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Maintenance on VRDCWiki

Lars Vilhuber — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:15:51 +0000

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

Maintenance completed

Lars Vilhuber — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:43:34 +0000

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

Lars Vilhuber — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:09:32 +0000

We are turning off some web services that have been unused over the past couple of months. If you see this page after having attempted to access such a service, and need further information, please contact the VirtualRDC administrators.

Maintenance over Labor Day weekend

Lars Vilhuber — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:02:16 +0000

Some services may be temporarily interrupted.

Post-workshop items

Lars Vilhuber — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:32:41 +0000

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/.

On behalf of the NSF-ITR Confidentiality workgroup, John Abowd and Lars Vilhuber would like to thank the sponsors of the workshop: the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Grant SES-0922494, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Center for Economic Studies, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Additional funding was provided by Edmund Ezra Day Professorship at Cornell University. We would also like to thank Tom Mesenbourg for his opening remarks, Donald Rubin for his closing remarks, and the CES staff for the excellent local organization.

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

Lars Vilhuber — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:59:06 +0000

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

Lars Vilhuber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:59:17 +0000

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

Lars Vilhuber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:43:02 +0000

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

Lars Vilhuber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:40:06 +0000

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. Any last minute changes to the program will be posted online, but participants will receive a printed version of the final print program at the workshop. Submission of presentations is now closed.

Presentation available on Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid and VirtualRDC

Lars Vilhuber — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:27:17 +0000

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:

The Social Science Gateway to TeraGrid

(note: you can accelerate the presentation by using the Tab or PgDn key to advance).

The presentation can also be accessed at http://prezi.com/132316/.

Other services continue

Download services will continue, and current compute users of the VirtualRDC will be able to continue their existing research projects for the next three years, if needed.

Full text of the award

The full text of the award can be found on NSF’s site.