Last month, Al Faber, President and CEO of the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Inc., announced the 2024 recipients of the Baldrige Foundation’s Leadership Awards, which recognizes leaders who provide exceptionally outstanding service and/or support to their sector. This year’s list of award recipients included SMU’s Chief Security Officer George Finney. Continue reading SMU CSO Recognized by Baldrige Foundation for Leadership Excellence in Cybersecurity
Author: Ian Aberle
Ian Aberle is an Adobe Creative Educator and the Senior IT Communications Specialist & Trainer for the Office of Information Technology (OIT). For over 25 years, he has helped the SMU community use technology and implement digital and web media through multiple roles with the Digital Commons, SMU STAR Program, and now OIT. Ian enjoys photography and road trips with his family in his free time.
Important: Upgrade of Mass Notification System on Campus
From SMU Aware:
Dear SMU Community,
We would like to inform you about upcoming changes to the indoor notification system in the buildings across our campus. This is an important part of alerting you to emergencies that may occur while studying, working or living on campus. Continue reading Important: Upgrade of Mass Notification System on Campus
AI for Your Inbox? Improving Incoming Emails Being Marked as Junk
OIT recently deployed Abnormal Security to supplement Microsoft Defender for Office 365, our primary email security (anti-spam) application. Utilizing artificial intelligence as part of the criteria to determine if a message is malicious, these applications help to eliminate emails that are unsolicited or contain threats to data security. With assistance from our end users, the AI learns to correctly identify suspicious messages by the act of users dragging and dropping false positive spam from Junk to Inbox, or vice versa for any unsolicited or unwanted messages. Other methods of strengthening the results include using the Report Message button in Outlook or forwarding messages to spam@smu.edu. Continue reading AI for Your Inbox? Improving Incoming Emails Being Marked as Junk
Spring Data Science Workshops Are Open to All
The Spring 2024 O’Donnell Data Science and Research Computing Institute (ODSRCI) and OIT Research and Data Science Services (RDSS) workshop series provides a hands-on experience that will guide those of the SMU campus community in the basics of using SMU’s supercomputing resources to take advantage of AI workflows, learn the fundamentals of deep learning, start programming in Python, and more. The topics cover information useful for users to quickly begin to use the advanced compute capabilities provided by SMU’s High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and M3.
Those interested need to register for the workshops in advance via Continue reading Spring Data Science Workshops Are Open to All
XWiki Project Gets Closer to Migration
The XWiki Implementation Project has entered its next phase and is working through the technical aspects of migrating years of posts and updates to our campus wiki system. The main goal of the phase to provide a seamless migration for all spaces. The migration team is working with the vendor to find the right balance of downtime and performance—targeting end of February for the switch. Continue reading XWiki Project Gets Closer to Migration
