Third Annual LINC Symposium

LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium), will hold its third annual symposium at MIT on October 27th and 28th, 2005. LINC is an MIT-affiliated program that works with educational leaders in developing countries to facilitate and enhance the delivery of quality higher education through distance education and e-learning technologies. At the annual conferences, rectors from virtual universities in Africa, Algeria, China, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Pakistan and Syria, (among others), have had the opportunity to exchange ideas with academicians and researchers not only from MIT but from around the world who are interested in the use of ICT's for education and social development.

For more information see the LINC site or send email to: lincinquiries@mit.edu.

A partial list of speakers include:

• Sisavanh Boupha - Department of Science and Technology, Laos
• In-Joo Chin - Inha University, Korea
• Royal Colle - Cornell University, U.S.A.
• Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, African Virtual University, Kenya
• Peter Froehler - UNCTAD, Switzerland
• Matthew Herren & Maciej Sudra - Eduvision, Kenya
• Philip Hui - Living Knowledge Communities, Hong Kong
• Feiyu Kang - Tsinghua Univ. School of Continuing Education, China
• Carlos Delgado Kloos - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
• Naveed Malik - Virtual University of Pakistan, Pakistan
• Cliff Missen - WiderNet Project, Univ. of Iowa, U.S.A.
• Sandy Pentland - MIT Media Lab, U.S.A. - Laura Ruiz Perez - Monterrey Tec Virtual University, Mexico
• Sean Rowland - Hibernia College, Ireland
• Nabil Sabry - Universite Francaise d'Egypte, Egypt
• Jaime Sanchez - University of Chile, Chile
• Milad Sebaaly - Universal Knowledge Solutions, United Arab Emirates
• Honorio Silva - Pfizer Inc., U.S.A.
• Douglas Wilde - Stanford University, U.S.A.

From the Chronicle - The Net Generation Goes to College

Digital Natives': A new generation of college students has arrived, and many of them have no interest in long lectures. How much should colleges change to accommodate the so-called Millennials?

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LabVIEW Workshop

Date: Thursday, October 6
Time: 4:00 - 6:00
Room: 4-237

A representative from National Instruments Corp. will be on campus to demonstrate features of the company's product, LabVIEW, which is widely used on campus for data acquisition, signal processing, controls, and various instrumentation needs. The workshop will cover:

• LabVIEW Student Edition and 12 add-on toolkits, including signal and image processing, control design and simulation, PDA programming, and Internet connectivity.
• Integrating data acquisition, signal processing, and analysis.
• Connecting to lab equipment, sensors, circuits, and instrumentation hardware.

Free software will be distributed. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptop computers.

Sponsored by IS&T Academic Computing