TechTalks Event
Y2K Issues and Strategies
with guest expert Dave Koehler, Director of Distributed Management Systems, Princeton University
March 11, 1999
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What does "Y2K Compliant" really mean? Where is your institution with less than 300 days to go? What is Princeton doing about Y2K and what is the cost? Do you know the ramifications of the problem with embedded chips? How will desktops and PCs handle things? Is there reasonable contingency planning you should be doing?
Guest Expert
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Expert David Koehler has been Director of Distributed Management
Systems for Princeton University since 1995. In this role, he is
responsible for the migration of all of the University�s central
administrative systems to a distributed computing environment. His
career in information systems began in 1973. He has worked for both
corporations and higher education. Before his current assignment
at Princeton, he held similar positions at Cornell University and
Stanford University.
Koehler has served on the Board of Directors for several national information technology organizations; MacIS, for users of Macintosh in business and CAUCUS, for users of Software AG's ADABAS and Natural in higher education and has given presentations at various industry conferences including CAUSE. David was the chair of the program committee for CAUSE93. He has also served as a faculty member for the CAUSE Leadership Institute.
Background and Resources
First, here's a special resource for CREN members: E. Michael Staman of the University System of Georgia shares with us Ten Year 2000 Readiness Assessment Questions Management Should be Asking. Dave Koehler's favorite website about Y2K is Year 2000. Here's a recent article in Network Magazine by Elizabeth Clark entitled: Y2K Fever: Treating the Millennium Bug. EDUCAUSE has a meta-page of higher education Y2K resources and institutional resource pages at this location. A good example of how institutions are sharing Y2K resources internally is the UI Toolkit 2000: "A Guidebook with Assessment Tools and Resolution Strategies for the Year 2000 Technology Challenge" from the University of Iowa.
