Home > TechTalks > Events Archive > TechTalks Event

TechTalks Event

Wireless Technologies: Where Are We?

with guest experts David Kotz of Dartmouth and Joel Hartman of the University of Central Florida�

September 12, 2002

Audio
  • Streaming MP3
  • Download MP3 (Download Tips)

Transcript

Our experts are from fully wired campuses, yet they are doing more and more wireless. Tune in to hear why, and also to hear discussion of questions like: How prevalent is wireless, and is the trend toward wireless use accelerating? What are the primary goals of institutions for implementing wireless networks? Who needs to be involved in planning for wireless? What are the primary wireless applications being used in practice? (Web, file sharing, backups...) Why are people using the (slower) wireless network rather than the wired network? What applications are next in line for implementation? Is there a wireless killer app? What buildings, functions, cohorts, colleges (e.g., business school, engineering school) are most frequently provided with wireless coverage? When and where are they most active? Why not just wire the whole campus? (Have many universities done that?) Do you really mean "wireless"? Howard Strauss and Judith Boettcher will quiz our distinguished guest experts - and ask your questions, emailed in ahead of time and during the Tech Talk, to expert@cren.net.

Guest Experts

dkotzDavid Kotz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College in Hanover NH. He received the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in computer science from Duke University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received the A.B. degree in computer science and physics from Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, in 1986. He rejoined Dartmouth College in 1991 and was promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in 1997. His research interests include context-aware mobile computing, intrusion detection, multiprocessor file systems, and mobile agents. He is chair of ACM SIGOPS, and a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and USENIX associations, and of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

jhartmanJoel Hartman is Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida—effectively, he is UCF's CIO. Joel came to UCF after decades of work in IT management positions at Bradley University. He has been an active participant and presenter at such higher education events as Educom, CAUSE, and the Snowmass Seminars and held a number of leadership positions with regional networking and information infrastucture organizations in Illinois and Florida.

Co-Hosts

cohosts Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Technology, Strategy, and Outreach at Princeton University, is Tech Talk's Technology Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.

Together, Judith and Howard will ask the really tough questions—and relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.

Background & Resources

A great place to start on background for new Tech Talks is our archives of years of previous Tech Talks. Pertinent to this forthcoming event, you will find:

At the annual conference of the Society for College and University Planning this past summer, Larry Smarr delivered the closing keynote speech and talked a great deal about wireless, including showing some plans for a new Cal(IT)2 building which especially designed throughout to facilitate wireless connectivity. You can listen to the streaming audio or view a PDF of the slide show. If you have a specific interest in the building design, go to page 27 of the slide show.

�

Drive-by spammers using unprotected wireless LANs and unauthenticated SMTP servers? Yikes!

�

Former Tech Talk guest expert Carl Berger, of the University of Michigan, was recently asked by The Technology Source to describe his vision of The Next Killer App in Education and his entertaining response clearly assumes ubiquitous wireless.

According to a very recent article in Converge Magazine, a wireless LAN will soon be "an acceptable conduit for applications such as video and streaming media." Quite a few articles in past issues of Converge are of related interest.

Another online resource which frequently covers wireless implementation is Syllabus Magazine. Related EDUCAUSE resources include: The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) home page. Here is a publicly-accessible summary (PDF) of a recent ECAR wireless research report. And, here is a link to the EDUCAUSE Information Resources Library, showing all listings relating to wireless technology.

Joel also shares with us some important UCF links, including its home page, the UCF Network Operations Center information site listing current and pending buildings and wireless coverage and one listing several wireless "how to" tidbits, and the UCF library home page. The Library has complete wireless coverage and provides wireless notebook computers for students to check out for use in the building.

David's home page is www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/. This research group is the Center for Mobile Computing at Dartmouth College. Here is Dartmouth's announcement of its wireless network in February 2001. A full paper by David and colleague Kobby Essien on Darmouth's network is here: Analysis of a Campus-wide Wireless Network (PDF), from the Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, September, 2002.

David also shares some related papers that are accessible via the Internet:

Some members of the University Web Developers List (UWEBD) shared links to their campus wireless programs or wireless resources with us. This listing is in no particular order: