Author: Wade Moricle
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Ramirez and DeRose Each Travel to Peru
Joe DeRose and Jocelyn Ramirez (both of R-WIT) each took separate trips to Peru this summer, both having just returned in the last month. The following is a summary of their amazing adventures: Jocelyn Ramirez A native of Peru, Jocelyn is from Lima. She went in mid-June for a wedding and extended her trip for…
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Fall Forum on the Liberal Arts
On Monday, Sept 30, at 4 p.m., the Commission on the Liberal Arts and the Office of the Provost will present the Fall Forum on the Liberal Arts. This discussion will serve as a public kick-off to the commission’s work in 2013-14. There will be a reception following the event. Monday, September 30 – 4:00…
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Meet the LIMS Team
One of the major applications currently being administered in the Research and Woodruff Health Sciences IT (R-WIT) division is the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The LIMS is currently deployed in several laboratories across Emory University and the Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI). The LIMS is accessible from multiple organizations and physical networks and…
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Echo360 in Production
[NOTE: Steve Bransford and Shannon O’Daniel (both of Academic Technology Services) authored this article.] UTS recently transitioned Echo360 from pilot status into a full enterprise service. All schools at Emory, with the exception of the School of Public Health, are participating in the enterprise rollout. Echo360 is a class capture and video delivery system. It easily facilitates the recording of…
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Inside OKCupid: The Math of Online Dating
OKCupid is an online dating site that was co-founded by Christian Rudder, a Harvard-educated mathematician and entrepreneur. With over 40-milion Americans trying online dating, Rudder believed that he could bring concrete mathematics to the otherwise murky world of mechanical matchmaking. In this interesting Ted Talk, Rudder explains some of the math behind OKCupid (described by…
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Repairs Underway to 1762 Parking Lot
If you have parked in the rear parking lot of the 1762 building in the past few years, you may have noticed an alarmingly growing sinkhole that has been eating away some of the spaces. This sinkhole was the result of erosion towards the railroad tracks that travel between 1762 and the intramural fields. Areas…
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Tony Dawson, TOC Engineer IV, Enterprise Services
Tony has been hired by Emory to be a monitoring application admin in the Technical Operations Center (TOC). Prior to Emory he was at M*Modal in Norcross, GA for 14 years, where he did a little bit of everything, including Windows and Linux administration and monitoring. Before that, he was based in the UK working…