In today's news we look at John Kasich's preparations for his presidential run, Akron getting a broadband upgrade, an editorial on the benefits of STEM school in Ohio, OSU engineering students helping to pursure street luger speed record, and Illinois State University starting a human "book" project...
In today's news we look at Wayne Struble, Kasich's director of policy, taking over as the administration's chief of staff, UC joining other Ohio universities in the I-Corps@Ohio initiative, Obama announcing a pilot program to expand broadband, two national labs working with IBM and Nvidia on supercomputing excellence, and CHORUS signing a memorandum of understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications...
In today's news we look at Ohio State University research creating new companies, senators asking FCC to investigate cable and broadband prices, University of Akron cutting jobs and baseball program, West Virginia University library creating the first Wikipedian-in-Residence to focus on gender gap and five reasons colleges should invest more in career services...
In today's news we look at Ohio being the first state with 1 gigabit commercial Internet accessible statewide, the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute providing a unique STEM experience, the benefits for Ohio college students under the new two-year budget, library maker movements, and a new data-managent tool that will be used to meet the big-data challenge...
On Thursday and Friday, June 11-12, the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) welcomed 45 technologists representing colleges and universities from Ohio and other states who arrived here to study an important emerging security technology. These systems administrators, identity managers and developers packed the BALE Theater and Conference Room to take part in the InCommon Shibboleth Workshop [https://www.incommon.org/shibtraining/] and learn how to implement federated identity management software.
Over the past five years, I have had the privilege of working with the Summer Institute program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. Summer Institute, SI for short, is “a two-week residential program that gives gifted Ohio high school students project-based, hands-on learning,” and each year is a unique experience for both myself and the students who participate in this program.
In today's news we look at Ohio's $71 billion spending plan, Ohio State University rolling out BYOD engagement tool, Ed Seidel presenting on supercomputing in an era of big data and big collaboration, Yale's library saving old chipotle cups and Gov. Kasich's proposal possibly eliminating landlines...
Over the weekend of June 12-13, 2015, staff members of the Ohio Technology Consortium’s (OH-TECH) Shared Infrastructure (SI) unit moved systems and storage from the Kinnear Road Data center (KRC) at The Ohio State University to the State of Ohio Computer Center (SOCC). While not a common event, this was not the first time that I have been responsible for moving equipment from KRC to the SOCC.
In today's news we look at the Tiny Titan parallel computer becoming an interactive display at the American Museum of Science and Energy at Oak Ridge, programs that are aiming to boost minorities in STEM, Ohio Wesleyan's OWjL camp receiving a $3,000 grant from Timer Warner Cable, a Wright State Alumus winning the prestigious national aerospace award and Allied Fiber bringing massive broadband to the Southeast...
In today's news we look at the FCC giving $23 million to Frontier Communications to expand Ohio's broadband, girls experiencing the life of an engineer at the University of Akron, Youngstown State University ranking amoung the best online MS degrees in engineering, the best Ohio counties for technology and Facebook joining with Google and Twitter to offer a click-to-call function on their ads...
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