We are currently experiencing an outage with some of our central campus web servers. This outage is affecting a number of campus websites such as library.umbc.edu, dps.umbc.edu and news.umbc.edu...
November 16, 2021
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4:20 PM
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We have switched the default Intel compiler back to 2020b from the previous 2021a. The 2021a Intel compiler is still available, and you can load this module with the following command, "module...
November 9, 2021
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1:39 PM
Six faculty seek Quality Matters certification in UMBC pilot
By most accounts, UMBC’s PIVOT initiative has been considered a success in that 70 percent of all faculty participated, and 85% percent of students in PIVOT courses felt they were well organized...
November 9, 2021
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9:23 AM
As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 12th, Saturday, November 13th and Friday,...
November 8, 2021
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1:45 PM
New progress tracking improvements in Ultra courses
Customizing the course interface creates a visual identifier in a Blackboard course. In the next phase of the Ultra course's improved navigation and aesthetic redesign, course banners will be an...
November 8, 2021
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9:04 AM
Nov. 8-12, 2021: Teaching & Learning in a Hybrid World
One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution in the same state where they live (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016; Allen &...
October 28, 2021
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1:13 PM
Another Breach Of An Online Service
In 2020, the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse suffered a data breach. On October 13, 2021, the data compromised in the breach was posted in various hacker forums. This breach contained data...
October 18, 2021
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4:53 PM
Latest version of Matlab install on Taki
We have installed Matlab 2021b on Taki, it is now the default Matlab. You can access Matlab by loading the module with the following command: module load MATLAB The older versions of...
October 15, 2021
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1:01 PM
NVIDIA staff will share plans for future product releases
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, Technical staff from NVIDIA will give us a 30 minute intro call to go over their new product releases and see how NVIDIA might be able to help us...
October 12, 2021
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9:32 AM
Spam Claiming Celebrity Endorsement For Trump Coin
The UMBC Department of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of spam invoking former President Trump, collectible coins, and the security-focused Telegram messaging system. See the...
October 11, 2021
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12:17 PM