Technology and the Virtual University: Opportunities and Challenges : Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session ... April 16, 1997, Volume 4 |
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Page 56 - Humanities, the National Science Foundation( the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the World Wildlife Fund, the John D.
Page 33 - Colleges, the National Association of State Universities and LandGrant Colleges, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American Association of Junior Colleges, the American Council on Education, and, of course, this organization.
Page 40 - I would like to express my appreciation to the chairman and the members of the committee for...
Page 10 - ... to those who might not otherwise have access to higher education and to those needing workplace training.
Page 55 - Press, 1993), defines a collaboratory as "a center without walls, in which the nation's researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location — interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resources and accessing information in digital libraries.
Page 28 - ... the American Council on Education, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.
Page 42 - I am currently on leave from the University of Virginia to serve as president of the National Academy of Engineering.
Page 50 - Can you imagine when they used to have libraries where the books didn't talk to each other?" Our distant descendants may look back on the synergistic man-machine systems that emerge from AI, as the natural dividing line between "real human beings" and "animals". We stand, at the end of the...
Page 11 - ... or individual courses. The catalog will also include jobs and career information and guidance and assessment services. What if students don't have a computer or need other assistance? Each of WGU's participating states must establish at least one center that will provide one-stop shopping for WGU services, including access to the delivering technologies. Centers will be located at existing organizations such as public libraries, school extension sites or companies training their workforce through...
Page 62 - He was AT&T Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. He has served as assistant director of the National Science Foundation, chairman and CEO of Tartan Laboratories, Inc., and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a member of NAE since 1993 and served as chair of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.