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• CIC OmniPoP Engineers to Convene in Chicago

    The lead network engineers of the OmniPoP will be meeting in Chicago on May 17-18 to plan and prepare for their move to a cutting-edge 100G network. Staff from Internet2, the advanced networking consortium in the U.S., will ... Full article %>

  May 15, 2012

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  Category: OmniPoP

• CIO Brad Wheeler Featured as Top Technology Innovator

  Indiana University's Chief Information Officer, Brad Wheeler, was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the twelve technology innovators who are transforming campuses.  Learn more in today's CIC News. Full article %>

  Feb 27, 2012

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  Category: Technology Collaboration

• OmniPoP Links CIC Physicists with the Large Hadron Collider in CERN

  Particle physicists from five CIC universities (University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Michigan State University) that are part of the consortium collaborating on the ATLAS experiment, maximized their grant funding to share ... Full article %>

  Feb 14, 2012

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  Category: OmniPoP

• InCommon Silver 2011 Progress Report for CIC Schools

  The CIC CIO Identity Management taskforce began the work in August 2009 of achieving InCommon Silver certification, which will allow CIC institutions to engage in higher stakes collaboration requiring higher levels of assurance. Organizations such as NIH, the National Student ... Full article %>

  Dec 21, 2011

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  Category: Identity Management

• CIC CIOs Convene IT Accessibility Group

  The CIC Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have convened an IT Accessibility Group (ITAG) to address the challenges and concerns related to accessibility of IT resources in the CIC, share best practices, and make recommendations for action to the CIC CIOs ... Full article %>

  Dec 20, 2011

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  Category: Technology Collaboration

• CIC Universities Federate Access to Data Management Plan Tool

  Many funding agencies, such as NSF, are now requiring researchers to submit a formal data management plan (DMP) with all grant proposals. The DMPTool is an easy-to-use resource developed by several major research institutions, including the University of Illinois at ... Full article %>

  Dec 09, 2011

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  Category: Identity Management

• CIC OmniPoP fiber database helps engineers put their fiber investments to work!

  A database that identifies the connections of all of the 104 strands of fiber in downtown Chicago held by the CIC on behalf its members has been completed and certified as accurate. This resource will be invaluable to the OmniPoP... Full article %>

  Nov 16, 2011

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  Category: OmniPoP

• Indiana University and CIC Partner to Bring Next-Generation Networking to CIC Universities

  A partnership between Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) which will provide a new experimental network infrastructure through the Midwest OpenFlow Corossroads Initiative (MOXI) was featured in today's CIC News.  Read this morning's ... Full article %>

  Nov 04, 2011

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  Category: OmniPoP

• OmniPoP provides big value to members in FY11

  OmniPoP, the 5-year-old fiber optic network collaboration of the CIC CIOs, continues to provide impressive returns on collaboration to its member universities. By assigning a conservative average savings per school for each of its services, OmniPoP engineers have determined that ... Full article %>

  Oct 26, 2011

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  Category: OmniPoP

• CIC CIO TechForum2011 Concludes

  The CIC CIO TechForum2011, “IT Changes: Evolution or Revolution” provided a successful opportunity for nearly 200 IT professionals from all 13 CIC Institutions to network with their peers and to learn more about the enterprise-level strategic issues facing their institutions ... Full article %>

  Oct 14, 2011

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  Category: Technology Collaboration

• CIC Presentation at Internet2 Meeting on Measuring Value of Regional Network Collaboration

  At the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting being held October 3-6 in Raleigh, NC, Jeff Bartig (UW-Mad), Steven Fleagle (Iowa), and Karen Partlow (CIC) will present on the process and tools used to measure the value OmniPoP delivers to its participating ... Full article %>

  Oct 03, 2011

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  Category: Technology Collaboration

• CIC Data Conservancy Webinar

  The CIC Data Storage taskforce held a successful webinar on September 15 on Data Conservancy featuring Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean at Johns Hopkins University and Principle Investigator for the Data Conservancy effort.  The Data Conservancy is a blueprint for research ... Full article %>

  Sep 27, 2011

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  Category: Shared Storage

• CIC Identity Management Provides More National Leadership

  The CIC Identity Management taskforce, in their efforts to achieve a Silver level of assurance in the InCommon Federation which would allow CIC campuses to engage in higher stakes collaboration, has created documentation on the process they've used, including ... Full article %>

  Sep 26, 2011

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  Category: Identity Management

• CIC CIO TechForum2011 Pre-Conference Networking

  With the CIC CIO TechForum2011 conference, "IT Changes: Evolution or Revolution?" now just a few weeks away (October 11-12 at UIUC), there are several ways attendees can connect with resources, presenters, and each other:  Details about each session, including an ... Full article %>

  Sep 19, 2011

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• CIC CIO Data Storage Group Webinar on Data Conservancy

  The CIC CIO Data Storage work group will host a webinar for its members on September 15 on Data Conservancy featuring Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean at Johns Hopkins University and Principle Investigator for the Data Conservancy effort.  The Data Conservancy ... Full article %>

  Sep 13, 2011

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  Category: Technology Collaboration

• TechForum2011 Registration Form Closes August 15

  The CIC CIO TechForum2011 registration form is opened now through August 15, 2011.   The CIC CIO TechForum is a biennial professional development opportunity supported for IT staff members in central and campus IT organizations, approved by the campus CIO.  This ... Full article %>

  Aug 09, 2011

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  Category: Professional Development

• Big10/CIC Traumatic Brain Injury Collaboration Moving Forward

  The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article on the work of the Big 10/CIC collaborative research effort to better understand the causes and effects of sport-related concussion and head injuries.  According to Dennis L. Molfese, a professor at the ... Full article %>

  Aug 03, 2011

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  Category: Shared Storage

• Reminder: CIO TechForum2011 Website and Registration Now Open

  The CIC CIO TechForum2011 conference website including registration form is opened now through August 15, 2011.   The CIC CIO TechForum is a biennial professional development opportunity supported for IT staff members in central and campus IT organizations, approved by ... Full article %>

  Aug 01, 2011

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  Category: Professional Development

• CIC and Indiana CTSI Partner to Bring Federated Access to Researchers

  Through the collaborative efforts of the CIC Identity Management Task Force and the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), healthcare researchers on all of the CIC campuses can now use their own institutional login credentials to access a ... Full article %>

  Jul 18, 2011

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  Category: Identity Management

• CIO TechForum2011 Website and Registration Now Open

  We are pleased to announce that the CIC CIO TechForum2011 program has been finalized and the conference website including registration form is now open.    The CIC CIO TechForum is a biennial professional development opportunity supported for IT staff members ... Full article %>

  Jul 13, 2011

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  Category: Professional Development

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