UC Berkeley joins edX
UC Berkeley joins Harvard and MIT not-for-profit online-learning collaborative; edX broadens free course offerings into public health, computer science and solid-state chemistry; opens registration
Macintosh and Windows Users: Keeping Current with Microsoft Office
IS&T plans to end support for Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows and Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh at the end of 2012. Upgraded versions offer better performance, integration, and compatibility.
ARTEMiS brings art to teaching of science and engineering concepts
ART for Engineering, Mathematics, and Science an initiative launched last summer through MIT’s Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT).
Casper Suite centralizes Macintosh management
IS&T is planning a multistage rollout of the Casper Suite — a comprehensive platform for managing Mac OS X computers. This software will enable IT administrators at MIT to oversee inventory, software distribution, settings and security.
New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques
Loop perforation — speeding up programs by skipping instructions — is just one method that gets rigorous mathematical treatment in a new paper.
Excel programming for nonprogrammers
A new system allows Excel users to create customized functions for their spreadsheets simply by offering a few examples of how data should be manipulated.
Testing unbuilt chips
A new software-simulation system promises much more accurate evaluation of promising — but potentially fault-ridden — multicore-chip designs.
New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials
Website offers a way of optimizing solar cell materials and production.
Prepare now! Migration of Exchange mailboxes to Exchange 2010 Is under way
IS&T is upgrading the campus Microsoft Exchange infrastructure from 2007 to 2010.
An oracle for object-oriented programmers
By automatically cataloging connections between software 'objects,' a new system orients programmers joining large software projects in midstream.