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EDUCAUSE Live! September 14, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Virtual Computing: A New Strategy for a New EraSpecial Guests
Sam Averitt is vice provost for information technology at NC State. He heads the IT division, the university's central division for academic IT, networking, and strategic information technologies. Averitt is responsible for strategic IT planning and known for leading campus and regional initiatives, especially in the field of advanced networking. Current initiatives focus on advancing university academic goals while promoting administrative and academic enterprise thinking for improved efficiency and coordination of IT systems and services. He coled collaborative efforts that resulted in the university's Initiative for Advanced Analytics, announced in July 2006. A strong supporter of the university's Learning in a Technology Rich Environment (LITRE) Quality Enhancement Plan, Averitt has encouraged many campus efforts to advance teaching and learning with technology. These projects include the highly innovative Virtual Computing Lab, developed in collaboration with the College of Engineering. In 2004 Averitt launched the ongoing NC State Layer 8. After the abrupt closing of the North Carolina Supercomputing Center in May 2003, Averitt worked tirelessly to upgrade the regional networking infrastructure to enable participation in national high-performance computing (HPC) and grid initiatives and to build NC State's on-campus HPC capacities, expertise, and support structures. These efforts were part of Averitt's long history of working to develop and promote regional and national advanced networking research and deployment in higher education, such as Internet2, NC-REN, the North Carolina Network Initiative, NC GigaPoP, and, most recently, the National LambdaRail. Averitt received national recognition for his efforts in 2004, when he was named a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader.
Mladen A. Vouk is department head and professor of computer science and associate vice provost for IT at NC State. His research and development interests include software engineering, scientific computing, IT-assisted education, and high-performance networks. He has extensive experience in both commercial software production and academic computing and has taught courses in software engineering, testing, reliability and fault-tolerance, and process and risk management, as well as networking, data structures, operating systems, numerical software, and programming languages. Vouk is closely associated with the Computer Science Computer-Based Education Laboratory and the Undergraduate and Graduate Networking Laboratories. He is the cofounder, former codirector, and current member of the Computer Science Software Systems and Engineering Laboratory and founder, former director, and current member of the NC State Multimedia and Networking Laboratory. Vouk is a member of the CENTAUR Labs and former technical director of the Center for Advanced Computing and Communication. He is a member, former chairman, and former secretary of the IFIP Working Group 2.5 on numerical software and a recipient of the IFIP Silver Core award. He is an IEEE Fellow and an active member of their societies, as well as a member of ACM, ASQ, and Sigma Xi. Vouk is the author or coauthor of more than 200 publications and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Computing and Information Technology. He received his PhD from the King's College, University of London. SummaryYour host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Sam Averitt and Mladen Vouk, and the topic will be "Virtual Computing: A New Strategy for a New Era." Students and faculty at all educational levels want anywhere, anytime access to a leading-edge, resource-rich computing, learning, and research environment—and CIOs and IT professionals want this visionary environment to be affordable, scalable, usable, and supportable. Responding to these competing needs and constraints, North Carolina State University has developed and implemented a next-generation computing strategy and architecture for the universal delivery of computing services. This environment is now in campus-wide production status. The architecture is highly uniform, extensible, scalable, malleable, sustainable, and supportable. Collectively, these characteristics combine to produce an innovative advancement with the potential to radically transform the access, functionality, and economic benchmarks for the current university computing paradigm. Related EDUCAUSE Resources
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