Live Hack

PRESENTERS: Kendall Lewis, Nick Tripp DEPARTMENTS: Duke Medicine Information Security Office; Duke University Information Technology Security Office FORMAT: Lab (Bring your own laptop with someone to lead on topic or instruction) ABSTRACT: Attackers today have an ever-increasing number of web application weaknesses at their disposal, which may be exploited to accomplish a countless number of […]

MDM at Duke!

PRESENTERS: Dan Cantrell, Kevin Caves, Jeremy Cook DEPARTMENTS: Casper Administrators at Duke FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: Directed toward IT admins, JAMF Casper is a centrally funded service at Duke available to all IT groups and departments. Casper is used to manage mobile devices (iOS and Android) in addition to OS X […]

Mobile Video Conferencing Robot

PRESENTERS: Teresa Jennings DEPARTMENTS: OIT Media Technologies FORMAT: Poster or Information Table ABSTRACT: OIT Media Technologies will be exhibiting a telepresence robot, Double Robotics, which uses an iPad for video conferencing and gyroscope and accelerometer sensors for driving and maintaining its balance. It’s an ideal solution for remote workers who want to interact with co-workers […]

Modeling the Archives: How the Digital Projects team at Duke University Libraries puts digitized collections online

PRESENTERS: Will Sexton, Sean Aery DEPARTMENTS: Digital Projects and Production Services at Duke University Libraries FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: DUL’s digital collections program draws from the library’s rich and valuable holdings to preserve and make them available online. The materials include a wide variety of formats from a range of historical […]

Online Duke: Advancing Education Through Online Teaching and Learning

PRESENTERS: Courtney Lockemer DEPARTMENTS: Online Education Initiatives FORMAT: Poster or Information Table ABSTRACT: Online Duke supports the use of online technologies and approaches to advance educational innovation, strengthen Duke’s global partnerships and expand access to Duke’s academic excellence. Online education at Duke encompasses a variety of approaches and tools for teaching and learning, from hybrid, […]

Protection is Ideal, Detection is a Must

PRESENTERS: Jesse Bowling, Nick Tripp, Reneaue Railton DEPARTMENTS: Duke University Information Technology Security Office; Duke Medicine Information Security Office FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: Defending Duke’s network requires advanced awareness and automation to provide visibility and context while constantly adapting to new threats. We’ll talk about new strategies in intrusion prevention and […]

Rapid Drupal Deployment

PRESENTERS: Andy Smith, Alex Verhoeven, David Palmer, Kyle Skrinak DEPARTMENTS: Trinity Technology Services FORMAT: Birds of a Feather ABSTRACT: Are you using features? What about distributions? Drush and makefiles? How about Aegir? Familiar with Ansible? From managing themes, sub-themes and contributed modules to automating site provisioning and recreating functionality, this session will be aimed at […]

Rebranding IT Services at Duke—The it.duke.edu web site

PRESENTERS: Edward Gomes DEPARTMENTS: Trinity Technology Services FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: At Duke University, many users (faculty, staff, students) have a difficult time quickly locating information that relates to their specific IT needs. Currently there are a number of IT-related websites designed to provide information to assist these users, each normally […]

REDCap @ Duke

PRESENTERS: Jeff Hawley DEPARTMENTS: Duke Office of Clinical Research FORMAT: Presentation (topical discussion followed by questions) ABSTRACT: REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is secure, web-based data collection software developed by Vanderbilt, with collaboration from a consortium of institutional partners. REDCap is flexible enough to be used for a variety of types of research. Features include […]

Reproducible Computational Science: Challenges and opportunities for research and IT

PRESENTERS: Hilmar Lapp, Karen Cranston, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Mark Delong, Erich Huang, Dan Leehr, Darin London, Paul Magwene DEPARTMENTS: Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) FORMAT: Panel Discussion (Moderator and panel members discussing a topic andor taking questions from the audience.) ABSTRACT: Reproducibility is a cornerstone of science, enabling scientists to “stand on the shoulders […]