Recent News Releases
IU Informatics Faculty Present at 2009 Midwest HIMSS Technology Conference
November 12, 2009 — Josette Jones and Sara Anne Hook, faculty at Indiana University’s School of Informatics in Indianapolis, recently gave a presentation at the 2009 Midwest Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Technology Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their competitively-selected lecture, titled “The Impact of the 2009 Stimulus Provision on the Privacy, Security and Accessibility of the Personal Health Record (PHR),” compared the Electronic Health Record with the Personal Health Record in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Full storyIU School of Informatics at IUPUI launches new interactive Web site
October 7, 2009 — The Indiana University School of Informatics at IUPUI has launched a new interactive Web site developed to better serve students, faculty, staff and others, and to foster a clearer definition of informatics and its implications for the future.
Full storyIUPUI Human-Computer Interaction Program sponsors World Usability Day conference
October 2, 2009 — As part of World Usability Day, the Indiana Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association is hosting an event to promote the exchange of ideas on sustainability as it relates to usability and product development. The IU School of Informatics, Human-Computer Interaction Program is co-sponsoring the event.
Full storyIU Informatics professor and alums featured speakers at leading pharma conference
September 30, 2009 — Two graduates of IU's Laboratory Informatics Program, and an IU Health Informatics professor will be featured speakers at LI '09: The 5th Forum on Lab Informatics. This year's conference - "Advancing Laboratory Informatics to speed up the analytical process and Time to Market" - will be held Oct. 26-28 in San Francisco.
Full storyToo scary to be real, research looks to quantify eeriness in virtual characters
September 24, 2009 —
Indiana University's Karl MacDorman has been to the valley -- the uncanny valley of virtual humans so lifelike they give us real humans the creeps. What he's found is that things don't look so bad after all.
In tribute to Myles Brand
September 17, 2009 — The School of Informatics mourns the passing and pays tribute to the life of former IU President (1994-2002) Myles Brand, who passed away on Sept.16 from pancreatic cancer.
Full storyJoseph Maley Scholarship created to support IUPUI Media Arts and Science Program
September 2, 2009 — (INDIANAPOLIS) – The IU School of Informatics has announced the creation of a scholarship honoring the late Joseph Maley. The annual scholarship will be given to a deserving student in the Media Arts and Science Program at IUPUI, based on the student’s merit and academic achievement. The first award will be given in spring 2010 and will continue until 2012.
Full storyMediaSauce Scholarship created to support IUPUI Media Arts and Science Program
August 28, 2009 — The Indiana University School of Informatics has announced the creation of a scholarship supported by MediaSauce to be given to students who are studying in the Media Arts and Science Program at IUPUI. The inaugural scholarship will be granted in spring 2010 to a deserving student, based on their merit and achievement within the program.
Full storyMAS class project blossoms into bicycle safety Web site for Riley Hospital
August 26, 2009 —
When Dr. Karen Stroup, IU School of Medicine, and Janet Everly, IU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences visited Edgar Huang's Media Arts and Science class last year, they arrived with an idea for a Web site. The duo left having planted a seed that eventually blossomed into a high profile offering by Riley Hospital for Children.
IU workshop to increase awareness about advantages of databases in research
August 21, 2009 —
Rapid technological advances now offer new research opportunities through the unprecedented explosion of digital data. As a result, researchers are finding that manual processes for data and traditional tools such as Excel are no longer adequate and they need assistance with data-related issues.
John Ludwick to give Heartland Film Festival lecture
August 19, 2009 —
John Ludwick, lecturer, IU School of Informatics, Media Arts & Science program, presents "Animated Filmmaking: Emotions in Motion". The free lecture is being offered during this year's Heartland Film Festival. Sponsored by the Heartland Film Institute, Ludwick's talk is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 10.

