Archive for January, 2009

GreenFab Sustainable Design / Afterschool and Summer Enrichment Intern

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

SUB: GreenFab Sustainable Design / Afterschool and Summer Enrichment
Intern
GreenFab: Sustainable Design Through Engineering and
Technology: After-School and Summer Enrichment Intern
GreenFab, funded through the National Science Foundation is a in
school and after school
curriculum designed for first and second year High School students to
help develop crucial analytical
and creative skills in the fields of sustainability, life sciences,
engineering [...]

Registration for May Graduation Ends TODAY

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Reminder: The deadline to register intent to graduate is TODAY,
Friday, January 30.
Any student planning to graduate in May 2009 must register your
intent to graduate with the
University Registrar by calling Torchtone at (212) 995-4747.
The graduation registration calendar is available on the RegistrarÂ’s
website at
http://www.nyu.edu/registrar/graduation/deadlines.html.
Registration for September 2009 graduation begins on February 2.
—————————————————–
Edward J. Gordon
Faculty & Student Services [...]

Game Jam This Weekend!

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Concerning the Global Game Jam this weekend at ITP:
This weekend ITP is hosting a group of game developers — many of them
alumni, ITP students or just friends of ITP.
The teams of developers will be competing to design a game over the
entire weekend, dedicating themselves to the cause of gaming! The
teams have use of the [...]

Internships Deadline Rapidly Approaching

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

SUBJ: Internships Deadline Rapidly Approaching
Hi everybody
If you’re interested in the Tech & Social Justice Internships,
deadlines are rapidly approaching. If you are interested please do
the following asap.
thanks!
Marianne
1) Look at the internship pdf:
url: http://itp.nyu.edu/syllabus/spring2009internships.pdf
and contact the respective organizations you are interested in. Send
them a resume and make an appointment as soon as possible.
Remember - they [...]

Fall 2008 Networked Objects

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

If you were in Tom Igoe’s Fall 2008 Networked Objects class, and you
are still using your Xport for another class or project, please email
Marlon at me42@nyu.edu and let him know so your ip address is not
reassigned. If you need to keep it, please indicate for which
current, Spring 2009 class you need it for.
Regards,
Rob
ITP | Rob [...]

Special Event This Friday - Global Game Jam

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Due to the Special Event this friday and into the weekend — the
Global Game Jam — there will be no usual 6pm social hour
refreshments nor 6:30pm speaker.
Instead, come to the kickoff event at 3pm, here at ITP! For folks
still interested in participating, please email Oren Ross -
orenross@gmail.com
> ITP will be taking part in the [...]

Post-production workshop

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Begin forwarded message:
From: Michael Dory
Date: January 27, 2009 6:53:12 PM EST
To: Ruth Sergel , Rob Ryan
Cc: “Marianne R. Petit”
Subject: Post-production workshop
Hi folks,
I’ll be doing another workshop on Friday — feel free to spread the word!
Sound Editing Workshop
Room 442
2 p.m.
I’ll be covering the basics of sound editing and manipulation,
focusing on using Soundtrack Pro to edit interviews, [...]

INTERNSHIPS - NEXT STEPS - update

Monday, January 26th, 2009

sorry, the URL was missing, here it is:
http://itp.nyu.edu/syllabus/spring2009internships.pdf
Hi everybody.
If you came to the internship event on Friday — thanks! It was great
to see such a wonderful turnout.
Just to reiterate next steps.
1) Look at the internship pdf:
url:
and contact the respective organizations you are interested in. Send
them a resume and make an appointment as soon as [...]

INTERNHIP - NEXT STEPS

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Hi everybody.
If you came to the internship event on Friday — thanks! It was great
to see such a wonderful turnout.
Just to reiterate next steps.
1) Look at the internship pdf:
url:
and contact the respective organizations you are interested in. Send
them a resume and make an appointment as soon as possible.
Remember - they are very open to [...]

USB-drives spreading malware

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

A number of depts around campus have been hit with persistent virus
infections which spread via USB removable media. Once a system is
infected, it infects every USB drive plugged into it and configures the
drive with an auto-run script that will infect systems that the USB drive
is subsequently plugged into.
See NYTimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/internet/23worm.html?em
You may want to disable auto-run [...]