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Elasticsearch is an open-source, scalable, distributed search and analytics engine. Most people know Elasticsearch as the de-facto standard for application search use cases. What many may not know is how the Elastic Stack (known by many as the ELK stack) has evolved to become one of the most used platforms...

Kubi is a remote attendance tool that removes barriers to classroom participation for students who are not physically able to attend face-to-face classes. Recently in the news , Kubi is a robotic “neck” that holds a tablet and allows a remote user to control the tablet through a Zoom web...

Kieran O'Day will give an overview of blockchain technology including the history, how it works, and its unique properties. He will then dive into the use cases being explored today and the role that blockchain might play in our future society. Speaker: Kieran O'Day Kieran is currently a junior in...

d3.js (data-driven documents) is a JavaScript library that simplifies targeting web page elements and binding data to them. When used with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), HTML5, and CSS, you can create interactive, web-based data visualizations for communication, exploration, and analysis. For developers, d3.js provides methods for transforming and encoding data...

Agile software development is an approach whole-heartedly embraced by many teams. Although adopting practices like sprints, scrums, weekly demos and more has improved our agility, have we achieved an agile mindset? Do we think about things in a way from a common point-of-view? Has agile become a way of life...

Dan Herrick says he has the best job in OIT: he gets to think about computers all day, but he doesn't have to support them! He deals with the lifecycle for computers and other IT assets - from acquisition to disposal. IT Asset Management (ITAM) joins the financial, contractual, and...

Exasol is a high speed scalable, in-memory, massively parallel processing database designed specifically for analytics. In May 2018, CU Online, in partnership with the OIT, implemented Exasol as an on-premises solution to data storage for the University of Colorado Denver with the goal of having a single data warehouse which...

Web application development is evolving. While front-end development using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS isn't going away, JavaScript frameworks are gaining popularity. Angular is a JavaScript framework that supports multiple form factors, rich interactivity, and single page applications. When coupled with Material Design, it provides a consistent user experience across devices...

Steve Taylor will share lessons learned from the past year of deploying container-based platforms at UIS. This is an update to his tech talk from September 2017, summarized below. Container technology is transforming application deployment, and quickly delivering on the promise of infrastructure as a service. Steve Taylor will present...

There are obvious challenges that we have tried to overcome with laptops and laptop carts such as battery life, OS updates, expensive hardware, asset management, security, and slow boot times. What if one solution took care of all those challenges? In this talk, I’ll discuss how you can utilize Google...