Information Technology

  1. January 27, 2016

    Program gives undergraduates use of high-performance computing

    Advanced Research Computing — Technology Services is launching a new program to assist faculty working with undergraduate students on research that requires high performance computing resources.

  2. January 25, 2016

    Program aims to improve network connections for researchers

    Advanced Research Computing — Technology Services has launched a new initiative aimed at facilitating uninterrupted data flow to meet the needs of researchers across campus.

  3. November 2, 2015

    Blue Jeans adds HIPAA compliance to conferencing service

    Blue Jeans conferencing technology now is an option for members of the university community who deal with health information protected under HIPAA.

  4. October 15, 2015

    University starts final phase of project to end SiteMaker use

    Information and Technology Services is entering the final phase of a project to decommission the SiteMaker Web hosting service at the university.

  5. September 24, 2015

    Canvas chosen as successor to CTools course sites

    U-M’s Ann Arbor campus will move all course sites from CTools into a new learning management system called Canvas by the fall 2016 semester.

  6. September 24, 2015

    U-M leads $5M big-data project to widen ‘bottleneck to discovery’

    U-M is leading a $5 million data storage and networking project that aims to improve the ability to analyze troves of data, which could speed discovery and revolutionize the research cloud.

  7. September 21, 2015

    High-speed research data storage now available

    U-M investigators involved in data-intensive research are getting a new tool — Turbo Research Storage — to help them store, manage and analyze large data sets.

  8. June 22, 2015

    Temporary outage during HR systems upgrade

    Several Human Resource management systems will be offline from 5 p.m. Thursday through 7 a.m. next Monday for a system upgrade.

  9. June 11, 2015

    Universities join to control destinies in digital learning environment

    James Hilton, vice provost for digital education and innovation, discusses the goals, status and plans for U-M’s involvement with the new Unizin digital learning consortium.

  10. June 4, 2015

    U-M hit by email scams to collect personal information

    More than 150 people at U-M have fallen victim to phishing emails and revealed personal information this week. Information and Technology Services is taking steps to deal with the attacks.