The Regional Networks

Session Details

Speaker(s)

• Guy T. Almes, Director, Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies, Texas A&M University
• Douglas S. Gale, President, Information Technology Associates
• Richard Mandelbaum, Principal, Xynetics
• Session moderator: George O. Strawn, CIO, National Science Foundation
• Session convener: John H. Gregory, Executive Director, Information Technologies, University of Maine

Abstract

This panel, representing the visionary pioneers of the nascent Internet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, will discuss the critical role played by the regional networks. Ultimately benefiting institutions of all types and sizes, the regional networks solved formidable technical problems, created critical interoperability standards, developed organizational models, and evangelized for new applications. Without the work of the regional networks, neither higher education nor the global information web would work the way they do today.
WINNER: 2008 Catalyst Award. Award sponsored by SunGard Higher Education, An EDUCAUSE Platinum Partner.

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