University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Division of Information Technology

Prefer “Bucky” to “Buckingham”? Update your contact info

The University recognizes that as a community many of its members use names other than their legal names to identify themselves. The University began a phased implementation of a preferred first and/or middle name policy that allows eligible students to indicate their preferred first name to the university community regardless of a legal name change.

At UW-Madison, students, faculty and staff keep moving to new technologies

Students at UW-Madison have embraced social networks – not much of a surprise on a campus that is often a trendsetter with new technologies. But in growing numbers, faculty and staff on the Madison campus are following along, using their mobile Internet devices to join the online multitudes at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites.

Agreement reached on UW role in state cooperative network

UW-Madison will be able to continue all current networking affiliations, including membership in WiscNet, under an agreement included in Wisconsin’s proposed state budget. “We believe this agreement protects our service to students, our $1 Billion research enterprise and the 3500 high-tech jobs in Research Park,” says John Krogman, chief operating officer of the Division of …

Euclid brings new computing capabilities to UW-Madison researchers

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have a significant new computing resource. Dubbed the Euclid cluster, it enables research projects to marshal the power of many computers at once to run large-scale computing jobs much faster and to move large datasets and files at high speeds among individual servers that make up the cluster.

Campus computing outage scheduled for Sunday

Campus computers users may not have access to network resources during a routine maintenance session scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 9, from midnight to 8 a.m. During that time, the Network Services group at the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will upgrade equipment and software, potentially affecting all network connectivity on campus. As usual, the outage …