Alumni Accounts

Indiana University policy prohibits us from offering computing accounts to all CS alumni. However, we can offer accounts on the CS systems in limited circumstances as outlined in the Indiana University policy on Sponsored Computing Accounts For IU Affiliates. If you continue to collaborate with a member of the CS faculty after graduation you might be eligible for a CS affiliate account. In this case, you must get the sponsorship of the faculty member per the CS Department Affiliate Account Policy.

If you do not have a faculty sponsor but believe you are doing work directly related to the mission of Indiana University and the Computer Science Department, you may request account sponsorship by sending email to the Alumni Relations Director.

IU Alumni Association IU Connect Service

The IU Alumni Association offers a set of email and other services through IU Connect and you can forward your indiana.edu email to this address if you create the alumni email and set up the forwarding before graduation.

CS Department Email Forwarding Service

If you graduated with a degree in Computer Science, we offer two email services:

• Email Forwarding - We can set up forwarding of your old @cs email address to any external email account.
• Sender Notification - We can set things up so that anyone sending email to your old @cs email address will get a notice indicating that the message could not be delivered and informing them of your new email address. In this case the email will NOT be delivered to you but anyone sending you email will be informed of your new address.

To request either of these services, please send an email to alumni@cs that includes your IU/CS username, your new email address, and whether you want email forwarding or sender notification.

Please note that this only applies to your CS email, not email sent to username@indiana.edu.

Web Forwarding

If you graduated with a degree in Computer Science, then it is possible to have your CS homepage forwarded to an external web address. There are two options:

• Homepage Forwarding - We can set up forwarding of your homepage so that requests to:

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~username

  are forwarded to some other URL you provide. With this option, any request of the form:

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~username/something

  will result in a "Page not found" response.

• Web Redirection - We can set up web page redirection so that requests of the form:

  http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~username/something

  are redirected to:

  URL/something

  where you supply URL. This option is useful if you have URLs relative to your homepage that you still want to work and the new site hosting your web pages has the same directory and file structure. Note that your ~username homepage url is just redirected to URL as the special case where something is empty.

To request this service, please send an email to alumni@cs that includes your IU/CS username, your new URL, and whether you want homepage forwarding or web redirection.

File Recovery

We do full backups of all departmental file servers and we keep these backup tapes forever (or until the backup media becomes unreadable or otherwise obsolete). If you have had an account on any of the CS systems and would like to have files recovered, please let us know by using any one the of the standard problem reporting mechanisms. Please include the name of the file or directory you need along with your best estimate of when and where the file existed on our system.

eCampus Recuiter

The eCampus Recruiter service is available to all alumni of the CS department. This service provides access to job listings, resume posting, and more through the School of Informatics. If you are new to the system, you just need to create an account and you will have full access to the system.

These services are provided as a courtesy to our alumni at no cost. If you wish to show your appreciation and provide financial support, you are always welcome to make a contribution to the Friends of Computer Science. Note that contributions may be eligible for up to a $100 tax credit on your Indiana income tax (see form CC-40, $200 for married filing jointly) plus whatever benefit you get on IRS Schedule A. You may also be working for an employer that has a program to match your contibutions. For more information about making donations to Friends of Computer Science, please contact alumni.