Number 19, Winter 1997
``The explosion and transformation of information technology affect how we create new knowledge--literally what our faculty do when they are engaged in research and discovery. Even more, technology is affecting what faculty do when they teach and what students do when they learn.''
--UW president Richard L. McCormick
Address to the university community, October 2, 1996
``Email offers opportunities for conversations that would never occur in face-to-face interactions,'' says Bridges, ``and for having discussions that are interesting and energized.''
--George Bridges
``The very character of collection of original data, and its reduction, analysis, and presentation, is enhanced by--and in large part is enabled by--the new technologies.''
--John Bowes
``It takes only 30 seconds for a doctor or case health officer to contact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for help and technical information.''
--Tim McDonald
An array of campus-wide and specialized administrative computing applications make possible much of the daily work of the University of Washington. Sid McHarg takes you to the heart of the A-16--the centralized administrative computing system--to explain what it takes for C&C to support the everyday business of the university.
``The true art comes in figuring out how to use the technology to actively engage the students in learning.''
--Bernice Laden
Since the policy of mandatory password changes was instituted in the spring of 1995, there has been a dramatic drop in the volume of password-specific hacking incidents on C&C computers.
