FAST FIVE for week of July 22, 2012

SFU Student Applications: Simon Fraser University and BCcampus are working together to build a seamless, real-time student application system. The system will integrate the BCcampus provincial student application system (ApplyBC) with SFU's student system. BCcampus plans to implement the service to other institutions in BC over the next couple of years. SFU and BCcampus

CANHEIT 2012: Presentation content and photographs from the conference are now available on the conference web site. CANHEIT Content

Canadian Higgs-Boson Contributions: Computing resources and staff from several Canadian universities contributed to the recent discovery of the Higgs-Boson particle. Check out the article on Compute Canada's new website: Atlas Computing Resources

Carleton's Antivirus: Carleton University is rolling out Symantec as its new antivirus standard on campus. The new software will be installed on employee and lab computers. Home use for staff and faculty will be made available later in the summer. Symantec Rollout

TRU Quarterly: Thompson Rivers University's IT department publishes a quarterly update on their activities. In the latest issue they published 6 factors for measuring IT performance (page 2) and commit to reporting on these measures in subsequent newsletters. TRU ITS Quarterly