are in a period of extraordinarily rapid innovation, with new multimedia forms and tools—blogs, wikis, micro-communication services like Twitter, and image- and video-sharing services like Flickr and YouTube—offering novel ways for scholars to share knowledge.