I.T. in the University

Last week I attended Apple's Academix 2009 conference at the University of Utah. There were some interesting presentations including on...

The adjacent poster advertises a recent panel discussion where we talked about university I.T. through the lens of Mary Shelley's Franke...

In the article When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder” (New York Times September 7, 2008 ), Janet Rae-Dupree reports that in the wake of...

My essay Frankenstein in the University was just published in Campus Technology. I'm also making available an unabridged version whic...

A century and a half ago when manufacturers needed power for their machinery, they generated their own. To run lathes, saws, and other powe...

Langdon Winner , author of Autonomous Technology , and The Whale and the Reactor has, for some years now, been looking at technology throug...

Jame's Surowiecki has always provided interesting lenses into American business and his 2005 New Yorker Article " In Case of Emerge...

In a recent Chronicle article outlining the Utah Network Blackboard crash, my former colleague Scott Allen said that the cause of the crash...

In a recent post on the CIO listserv ( http://www.educause.edu/SEARCH/606 ) there’s been some discussion on how much to centralize or decen...