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Imagine that you had burnt the midnight oil to prepare for teaching of a new course. You had planned a myriad of learning activities including group projects with insightful topics. The first class came but students were just passively jotting notes. You tried to encourage them by asking a few ...

What is Advanced Threat Protection? Advanced threat protection (ATP) is a proactive security solution that defends against attacks by malware. One of its important goals is to prevent any malware from reaching and running in the protected devices. Usually, ATP deploys on cloud where files from the ...

In the previous two articles ( Ref: September 2015 and March 2016), we have introduced Windows 10 and its deployment plan on both Student LAN and Staff LAN. Subsequently, the Computing Services Centre (CSC) deployed Windows 10 for teaching and learning in the CSC teaching studios, lecture theatres ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Network forensics is the technique in capturing, storing, and analysing network logs in incident events. It also comes in other names, such as specific packet mining, packet ...

CityU values the diversity of its students and is committed to providing a learning environment that is conducive to the success of all its students, including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN), in their academic pursues and personal developments. In supporting the IT needs for SEN, the ...

Location Services Location services system has been around for quite a number of years, such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and GSM. Unfortunately, they do not work well indoors because of signal characteristics and coverage. With the proliferation of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and the mobile devices, the ...

/* The following article is extracted from the "Information Security Newsletter" published by the JUCC IS Task Force. */ Distributed Denial of Service attack is one of the most menacing security threats on the Internet. In order to put down these attacks, the real source of the attack should be ...

PC Hardware Further to the PC upgrade last year, the remaining half of the CSC Teaching Studio Areas, around 500 PCs, have been upgraded to newer hardware this summer. These PCs are also configured as diskless start-ups with Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS). The computers boot up from the network ...

Being a young university with vitality, City University of Hong Kong has always been ambitious and courageous to explore cutting-edge technologies which may benefit teaching and learning on campus. In order to search for and promote suitable technologies in classroom, the Smart Classroom Working ...

CityU Scholars was launched on 30 June to promote the achievements of faculty members, facilitate reporting information to the government, enhance the efficiency of internal reporting, and eliminate duplication.