HITS launching the Academic IT Core on March 1
The Academic IT Core will house a specialized set of IT and data services that are easily accessible, available on demand, and for a recharge rate.
Author Archives: News Staff
MORPHEUS vs. Everybody
DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won.
Building hack-resistant driverless cars
Technology-packed autonomous vehicles will create a new frontier for hackers. A UM-Dearborn cybersecurity expert explains how we might protect them.
New resource to share and preserve qualitative research data
QDR is available via the U-M Library’s licensed institutional membership.
Further updates being made to ResponsiBLUE
App to provide quarantine and isolation information, usability improvements.
Enriching Scholarship call for proposals
Hosted by U-M’s Teaching and Technology Collaborative, Enriching Scholarship focuses on the effective integration of technology and pedagogy.
Listen: Privacy Perspectives
What are privacy officers talking about when they talk about privacy? And why is it important?
Mapping for the future
Advanced GIS students from U-M Dearborn are working to map and increase Dearborn’s tree canopy, understand flood hazards, and streamline multimodal route planning.
University wins STEM grant to aid manufacturing cybersecurity
U-M’s Economic Growth Institute will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to boost cybersecurity know-how among small manufacturers in southeastern Michigan.
Michigan IT history: 75 years of the ENIAC
The first general-purpose computer turned 75 in February. One of its key contributors was Arthur Burks, who co-founded the first program in computing at U-M in 1957.
Watch: Alternatives to a doctor’s office gain popularity during pandemic
To date, Michigan Medicine has conducted more than 350,000 video and phone visits since the pandemic started.
Dearborn’s Tech Tutor program aims to support student digital literacy
In February, UM-Dearborn announced that it will launch Tech Tutors — a new student worker-powered support service that’ll be managed by Talent Gateway Executive Director and librarian Laurie Sutch, who coordinated a similar tech program at UM-Ann Arbor. Tech Tutors is part of Dearborn’s Experience+ initiative which aims to unify the campus’s student cocurricular offerings. “When we look at… Read More »
U-M students create online resource for families to create art projects at home
During the fall semester, U-M students in Melanie Manos‘ Detroit Connections: In the Classroom course were faced with a challenging question: How could they connect kids with creative activities and art education while so many K-12 students were studying remotely? Under Manos’ guidance, the class addressed this question through Art Connects Kids, a website brimming with original, kid-friendly art projects for families to do… Read More »
Fairer AI for long-term equity
The National Science Foundation, in partnership with Amazon, has awarded U-M a Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) grant for research on identifying and mitigating bias in AI and Machine Learning systems to achieve long-lasting equitable outcomes. “There is an increasing awareness in the AI research community of the issue of bias,” says Mingyan Liu, professor of electrical and… Read More »
Low-cost or free professional development
This month’s EDUCAUSE Review has an article by U-M’s Irene Knokh that lists many resources to improve your professional skills.
Buried by emails? Here are a few ways out
A survey conducted at Michigan Medicine determined that emails were a key factor in daily stress and burnout among faculty, staff, and learners. And while there’s no surefire way to prevent emails from arriving in your mailbox, you can learn a few tips that can help you manage them so they don’t become such a daily burden. At… Read More »
New database sheds light on Michigan’s videogame boom
A new database of Michigan-based videogame and extended reality (XR) developers is helping to highlight and organize the state’s rapidly growing scene. Built and maintained by CSE lecturer Austin Yarger, the Michigan Game Studios database collects data on over 65 active videogame and XR development studios in the state. He hopes it can be of use to the many audiences… Read More »
Have better virtual staff meetings
Zoom fatigue got you down? Experiment with these techniques for smoother, more productive, more interesting team meetings.
U-M professor appointed to FDA medical device security post
There’s a good chance that your life will at some point depend on a piece of computer software. Lines of code drive pacemakers, insulin pumps, hospital imaging machines and just about every other electronic medical device that’s manufactured today. But where there’s software, there are hackers. And a steady stream of hospital ransomware attacks and other malicious activities… Read More »
U-M first university press named as Benetech Global Certified Accessible publisher
University of Michigan Press is now a Benetech Global Certified Accessible™ (GCA) publisher, and is the first university press to receive this certification. Benetech, a nonprofit that empowers communities with software for social good, issues this accreditation to those publishers who produce EPUBs that meet a full range of accessibility features required to support readers with and without disabilities… Read More »