TechKnowFile
About this original series
Welcome to the home of the University of Toronto TechKnowFile conference. Check out upcoming events, presentation archives and presenter bios, along with articles, blogs and discussion forums focused on the U of T IT community and higher education computing.
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# Episodes
17 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of TechKnowFile
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TechKnowFile Keynote Speaker: Bob Cook
Bob Cook, CIO at the University of Toronto, addresses the delegation at TechKnowFile 2010.
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Release date
Jun 10, 2010
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Runtime
32:32
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TechKnowFile Keynote: Richard Katz
Scholars, Scholarship, and the Scholarly Enterprise in the Digital Age
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Release date
Jun 10, 2010
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Runtime
52:53
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Multi-factor Authentication Technology
Information technology and services groups are increasingly tackling issues around the topic of Identity Management such as user provisioning, roles management and privileged rights management. One of those issues is the selection of authentication technology. The ubiquitous username/password is the most commonly used technology today but, according to current standards and best practices, it is not always the right choice to protect higher value/risk resources. For these, so-called multi-fact...
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
47:41
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ITS 104: Basic Disaster Prevention
Given the ubiquitousness of computers in scholarship, unexpected loss of data (hard drive crash, server crash, accidental deletion, malevolent coffee) remains an important threat to guard against. This session will focus on topics useful to end users as well as technical staff, and end with a survey of disaster prevention resources on campus.
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
51:30
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Canada?s Fastest Supercomputers
SciNet is a new High-Performance Computing consortium based at University of Toronto which operates Canada's two fastest supercomputers in a new, highly energy-efficient datacentre. We will discuss the challenges of designing, building and operating a cluster with 30,000 cores and the surrounding infrastructure as well as the software systems.
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
45:46
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Blackboard and Facebook: Not that different
Personal information in electronic form offers opportunities for convenience and effective business practices, but also increased risk of loss and unauthorized use of this highly sensitive information. Informational self-determination can mean that each of us has the ability to control information about ourselves, including what is collected, and how and for what purposes it is used, stored, and disclosed. This session explores the ideal and practicality of informational self determination in ...
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
08:23
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You can do that in Outlook?
The Exchange implementation team is talking about a couple of different topics. a) review of our project with the focus on things we learned that would make the next project better b) advanced Outlook/Exchange tips - including some troubleshooting recommendations c) review of our implementation of exchange (including some statistics) and where Microsoft seems to be going with the product
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
53:07
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Getting in "Touch" with your e-services
Smart Internet Enabled Touch devices such as the Blackberry Storm, Samsung Instinct, HTC (Android) G1, Apple iPhone and iPod Touch have all become very popular in the last year or two. With over 30 million Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices sold worldwide to date, and a very robust SDK available to developers, it is becoming ever more apparent that the iPhone OS, in particular, will be a very popular platform for mobile e-collaboration, social networking, research and online learning in the c...
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Release date
Nov 13, 2009
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Runtime
03:42
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Dr. Richard Spencer Plenary Speech, TechKnowFile...
In this plenary session at the University of Toronto's TechKnowFile 2009 conference, Dr. Richard Spencer, executive directory of IT at UBC shares perspective on focusing IT initiatives on university objectives.Dr. Spencer is Executive Director of the Information Technology department at the University of BC. He has a PhD in Civil Engineering and is a registered Professional Engineer.
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Release date
Jun 3, 2009
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Runtime
01:10:27
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Double Header: Identity Management
Two perspectives on identity management in a distributed and complex higher education setting.Who do you think you are? Enabling Access to E-Services with RolesThere are two dominant perspectives when approaching identity management – the security/policy view and the service-based view. Some systems demand the defined structure of the security/policy focus while many others will only flourish under a service-oriented framework. This presentation will show how a service-oriented roles system ca...
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Release date
Jun 3, 2009
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Runtime
47:46
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