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.