What is Hot and What is Not in IT

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What is Hot and What is Not in IT

• Owens Community College
• October 4, 2007

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What is Not!

• CALEA
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement
  Agencies
• Part of the Patriot Act
• Defines what a Broadband Carrier is
• Provide Wire Taps for Voice and Data
• Links to CALEA Information
• http//www.fcc.gov/calea/
• http//www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/calea/calea_la
  w.html
• http//connect.educause.edu/term_view/CALEA?time1
  190078117

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What is Not

• Net Neutrality
• The Concept of Giving Broadband Carriers the
  Ability to Discriminate Against Content Carriers
• Several Bills in Congress Some to Stop
  Discrimination Others to Promote it
• Carriers are Lobbing Heavily to give Control to
  Them
• ATT has set aside 50 to 75 Million to Lobby for
  Carrier Control of the Internet

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What is Not

• Net Neutrality Links
• http//www.commoncause.org/site/pp.asp?cdkLNK1MQI
  wGb1421497
• http//www.savetheinternet.com/
• http//www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neut
  rality.html

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What is Not

• Digital Divide
• The Difference in Access to Computer Equipment,
  Internet Access, and Computer Knowledge
• USA is Falling Behind Many Other Countries in
  this Area
• Free Wireless in Cities
• Very Expensive Connectivity in Rural Area
• High Cost of Computers for Under Privileged

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What is Not

• Computer Security
• SPAM, Spyware, Computer Virus, Trojan Horses
  Hackers are all Alive and Doing Well
• Today About 95 of all Internet Traffic Contains
  Content That we do not Want or may Harm our
  Information or Systems
• Hackers now Want to Harm Systems or Steal
  Information From Institutions or Individuals
  

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What is Not

• Digital Divide Links
• http//www.digitaldivide.net/
• http//www.digitaldivide.org/dd/index.html
• http//www.digitaldivide.org/dd/index.html

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What is Not

• Computer Security Links
• http//searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
• http//searchsecurity.techtarget.com/topics/0,2954
  93,sid14_tax299807,00.html
• http//www.security-forums.com//

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What is Hot

• The Open Source Movement
• Open Source Means Developers Coming Together to
  Develop Software That is Distributed for Free or
  for Very Low Cost
• Operating Systems Linux
• Can be Used on the Smallest Handheld Computers
  and Telephones to the Largest Research Computers
• Endorsed by Many Computer Makers
• HP
• IBM
• DELL

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What is Hot

• The Open Source Movement
• Software Developers
• Oracle
• Adobe
• Many Business Developers
• Many Linux Distributions
• Red Hat
• Suse
• Slackware

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What is Hot

• Operating Systems Linux Links
• http//www.linux.org/dist
• http//www.linuxbasis.com/distributions.html
• http//www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/

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What is Hot

• The Open Source Movement
• Web Browsers
• Mozilla FireFox
• Avant
• FireFox is the leader with about 15 of the
  Browser Market.
• It is Considered Superior to Internet Explorer in
  Several Ways

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What is Hot

• Web Browser Links
• http//www.mozilla.com
• http//www.avantbrowser.com/

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What is Hot

• The Open Source Movement
• Applications Software
• Open Office Suite
• SeaMonkey
• Open Office Suite Developed with the Help of Sun
  Microsystem
• Complete Office Suite
• Competes with Microsoft Office
• Free

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What is Hot

• Applications Software
• SeaMonkey a project of Mozilla
• Still Under Development
• Applications Software Links
• http//www.openoffice.org/
• http//www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

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What is Hot

• Technology in Education
• Technology is Changing Education as we Know it
  Today
• Course Management Systems (Blackboard, Sakai)?
• Ebooks
• Smart Boards
• Distance Education
• Simulations

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What is Hot

• Technology in Education Links
• http//www.edutools.info/static.jsp?pi4pageHOME
  
• http//www.edtechpost.ca/gems/open_source_cms3.htm
  
• http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
• http//www.netlibrary.com/
• httpwwweduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/
• http//education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/EdResour
  ce/
• www.ijoe.org/ojs/include/getdoc.php?id150article
  42modepdf
• http//www.ba.infn.it/www/didattica.html

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What is Hot

• Ohio Supercomputer Center Network (OSCNet)?
• Was called Third Frontier Network
• Is Receiving World-Wide Attention
• Considered the World's Most Ambitious Regional
  Networking Project
• Connects all of Ohio's 90 Institutions of Higher
  Ed.
• Governor just Signed a bill to add K through 12
  to Network
• Reducing Costs to Colleges
• Research Industry Welcome to use OSCNet

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What is Hot

• Ohio Supercomputer Center Network Links
• http//www.osc.edu/
• http//www.osc.edu/oscnet/

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What is Hot and What is Not in IT

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