Transfer Conference, Virginia Tech
December 8, 1997 --- Talk by E. A. Fox

The Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, has been making educational materials available since 1993 in connection with projects funded by NSF. It also is coordinating campus, regional, national and international access to undergraduate, masters and doctoral theses and dissertations through the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

This page describes various projects/resources and infrastructure supporting transfer.

Projects and Learning Resources

• Digital Libraries
  • Research and development since 1991 to support education
  • TULIP (Elsevier, OCLC) - materials science and engineering
  • Envision (ACM, NSF) - computer science
  • Community History (NSF) - Blacksburg Electronic Village
  • Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NSF)
  • IBM Digital Library - hosted recent users' group meeting
• CS Education Innovation
  • Local EI Project
    • Statistics: cumulative, last week
    • Courses
    • Introduction to the Internet, with multimedia tutorials
    • Computer Professionalism
    • Multimedia, Hypertext and Information Access
    • Software Products: SWAN, QUIZIT
  • National EI Project
  • Summer Workshop
  • Digital library courseware: undergrad, graduate
• Computer Science Teaching Center (CSTC)
  • NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, ACM, 2 years, starting 1998
  • With The College of New Jersey and Univ. Illinois Springfield
  • Digital library to aid teaching about computer science, including laboratory materials
• Curriculum Resources in Interactive Multimedia (CRIM)
  • NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, 2 years, starting 1998
  • With George Washington University
  • Syllabi, guidelines for modules, courses, programs on interactive multimedia
  • Digital library of resources to help teachers and students
  • Prior work on Multimedia, Hypertext and Information Access
• NDLTD: Project, Collection, Submission

Infrastructure

• Computers (Selected):
  • CS Courseware Server: DEC Alpha
  • Campus Multimedia Server: 6 processor RS/6000, 512M, 6 Tbytes DLT
  • Campus Courseware Server: IBM RS/6000
  • Campus Digital Library Server: IBM RS/6000
  • Campus Proxy Server: IBM RS/6000
  • Campus Handle and PURL Server: Sun Ultra
  • Campus Reverse Proxy Server: DEC or Sun
• Laboratories (Selected):
  • Information Access Laboratory
    • Part of NSF Research Infrastructure project: Interactive Accessibility
    • Associated with state-of-the-art usability testing center
  • Digital Library Research Laboratory - Suite 8, Pointe West Commons
    • Evolved out of Research Department, Computing Center
    • Growing support from campus, corporate and governmental sponsors
  • New Media Center
  • Multimedia Laboratory