OIT Technology News: End of Year 2018 Edition

Happy Holidays from all of us in the Office of Information Technology.

Happy Holidays from all of us in the Office of Information Technology.
In this edition of OIT's Technology News, we highlight 51°µÍø's attendance at the Supercomputing 2018 (SC18) conference, 20 years of the 51°µÍø STAR Program, how a glass & chip shortages might impact computer inventory, new plugins in Blog.51°µÍø, Lynda retiring, a new Office coming soon, an Appspace Q&A, plus holiday hours for the IT Help Desk.


At this year’s Supercomputing 2018 (SC18) conference in Dallas, in computational research, virtual reality, and world-renowned gaming development using ManeFrame II.


A professor had an idea of a way to help faculty realize their vision but did not have the technical expertise. 20 years later, the on technology projects.


The Wall Street Journal reports at Intel is causing chip curtailments for manufacturers. On top of that, the supply of glass is contracting with the move to larger displays.


This fall, Blog.51°µÍø was migrated to CampusPress allowing access to many new plugins and features. In this post, we would like to available in the cloud.


Microsoft has recently released the latest update to the Office suite. including new motion graphics, editing tools, formulas, and more. 


After 23 years, Lynda is taking a well-earned retirement! Lynda.com will soon become LinkedIn Learning. will continue to provide the legendary quality courses, but will now be integrated with LinkedIn's professional social network.

To celebrate, we are also launching a


The IT Help Desk has received since launching Appspace Cloud. We want to share some answers to your questions about Adobe Flash, sign status, roles, and training.


, we cover Favorites in Canvas Commons, the New Rich Content Editor HTML 5 Recorder, and improvements to SpeedGrader on Mobile with the Eraser Tool and image annotations.


If you've been watching our ongoing , you'll want to tune in this January for our For four Tuesdays in January (plus one Wednesday) we will be holding live 30-minute webinars with quick and easy tips.


Winter break is once again fast approaching, and we would like to make you aware of the .