News Archive

We have passed the half way point for computer installs! The Mendoza IT started installing computers on March 3, 2008. To date, we have 166 machines installed. This number changes daily. Please check back for more updates.

Many Notre Dame e-mail users received a new scam e-mail message attempting to obtain personal information and your Notre Dame account password.

Please remember: Notre Dame and the OIT will NEVER ask you to supply your password or any other sensitive information in an e-mail.

It is essential that you do NOT provide your personal information by clicking on links or replying to e-mail.. If you think a request for your personal information might be legitimate, contact the institution or department using their officially published phone number, or open a new browser window and TYPE in their URL from a trusted source to check it out. Never use any contact information included in the e-mail.

You can review more information about e-mail phishing at oit.nd.edu/email/phishingfaq.shtml

<http://oit.nd.edu/email/phishingfaq.shtml> and information about identity theft at secure.nd.edu. If you have additional questions, please contact your departmental IT support or the OIT Help Desk (631-8111).

 

As a followup to our November email, we were finally able to place computer orders from Lenovo in December.  We have received some of these computers and are busy creating standard software and security templates for each model.

We expect to start replacing machines within the next month.  Replacement of over 200 computers will continue throughout the spring and summer. 

We will notify you approximately 2 weeks in advance to schedule a date and time for your computer upgrade. 

The planned order of computer upgrades is as follows:

New Faculty
Department Chair Offices
Faculty
Programs and Departments

 Just like with all prior upgrades, there will be an adjustment period.  The new computers will include Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, and a new email client, Outlook 2007.  To assist in your transition to the new environment, we will setup a machine in the 3^rd floor faculty lab and we will let you know as soon as this is ready.

If you have any questions or need to place an order for a secondary office or home computer using your discretionary funds, please contact the Mendoza IT Help Desk at 1-7896 or mcobit@listerv.nd.edu .

Many of you have cleaned out your closets and got rid of unneeded office furniture and supplies.  Now is also the time to clean up your files.  Delete old and unneeded emails, and files from your M: and N: drives.  Don't forget to empty your trash and recycle bins too!

Compustat database has been updated.
The data can be accessed on the R drive at
 R:\cb_data\cstat.
Please contact us (1-9089 or 1-9448) with any questions.

SAS requires annual license renewal.Your SAS software will stop working if its license file is not updated before the end of this September.Please follow the link below to complete the license renewal.
http://mcobit.business.nd.edu/research/documentation/taq/SASLicenseRenewal_2008.cfm

If you have any questions or help, please contact MCOB IT Research
 (1-9448 or 1-9089).

Nastraq database has been updated. The data are now available
through January 2007 and can be accessed on the R drive at
R:\cb_data\nastraq\enastraq. Please contact us (1-9089 or 1-9448) with any questions.

 

The Conference for PhDs, faculty and researchers will take place on Monday, October 1 and Tuesday, October 2 at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

WRDS team is developing an agenda which will include split sessions to accommodate the interests of both new and experienced users.

WRDS plans to have 3 tracks:

   Track 1   General: covering the most important aspects of using the WRDS (especially the web query interface).

   Track 2   Delving into dataset details, with applications.

   Track 3   Hands-on sessions (including web-based tools, PC SAS Connect and MATLAB).

This meeting will also offer information about our future direction and give you an opportunity to meet and network with professionals at WRDS schools in many different fields.  And for all tracks, we welcome suggested topics.  For example, under the second topic, we have been asked to provide information about private company data sources.

In order to determine potential interest, please notify Robin Gold (Robin Gold, Marketing Director, Wharton Research Data Services, The Wharton School. Voice: 215.898.9065 . E-mail: Rnuss@wharton.upenn.edu  ) whether there is either a strong chance or a likely chance that you, a colleague, faculty member, or PhD student will be able to attend. 

Please note that this does not need to be a firm commitment, and any reply would help me greatly in determining the expected number of attendees and planning the event.

Additional information on the sessions and hotel accommodations will be available this summer.  You may also view this information on our WRDS site at http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/news.cgi?URI=/news/sideitem/usersmeeting.shtml .

CRSP Mutual Fund database has been updated. The data are now available through December 2006 and can be accessed on the R drive at R:\cb_data\crsp\Mfund.
Please contact us (1-9089 or 1-9448) with any questions.

TAQ database has been updated. The data are now available through
January 2007 and can be accessed on the R drive at R:\cb_data\TAQ\.
Please contact us (1-9089 or 1-9448) with any questions.