Various services run by the Informatics Research and Teaching Unit will be affected by the Appleton Tower power down of Saturday 29th June 2024. The complete list of services is listed below. Although the power down only affects the Saturday, all services below will be unavailable until Monday 1st July. PIP The Personal Information Processor […]

We recently polled staff and research students in the School on some approaches and suggested technologies for moving forward with better and more integrated support for Video Conferencing in the School: https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/VideoConferencing. That page has now been updated with a summary of all the comments received. The proposal now is that meeting room 5.02 in […]

Informatics is one of the few schools that maintains its own separately authenticated local user accounts (DICE) rather than using EASE/AD centrally managed accounts. Our accounts are automatically created and expired based on data we receive from the centre. However this is a much more complex process than at first might seem. We need to pull […]

In November 2014 the remaining end user vestiges of the legacy school database service originating in 1996 were migrated into Theon. The areas and workflows that were transitioned at this time were: Staff Records Visitor Records Post Application Visit Day handling for UG students Taught PG student admissions handling The School InfHR team were moved across […]

On September 1st, 2013 the University of Edinburgh introduced a Total Academic Headcount (TAH) site licence for the Mathworks MATLAB® application and the MATLAB® Distributed Computing Server. This new TAH license will replace all our existing School provided research and teaching licenses.  In brief summary it allows unrestricted concurrent access for all staff and students […]

Back in summer 2009 we reviewed our School Database provision. The result of that review was to commence a project to re-factor both of the existing back and front ends. This project also “adopted” a number of additional areas not specifically covered in the original review, including: integration of the old IGS and ISS Access […]