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Information Technology Annual Report, 2000-2001
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2001)
During fiscal 2001, Information Technology (Information Systems & Computing, Learning Technology, and the Advanced Network Infrastructure & Services) provided resources totaling $44,049,430 to support university goals and objectives in the areas of academic, research, administrative, and outreach.
Information Technology Annual Report, 2001-2002
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2002)
Virginia Tech has announced its overall goal is to make the university ranked among the top 30 universities by 2010. The Information Technology (IT) organization is playing its part to support this goal. Its focus is on enhancing teaching and learning and supporting research activities. Additionally, essential elements of the Information Technology organization’s endeavors are associated with fostering outreach with Commonwealth communities.
Information Technology Annual Report 2002-2003
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2003)
Information Technology supports Virginia Tech’s mission and goals in instruction, research, and outreach. Information Technology works to maintain the security and privacy of the online environment for the faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends, and business partners of the university. This report covers the eighteen months from July 2002 through December 2003. It is organized into two sections: first, some highlights from across Information Technology; second, reports from individual units within Information Technology.
Information Technology Annual Report 2004-2005
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2005)
Information Technology encompasses the centrally provided communications and computing environment for Virginia Tech, including computing and networking infrastructure that supports the missions of Virginia Tech. The Information Technology organization is made up of several major areas reporting to the Vice President for Information Technology. They include Network Infrastructure and Services; Learning Technologies; Enterprise Systems; IT Security; Secure Enterprise Technology Initiatives; Research Computing; eCorridors; and Administration and Planning. This report for the period ending June 30, 2005, is organized into four sections. First, new directions are highlighted in “Featured Topics and New Directions,” projects that engage Information Technology staff members across several organizational units. Second, traditional themes of engagement in and support for instruction, research, and outreach comprise “Core Missions.” Third is the 2005 fiscal year financial summary. Finally, this report includes the annual report of each unit within Information Technology.
Information Technology 2005-2006 Annual Report
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2006)
During fiscal year 2006, organizational units of Information Technology provided resources totaling $49,836,000 in support of the university’s academic, research, administrative, and outreach goals.
Information Technology 2006-2007 Annual Report
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2007)
The Information Technology annual report for 2006-2007 includes a review of key activities from across the organization, as well as unit reports from areas reporting to the vice president.
Information Technology Activities Report 07/08
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2008)
The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology was instrumental this year in several unique efforts: sponsoring the January meeting of the Common Solutions Group, and coordinating follow-on activities of university changes after the shootings of April 2007.
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2008-2009
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2009)
The vice president’s annual report for 2008-2009 includes a review of key activities from across the organization, as well as unit reports from areas reporting to the vice president.
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2009-2010
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2010)
The vice president’s annual report for 2009‐2010 includes a review of key activities from across the organization, as well as unit reports from areas reporting to the vice president.
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2010-2011
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2011)
Information Technology serves the university community and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia by applying and integrating information resources to enhance and support teaching and learning; participate in, support, and enhance research; foster outreach, develop partnerships with communities and promote the capabilities of advanced networking and communications; and provide, secure, and maintain university systems. This annual report of activities presents highlights of the year for the entire organization, and reports from each of the major organizations within Information Technology.
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2011-2012
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2012)
Information Technology serves the university community and the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia by applying and integrating information resources to enhance and support teaching and learning; participate in, support, and enhance research; foster outreach, develop partnerships with communities and promote the capabilities of advanced networking and communications; and provide, secure, and maintain university systems. This annual report of activities presents highlights of the year for the entire organization, and reports from each of the major organizations within Information Technology.
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2012-2013
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2013)
The Information Technology annual report for 2012-2013 includes a review of key activities from across the organization, as well as unit reports from areas reporting to the vice president.
Description of non-Darcy flows in porous medium systems
Dye, A. L.; McClure, J. E.; Miller, C. T.; Gray, W. G. (American Physical Society, 2013-03-18)
Fluid flow through isotropic and anisotropic porous medium systems is investigated for a range of Reynolds numbers corresponding to both Darcy and non-Darcy regimes. A non-dimensional formulation is developed for a Forchheimer approximation of the momentum balance, and lattice Boltzmann simulations are used to elucidate the effects of porous medium characteristics on macroscale constitutive relation parameters. The geometric orientation tensor of the solid phase is posited as a morphological measure of leading-order importance for the description of anisotropic flows. Simulation results are presented to confirm this hypothesis, and parameter correlations are developed to predict closure relation coefficients as a function of porous medium porosity, specific interfacial area of the solid phase, and the geometric orientation tensor. The developed correlations provide improved estimates of model coefficients compared to available estimates and extend predictive capabilities to fully determine macroscopic momentum parameters for three-dimensional flows in anisotropic porous media.
Virginia Tech Information Technology Strategic Plan for 2012-2018
(Virginia Tech, 2013-06-12)
This strategic plan for the IT organization provides a high-level framework for further strategic and tactical planning to realize this IT strategic plan and the university’s long-range plan, “A Plan for a New Horizon – Envisioning Virginia Tech 2012-2018.”
Information Technology Annual Activities Report 2013-2014
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2014)
This annual report from Information Technology reports on the pillars of the IT Strategic Plan.
2014-2016 Virginia Tech IT Operational Plan
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2014-08-26)
This operational plan for the IT organization provides a detailed set of goals, initiatives, and tasks to realize the seven pillars of the IT strategic plan and to support the university’s long-range plan, “A Plan for a New Horizon – Envisioning Virginia Tech 2012-2018.” The content of this plan was collaboratively developed across the entire IT organization over the past year. The Operational Plan is designed to serve as a living bridge between the IT Strategic Plan and the IT Annual Report, creating a logical and traceable flow among the three documents.
Information Technology Annual Report 2014-2015
(Virginia Tech, 2015)
Information Technology provides enterprise services that are critical to the successful operation of the university, including many ongoing services and, each year, a select number of new services as additions or replacements. The Strategic Plan focuses on effectiveness of the service portfolio through 2018. The Strategic Plan takes more definitive shape through the Operational Plan for 2014-2016, and this annual report provides an opportunity to reflect on the work of the past year, and to assess our progress toward the goals and objectives of the Operational Plan.
Method and system for dynamically obscuring addresses in IPv6
(United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2016-10-04)
The invention dynamically obscures network and transport layer addresses of packets to achieve anonymity, including authentication privacy, as well as protection against tracking and traffic correlation and certain classes of network attacks by combining both intrusion protection with anonymity, avoiding the use of a separate management unit outside the host for distribution of obscured addresses. The invention enables a host to automatically configure obscured addresses and determine the obscured address of the intended recipient without outside involvement, computing addresses based on a set of parameters, and to operate without re-authentication whenever an address changes. The invention enables encryption of the packet payload to prevent traffic correlation. The technology of the invention can be implemented embedded on a host device or as a connected gateway device and requires negligible configuration and is therefore transparent to hosts.
Division of Information Technology Annual Report - Fiscal Year 2018
(Virginia Tech. Information Technology, 2018)
The Division of Information Technology provides and supports core technology services that are essential to the successful functioning of the university. These include ongoing services, innovations to existing services, and a select number of new services that add functionality or build on existing capabilities. The current strategic plan provides guidance and direction for our service portfolio through 2018. Our annual report for FY 2018 provides an opportunity to review and reflect on the outcomes of the past year, to assess the effectiveness of the division in adapting to meet the university’s needs, and to provide actionable insights that support the ongoing work and continued development of the Division of Information Technology. This report is organized by the division’s “pillars,” which were introduced in the 2012-2018 Division of IT Strategic Plan, and upon which we in the division have focused our priorities. It is also informed by current visioning efforts including Beyond Boundaries and our own internal initiative to develop a new strategic plan for our organization.
Fusobacterium Genomics Using MinION and Illumina Sequencing Enables Genome Completion and Correction
Todd, S. Michelle; Settlage, Robert E.; Lahmers, Kevin K.; Slade, Daniel J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2018)
Understanding the virulence mechanisms of human pathogens from the genus Fusobacterium has been hindered by a lack of properly assembled and annotated genomes. Here we report the first complete genomes for seven Fusobacterium strains, as well as resequencing of the reference strain Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 25586 (total of seven species; total of eight genomes). A highly efficient and cost-effective sequencing pipeline was achieved using sample multiplexing for short-read Illumina (150 bp) and long-read Oxford Nanopore Min- ION (80 kbp) platforms, coupled with genome assembly using the open-source software Unicycler. Compared to currently available draft assemblies (previously 24 to 67 contigs), these genomes are highly accurate and consist of only one complete chromosome. We present the complete genome sequence of F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 23726, a genetically tractable and biomedically important strain and, in addition, reveal that the previous F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 25586 genome assembly contains a 452-kb genomic inversion that has been corrected using our sequencing and assembly pipeline. To enable genomic analyses by the scientific community, we concurrently used these genomes to launch FusoPortal, a repository of interactive and downloadable genomic data, genome maps, gene annotations, and protein functional analyses and classifications. In summary, this report provides detailed methods for accurately sequencing, assembling, and annotating Fusobacterium genomes, while focusing on using open-source software to foster the availability of reproducible and open data. This resource will enhance efforts to properly identify virulence proteins that may contribute to a repertoire of diseases that includes periodontitis, preterm birth, and colorectal cancer.