The Internet Technology Innovation Center (ITIC) is a partnership among eleven research groups at four Virginia universities, that is funded by Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology (CIT).

ITIC was formed to nurture Virginia's entrepreneurial environment for information technology and Internet-based business; accelerate the creation and deployment of network-based information technology, especially with regard to electronic commerce; develop the hardware/software infrastructure that Virginia needs for the coming knowledge-based economy; and to expand Virginia's high-skill workforce needed to develop, support and market Internet-based products and services.

Please see more details on Areas of Expertise in Internet Technology.

Please see related JOBS (accessible from .vt.edu or .bev.net)!

Virginia Tech founding members include:

• Professor Edward Fox, director, also director of the Digital Library Research Laboratory
• Professor Scott Midkiff, associate director, also member of the Center for Wireless Telecommunications and the Virginia Tech Information Systems Center
• Dr. Thomas P. Caruso, Industry Programs Development Specialist, in the Industry Program Development Office
• Jeff Crowder, director for NET.WORK.VIRGINIA, and project director for the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads.
• Dr. Anne Moore, director of the Center for Innovation in Learning
• Professor Ira Jacobs, member of the Fiber and Electro-Optics Research Center
• Professor William Tranter, member of the Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group

In addition to those listed above, we have faculty Fellows:

• Woodrow Barfield
• Robert Hendricks
• John Husser
• Clifford Shaffer
• Nick Stone

and many interested members, including:

• Marc Abrams
• Luiz DaSilva
• Beth Hanson
• Janine Hiller
• Pushkin Kachroo
• David Lee
• Courtney Martin
• M. Joseph Sirgy
• Kwa-Sur Tam
• Randolph Wynne

See online info about expertise at Virginia Tech related to the Internet which mostly fall into the following general areas:

• Collaboration (group cognitive modeling, group decision support, problem solving environments),
• Community networking (Blacksburg Electronic Village),
• Internet access (ATM state network fiber, wireless),
• Information services (decision support systems, digital libraries, GIS, instructional technology),
• Modeling and simulation (traffic characterization, workloads),
• Usability (human-computer interfaces, human factors engineering), and
• Virtual environments (CAVE, visual analysis, VEs for manufacturing).

Weekly planning meetings are held Thur, 9:30-10:30am, McBryde 104c, with published minutes. Feel free also to mail to the full list of Virginia Tech personnel involved in the center.