University of Idaho Outreach and Technology
Technology on the UI Campus
UI's high-tech reputation is now going wireless. Intel ranked UI 33rd on its list of the 100 "Most Unwired College Campuses."
- 17 open access student computing labs with more than 650 computers
- More than 100 Internet kiosks located throughout the Moscow campus for quick access to e-mail, class assignments and schedules
- 36 wireless laptops available for checkout in the UI Library, Idaho Commons and the Student Union Building.
- Wireless campus network covering more than 40 buildings on the Moscow campus
- 58 classrooms with multimedia presentations equipment
- 65 technology-enhanced classrooms
- All residence halls, fraternities and sororities connected to the UI network
- The Center for Teaching Innovation assists faculty to develop media materials for classroom instruction, distance teaching and web courses
- Distance learning programs to students throughout the state and worldwide, delivered by DVD, videotape, compressed video, and the Web
- Internet2 institution connecting the nation's leading universities and research facilities
- ITS has deployed 885 laptops to students who are participating in the lease-to-own laptop programs
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Information Technology at UI
ITS processes more than 215,000 e-mail messages per day - that's 1.5 million per week. If you printed each message on a single piece of paper, the stack would be more than 3.5 miles high each year.
The central e-mail servers operated at 99.89 percent during the past twelve months; down time was only 9 hours 38 minutes.
On an average day, the UI high-speed Internet connection transfers more than 200 billion bytes of data to and from the university. Transferring this same amount of data over a 28.8 modem would require more than 643 days.
ITS e-mail servers block about 3,000 inbound viruses a day, or roughly 1,095,000 viruses per year.
New spam-blocking programs are addressing the more than 2.3 million unwanted e-mail messages coming to UI accounts each month.
During fall semester 2004, students spent in excess of 297,409 hours working on computers in ITS-Student Computing Labs.
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