Previous Talks

The University Libraries organization at CU Boulder continues to evolve to meet current and emerging demands of all who use its resources and related services. Search and discovery services, provisioning of library resources, and the preservation of archive-worthy materials remain core to what libraries fundamentally do. The tools available to...

Jason Armbruster will be presenting his work on realtime data feed (“Live Data”) from UIS. Problem: University core Administrative Systems supported by UIS contain a wealth of data that can drive significant value in applications supported outside of UIS. Requests for data to UIS tend to come in piecemeal creating...

Lou Ordorica will be presenting user experience design process and his work on UI/UX design on Wednesday November 30th @ noon in Conf Room 126 at Computing Center, 3645 Marine St. User Experience and Design (UXD) OIT is adopting a user-centric design framework focused on creating better end user experiences...

Problem: There are different levels of identity management, the simplest of them being that a person gets an account and is able to authenticate. This is a starting point, but true identity governance is not simply the ability to authenticate, but more what is the user authorized to access with...

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery. The...

Communication and collaboration are the heart of the CU experience, and the network is the lifeblood for almost everything we do - signing up for classes, turning in assignments, researching papers, working on projects with colleagues. Did you know CU Boulder has the largest 802.11a/b/g wireless network in Colorado? Furthermore,...

The Problem: Replace an antiquated system that created courses and loaded student and instructor enrollments into our Learning Management System (LMS). The prior system required significant manual effort by the team that manages the enterprise LMS system. At a minimum a user needed to, on a daily basis, SSH into...

The Problem: Higher education institutions have to tackle more and more complex problems to keep up with growing demands for secondary education. The questions are as varied as "what is the optimal distribution of classes and labs around campus given the limited space that we are working with?” or "what...

Bill Beachley will be presenting a lightweight PHP Framework (Slimframework) and how he used it to developed a web application for interfacing with network management hardware using RESTful APIs. - Slim Framework Website IPAM Presentation PDF Bill has been a LAMP stack developer for 15 years, developing both front-ent and...

John Callaway will be talking about how he is using Docker to test a rather hard-to-test, heavily environment-dependent batch job written in tcsh and SQL. He will give a demo of spinning up a Docker container that runs an Oracle database, a subset of the EDB/dirsvcs schema, and associated scripts...