IT Times Archive

Spring/Summer 2008 ISSUE

UC Davis telecom preps for the 2010s . . . 3-D animation, done on campus, helps a distinguished professor win his latest grant . . . the follow-up report to the fall 2007 chancellor's conference on IT sets ambitious goals for the campus. Read about these and other developments since last winter in the latest IT Times online--just click on the links below, open the PDF version, or look for the print edition in your campus mailbox. Copies are also available at IT Express, the MU Info Desk, campus computer rooms, and other customary distribution sites.

Campus telecom, 2014: Faster speeds, fewer wires, a lot more video
UCDNet3 prepares the campus for faster networks, more wireless, the coming wave of online video, and other telecom needs of the 2010s.

Animated teaching
BrewSim, a prototype of a 3-D animation created at UC Davis, helps professor R. Paul Singh win a federal grant to develop educational food-processing games.

IET reduces budget by $1.46 million
Protecting core services was a priority; some services will be cut or eliminated.

'Illuminating a path'
The follow-up report to last fall's chancellor's conference sets ambitious goals for campus IT.

SmartSite gets fresh oversight
SmartSite adds oversight group, has new goals on when and how to retire the MyUCDavis course tools.

Smart lecterns, plasma-screen greetings, cell-phone friendly
Graduate School of Management's budding Gallagher building will be a high-tech hall.

Useful information, available to you for free
Check out resources from Gartner and Educause, including some you'd have to pay for if you weren't at UC Davis.

Gmail student pilot succeeded
A decision on extending it to all students is due soon.

New Internet Tools CD, computer advice
Here's how to find what you need.

This year it's in September
Summer Institute for Teaching and Technology moves from July, works on 2008 agenda.

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