TechTalks Event
Wiring for a Wireless Campus
with guest experts Joel Hartman & Ron Eaglin
September 23, 1999
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Students expect computer resources to be ready and available for them wherever they may happen to be. What is the difference between wireless, mobile, and portable computing? Who pays for it and how? What about the mix of desktops, notebooks, and now PDAs? Can wireless co-exist with decent security? Are wireless technologies ready? Do they really work? How do we choose? Isn't it still too expensive? Can we afford the infrastructure?
Our guests this week are from a campus that has been listed two years in a row as one of the "Most Wired" in the United States. But they'll tel you that their goal is to be "America's Most Wireless." Listen to CREN's experts at your desktop and email your questions to expert@cren.net.
Guest Experts for this Event
Joel
Hartman, is Vice Provost for Information
Technologies and Resources at the University
of Central Florida—effectively, he is UCF's CIO. For the
second year in a row, UCF was named this Fall as one of Yahoo
Internet Life magazine's "Most Wired" campuses. 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.
Ron
Eaglin often called Dr.
Engineering or Dr. E for short is the Director of Distance Learning
at the UCF College of Engineering. He is also in charge of new applications
of technology as the director of the Alternative Instructional Methodologies
(AIM) lab. As if this was not enough he is the Director of Freshman
Engineering Programs and teaches a class with 600 engineering student.
His background includes a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering,
a Master's and PhD in Environmental Engineering, work in the Navy
Nuclear Power program (Nuclear Engineering), and industry experience
as a Software Engineer (including teaching Software Engineering
Classes). His professional interests include the applications of
technology to teaching and learning.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (at left, top), Manager of Academic Applications
at Princeton University is TechTalk's Technology Anchor. Co-Host
Judith Boettcher (at left, bottom) is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, they'll ask the really tough questions—and relay
the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
- Wireless Networking Directions is CREN's most recent prior TechTalk on wireless networking, with Alex Hills of Carnegie Mellon University. It is available from our archives in both audio and transcript format.
- Network Magazine archive - Special
Issue on Wireless in June 99
- Find out more about UCF's new
state of the art wireless engineering building here. (Or you
can click on the campus map at the top of this page.)
- Co-host Howard Strauss published The Future of the Web, Intelligent Devices, and Education in the July/August 1999 issue of Educom Review. Much of the future he describes includes a heavy reliance on wireless networking. Full text, html.
- Wireless Laptop Computing: A New Direction in Student Computing is a paper presented at CUMREC'99 by Ross A. McKenzie. Full text, html.
- CAUSE/EFFECT's Campus Profile: Duke University highlights Duke's wireless campus technologies. Full text, html.
- The Comprehensive Guide to Wireless Technologies by Steven Kellog et al.
- Implementing Wireless Networks by Martin A.W. Nemzow
- Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice by Theodore S. Rappaport
- Wireless LANS by Jim Geier
