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Imaging the Universe: January 1, 1996

Reaching for the stars with the combined brainpower of fast processors. Reaching for the stars with the combined brainpower of fast processors. …
Jefferson's Laptop: Modern Musings on User Interfaces for Universal Creativity: January 1, 1999

In this article, Ben Shneiderman ponders the current issues that might occupy the laptop of an Internet-age Thomas Jefferson. The author imagines the arguments Jefferson's laptop would contain…
Current Issues for Higher Education Information Resources Management: January 1, 1999

The EDUCAUSE Current Issues Committee is responsible for proposing a list of current or developing issues and trends that are important to the future of information resources management and use in …
A Management Perspective on Distributed Support at Rice University: January 1, 1996

In the spring of 1995, the central information technology (IT) division at Rice University began to implement a distributed model for computing support. The approach decentralized customer suppor…
Reengineering Beyond the Illusion of Control: January 1, 1996

UCLA has recently implemented an innovative computing system based on radical post-audit and distributed security concepts. Rather than automating standard manual processes, the University decided …
Blood, Sweat, and Tears on the Distributed Computing Trail: January 1, 1995

This Current Issues article reports on CAUSE's 1995 Northeast Regional Conference, which netted some insights and advice, as well as some new resources, to help the reader learn more about the…
Why Your Campus Should Consider Adopting OSF's DCE Standards: January 1, 1995

The author encourages adoption of DCE as a set of technical standards for higher education institutions, to promote interoperability within and between institutions, to aid in the transition to cli…
DCE: A Foundation for Administrative Software Collaboration in Higher Education: January 1, 1995

As higher education institutions plan for the future, they share some common objectives and problems in building open, distributed computing systems. The author asserts that successfully meeting th…
The Need to Rethink Decentralized Computing in Higher Education: January 1, 1994

What are the hidden costs and problems that have been overlooked in the rush to adopt decentralized computing? The author argues that enterprise-wide needs such as standardization, software compati…
Project Mandarin[TM]: Implementing Distributed Computing at Cornell University: January 1, 1994

Based on the assumption that their purpose was to provide information to all University "customers," some of whom might need access only occasionally, Cornell Information Technologies (CI…

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