Article archive for the 'General' Category

Maintenance on VRDCWiki

September 18th, 2009

We are taking the Wiki down for a bit of maintenance. Be right back.

Maintenance completed

September 8th, 2009

All servers and any still-active web services are back up after maintenance. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.

Turning off unused web services

September 6th, 2009

We are turning off some web services that have been unused over the past couple of months. [More »]

Maintenance over Labor Day weekend

September 6th, 2009

Some services may be temporarily interrupted.

Post-workshop items

August 14th, 2009

The 2009 NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality Protection was a great success. 121 registered attendees from 38 different institutions and agencies were present. 17 presentations and keynotes were given over the course of the day. The presentations are available at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/program/. [More »]

NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality on July 31, 2009

July 30th, 2009

The final program is posted at http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/.  Thanks to all who made the workshop successful through their participation, planning, and other efforts. All presentations will be posted here soon.

Bibliography temporarily turned off

July 29th, 2009

We have turned out the dynamic bibliography feature of this website. We are looking for an alternate implementation. Sorry for the inconvenience.

URGENT MESSAGE FOR FOREIGN (NON-U.S. RESIDENT) PARTICIPANTS OF WORKSHOP

July 29th, 2009

We have discovered a problem with the registration process for foreign participants. If you have not received an email with the subject line ‘Conference Access Confirmed by Security,’ please contact Dawn Anderson (dawn.m.anderson@census.gov) immediately.

NSF-Census-IRS Workshop on Synthetic Data and Confidentiality on July 31, 2009

July 29th, 2009

URGENT MESSAGE FOR FOREIGN (NON-U.S.) PARTICIPANTS

The final print program has been posted to http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/news/nsf-census-irs-workshop2009/. Participants are still welcome to register. Registration is mandatory to gain access to the Census Headquarters building in Suitland, MD. [More »]

Presentation available on Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid and VirtualRDC

July 29th, 2009

Under Grant SES-0922005, the VirtualRDC is expanding and assuming an additional role: Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid. What does this mean concretely? The following self-guided presentation might shed some light on it for now, while we prepare more concrete information: [More »]