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Campus computing newsletter editors have traditionally been responsible for disseminating relevant technical and general information to a specific user community; most often members of the computing department. As information technology and computer ...

Information Systems and Technology (IST) at UC Berkeley has designed and implemented a widely accessible information server. IST has traditionally disseminated a great deal of information via its mainframe computers, ranging from computer documentation ...

In August 1986 Indiana University released the prototype of an easy-to-use electronic information service delivery mechanism: the Academic Information Environment (AIE). IU developed the AIE to serve as a scholars' network, providing high-speed, ...

The implementation and use of the University Computer Aided Design and Drafting/Geographical Information System (CADD/GIS) system is discussed. The CADD/GIS system is a multipurpose system whose function includes management of campus utilities, ...

One thing we understand in the computer business, if nothing else, is that things change. Manufacturers produce new versions of software and new models of hardware, computer center employees come and go, faculty develop new interests, and even more ...

One of the most difficult tasks faced by managers today is the manner in which they can provide direction to the highly skilled workers they must supervise. In most cases technical staff members are intense individuals who like to perform their work in ...

Academic Computing Services at Pomona College charges for laser printing to help defray the expense. Recently we installed a debit card system on our public access laser printers as a means of eliminating the need to handle cash. The purpose of this ...

Michigan State University, founded in 1855, is a comprehensive land-grant university that has been acknowledged as one of the top research institutions in the country through election to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities ...

• What percentage of faculty on my campus can I count as active computists?

• How can I determine faculty computing needs?

• What can a Faculty Research Consultant do on my campus?

• Does every campus need a specially designated faculty research consultant?

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The campus computer networks of today run the gamut from nonexistent through rich functionality and connectivity. Network value can be enhanced by the addition of network-based high-level services such as file storage, printing, fax, fuzzy email ...

The design and implementation of academic computer training can be an overwhelming task. The goal is to convey information as efficiently as possible. But what information, to whom, and how? The technological explosion confronting training and ...

Project Athena is one of the world's largest centrally-administered distributed computer environments, linking more than 1,000 workstations. Students and faculty use workstations scattered across MIT's 146-acre campus, in public clusters, private ...

Academic computing services provide computing for student instruction and faculty research. Recently, academic computing centers have taken on the task of providing On-line Public Access Catalogs for libraries. Besides serving a new audience, there has ...

The growth and expansion of information technologies on campuses across the country has caused many universities to begin to develop (or modify existing) information policies. Questions concerning moral, ethical, and legal obligations have arisen which ...

With the advent of “desktop publishing” and laser printers, writers are increasingly expected to do complicated formatting tasks. For example, technical writing students are required to lay out as well as to write brochures and other documents; Master's ...

Microcomputers have become the single most important desktop tool — aside from the telephone — in higher education. The emergence of integrated computing networks, where all types of users are connected to the same backbone, has created a new phenomenon ...

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UW-SP) has developed a unique system of logging and reporting computing resource usage. Our environment consists of an 800 node AT&T Starlan local area network which uses a consistent menu interface to access ...

In 1984, Old Dominion University had only limited computer resources to offer the academic community. In the central facility we had a Decsystem-10 mainframe and a lab of twenty ASCII terminals. There was an additional lab of fifteen ASCII terminals in ...

In 1984 the University of Cincinnati joined BITnet with the addition of a leased telephone line from a machine running MVS to the Ohio State University in Columbus. In 1985, when a machine running VM/CMS became the primary BITnet link, there was not a ...

Since 1986, the University of Arizona has been experimenting with computer conferencing, also known as Computer Mediated Communications (CMC) as a means to augment and enhance campus communications. Using CMC, groups of people can hold on-going ...