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FWD: CREN TechTalk: Y2K ISSUES AND STRATEGIES with Dave
- From: Paul Howell
- Date: Tue Mar 09 13:54:45 1999
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Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 10:57:16 -0500
To: staff@merit.edu, board@merit.edu
From: "Gregory A. Marks" <gmarks@merit.edu>
Subject: Fwd: CREN TechTalk: Y2K ISSUES AND STRATEGIES with Dave
Koehler on Thursday, March 11 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern. Join us!
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Here's a Tech Talk on a different but "timely" topic.
...Greg
>
>Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
> Find CREN at http://www.cren.net
>
>
>CREN'S "TECH TALK WITH THE EXPERTS" -- a live audiocast
>Listen to them and ask them questions -- right from your desktop!
>
> --> Thursday, March 11 at 4:00 pm Eastern
>
> --> Y2K ISSUES AND STRATEGIES
> --> http://seminars.cren.net/events/y2ky2k.html
>
> --> With DAVE KOEHLER, Director of Distributed Management
> --> Systems, Princeton University
>
>
>-- THE ISSUES
>
>At a Wednesday morning CAUSE'98 session last December the presenter
>shared a graph which, among other things, illustrated that higher
>education was clearly not one of the "industries" setting the pace
>in preparing for Y2K problems. Where is your institution now that
>there are less than 300 days to go? Our guest expert for this sessions
>Dave Koehler will answer questions you can ask by email and questions
>from co-anchors Howard Strauss and Judith Boettcher like:
>
> - What does "Y2K Compliant" really mean?
>
> - What is Princeton doing about Y2K and what is the cost?
>
> - What are the ramifications of the problem with embedded chips?
>
> - How will mainframes, desktops and PCs handle things?
>
> - Is there reasonable contingency planning you should be doing?
>
>Be sure to tune in for this timely and free, distance independent
>professional development opportunity. You can ask your questions
>ahead of time (direct access to an expert!) or wait and ask them
>during the audiocast, by sending a message to "expert@cren.net."
>
>
>-- OUR GUEST EXPERT
>
>David Koehler has been Director of Distributed Management Systems
>for Princeton University since 1995. In this role, he is responsible
>for the migration of all of the University's central administrative
>systems to a distributed computing environment. His career in in-
>formation systems began in 1973. He has worked for both corporations
>and higher education. Before his current assignment at Princeton,
>he held similar positions at Cornell University and Stanford
>University. Koehler has served on the Board of Directors for several
>national information technology organizations; MacIS, for users of
>Macintosh in business and CAUCUS, for users of Software AG's ADABAS
>and Natural in higher education and has given presentations at various
>industry conferences including CAUSE. David was the chair of the pro-
>gram committee for CAUSE93. He has also served as a faculty member for
>the CAUSE Leadership Institute.
>
>
>-- SOME RESOURCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
>
>Koehler's favorite website about Y2K is "Year 2000."
>http://www.year2000.com
>
>A good article was recently published in Network Magazine
>by Elizabeth Clark: "Y2K Fever: Treating the Millennium Bug."
>http://www.networkmagazine.com/magazine/current/9903strat.htm
>
>EDUCAUSE has a meta-page of higher education Y2K resources
>and institutional resource pages at this location.
>http://www.educause.edu/issues/y2k.html
>
>The U.S. Department of Education has a Web resource entitled
>"Y2K Assistance for the Education Community."
>http://www.educause.edu/issues/y2k.htm
>
>A good example of how institutions are sharing Y2K resources
>internally is the UI Toolkit 2000: "A Guidebook with Assessment
>Tools and Resolution Strategies for the Year 2000 Technology
>Challenge" from the University of Iowa.
>http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Eteam2000/toolkit.html
>
>
>-- GENERAL "TECH TALK WITH THE EXPERTS" SERIES INFORMATION
>
>Catch our Spring calendar at http://seminars.cren.net/events.html, or
>find general info at http://seminars.cren.net/techtalk.html. Bookmark
>these sites!
>
>
>-- HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS EVENT
>
>Topic: Y2K ISSUES AND STRATEGIES
>
>Who: Guest Expert: DAVE KOEHLER, Director of Distributed
> Management Systems, Princeton University
>
> Technology Anchor: HOWARD STRAUSS, Manager of Advanced
> Applications, Princeton University
>
> Co-Host: JUDITH BOETTCHER, Executive Director, the
> Corporation for Research Educational Networking (CREN)
>
>When: Thursday, March 11, from 4:00 pm to 4:45 pm Eastern
>
>Where: http://seminars.cren.net/events/y2ky2k.html
> To join the webcast, just go to this URL, and then
> select the highlighted date. That link becomes active
> at 4:00 pm Eastern.
>
>How: At your desktop work station, listening to the live
> Audiocast using RealAudio
>
>
>-- TECH TALK SERIES COMMUNICATIONS INDEX
>
>CREN'S home page
> http://www.cren.net
>
>General "Tech Talk" Info
> http://seminars.cren.net/techtalk.html
>
>Spring 1999 Calendar of Events
> http://seminars.cren.net/events.html
>
>Sign Up to Receive Reminders by Email
> cren@cren.net
>
>Ask Questions During the Event
> expert@cren.net
>
>Archives of Earlier Events -- both transcripts *and* audio
> http://seminars.cren.net/reguser/archeven.html
>
>
>--
>
>These Tech Talk Webcasts are designed for faculty and staff
>at CREN member institutions. CREN, the Corporation for Research
>and Educational Networking, is at http://www.cren.net.
>
>
>--
>Terry Calhoun, MAIP, Internet Editor
>Society for College and University Planning (SCUP)
>tcalhoun@scup.org | http://www.scup.org
>
>
>************************************
>Judith V. Boettcher
>Executive Director, CREN
>http://www.cren.net
>Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
>850/668-7751 Office; 850/893-8296 Fax
>jboettch@cren.net
>
>************************************
>"Chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
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