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NUIT Timeline of Progress2000-2007P2002PMediaWorks studio opens inthe University Library with highendmedia production systemsdesigned to advance the quality ofstudents’ multimedia projects.2000NUIT and the UniversityLibrary collaborate to form “2East”,promoting scholarly technologiesand bibliographic resourceactivities for facultyand researchers.Northwestern’s first officialelectronic transcript is created,establishing a distinctcompetitive advantage to theUniversity as critical informationis provided faster.P2001Northwestern’s Visualization Labopens, providing cutting-edgecomputer workstations capable ofextremely precise graphic detail foreducation and research.Northwestern becomes the firstuniversity to offer digital televisionover the network (NUTV),providing students with access to20 channels via the Internet.The Early Communication Programis launched with UndergraduateAdmissions to provide e-mailaccounts and online access toincoming students at the point ofadmission, advancing necessarycommunication within theNorthwestern community beforestudents arrive on campus.CAESAR, the new self-serviceWeb access to Student EnterpriseSystem (SES), centralizes studentUniversity information andprovides online course registration,eliminating long waits for studentscommon with “arena registration”.Gift processing and biographicand demographic informationsupport is added to the Alumni andDevelopment System for improvedprospect tracking.Central Information Technologyprovides true “24/7” access toessential University services withmore than 99 percent uptime on163 servers across the distributedcomputing environment.IP (Internet Protocol) multicastingservices are added to the campusbackbone, allowing for thedistribution of multimedia tocampus users.The largest single video multicastin history to date—a live CNNfeed broadcast to the Networld/Interop trade show in Atlanta—isrouted through the Northwesternmulticast-enabled network.StarLight, the next generationSTAR TAP (Science Technology andResearch Transit Access Point), isdeveloped to support large-scaleglobal eScience based on Gridcomputing and optical networking.26 NUIT Annual Report 2007
P2003More than 950 videoconferencesare conducted at Northwestern,including education and researchcollaboration activities withRussia, Taiwan, Israel, England,Sweden, Switzerland, Canada,and France.NUCH1 (NU Channel 1),broadcasting University-relatedactivities, is launched on NUTV anddebuts a new “24/7” Universitycalendar publicizing studentrelatedevents.E-mail use at the Universitygrew exponentially over the pastdecade, processing over one billione-mail messages in 2003 alone.Two-year upgrade begins toincrease all network connectionsfrom shared 10 Mbps to switched10 Mbps or 100 Mbps Ethernetservice, improving networksecurity, performance, andreliability.ARTstor (a five-year culmination ofwork with the Mellon InternationalDunhuang Archive project) offers acomplete source of online imagesdocumenting the architecture andwall paintings of the Buddhist caveshrines in Dunhuang, China.A new, Web-accessible HumanResources InformationSystem (HRIS) advancesself-service functionality.The McCormick School ofEngineering, Weinberg College ofArts and Sciences, and the Schoolof Music use Depot (a Webenabled,enterprise level storageplatform) to give faculty andstudents the ability to collaborateonline with project work.The Electronic Time Entry System(ETES) allows temporary andhourly employees to electronicallyinput work hours directly intoHuman Resources InformationSystem (HRIS), eliminatingpaper forms.P2004As part of a three-year Universityclassroom initiative, the firstnew laptop-based classroomsare designed to give facultyand students a more flexiblelearning environment.More than 1,000 coursesites in 11 University schoolsuse Northwestern’s CourseManagement System toenhance learning.Central Information TechnologyDatacenter growth continues,supporting a total of 237 servers,140 central systems and 97departmental servers.Data stored at the centralDatacenter more than quadruplesin three years from 20 terabytes to83 terabytes.In partnership, Northwestern andthe City of Evanston break groundto upgrade the City’s infrastructurewith a new fiber-optic system.NUIT Annual Report 2007 27
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