Today's digest focuses on women in STEM education and workforce efforts, funding for the Ohio Third Frontier, and aviation manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio. Also featured is information on OSU's new efforts to help the Cleveland Browns use better energy saving techniques in their stadium and an update on Massive Open Online Courses and the Public Library.
It was just a year ago that OARnet officially lit its 100 Gigabit-per-second network backbone service. At the time OARnet's implementation was the first statewide lighting of a 100G service and was one of the first in the United States. The pace and acceleration of technology advancement is relentless, and in just one year 100G services are now commercially available. To put it in perspective, at the time OARnet lit the 100G service, it was still highly experimental.
Today we highlight articles on supercomputing and materials science, China industrial growth coming to a lull, and federal budget decisions. Also included is information on opinions regarding the changes in higher education structure and workforce development efforts in the US
The digest for this Wednesday includes information on the expansion of massive open online courses, a new health education program at Cleveland State University, and a new unusual supercomputing design used for researching climate change. Also included is information on oil and gas industry tax increases for the state of Ohio, along with the status of income generation for Ohio's research.
Today's digest features information on a Northeast Ohio community college receiving grant funding for job training, investment in even more job creation throughout the state of Ohio, and technology being used as a study aid for many students. Also featured is information on manufacturers working with NASA to solve product issues and manufacturing and health care involvement.
Today's digest focuses on information on an Ohio bill making changes to teacher evaluations, US achievements in comparison to other nations, Medicaid savings going toward a Straight-A-Fund for educational advancement, and Northeast Ohio's job growth. Also included is information on Russia's supercomputing efforts.
The final Digest for this week focuses on new forms of supercomputing tailoring to the consumer market, along with information on how Big Data is used to solve real world everyday problems. We also provide information on a delay in the release of the new Common Core aligned SAT, a Northeast Ohio community college job training program, and information on a report focusing on performance funding in higher education institutions.
This month, in addition to celebrating the holiday season, the OARnet staff will be marking a signal event in the history of the organization. A year ago, Gov. John Kasich visited our offices to recognize the lighting of Ohio’s statewide 100 Gigabit per second network. The announcement sealed his January State-of-the-State promise to deploy the ultra-fast network by the end of the year.
The daily digest for this Thursday highlights information on technology and higher ed all in the state of Ohio. We have information on a new Ohio manufacturing center investment, college graduate debt, and energy efficiency and renewable energy laws. Also included is information on unemployment in Ohio along with new efforts aiming to help students apply and get into colleges.
Today's digest highlights the new head of the FCC's first major policy presentation on communications at The Ohio State University. Also included is information on Northeast Ohio health care working with big data, China and the US competing for the lead in 3D printing, digital textbooks and self-driving cars
In Denver recently, my Ohio Supercomputer Center colleagues and I participated in SC13, the “International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,” and we celebrated the event’s 25th conference. Organizers created a timeline display of the conference over the years, and it was very interesting to see how the conference has grown and evolved with the industry that it represents. I made some mental notes about some of what I saw this year to share with blog readers.
The digest for this Tuesday focuses on big data and development in agriculture, online education across the globe along with online tutoring efforts, along with IBM introducing a public sector based cloud. Also included is information on faster and more powerful supercomputing efforts!
Today's digest includes articles on Microsoft increasing encryption of internet traffic, research and development at Georgia Institute of Technology and USC, the EU working with the US on data sharing, and accounting reforms at higher education institutions taking its toll on students' finances. Also included is information on five winners of a new Navy modeling and simulation contract focusing on war fighting, manpower and fleet readiness.
The digest for this Wednesday features articles on new research on financial outlook of colleges, Ohio's Governor John Kasich working to ratify legislation to create a balanced budget amendment, and new science and technology policies relative to high-performance computing. Also included are two articles focusing on Big Data--One in the US and one in Brazil.
We will continue our Daily Digest, next week, after this short Holiday break. Happy Thanksgiving!
Today's Daily Digest features articles on Ohio community college funding, high school STEM programs, airplane engine manufacturing, electric car development at Ohio State, and open enrollment in Ohio public schools. Also included is an article highlighting SC13 in Denver and information on tuition revenue at U.S. public universities.
Today's digest features articles on a lull in job growth in Ohio, the opening of a manufacturing plant within the state, and a cloud networking innovation to help with natural disaster recovery. Also included is information on Massive Open Online Course expansion, information on the federal budget changes, and HPC computing in California
Today we focus on information regarding Cleveland State University's use of mobile applications, nonprofit organization Connect Ohio's workforce development effort through the expansion of broadband access across sthe state, and higher education institutions' policies regarding dual enrollment. Also included is information on Honda's new fuel-cell car development, manufacturing jobs increasing and Ohio state engineering and business schools expanding their work to the private sector
The digest for this Thursday features information on the improvement of data systems and data quality, private cloud based services on a global scale, and a new supercomputing record reached by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Also included is information on the debate of state reciprocity agreements in regards to evaluation of distance education providers, and an update on the COMPETES legislation in regards to scientific research and STEM education
Today's digest features articles on data and network security, Honda expanding its business in order to increase exports from US plants, and higher education privacty when it comes to information technology. Also featured is information on Microsoft's new 3D printing application, Obama's competition to overhaul high schools in America, and community colleges working on competency-based credentials
The Blue Waters project, managed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, recently announced a unique fellowship program for doctoral students who can use the Blue Waters computing system to help complete their academic research. This may be the only National Science Foundation project that funds this type of opportunity. The Ohio Supercomputer Center is under contract with NCSA to manage the fellowship program.
Today, there are 62 institution systems supporting 90 member libraries. All new or updated metadata from a single library flows to the central system in real time so that the records in the central system are as current as they are at the individual library level. Users rely on this functionality as they search the central system looking for books and other resources to support their research.
Today we feature articles on the DOE's new 'extreme scale' supercomputer, more information on the effects of sequestration on higher education, and a resource center in Ohio aiming at finding workers for area manufacturers in Erie, Huron, Sandusky, and Seneca counties. Also featured is an article on ORNL using 3D printers to help with development in engineering and technology, along with information on technology and machine tool sales increasing.
Today's Digest highlights news focusing on 3D printing and biomedical research, the American Library Association and Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Also featured is information on a high demand for jobs in manufacturing in Northeast Ohio, new projects with Google Books, and natural gas boosting Ohio's economy.
Today's daily digest has a lot of focus on supercomputing and big data efforts at Oak Ridge, Google, and through the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Networking program. Also featured is the news on Lockheed Martin manufacturing plant closure in Ohio and Greenpeace working to further renewable energy use.
The staff of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is heading west again this year (Salt Lake City last year; Denver this year) to attend SC13, the premier international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The staff will have a brand new booth to call "home away from home," and they will be introducing the HPC industry to a brand new industrial engagement initiative.
Today's digest focuses on a variety of articles including Japanese manufacturing of automatic vehicles, Ohio renewable energy companies adjusting to new efficiency standards, education technology efforts through Rosetta Stone, and Emerson Educational Services working on distance learning courses to help with workforce development. Also included is information on Obama's initiative to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US through the use of 3D printers in schools, along with news on three universities to focus on the usefulness of Big Data
As noted in this blog just a few weeks ago, the Ohio Supercomputer Center has launched a new program to foster the creation of advanced manufacturing apps to facilitate adoption of modeling and simulation by small and medium-sized businesses. Known as AweSim, the initiative is a collaborative effort of OSC, P&G, Intel, AltaSim Technologies, TotalSim USA, Kinetic Vision and Nimbis Services. I’m very excited about the potential of this new program, but industrial engagement efforts are nothing new to OSC.
Today's daily digest features articles on job development in Ohio for US Veterans, Case Western Reserve robotics research efforts funded by the NIH, and the growth of online learning standards in higher education. Also featured are articles on the continued effects of sequestration on university research, Ohio manufacturing development, and the surpsing effect of the shutdown on US businesses
The grand challenges we face in the 21st century are monumental. Solving these important national and global problems will require creative new approaches in science and technology. But responding to these 21st century challenges will prove even more difficult in light of the economic realities facing the nation and the world.
Today's digest focuses on information revolving around renewable energy efforts in Ohio, Ohio infrastructure improvements to increase the workforce, and universities expanding efforts to use e-journals and software associated. Also included is information on a new supercomputer built by the Department of Energy, 3D printing, and Ohio's Senators' efforts on manufacturing development with area institutions.
Friday's digest provides insight on Apple's new data efforts in regards to government surveillance laws, ebooks at the University of Kentucky, Facebook using big data software free to the public, and more STEM education efforts in the state of Ohio. Also featured are articles on ebook collection management in the library system, Vice President Joe Biden's push for more spending on Ohio manufacturing infrastructure and transportation, and the closing of a large manufacturing company in Akron, OH.
Now that I’ve been working at OhioLINK for a full year, I have a much better grasp of the true impact that OhioLINK can provide for students, staff and faculty members of Ohio colleges and universities. I have some facts and figures to share that back up my belief that OhioLINK provides our users with unrivaled value, but one of the very best parts about my job is running into OhioLINK users on a regular basis as I go about my daily routine.
Today's Digest features articles on a new Apple manufacturing plant in Arizona, a research grant focusing on the study of brain signals for healthcare professionals, along with a study on student debt increasing in the US for four-year graduates. Also featured is an article on the Gates Foundation's involvement in the K12 education agenda, Ohio manufacturers debating the energy efficiency legislation, and Columbus College for Art and Design to focus on community and business partnerships.
The Daily Digest for this Wednesday features articles on manufacturing and small business growth, computing and networking infrastructure in the cloud, along with economic development in Ohio. Also featured is an article on STEM curriculum for K-12 students, the combination of technology and geography, and information on Wittenberg Unviersity's tuition freeze.
We start the day by highlighting information pertaining to the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities' FY14 budget as it pertains to innovation and research in higher education. We also highlight the Center for High Performance Power Electronics at Ohio State University, along with rural education in Ohio as it pertains to broadband expansion. Also included is information on a manufacturing collaborative promoting workforce development in Ohio, the use of mobile applications in higher education settings, and Ohio senators working to close the skills gap in education and labor.
In today's Digest, we highlight articles on fuel-cell research and development, big data in regards to high-power computing, and the privatization of Dell. Also included are articles on workforce development and job creation in middle-market companies, along with Ohio's aerospace industry growing as a result of partnerships with GE. Furthermore, we have information on taxes regarding job growth in Ohio and the potential changes to the Higher Education Act.
Just a year after the opening of the Driving Simulation Laboratory, the facility is demonstrating the successes that can be achieved through collaboration between public educational institutions and industry. The lab is a partnership between The Ohio State University, Honda R&D Americas and the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
The Digest today highlights news on how BioHio of Northeast Ohio recieves funding to further economic development, while educational technology is to be featured at an upcoming conference while the subject is debated to be an "educational leveller". Also highlighted is the new IU-Bloomington supercomputing efforts and the redefinition of full-time students, proposed by Complete College America. A final article focuses on a recent cybersecurity breach through Adobe Systems Inc. and the implications it may have for other companies.
Today's Digest includes articles on the Digital Public Library of America's free global content, Case Western Reserve University's research on biomedical engineering, Ohio schools seeking funding through the Straight A Fund, and higher education scorecards. Also included is an article on a Northeastern Ohio high school working with area manufacturing companies to give teenagers real-world experience through internship opportunities.
Today's Daily Digest highlights articles from a variety of sources on topics relatives to our organization. First, we have an article featuring open access research restrictions when it comes to public libraries. We also have an article on Google's plans to create new data centers. Also featured are articles on manufacturing regulations cutting productivity, Pittsburgh's supercomputing efforts with an NSF grant, and public college enrollment leading to cutbacks.
The Digest for this Monday highlights interesting articles on Dayton's economic development project being the best in the state, Intel pushing a program to focus on parallel computing modernization, and public higher education in Ohio struggling to restore funding for students to complete their studies. Also featured are articles on STEM education and workforce success and universities looking more into patent buyers as they face financial pressure regarding these patents.
Learn more in today's Digest about a newly released BP supercomputer, the discussion of the "College Credit Plus" program at the University of Toledo, grant funding for improvement of nanoscale additive manufacturing, McGraw-Hill and their digital textbook efforts, Ohio job creation, and a lack of IT for students in schools.
Today's Digest has a collection of articles from Industry Week, the Chronicle, Huffington Post, and more. Featured article subects include new trade policies effecting global manufacturing growth, the "behind-the-scene" attributes when it comes to tuition costs, CACI working on modeling and simulation with a new integration service, and troubles with the Common Core. In addition to these, we have an article on Ohio coming in last in renewable energy use and an exciting article on NASA pursuing 3D video from space!
The articles in today's Daily Digest feature various topics from Northeast Ohio's unemployment rate, to IT priorities when integrating instructional technology in schools. The also features articles on the use of games in education settings and a science grant for Youngstown State University.
Today's Digest features articles on Apple's newest event featuring their upcoming designs, using analytics to track student activities, the EU's supercomputing efforts, Gordon Gee's newest venture with Ohio Senator John Kasich, and NASA's big data efforts. Also featured is information on Columbus City Schools' new school levy.
We start off this week with a Daily Digest featuring a variety of articles pertaining to the interests of those within the Consortia. We have an article featuring a $5 million gift from Honda to Ohio State for engineering research, an article on cloud computing, and another on 3D printing and manufacturing. Also featured is an article on women in engineering professions and K-12 schools purchasing educational technology for their students
Recently I was invited to attend a working session with folks from the White House, Gates Foundation, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Battelle, American Council on Education and others from around the nation. The White House challenged the people involved to create actionable items that could be developed into workable solutions for education. As a participant, I wanted to share a few items of particular interest that were discussed at the conference.
The final digest of the week features articles on experiental learning in public-college systems, technology being incorporated into architecture, the APLU's announcement of universities who have committed to economic engagement and entrepreneurship, and Ohio State's efforts in massive open online courses (MOOCs). Also included are articles on Ohio's unemployment rate, the effects of the shutdown on scientific research and STEM education.
The Daily Digest for this Thursday features articles on Ohio State University's new efforts for promotion of STEM education, Southampton University in the UK using IBM's supercomputing for research, Syracuse University's research being affected by the government shutdown, the woes of the Common Application and the future of the business, and the need for faculty training in technology use.
Today's Daily Digest focuses on a wide variety of subjects including an increase in orders for Airbus that will create manufacturing production in Dayton to boom, Big Data being put to use in central Ohio, Case Western Reserve University developing free online courses, and the potential for sequestration cuts to have further effects (in addition to the shutdown). The Digest also features an article on mobile internet use, the shutdown effects on HPC research, and the debate between traditional and online education!
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