Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
INSTITUTE WIDE Computing Council Named Appointments to the Academic Computing Council, which will be a focal point for the educational computing needs of the faculty, have been announced by Provost Mark S. Wrighton. The council, headed by Professor Steven R. Lerman, director of the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, includes representatives from the MIT Library System, the faculty, staff and students. Student members will be named later. The other members are: Associate Professor Hal Abelson, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Edward C. Barrett, MIT Writing Program. Assistant Professor Edmund W. Bertschinger, Department of Physics. Associate Professor Joseph Ferreira Jr., Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Professor David S. Jerison, Department of Mathematics. Dr. Jay K. Lucker, director of libraries. Professor Thomas W. Malone, Sloan School of Management. Dr. Janet H. Murray, Foreign Languages and Literature. Associate Professor Peter C. Perdue, History. Professor Thomas F. Weiss, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The council's responsibilities include: --Advising the provost, the vice president for information systems and the director of academic computing on the evolution of MIT's academic computing environment. --Proposing and reviewing academic computing policies and changes. --Soliciting opinions from faculty, staff and students on academic computing. --Advising the director of academic computing on major decisions such as charges, changes in facilities and services, system-use policy and changes in disk quotas and operating hours. --Assisting the director of the Center for Educational Computing Initiatives in forming and implementing new research programs and determining how the MIT academic computing system might be adapted to permit widespread use of results of the research programs.