Acad Computing Steering Com. Nov. 1, 2001

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Academic Computing Steering Committee
(AcCSC)

Minutes of Meetings:
November 1, 2001; Steinmetz 237, 1:30 pm

Present: Bauman, Boyer, Cossey, Keller, Klein, McFadden, Sener, Smith

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1. Report from Educause. The annual Educause conference was held October 28-31 in Indianopolis, IN. Dave C., Diane K., and Mary P. attended. Dave was on Program committee; Diane adjunct program committee.

Network security was a very big topic of discussion; no one has a good handle; everyone seems concerned about insecure FTP and telnet; PKI; Other topics discussed: bandwidth: Fat Pipes are not enough; Learning portfolios; a couple of portfolios were demonstrated: U. of Richmond; U. of Minnesota.

U. of Minnesota has a staff of 23 building their electronic portfolio. They started on the academic side, then went to the career development side; linked to their academic systems. Blurred lines between portal and portfolio. U. of Richmond was working at a much lower level. Theirs is all student-based, not tied to administrative system, and uses an inductive model: students put down their most significant experiences, and explain why, beginning in sophomore year and developing a matrix of activities over time. Students explain how they took advantage of the experiences and how the experiences helped them in the future.

Portals: There were many papers on portals. Howard Strauss from Princeton talked about portals. www.princeton.edu/~howard/slides/portals
A website has one view. But with a portal, you can have many views.

Speakers included Sally Ride and Neil Gershon, MIT Media Lab, we should have here. (See: www.media.mit.edu/physics), John Seely Brown: 4 laws: Moore's Law and storage. All visited the IBM booth and learned about the academic scholars program.