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- Harvard and McGraw-Hill Announce the Publication of
- BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
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- The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- and the Primis division of McGraw-Hill, Inc. announce the
- publication of BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE/Issues in the
- Development of the National Research and Education Network.
- Edited by Brian Kahin, BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE is the
- outcome of a joint project by the School's Program on Science,
- Technology and Public Policy Program and the Program on Strategic
- Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector. BUILDING
- INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE is also the first original book
- published by Primis, McGraw-Hill's new electronically
- based, on-demand publishing program.
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- BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE presents the NREN as a
- practical enterprise in developing information infrastructure
- that must be informed by economic, legal, and technological
- insights. Written for a diverse audience in government,
- industry, and education, the book is intended as an aid to
- planning and policy development at local, state, and national
- levels.
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- Brian Kahin, ed., BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (New York:
- McGraw-Hill, 1992) ISBN# 0-390-03083-X
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- Table of Contents:
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- Foreword
- Editor's Note
- Overview: Understanding the NREN
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- I. Information Infrastructure as a Public Initiative
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- Lewis Branscomb: Information Infrastructure for the 1990s:
- A Public Policy Perspective (16 pp.)
- Jerry Mechling: A State-Level View of Information Infrastructure
- (15 pp.)
- Lee McKnight: European & Japanese Research Networks: Cooperating
- to Compete (13 pp.)
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- II. Visions of the Network
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- Richard Mandelbaum & Paulette Mandelbaum: The Strategic Future of
- the Mid-Level Networks (60 pp.)
- Kenneth Klingenstein: A Coming of Age: The Design of the Low-End
- Internet (25 pp.)
- Larry Smarr & Charles Catlett: Life After Internet (30 pp.)
- Leonard Kleinrock: Technology Issues in the Design of the NREN
- (25 pp.)
- Mitchell Kapor & Jerry Berman: Building the Open Road: The NREN
- as Test-Bed for the National Public Network (19 pp.)
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- III. The NREN and the Market
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- Terrence McGarty: Alternative Networking Architectures (53 pp.)
- Gerald Faulhaber: Pricing Internet (25 pp.)
- William Hogan: Energy and Information Network Infrastructures
- (27 pp.)
- Brian Kahin: The NREN as Information Market (21 pp.)
- Henry Perritt: Market Structures for Electronic Publishing and
- Electronic Contracting (58 pp.)
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- Appendix: High-Performance Computing Act of 1991
- Glossary
- Index
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- BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE may be ordered directly from
- Primis, 1-800-962-9342, for shipment March 10, 1992. Order as
- ISBN# 0-390-03083-X, $34.95 plus shipping and handling. As part
- of the Primis database, the individual chapters are instantly
- available for classroom or other use, either on their own or in a
- customized textbook combined with other material from the Primis
- database.
-