Monthly Archives: December 2010

ICPSR Webinar: Guidance on Preparing a Data Management Plan

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ICPSR – Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Join ICPSR for a Webinar on January 12
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/703523019
Many federal funding agencies, including NIH and most recently NSF, are requiring that grant applications contain data management plans for projects involving data collection. To support researchers in meeting this requirement, ICPSR is providing a set of tools and resources for creating data management plans. This webinar will cover:

• ICPSR’s Data Management Plan Website
• Suggested Elements of a Data Management Plan
• Example Data Management Plan Language
• Designating ICPSR as an Archive in a Data Management Plan
• Additional Resources for a Preparing Your Data Management Plan

The webinar is free and open to the public – please forward this invitation to any who may be interested.

Miss the webinar? Archived webinars are available on ICPSR’s Data User Help Center (Audio/Video Tutorials): http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/help/datausers/index.jsp

Not receiving these webinar invitations directly? Opt-in to ICPSR’s email list here:

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/org/lists/icpsr-announce.jsp

ICPSR Webinar: Guidance on Preparing a Data Management Plan
Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

System Requirements:

  • PC-based attendees, Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
  • Macintosh®-based attendees, Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer

CI Days Video Online

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Find out what you missed if you didn’t attend CI Days. Evaluations of the event were very positive, and ORCI is making plans for another CI Days next year. We will have smaller events and workshops in the meantime, and we will keep you posted!

News story on the OVPR website: http://research.umich.edu/ci/cidays2010/

Video available includes:

Amazon Web Services Webinar on Dec. 17

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Join Amazon Web Services for a webinar introducing HPC in the cloud.

With Amazon Web Services, businesses and researchers can easily fulfill their high performance computational requirements with the added benefit of ad-hoc provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing.

HPC on Amazon Web Services
11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET
Friday, December 17

Register for this webinar
http://www.amazon.marketbright.com/api/Tracker.Log_URL?Id=499801&C_ID=94377&URLID=2674&URL=https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/255123067

Listen to Deepak Singh Ph.D, Sr. Business Development Manager, explain how AWS’s HPC offering can benefit your research lab and business. Deepak will also talk about the performance of Amazon EC2′s newest innovations including cluster compute and cluster GPU instances and the customers that are succeeding by running HPC workloads in the cloud.

Attend this webinar to learn more about this new offering.

Winter 2011 Course: Cloud Computing and the Commute

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EECS498/SI517: Cloud Computing and the Commute
Winter 2011
3 Credits
Prof. Flinn and Prof. Noble
Time: TTh 3-4:30

In this project-based course, students will work in small teams to design, build, and demonstrate an automotive telematics application. Students will be given a software development platform, based on Microsoft’s embedded computing suite, with access to vehicle performance data, cloud services, social networking platforms, networking services, voice recognition, and text-to-speech capabilities. Development takes place on both a desktop simulator as well as on vehicles equipped with the appropriate software and hardware. Students will learn how to architect and design driving-appropriate applications and interfaces.  At the end of the term, student projects will be evaluated by a jury of faculty members, Ford, and Microsoft personnel.