2003 Issues
January-February 2003: Collaboration, Security, and the New Techno-scape
Computer networking and the web are creating new spaces for the broad sharing of ideas. These spaces transcend traditional boundaries, encouraging new collaborations and increasing access to useful and important information. However, the new techno- scape also includes potential risks to sensitive and confidential information.
April 2003: Protecting Intellectual Property in the Computer Age
As learning, research, and scholarship become increasingly integrated with technology, new inducements to protect intellectual property—yours and others'—emerge. Protecting intellectual property is often as commonplace as using anti-virus software and avoiding suspicious spam e-mail (which helps protect the University network against hackers). Other issues are more complex. Is file sharing software fair to artists and producers? What exactly is the law on fair use of copyrighted material? Read this issue of E-Notes to find out.
May-June 2003
July-August 2003
The university's computing infrastructure must keep pace with new improvements if we are to use technology in innovative ways. For this reason, UIS perpetually improves and upgrades existing Georgetown University resources. Some of these improvements are highly visible, such as the UIS Web site redesign. Others take place "behind the scenes", such as organizational restructuring. Many of these projects do not get the attention that new services do, but they are essential to providing the new services of tomorrow.
October 2003
The first issue of E-Notes, then called AITS Notes, was published in spring 1999. Back then, AITS Notes reported that great progress was being made in wiring the residence halls for Internet access. (At that point, three dorms remained to be fitted with network connections.) GUMail, the university-wide e-mail system, had yet to be released. Just four years later, the Internet and e-mail have become so integrated into our work, study, and social lives that an influx of computer worms was able to considerably disrupt Georgetown during the last half of August. The worldwide impact of Blaster, Sobig, Dumaru, and Welchia illustrates just how important electronic communications have become in our lives.
November-December 2003
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