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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Educom '92
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.213830.632@eff.org>
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:38:30 GMT
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- Comments: To: Nancy Bellaire <euitinqs@BITNIC.BITNET>,
- Dan <dant@equinox.unr.edu>
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- Critical Issues of Information Technology in Higher Education Focus
- of EDUCOM'92
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- May 12, 1992; Washington, DC: More than 50 sessions focusing on
- today's most important issues of information technology in higher
- education are currently under development for EDUCOM's annual fall
- meeting, EDUCOM'92, "Charting Our Course." Scheduled for October
- 28-31, 1992 in Baltimore, Maryland, this year's meeting is being
- hosted by The Johns Hopkins University. More than 2,500
- representatives from higher education, government, and industry
- attended EDUCOM'91 in San Diego, California, last October.
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- The EDUCOM'92 Program Committee, chaired by Diane Balestri of
- Princeton University, is making final arrangements for conference
- sessions that will address such critical issues as maximizing the value
- of investing in academic uses of information technology, how
- computing and communications are revolutionizing teaching and
- learning, using information technology to meet emerging institutional
- goals in the 1990s, new trends in faculty support systems, and
- utilizing electronic networks to access critical resources, among many
- others.
-
- Featured speakers at this year's conference include John Seely
- Brown, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation;
- Esther Dyson, president of EDventure Holding, Inc.; Kenneth Olsen,
- president of Digital Equipment Corporation; and Seymour Papert,
- winner of the 1991 Louis Robinson Award.
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- Conference attendees will encounter new technologies at the
- EDUCOM'92 Corporate Exhibit and Software Fair, designed specifically
- for information technology specialists in higher education.
- Participating Corporate Associates include Addison-Wesley
- Publishing, Co., Aldus Corporation, American Cybercasting
- Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., Asante Technologies, Inc.,
- Autodesk, Inc., BRS Software Products, Bell Atlantic, Borland
- International, CD Plus, Inc., Cadkey, Inc., CLARIS, Computer
- Associates International, Data Research Associates, Inc., Dell
- Computer Corporation, Dialog Information Services, Inc., Digital
- Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, Edutech, Farallon
- Computing, Inc., Follett Campus Resources & Software Corporation,
- Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corporation, JWP Network Services,
- LEGISLATE, Logitech, Inc., Lotus Development Corporation, Microsoft
- Corporation, Minitab, Inc., NeXT Computer, Inc., NOTIS System, Inc.
- Novell, Inc., Paragon Concepts, Inc., Reference Software International,
- SilverPlatter Information, Sony Educational Systems, Sun
- Microsystems, Inc., Syllabus Press, Systems & Computers Technology
- Corp., The H. W. Wilson Company, T.H.E. Journal, Trellis
- Communication, Waterloo Maple Software, Wolfram Research, Inc.,
- WordPerfect Corporation, Xerox Corporation, and Zenith Data
- Systems.
-
- Seventeen EDUCOM'92 Preconference Seminars will offer in-depth
- training on a wide range of important topics such as curricular
- software development, navigating the Internet, writing publishable
- software, campus networks, and scientific visualization (a complete
- list of seminars is available from EDUCOM or electronically by
- sending an interactive message or mail to LISTSERV@BITNIC
- containing GET EDUCOM92 SEMINARS).
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- Campus and Industry tours will take participants to the NASA Space
- Telescope Science Institute, the JHU Instructional Television Facility,
- the Laboratory for Applied Research in Academic Information, and
- the Electronic Music Laboratory of the Peabody Conservatory of
- Music.
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- EDUCOM's Educational Uses of Information Technology (EUIT)
- Program's EUIT Preconference Working Sessions are scheduled for
- October 27-28. Active EUIT participants and individuals interested in
- the program are invited to work on existing projects and join in
- discussions of future projects.
-
- A preliminary flyer with registration information has been mailed to
- 30,000 individuals. If you are interested in obtaining the flyer or
- would like to be placed on the mailing list to receive information,
- contact EDUCOM at 1112 16th St., NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC
- 20036; 202-3315375; 202 872-4318 (Fax); or send e-mail to
- CONF92@EDUCOM (BITNET) or CONF92@EDUCOM.EDU (Internet).
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