Abstracts

Security on a Wireless LAN

Wireless local area networks, or WLANs, are hot at universities. Some schools are even promoting their campus-wide WLANs to prospective students. But how are universities securing their WLANs? Can you make it easy for students, faculty, and staff to use a WLAN while still controlling access to sensitive data on your network? Can you protect the privacy of sensitive data that is transmitted over a large area using radio waves? What security standards exist, and what is the future of WLAN security? This presentation answers these and other questions, demystifying WLAN security and separating hype from reality.

The Next Level of Distributed Learning: The Introduction of PDA's to Third and Fourth Year Medical Students and Residents

The Ohio State College of Medicine and Public Health has been aggressively pursuing portable solutions for students when it comes to their educational experiences, successes, and options. Last year, the Palm m505 (with an expandable bay) was introduced. Specifically, these PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants) were distributed to residents and third and fourth year students. PDA-friendly resources for these individuals and faculty are evolving throughout the medical center, which has worked to be at the forefront in the use of this technology. Future introduction of PDA's will include more built-in memory, better resolution, and sound capability since the handheld computer technology is rapidly evolving.

The use of PDA's (further distribution will occur this June) has opened a number of possibilities and opportunities to enhance the educational experience and concept of distributed learning. Additionally, it may be noted that although they (PDA's) are given to residents and third and fourth year students, their use is increasing among the allied areas and first and second year medical students.

Part of the PDA overall effort is to place educational/school-related materials/modules in a PDA-friendly format that would permit retrieval and use via the Internet and/or a PDA. Admittedly, handheld units are increasingly used in the educational and healthcare setting. The stability of Palm's operating system, as an example, is one of the reasons that these units are attractive to both the users and the information providers. Initially introduced into the market by vendors as a way to store addresses, calendar events, memos and to-do lists, their capability have now extended far beyond with the use medication reference tools, electronic textbooks, etc. With the use of the Internet, we can deliver materials that may not only be viewed on-line, but also retrieved and stored on the PDA for viewing at a later time (such as when a computer may not be available, or Internet connectivity is not optimal). Interaction with a learning module may be achieved with updates acquired through future synching and storage. Bottom line. . . the "on-line" experience is no longer limited to being next to a computer.

Data Tracking via the PDA: Development of a Help Desk Troubleshooting System that has no Barriers

Troubleshooting. Technical support. Customers call, and we fix it. The responsibility of taking the calls, recording the requests, performing the tasks, and recording the follow-up communications can easily be considered not only time consuming, but also tasks that compete with each other in terms of time.

First, put the customer in charge of filing his or her own help desk ticket. Why have it translated before it reaches the technician? Secondly, don't limit the customer to only on-line requests or calls. Give them choices. Face-to-face communications are always advantageous. Third, empower the technician. Allow him or her to retrieve, record, and update information -- anytime and anywhere. Fourth, create a meaningful repository of requests. Collect data you need to meet current demands while also allowing for the creation of a troubleshooting database as a by-product. Finally, do all of this without having the time to record the effort compete with the time to perform the troubleshooting task. Can't be done? Add a touch of CQI, database and HTML know-how, and a mobile device/handheld. Results? One has a help desk without barriers.

Wireless Laptops are Tops

California State University (CSU), Hayward Library is located in the Bay Area, offering undergraduate and selective graduate programs. It is one of the 23 campuses of the CSU System with a student enrollment of 14,000.

The University Library began its wireless laptop services in early 1999 with a dozen laptops funded by the Information and Computing Services. The wireless antennas were installed strategically throughout the library to receive signals from the wireless laptops. The laptops are available for check-out through the Reserve Service Desk for two hours renewable as long as there is no waiting line. After three years, the number of available laptops has increased to 80.

The Library building was constructed in the early 1970s and it is difficult to bring the building infrastructure of power and data to the level where desktop hardwired computers could be installed ubiquitously. While we have over 40 desktop computers in the Reference Area, and other computing labs throughout the campus, students are demanding more computers in the library.

During this presentation, I will discuss how this program is working for us, what software is available, and the future plans for expanding the service. We believe that the program has been successful and promises an exciting future for us. We can also discuss aspects of operation, both successful and unsuccessful, and recommend some helpful points for the libraries that are planning to begin this service.

Implications of Student Use of Personal Digital Assistants in Third Year Clerkships

Objectives: An eight weeks exploratory study was designed to investigate student use of PDA devices, clinical applications, student behaviors, and required levels of infrastructure support.

Methodology: A convenience sample, composed of seventeen students (10M, 7F) enrolled in an 8 weeks pediatric clerkship at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron and Tod Children's Hospital of Youngstown, was provided with Palm Vx's. The Palm Vx device was selected as it best met a combination of criteria: cost, availability, and pediatric clerkship directors' and residents' familiarity with Palm devices. The devices were configured with six clinical applications (5 Minute Pediatric Consult, Pediatric Drugs, Drug Interactions, Patient Tracker, Pregnancy Wheel, Shots) and a medical calculator (MedCalc). Application Usage Hack was used to monitor student software use. Students also completed a web survey. Correlation analysis was used to assess impact of PDA use on shelf test scores.

Results: Participants required minimal technical support. However, only one participant upgraded application software upon notification of the availability of a new version. Analysis of the data indicates that the students used calculators more than any other single application, followed by 5-Minute Pediatric Consult. Sample group shelf test scores were compared to scores posted by all other third year pediatric clerkship participants. Compared to all other current third year groups, students participating in our study returned the highest mean test score and the lowest standard deviation. In addition, clerkship directors noted improved student discourse in the clinical setting. Further, no incidences of inappropriate gaming or breaches of patient confidentiality were noted.

Conclusions: Introduction of PDA devices into a student setting causes minimal impact to infrastructure support. However, where it is necessary for PDA users to periodically up date devices to maintain standardization, it is strongly suggested that updates be pushed to users transparently during HotSync. Participating Clerkship Directors hypothesize that the PDA device provides students with immediate access to biomedical information resources. It is this immediate access to information that acts to extend the learning moment, resulting in improved discourse and increased acquisition of knowledge. Given the small sample population and the short time period, it is not possible to generalize our findings to other pediatric clerkships or to the general population. However, the t test analysis suggests that medical students using a PDA configured with clinical applications perform better on academic tests than a similar group of students not using the devices. Cross tabulation of gender and application use suggests that a pattern of gender differentiation may exist with women using calculators and clinical applications more frequently then men.

Wireless OPAC Today

A review of the state of the wireless OPAC art today -- beginning with user expectations of presentation and access in today's wired Online Public Access Catalog, continuing with examples of Innovative's new wireless catalog -- AirPAC -- addressing some of the many challenges of meeting those expectations through the needle's eye of today's 2.5G wireless world on a myriad of devices, and a look toward the future.

• Wired OPAC Toda
• 3G taste in a 2.5 G world -- making every display line count
• Flexibility is key -- stretch to fit every device
• Ready for the future -- multi-tiered architecture to accommodate emerging technologies
• Existing staff and patron functions via wireless LANs -- WiFi, 802.11b and Bluetooth
• The future is here, there -- Wireless technologies outside the US
• Future wireless applications

Wirelessly Enabled ePayments Designed Specifically for Higher Education

The fact is, many students now want to be able to on call their parent's and have them pay their tuition and fees immediately from their cell phone or PDA. Students, parents and faculty are constantly demanding the most cutting edge offerings when it comes to the services made available to them by their college or university. Because of this, infiNET Solutions' QuikPAY™ product development team is constantly listening to their customers needs and wants to ensure their ePayment, eBill and eCommerce application meets the demands, which are specific to the higher education marketplace.

David King, Vice-President and CTO of infiNET Solutions, and head of the QuikPAY™ product development team will discuss how the ever-changing needs of an institution's constituents have gone beyond online access - to wireless access. A student calling home isn't the same anymore. Mr. King will present the collective wireless ePayment visions of numerous institutions. He will demonstrate what wireless services are currently being offered, what capabilities are needed, how it's possible on your campus and what the future will bring.

Side note: QuikPAY™ ePayment, eBill and eCommerce software is currently deployed at several higher educational institutions including the University of Illinois, The Ohio State University, Columbia University and the University of Kansas. Within the next several months QuikPAY™ will also be deployed at leading academic institutions like Miami University of Ohio, University of Cincinnati, and the University of Texas Medical Branch as well as many more.

Enabling the Collaborative Learning Environment: The University of Akron Case Study

The University of Akron has been recognized as one of the most technologically advanced campuses in Ohio and the nation. The university's wireless initiative in particular, has placed it among an elite group of universities. The objective was to "wireless-enable" every space on campus where students and faculty congregate to learn, collaborate and exchange ideas. Come to this session to hear from Dr. Thomas Gaylord, VPCIO, The University of Akron.

Infrastructure for development and deployment of wireless applications in a ever changing world

A strong, robust Infrastructure is needed to support the ever changing environments on campus. If you look at the technology trends in the wireless community you realize how fast it is moving. So how do you develop applications that will work and evolve in a world that is changing so rapidly? What are the issues facing application developers within this framework? How do you build security into your applications to protect IP that is flowing in the airwaves? Sun Microsystems is working hard to offer a development framework and technologies that are standards based and open. I will include information on some interesting projects and their infrastructure, from around the world.

Implementing a Wireless Network and Laptop Loaner Program in the CWRU Kelvin Smith Library

In 2001 the University Library of Case Western Reserve University implemented a 802.11b wireless networking pilot project in the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL), the first large-scale wireless project on campus. At the same time, wireless iMac computers were implemented to supplement other Windows-based PCs for public access workstations, and 15 iBook laptop computers were acquired for check-out to library customers for use within KSL. This presentation will focus on the background of the project and the
practical aspects of its implementation.

Wireless and PDA Initiatives at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

The CWRU School of Medicine has a long tradition of using computer-based technology to support medical education. In 1993, we were the first medical school to provide each of our matriculating students with a notebook computer. The traditional Print Syllabus was converted to WordPerfect files at that time and made available to the students over the university's fiber-optic network. In 1995, the WordPerfect files were converted to HTML. This early version of the Electronic Syllabus was text-based and received approximately 4,800 hits/month. In 1997, a commitment was made to turn the Electronic Syllabus into a multimedia learning resource. The vision was to have a web page for every student/faculty interaction, which was a full-featured multimedia learning experience for the students. These features turned the Electronic Syllabus into an Electronic Curriculum (EC). The number of hits to this enhanced learning and information resource has increased exponentially and now averages over 101,000/month.

At the beginning of the current academic year, wireless access points were installed in the School of Medicine teaching facility. A software package was purchased and installed on all first year student computers to enable students to annotate the EC. A limited number of students purchased their own wireless PC cards and the system was used for wireless access to the EC during lectures to a limited extent. During the next academic year, we will provide each of the students with the annotation program and wireless enabled notebooks.

None of the hospitals affiliated with the university to provide clinical training to the third and fourth year students require the use of PDAs by the attending physicians, residents, or students. However, over half of our students purchase these units on their own. The Office of Biomedical Information Technologies has created a PDA Support website that lists and links students to PDA-based learning resources that students and faculty have reported to be useful during the core clerkships and clinical electives. This year for the first time, the basic science faculty have recommended the use of a PDA in the core academic program for access to a pharmacological database.

The University of South Dakota, PDA's and the Enhancement of Education

This presentation presents a brief case study of The University of South Dakota's "Palm Initiative," a two year pilot project to determine whether or not the widespread deployment of Palm PDA's, can enhance the educational experience. Factors, actors, initial impacts, and future plans will be discussed.

Wireless Laptop Lending Program at The University of Akron's Bierce Library

In January 2001, The University of Akron began a campus-wide wireless laptop initiative as a part if its "Technology Without Boundaries" program. The first phase of the initiative included a pilot project in which 350 IBM ThinkPad laptops were distributed to several university departments and organizations. Bierce Library received 60 of the laptops to lend to students for use in the library. The University Libraries moved quickly to determine lending policies and to plan and implement the operation at Bierce Library, the campus' main library. Adjustments in software and in program operations were made in response to user needs. As the University moved to the second phase of the initiative, the number of lending laptops in Bierce Library increased to 150. The heavily-used service is very successful. This practical presentation describes the challenges and rewards of planning, implementing, and maintaining a laptop-lending program in an academic library environment.

Incorporating Wireless & Mobile Computing into the Computer Science Curriculum

The Department of Computer & Information Sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato, has an active and growing focus in wireless data communications and mobile applications development -- an area of computer science that is commonly referred to as pervasive computing or ubiquitous computing. We have introduced undergraduate and graduate coursework into the curriculum focusing on both theoretical and applied aspects of pervasive computing. We have also created a new "Wireless and Mobile Computing Lab" to support undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research projects relating to applied research into pervasive computing.

During the past two years, MSU has established partnerships with various industry partners. These partnerships have allowed the department to incorporate WAP, Bluetooth, and IEEE 802.11b into the wireless curriculum. Students and faculty are actively involved in research and development projects that apply these wireless solutions to real-world problems. During the past two years, no less than 30 distinct prototype systems have been developed as part of the department's wireless initiatives.

My presentation will provide an overview of the Computer & Information Science Department's curriculum initiatives relating to wireless and mobile technologies, an overview of how we are incorporating wireless communication and mobile devices into the curriculum, and an overview of the various applications that have been developed as part of the initiative.

Real-Time Interaction and Assessment Technologies Based on Wireless Networking Technologies and Mobile Computing Devices

The software envisioned is mobile client-server software that allows real-time interactivity and assessment in a lecture setting. This can be a classroom, a corporate training session, or a conference session. The students can be in-class, in an overflow room, or in a remote location. The goals are:

• To serve as a real-time assessment tool of concept penetration
• To allow real-time measurement and display of audience understanding in the lecture hall, overflow room and remote locations
• To allow non-disruptive, real-time interaction between lecturer and audience
• To serve the needs of both corporate presenters and university professors
• To allow detailed post-processing of questions, answers, and other interactions for presentation improvement and student evaluation

In a typical application, the students in the class use handheld computers or PDAs, the lecturer uses a notebook computer, and the lecture hall has wireless support. Alternatively, wired connections can be used in the lecture hall, in the overflow rooms, or at remote locations.

The product leverages off marketplace trends such as increased penetration of wired and wireless networking technologies along with falling prices, increased sophistication and greater penetration of mobile computing devices such as handhelds and laptops. Furthermore, by combining with Microsoft® Office applications such as PowerPoint and Excel, the software is able to deliver a simple to use yet highly sophisticated and value adding technology while bypassing the need to learn a new user interface. Presenters are required to install the software onto their computing hardware that serves up a web page that the audience logs onto from their mobile computing devices. For the students, the software functions primarily as a communication tool; for the lecturer, the software facilitates non-disruptive interactivity with the students (the audience) and as a utility tool to help achieve a more effective teaching or presentation style.

The beta version of the software is complete and it currently being piloted at Princeton and New Jersey City University. Furthermore, the developers of this technology are all seniors at Princeton University working with Professors in the Electrical and Operations Research Departments. In addition, a business plan based on this technology was judged to be the winner of the Fourth Annual Princeton Business Plan contest. We would welcome the opportunity to share our findings and our product with the distinguished audience at the No Strings Attached Conference.

In the Eye of a Tornado: Next Generation Digital Services from a Business School Perspective

This talk will discuss major changes in the information and digital service landscape in the next decade. The major technological and are recognized including digital convergence, change in the telecommunication infrastructure, the shift to wireless services and establishment of a electronic trading infrastructure. Examples of new service concepts from Japan, Finland and U.S. are provided. The major part of the talk will focus on highlighting what this change will mean for business school education. What types of business models, service concepts and management strategies will be at the core of our education when agile, small services are available provided by a very complex technological infrastructure. I will also discuss what role wireless delivery channels can play in business school education and pushing content to the students' terminals.

PDA Initiatives in a Teaching Hospital: PLUGGING IN the Medical Library

References to the use of personal digital assistants (PDAs) can be found in MEDLINE beginning in the mid-1990's. Since then there has been an explosion of interest and information regarding the use of these handheld devices.

The number of Internet sites devoted to PDA use in general and to health care in particular is overwhelming. Everything from patient tracking to searching MEDLINE and viewing journal articles is available.

The American Medical Association released a study in December 2001 that examined the use of handheld computers in physician practices. The study found that 23 % of medical practices have someone who uses a handheld computer. Harris Interactive did a study that predicts about half of all US doctors will use handheld devices by 2004 or 2005.

In April of 2002, AvantGo asked 3500 physicians using their mobile Internet service to respond to a PDA survey. 92% of physicians with PDAS are using their handhelds several times a day to keep calendars, access drug reference guides and read medical journals. 48% wanted to access medical reference websites, 33% to write and transmit prescriptions and 27% to keep records of clinical trials. 86% believed if their hospitals supported mobile devices, it could significantly improve quality of hospital care. Yet only 20% of the affiliated hospitals provide that mobile support.

Both physicians and medical librarians are leading the charge.

While some large Californian "wireless" hospitals such as Cedar Sinai and St. Vincent Hospitals have provided institutional software to network PDA products, few hospital libraries have been engaged in providing network access to an in-house "enterprise" system that "push" software applications for institutional access within the library itself. OSF St.Francis Medical Center Library and Resource Center provides access to in-house publications via AvantGo. Stanford's Lane Medical Library also uses AvantGo Enterprise software with 500 user seats to distribute in-house publications. Several medical libraries are posting PDA links on the library web page.

Costly enterprise systems from companies like Pumatech, Palm, Clarinet, and Satellite Forms require large investments in software and maintenance fees. Often other avenues must be pursued.

The Brittingham Memorial Library on the campus of Metrohealth Medical Center has the unique opportunity of being the center of a hospital-wide initiative to distribute software products using a network workstation with infrared beaming.

The Metrohealth Medical Center is a teaching hospital with 1778 professional medical staff located in Cleveland, Ohio and is affiliated with CWRU.

In June 2001, a PDA Library Users group was formed. The Brittingham Library appeared to be an appropriate place to center PDA activity and information. The Chief Librarian, Christine Dziedzina, invited medical staff, residents, Information Systems, nurses, library staff and allied health professionals to a brainstorming session. Dr. Greg Norris and the Information Systems Department made a decision to offer PDA products to the entire health system. Larger enterprise systems were discussed but it was felt our institution had the expertise to write its own applications. As more and more residents and other medical personnel were using PDAs in the Hospital, it became a good time to investigate how it might be possible to coordinate PDA use and provide useful information which would assist users in their work at MetroHealth.

The PDA Program in the Library will provide for and coordinate the efficient distribution of MetroHealth applications for use on PDAs throughout the Hospital. During this initial phase of the program the institution via the library will provide security software and the MetroHealth Phone Directory. A workstation for beta-site testing of in-house synching applications resides in the library and infrared beaming will be used to synch users.

In the coming months, it is expected that many MetroHealth applications will become available, such as departmental on-call schedules, special phone listings, free and purchased software, etc. The patient information system - Epic - has handheld mobile capability and both inpatient and outpatient information can be downloaded into users' PDAs within the health system. Before such activity can occur, Metrohealth's administrators must be assured that such confidential patient information is secured.

Next Generation Wireless Technology for the Next Generation

Hosted by Bob Rice, Manager of Strategic Opportunities for Sprint Corporation

For the 'next generation' of students, faculty and staff, wireless is the way! Unlike previous generations that were accustomed to waiting and standing in line for information, students today grew up with their computers and expect reliable, fast data access. Thanks to recent innovations in telecommunications products, information and applications can now be accessed wirelessly via computer or handset throughout the campus environment and beyond.

Sprint is recognized as a telecommunications technology leader and is one of the key driving forces shaping the next generation of wireless LAN (Wi-Fi, 802.11) and wide area technology (3G). A panel of executives representing Sprint PCS, E-Solutions, and Higher Education Marketing will discuss state-of-the-art wireless and e-mobility applications along with a variety of current case studies. Specifically, Sprint will discuss the challenges ahead in helping Case Western Reserve University deploy and integrate a wireless campus using both 802.11 LAN and Wide Area PCS technologies.

Sprint will provide a preview of future applications that will become available with its mid-summer 2002 3G (Third Generation) rollout, including high speed mobile access to campus information, email, messaging, and streaming video and audio via combination voice/data handset ("smartphone").

Sprint is a world-class global communications company - at the forefront of integrating wireline and wireless communications services. Sprint is a large carrier of Internet traffic and a leader in broadband communications. Sprint also operates the largest 100-percent digital, nationwide PCS wireless network in the United States, serving the majority of the nation's metropolitan areas including more than 4,000 cities and communities.

Management of Wireless LANs: The politics and technology of launching a WLAN middleware initiative roundtable

As WLAN infrastructure matures and as the university technology and user communities begin to embrace WLAN, a qualitatively new set of issues confronting managers and strategists of the WLAN. A series of conversations about the technology and political realities have been taking place in an effort to launch an exploration about the viability of a new, national, WLAN middleware initiative to address issues such as advanced security, authentication, portability, policy-based management, and telephony and video services management. You are welcome this roundtable conversation. This session will be streamed live over the Internet. Please check back for URL information.

Handheld Computers in Anesthesiology Teaching Programs: 3 Years Experience

Recent progress in handheld computing has lead to significant adoption of these new technologies into clinical medicine. This phenomenon, at least in its initial stages, has often been a grassroots initiative. In a user environment traditionally unreceptive to information technology, clinicians have embraced these devices for their potential to bring user-friendly computing to the point of care, at relatively low cost.

The Department of Anesthesiology at University Hospitals of Cleveland, affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, hosts two anesthesia training programs. Clinical teachers in both the Residency and the Anesthesia Assistant programs were early adopters of handheld computing, and separately introduced Palm-based devices into their programs. These projects were undertaken without the support of Computing services in our hospital or university. A primary goal was to create a system to enable students and residents to easily and accurately collect case and procedure data. The data is required for accreditation of training and for ongoing monitoring of experience. Educational goals have also figured prominently in these projects, with provision of applications to support learning and clinical decision making.

We present a description of our experience on the "frontlines" after almost 3 years of use of Palm-based computers within the training programs. We base the description partly on the preliminary results of a user survey of our residents and students.

It is suggested that in many institutions the use of handheld computers is a relatively autonomous endeavor of individual students. We conclude that it is also feasible to introduce handheld computing in a program-centric fashion. To succeed however, does requires significant attention to planning and implementation, commitment of resources, and is challenged by the rapid changes in the technology itself. To achieve the full potential of the technology will eventually require more recognition by the host institutions of their value. Also needed is recognition that clinician informaticians have unique insights into the design and the context in which the devices are used to support medical care and education. Finally, effective integration with other information systems such as customized knowledge bases and electronic medical records is required to advance to the next stage of development.

Bringing it all Together: Wlreless Connectivity, Notebooks, PDA's, and more, a Transition from eLearning to mLearning

One of the challenges facing today's colleges and universities is the design and use of electronic/smart classrooms. The proliferation of multiple technologies on the campus has often created confusion among support staff and faculty alike. This technology classroom demonstration is designed to demonstrate solutions to the integration of multiple technologies in the classroom. We will be demonstrating the use of wireless technology used in concert with the electronic whiteboard, Software Secure, Altiris Vision, and Net Op. We will bring it all together from design to practice.

At Suffolk County Community College we are only beginning our transition from a mind-set of teaching in the classroom to one of arranging electronic learning environments. The eLearning phenomenon brings with it numerous possibilities. Elearning courses, can be accessed by students, from a wide variety of locations.

The opportunities made available through elearning are both significant and numerous. However, when this methodology is combined with mobility the power of this methodology is multiplied exponentially. Mobility allows the learner to truly be connected and have access to learning and information anytime and anywhere. The student becomes an unshackled learner. The entire campus becomes their classroom and their library, they can learn in the lounges, they can learn on the lawn, they can learn in the cafeteria, they can learn anywhere the wireless network may be available. The opportunities for online learning is now extending to train stations, bus stations, airports, and parking lots. In the near future, the trains, busses and airplanes themselves will be extensions of the wireless network for learning opportunities. As these developments move forward we will have taken a giant step toward true mlearning. However, on Suffolk Community Colleges Western Campus we have already taken steps toward mlearning. One of our first steps took place in our new Health Science and Education Building. In addition to our wired infrastructure we created a wireless environment throughout the building. This allowed us to deploy PDA's and VoIP telephones in addition to wireless laptops. We have since added a wireless environment to our library and chemistry labs. In chemistry we are currently experimenting with the use of PDA's in concert with laptops for our student labs. The students will be collecting water and soil sample data on the PDA's throughout the semester and bringing the PDA's into the labs to alalyze the data collected in the field.

Sharing the Passions. Wireless, PDAs and Museums

Security and Management of Wireless LANs on The Campus

In this presentation, Carol Schmitt, VP of Bluesocket (manufacturer of the product that ZDNet called "the best way to secure wireless access") will give an overview of security and managment issues related to WLAN deployments on the university campus including authentication, authorization, mobility, bandwidth management. She will draw on actual examples of academic institutions in the US and around the world that are currently rolling out wireless LANs (e.g. UC Santa Cruz, UPenn, Ohio University).

Portal Technology TO GO!

A major transformation in the way the Department of Defense (DoD) looks at logistics support and its supply chain is under way. To give you an idea of the magnitude and scope of this transformation, DoD logistics programs and operations totaled about $84 billion in FY2000, accounting for about one-third of the department's budget. Such expenditures rival the cumulative operations of the 10 largest corporations worldwide. These expenditures support management of more than $60 billion of materiel inventories and annual depot maintenance workload of more than 70 million man-hours. DoD employs more than 925,000 full-time military and civilian logistics personnel.

To expedite the transformation process, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness has formed a partnership with the Supply Chain Management Center of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, recognizing its Netcentricity Laboratory as DoD's Supply Chain Integration Center. The purpose of the SCIC will be to provide an environment for furthering the application of technology to evaluate and monitor the real-time movement of transactions and supporting data throughout a very large, dynamic supply chain. It is envisioned that the SCIC will actually extend the capability of development projects by providing a site for evaluation of competing government and industry technology products and solutions that accelerate supply chain applications within a modernized logistics environment. The first "target of opportunity," with the help of Sun Microsystems, Oracle and General Electric, will be the B-1 Bomber F-101 gas turbine engine supply chain. The Supply Chain Management Center was awarded a $2.2 million contract by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Logistics in March of 2001 to develop a prototype Supply Chain Management Portal that will address some of the shortcomings of the current Air Force Supply Chain systems. This prototype portal will address the DoD need to provide access to wireless data from the aircraft, wireless access to inventory data, input and access to the purchasing process, and wireless connectivity to collaboration services integrated with the portal.

IP Telephony; Leveraging your Wireless Infrastructure for Voice

IP Telephony; Leveraging your Wireless Infrastructure for Voice will be an intereactive presentation/demonstration of IP telephony applications within a wireless enviornemnt as the technology applies to edge devices including PDA's, Laptops, and desktops. The discussion will include examples of real world applications for IP Telephony in the classroom, on campus, and the campuses sarrounding community. The discussion will be followed by a question and answer period. Each 20 minute track will begin at 10:00,10:30, and 11:00.

TabletPC and PocketPC Classroom Uses and Future Directions.

The power of Microsoft® .NET now reaches wireless PDAs and Smartphone devices, a combination that will enable the next wave of wireless applications and services, addressing many software integration challenges and providing faculty, staff and students with richer software-based experiences and solutions. Microsoft believes that software is a key enabler of what is rapidly becoming a thriving wireless ecosystem. This ecosystem opens up tremendous opportunity for innovation and enables educators and developers to deliver true value to mobile users. John will present Microsoft s vision for this ecosystem for building a rich wireless solution-set for education. John s presentation and interactive discussion will discuss the enabling technologies for Microsoft s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and Pocket PC devices. Other presentation topics include device directions, device form factors, PocketPC demonstrations and support for wireless networks and collaborative software using PocketPC.

Making the right choices for your campus WLAN

These days, faculty & students cannot be chained to their desks or dorm rooms and totally reliant on desktop PCs for information. Today's campus is on the move -- more mobile than ever before. This means people want access to information anytime or anywhere, at the right time. A wireless LAN, which is an extension of your Ethernet backbone or a standalone network, can help campus environments cut costs and stay ahead of the technology curve. Find out more about wireless LAN tehcnology and how it can put vital information to work in real-time for you.

Two Years of Experience: Teaching with Wireless at Oberlin

The Electronic Seminar Room (ESR) at Oberlin has been in existence for over two years, providing wireless laptops to a variety of classes and disciplines within the college. This session will discuss what is necessary to have in place before a school embarks upon wireless, as well as the support systems (software, hardare and peopleware) that need to be in place in order for faculty to explore wireless possibilities for their teaching.

Building the Campus of Tomorrow - Today

Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) West Campus, located in West Des Moines, Iowa, is a campus built from the ground up to meet the current and future needs of technology professionals. DMACC West Campus opened in October and serves as the anchor for a dedicated Information Technology Park named Tech Town.

Building a brand new technology campus meant incorporating WLAN into nearly every faucet of the campus. In the classroom, it meant the value of the WLAN laptops and handhelds had to become more than just a "cool" device for the students. For the staff, WLAN had to provide them with timely access to accurate information. For the faculty, WLAN had to facilitate not distract from the teaching process. Come to this session to see what WLAN became for students, staff, and faculty.