IP: ELECTRONICS AND THE DIM FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY

[Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

             "Third Tuesdays" Seminar - February 20, 1996
        "Interdisciplinary Aspects of the Electronic Superhighway"


        Institute for Computer & Telecommunications Systems Policy
                School of Engineering and Applied Science
                    The George Washington University
   
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      Supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation
    Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure


                       FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC




                       Tuesday, February 20, 1996
                                4-6 p.m.


                       Room 413-414 Marvin Center
                     21st & H St. NW, Washington, DC


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             ELECTRONICS AND THE DIM FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY


                         Speaker:  Eli M. Noam
            Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information,
          Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University


                       Discussant: Marc Rotenberg
              Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center


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                                Summary


   The growth of electronic media and communication has provided new 
   tools for academics, but also poses several fundamental challenges 
   to the future of universities as the centers of of research and 
   higher education.  One result of the rapid increase in the production 
   and dissemination of information is that the advantage of physical 
   proximity of researchers in universities is diminished.  The strength 
   of the university of the future may lie less in serving as pure 
   centers of information and more in college as a community.


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