It's time to renew your MIT personal certificates
MIT's personal web certificates will soon require renewal. Renewal of personal web certificates is not automatic, and to ensure continued access to MIT's secure web applications, such as Benefits,...
View ArticleOnline courses help you learn MIT applications
The beauty of online courses is that you can pick up skills as needed, anytime and anywhere. Recognizing this, the Information Services and Technology (IS&T) Training Team has been full steam...
View ArticleBudget authorization report offers new on-demand option
The NIMBUS budget system now provides the option to run budget authorization reports on demand from a convenient web interface. As an alternative to receiving monthly reports from the budget office via...
View ArticleMaking Web applications more efficient
Most major websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability on flights, and...
View ArticleMIT OpenCourseWare to launch improved site design
In late November, MIT OpenCourseWare will launch a new site design intended to help visitors to the site discover new courses easily and access course materials more efficiently. The design features a...
View ArticleRemoving a pain point for financial aid students and staff
Applying for and understanding financial aid at MIT got much easier for incoming freshmen in 2012 with the implementation of online document tracking and financial aid award letters. The process of...
View ArticleMIT Connect: explore the world of MIT through social media
Want to know what's up at MIT? Check out MIT Connect, an innovative social media portal recently launched by MIT's Communication Production Services (CPS) in collaboration with the News Office. The...
View ArticleNew MIT Drupal Cloud Service launched
Want to build and manage a website, even though you're not a programmer? There's a service that can make that wish come true — at no cost to you! Information Services and Technology (IS&T) has...
View ArticleViews you can use? How online ratings affect your judgment
Are you influenced by the opinions of other people — say, in the comments sections of websites? If your answer is no, here’s another question: Are you sure?A new study co-authored by an MIT professor...
View ArticleKeeping ‘digital storefronts’ fresh
In 2010, a team of MIT graduate students designed an app that allowed people to rate entrees at local restaurants. This aimed to help restaurant patrons find the best local dishes. Soon, however, the...
View ArticleBuilding culture in digital media
The video game “Grand Theft Auto V,” which recently grossed $1 billion in its first three days on sale, is set in the fictional city of Los Santos. But if you’ve played the game, you probably don’t...
View ArticlePowering better online document viewing
Viewing PDF and Microsoft Office documents on a Web browser can cause slow loading and messy formatting — and often such documents won’t load at all. Most times, users will simply download the...
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