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Fall 2002: News at the Center
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DSpace Goes Public as Superarchive
CTPID's work as an early adopter of MIT's prototype digital archive is
beginning to pay off. After nearly two years of development, DSpace opened
to public viewers in October. Papers from all ten CTPID research programs
are available at https://hpds1.mit.edu/index.jsp.
The immediate response was
positive. The Chronicle of Higher Education
called DSpace "the most ambitious and most closely watched superarchive."
Wired
News lauded DSpace's "virtual intellectual asset sharing."
The MIT Libraries working with
the Hewlett-Packard Company have designed
DSpace to make MIT's intellectual products - papers, databases, and more
- available to the public in perpetuity. DSpace is addressing technical
problems such as metadata tagging and longevity but also problems in rights
management. Currently faculty and universities often give up copyright
to any work published in academic journals. A seminar on scholarly publishing
introduced by President Charles Vest on Nov. 4 was scheduled to formally
launch DSpace.
"We want to give faculty
the infrastructure that supports alternative forms of publishing,"
said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries.
CTPID Lunches Focus on Industry
Issues
Program sponsors are bringing their vision of pressing industry issues
to the CTPID table, the lunch table that is. This year's CTPID Community
Lunch series was set to begin Oct. 29 with a talk by an executive from
Nokia, a sponsor of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence.
Raj Bansal, Senior Research Manager of the Nokia Research Center, will
speak on "Some Current Challenges for Mobile Telcom."
MIT-Sandia Workshop Probes
National Security Threats
Making America's infrastructures more resilient to national security threats
is a U.S. priority. Some 25 Sandia National Laboratories and Engineering
Systems Division researchers explored technological and analytical approaches
to this problem during a workshop Oct. 17-18 at MIT's Endicott House.
Nearly half the MIT team, led
by Professor of Nuclear Engineering George Apostolakis, is affiliated
with CTPID or its programs. Team members include Fred Moavenzadeh, Daniel
Whitney, Daniel Hastings, Wesley Harris, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Andreas
Schafer, Tom Allen, David Marks, Stuart Madnick, Chris Magee, Joe Sussman,
and Brian Zuckerman.
ITC's Compaine Receives
Journal of Media Economics Award
ITC Researcher Ben Compaine, keynote speaker of the 5th Annual World Media
Economics Conference in Turku, Finland, last May, won the 2002 Journal
of Media Economics Award of Honor for his contributions to media economics
scholarship and to development of the discipline.
McKnight Wins Grant, Accepts
Syracuse Appointment
ITC Researcher Lee W. McKnight was recently appointed as Associate Professor
of Information Studies in the School of Information Studies (IST) at Syracuse
University. He will continue at Tufts as visiting professor of computer
science, a role that allows him to manage a wireless grid grant. The grant,
entitled "Virtual Markets in Wireless Communication and Computation
Grids," is a joint venture with Tufts, MIT, Northeastern, Boston
University, and the local economic development project TeleCom City in
Medford, Malden, and Everett, MA.
ITC Director David Clark
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
David D. Clark, Director of the Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence
and senior research scientist of the Lab for Computer Science, was inducted
as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during an Oct.
5 ceremony. This year's class of 177 fellows and 30 foreign honorary members,
chosen last spring, also include four college presidents, three Nobel
Prize winners, six Pulitzer Prize winners, three MacArthur Fellows, six
Guggenheim fellows, and six MIT affiliates.
Presentation by Sharon Gillett
Cited in Government Report
A Sept. 23 report of the US Department of Commerce (USDOC) cited Berkshire
Connect, a case study by ITC Executive Director Sharon Gillett, as
a notable example of a demand aggregation Broadband Internet project.
The report on broadband access innovations in Western Massachusetts will
also be cited in the forthcoming White Paper of the Technology Policy
Group, an arm of the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Lean Enterprise Tool Available
on the Web
LAI, in collaboration with the UK LAI, has released its Version 1.0 Lean
Enterprise Self-Assessment Tool (LESAT) to the public through the program's
Web site at lean.mit.edu.
LESAT is a set of guidelines
and questions that enable enterprise leaders to assess an organization's
"leanness" as well as its readiness to transform using lean
principles and practices. The LESAT matrices are divided into three sections:
lean transformation/leadership; life cycle processes and enabling infrastructure.
The tool is available through download as well as in bound, printed copies.
Version 1.0 was developed and field-tested over an 18-month period. Northrop
Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Boeing Helicopters were among nearly 20 Beta
sites tested. Chris Cool, vice president of Sector Manufacturing, Quality
and Lean, at Northrop Grumman ISS, said, "As we continue our lean
transformation efforts, we anticipate LESAT becoming an instrumental part
of our strategic planning process."
LARA's Betty Barrett Promoted
to Research Scientist
Betty Barrett, a postdoctoral fellow with the Labor
Aerospace Research Agenda (LARA), was recently promoted to research
scientist and to associate director of the Engineering Systems Learning
Center. Through these roles she will help develop the Learning Center
and continue working with LARA. Barrett presented a case study in October
at the North American Case Study Research Association Conference in Banff,
Canada, entitled "Strategy, Leadership and One Globally Dispersed
Team Initiative."
LARA Case Study Planned,
New Book Underway.
The Department of Labor and LARA are launching a case study on job classification
compression at The Boeing Co. in St. Louis. The study is funded by a one-year
grant beginning this fall. LARA will look at Boeing's expansion of job
roles and the interactions among stakeholders involved.
LARA Co-director Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
and J. Kevin Ford have completed a book titled "Valuable Disconnects:
Integrating the Bold Visions and Harsh Realities or Organizational Learning
Systems" to be published by Oxford Press within the next year.
LSI Director Wesley Harris
Selected to Co-chair AIAA Committee
Aeronautics and Astronautics Prof. Wes Harris has been selected as co-chair
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Product
Support and Logistics Technical Committee. He organized two technical
sessions on product support and logistics in October for the AIAA 2002
Aircraft Technology, Integration, and Operations Forum in Los Angeles.
Harris's recent AIAA selection builds upon his research interest in government
policy's impact on procurement of high technology systems. The AIAA, with
31,000 members, is the world's largest professional society devoted to
the progress of engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense.
General Motors Renews IMVP
Sponsorship
International Motor Vehicle Program Co-director John Paul MacDuffie welcomed
General Motors back as a full, three-year sponsor during the IMVP 2002
Annual Sponsors meeting in September. Current sponsors of the 22-year-old
program also include Honda, Nissan, Toyota, the Department of Trade and
Industry/South Africa, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Annual Sponsors Meeting
gathered an international group of over 40 researchers and sponsors. Industry
leaders from three sponsors, Ford Motor Company, General Motors and Nissan
Motor Company, presented aspects of their recent work. Ford's Nathan and
Prof. Charles Fine discussed telematics. Jon Dennis and Roger Vardan represented
GM and Kenji Ikeura represented Nissan on the industry/research panel
on technology alliances.
Dr. James P. Womack, president
of the Lean Enterprise Institute, discussed his recent work on book tentatively
titled, The Solution Economy. Womack also described his current research
on lean consumption, looking at how consumption is changing from goods
and services-based model to solutions-based model. Womack suggested that
IMVP's early contributions to understanding the horizontal relationships
among automakers should be followed by a similar focus on vertical relationships
among customers, retailers, OEMS, and 1st- and 2nd-tier suppliers.
Prof. Takahiro Fujimoto, University
of Tokyo, discussed a new way of product-building that evolved out of
China's practice of copying and modifying parts from leading makers. In
his talk, "Modifying Product Architecture for Developing Markets:
The Case of Motorcycles in China," he noted that China is now the
world's top motorcycle producer.
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