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spotlight: MIT named to PC Magazine's top 10 wired colleges for 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
PC Magazine cited MIT's extensive wireless coverage, student IAP projects, and OpenCourseWare in naming MIT to its list of top 10 most wired colleges. |
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MIT has been recognized as one of PC Magazine's Top 10 Wired Colleges for 2007, placing second and the only Massachusetts school to make the list. The magazine cites MIT's extensive wireless network, creative student projects, and OpenCourseWare in naming MIT to its top ten list.
"We've made a concentrated effort in the last two to three years to become a completely wireless campus, from the basement of every building to the roof," said Theresa Regan, director of operations and infrastructure services within Information Services and Technology (IS&T). MIT's campus now has about 3,000 wireless access points, making it one of the largest geographic entities -- about 11 million square feet -- served by a single wireless network. All this connectivity serves student academic collaboration, as well as the not-so-academic. Projects like the First East Disco Dance Floor, fully automated dorm room and emergency pizza button make even student downtime high-tech, especially during IAP, the month-long Independent Activities Period each January. In addition, the magazine cited Athena, a UNIX-based, campus-wide desktop interface; free IT support; and OpenCourseWare, which makes MIT course materials available over the Web, free of charge, to any user in the world, as the basis for the ranking. "MIT does everything it can to provide the resources the campus community needs to thrive," said MIT student Benjamin Gleitzman '09. PC Magazine honors colleges with the most comprehensive computing and technology offerings in terms of size, scope and quality. To identify the honorees, The Princeton Review surveyed college administrators from the schools featured in the 2007 edition of the Princeton Review's college guide. The criteria focused on three main areas of technology: academics, student resources, and infrastructure. The complete rankings are available in the January issue of PC Magazine, on newsstands December 26, and online at http://go.pcmag.com/wiredcolleges (scheduled to go live December 19.) The article includes extensive profiles of the top 20 schools, and lists the 240 schools that completed the survey. For more on MIT's Information Services & Technology, visit http://web.mit.edu/ist/. |
 MIT wireless: campus coverage map |
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