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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jun 23 14:41:52 1992
From: ganderso@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: elibdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 92 14:39:52 EDT
To: libtalk, elibdev
From:Greg
Subject: Jerry and Marilyn's list modified to include with
TULIP.
I've worked on making the list targeted for Tulip. Comments,
etc. please.
Greg
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MIT Cooperative Activities for
Information Technology
June 1992
Introduction
The list below attempts to capture and describe the range of
activities, projects, and initiatives at MIT which relate to
information technology, delivery, and libraries. The list is not
inclusive, and we are constantly trying to keep it current.
This summary identifies only those M.I.T. activities with which
cooperative activity has been specifically discussed. It omits
M.I.T. activities that could logically be described as "related,"
but which have not been involved in joint planning.
Some of these plans are not yet committed. Nevertheless, this
should inform the context for the TULIP participation at MIT and
give a sense of the interest and work in this area. Some plans,
although reasonably firm from M.I.T.'s point of view, appear
vague because negotiations with prospective funding sources have
not yet begun.
This summary describes the projects which have a close
relationship to TULIP, and involve MIT Information Systems,
Libraries, and academic research departments such as the
Laboratory for Computer Science. We have also included in the
list related and companion projects and activities on campus.
1. The MIT Distributed Library Initiative. This 5-year
initiative, begun in 1992, has as its goal a significant
technological upgrade to the M.I.T. Library System, taking
advantage and stimulating pervasive high-performance
networks of personal workstations as a way of delivering
electronic library services. In connection with the
Technical report project (see below), the Distributed
Library Initiative is working closely with Library 2000 with
the expectation of synergistic reinforcement.
2. Library 2000. Library 2000 is a new research project of the
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science. Its goal is
understanding the architecture and system support needed for
the electronic digital library of the year 2000.
3. Computer Science Technical Reports Project. Described also
in the TULIP proposal, this project is a collaborative
endeavor among CMU, Cornell, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT
to investigate the scanning, storage, and delivery of
Computer Science technical reports over the internet.
4. Information Marketplace (with LCS/ANA and CCS/Malone). A
proposal to develop a gigabit network that spans the M.I.T.
campus, design protocols for distributed data, and
demonstrate cooperative work and library applications.
5. MIT--Academic Computing Services. In July 1991, MIT made
the transition from Project Athena as a sponsored project to
self-reliance, supporting the Athena computing environment
as its educational computing infrastructure. The 1300
workstations and servers of Athena, most of which are
available to all students, represent one of the prime
on-campus delivery vehicles for services developed as part
of these projects, including TULIP.
6. MIT Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI). The
Center was established to build on work of Project Athena
and pursue research into the delivery of electronic
materials for educational purposes. Its efforts relate to
support for development and operational projects. The MUSE
consortium is a part of CECI, and its work focuses on
archiving images in servers and presenting them on
workstations.
5. Laboratory for Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence
(LCS/AI) Reading room and publications office. The initial
target of Library 2000 is to automate this reading room.
The target of the Technical Reports project is to automate
the publications office. The staff of both are working
closely with Library 2000.
6. MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP). This MIT Office
provides a heavily- used communication path between M.I.T.
and industry. They are working to provide MIT-generated
information to their membership. A current project of the
ILP is to build an online database of research at MIT.
7. MIT Technology Licensing Office. This office is in a
position of expertise and innovation on patent and copyright
issues in the computer arena.
8. MIT Intellectual Property Counsel. The Counsel position is
jointly funded by M.I.T.'s Information Systems, Technology
Licensing Office, and Office of Sponsored Programs. MIT
created this position in 1990 in recognition of the
increasing complexities of ownership issues associated with
intellectual property. Our counsel gets involved in
essentially every Institute contractual negotiation, and she
also has a broader role. Part of her responsibility is to
advise the senior officers of the Institute on the full
range of intellectual property issues and to educate faculty
and students about their rights and responsibilities in this
regard.
9. MIT Press. The book and journal publishing arm of M.I.T.
The Press is working with the Libraries and Information
Systems to explore the feasibility of providing its journal
materials online to the MIT community.
10. MIT Center for Coordination Science. As part of the Sloan
School of Management, this Center is focused on improved
methods for information management and integration.
