| DATE | RESEARCH COMPUTING RESOURCE | EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING | |
| Jun-83 | Shared computing resource formed in Cell Biology for Molecular Biology and image processing with a grant of equipment from DEC | ||
| Jul-85 | Upgrade of shared resource to create the RCR in partnership with Pharmacology. RCR funded with equipment grants from DEC and the NSF. | ||
| Sep-85 | Creation of the campus thickwire Ethernet and the establishment of the Medical Center's BITNET node (MCCLB0). RCR provides MC central E-mail service for the Medical Center and the link to the Internet via WSq. Networking funded in part by a grant from DEC. | ||
| Jun-87 | Hippocrates Project begun Charge - to identify and develop ways in which computer and communication technologies can be applied to the undergraduate medical education | ||
| 1987-88 | Computer-Aided Instruction introduced into the curriculum as required modules or as primary resource material. | ||
| Jul-89 | Formation of the RCR Advisory Committee. Upgrade of the RCR's hardware with a major grant from the NSF and DEC. Appointment of 2 staff to RCR. | First Foundation Grants - Hyde and Watson for capital equipment; Apple Computer-donation of capital equipment (Two subsequent Hyde and Watson Grants were awarded) - First permanent staff appointment - programme | |
| 1989 | Founding Member of Northeast Consortium - formed to share courseware and development. Membership: Harvard, Yale, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Mt. Sinai, NYU, SUNY Syracuse, Rochester, Georgetown | ||
| Jan-90 | The first training sessions for molecular biology analysis software are run by Lara Schulman and Ross Smith. | ||
| Mar-90 | RCR manages the installation of the fiber-optic link from the Dental Center to the Medical Center, Bellevue and 25th St. | ||
| Jun-90 | Dr. John Hill appointed as Molecular Biology Consultant for RCR. First issue of the "Research Computing Newsletter". Published 2-3 times a year since this date. Distributed to all full-time faculty. | By 1990 NYU had the largest participation of Faculty and Students of any other medical school in developing courseware, an achievement that has continued to this day. | |
| Jul-90 | Network Services created. RCR relinquishes responsibility for MC's network infrastructure in general, but retains responsibility for core services such as DNS and e-mail. | ||
| Jan-91 | John Hill offers the molecular biology training as a graduate seminar for credit. | First of three Decamp Foundation Awards (current award for $150,000 through 2000) | |
| 1992 | GCRC's CDMAS established. RCR acts as the "sponsor" while staff is appointed and hardware purchased. Ross Smith is CDMAS director. | Cited by LCME for excellence | |
| 1993 | Medical Center modem pool created: managed by the RCR. Medical Center's web site established based in the GCRC. MIS adopts ccMail: the RCR provides the Internet gateway service. | Literature, Arts and Medicine On-line Resource described in leading journals (1997-1998) as a primary resource in the Medical Humanities. College Advisory database - first administrative database. Mail server | |
| Jan-94 | Histology Sylabus placed on the WWW. 35mm slides collection digitized and placed on the web, complementing the Hippocrates module. | ||
| Apr-94 | Upgrade of the RCR equipment with a grant from the NSF. | ||
| Jul-95 | RCR's Medical Staff Services database demonstration (created by Frieda Pavel) succeeds and MSSDB project approved by the Exec. V-P. MIS is given the job of building the application. | ||
| Jul-96 | Dr. Stuart Brown appointed as the RCR's Molecular Biology Consultant | ||
| Sep-96 | RCR transferred from Cell Biology to the Office of the Dean | Educational Computing formed in the Office of the Dean merging components from the Library and Microbiology: Hippocrates Project subsumed, Administrative and Curriculum Support Functions, Curriculum on Internet (WWW) begun, Examination grading and Reporting, Survey Analysis, Clerkship Lottery. | |
| Apr-97 | GCRC approves Breast Cancer Center project, Phase I. RCR's Frieda Pavel and EC's Jeff Berliner, programmers. | ||
| Aug-97 | Medical Center WWW Advisory Committee appointed. Richard Levin, MD, Associate Dean is chair, Ross Smith is Vice-Chair. | ||
| Sep-97 | Academic Computing formed through merger of EC and RCR | ||
| Sep-97 | EC establishes Intranet web site for all lecture slides and handouts for all basic science courses | ||
| Nov-97 | MC purchases central web server, managed by Suzy Gottesman and Ross Smith. | ||
| Mar-98 | EC releases the "Gas Exchange laboratory" one of the first Internet-accessible medical training simulations, together with the source code. | ||
| Apr-98 | AC instructed by the Dean to create a Faculty/Staff/Student database to provide directory services and to subsume the Faculty Records and Communications databases and mesh with the Hospital's MSS database. Phase I completed in August, 1998. | ||
| Jun-98 | School mandates computer ownership by Class of 2002 | ||
| Aug-98 | First Mobile Computing (Palm Pilot) program established - one of few in USA at the time (Ambulatory Care Clerkship). Pediatrics clerkship added in Aug. 1999 | ||
| Sep-98 | Introduced Prototype for Online Computerized Exams - standard multiple choice questions- (includes authoring system developed)-first used in Pharmacology | ||
| Jan-99 | AC given the responsibility to lead the School's self-study on computing resources in preparation for the LCME. | ||
| Apr-99 | Developed Prototype for Online Lecture (Microbiology) | ||
| Sep-99 | Introduced Online Computerized Multimedia Exams - unique testing abilities (Anatomy Course in 1999 and 2000) | ||
| Jun-99 | AC selected to manage the school-wide Y2K effort. | ||
| Jul-99 | Office of the CIO created. Four AC technical staff positions reassigned to this new unit which takes over responsibility for core systems, database, web and network management. AC responsibilities re-defined to cover academic areas including education and research and the technologies they require. |
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| Jan-00 | RCR commences the transition to UNIX. | Online Clerkship Evaluation System - used on all clerkships | |
| Mar-00 | RCR completes the transition to UNIX for all users and services | First CAI Clinical Skills Teaching Module - extensive use of digital video (Macy Initiative) | |
| Apr-00 | LCME commends educational application of IT | ||
| Aug-00 | A public Genomics workstation set up in 174 with a basic software tool-box for Computational Genomics (Affymetrix and GeneSpring). | ||
| Oct-00 | Stuart Brown teaches the first Bioinformatics course to Medical Students as part of the Master Scholars Program. | ||
| Dec-00 | Introduced Online Basic Science Course Evaluation System - useed in all Basic Science Courses | ||
| Jan-01 | First large scale use of Online Computerized Exams - standard multiple choice questions- (Physiology Course - weekly quizes) | ||