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Vision for Week of July 1, 1998

Information Systems is fully engaged in supporting an institutional effort to enable MIT be a model of information technology use for academic excellence as evidenced by the follwing snapshot of the events-calendar for the week of July 1, 1998.
Information Systems is fully engaged in supporting an institutional effort to enable MIT be a model of information technology use for academic excellence as evidenced by the follwing snapshot of the events-calendar for the week of July 1, 1998.

- Meeting of AC Advisory Group to finalize selection of 3-4 projects for IS support. 2 of these projects are multi-department initiatives.

- Demonstration in the Advanced Visualization facilty: 3D modelling software for studying ripples; a new virtual environment for chemistry.

- Video-conference with collaborators on the Virtual Infrastructure Project Project Meeting : Humanities curriculum using video-segments from the Goethe Institute and images from the library.

- Committee on classrooms ( AV+IS+faculy+tRegistrars ) meeting to review feedback from faculty and utilization data and develop plan for expansion and modernization.

- Crosstalk: Faculty forum. Topic: Has the picture been worth a Thousand Words?: looking at the effectiveness of animated electrmagnetism.

- Results of a Web based satisfaction survey show high degree of satisfaction with services.

- Center for educational Technology - positive response to initial draft of proposal.

- ACMG meeting to review Athena order and deployment status. 6 vendors have responded;

- New institutions, (one a design school in Australia and the other in California, have joined the design studio collaborative firm in Design Studio w/ participating univs also on a high b/w network.)

- ITLT meeting ageda item: implications of new service request to support videoconferencing with groupware links. Process: Status of pending projets in the pipeline from project database scrutinized; discussion on improving flow-control between practice-processes.

- Stanford and Michigan visit the The New Media Center to see some of the projects and discuss how this center is being managed.