Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Illinois Technograph
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College student newspapers and periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The University of Illinois, 1894-1904
Author: Winton U. SolbergPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025792
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The distinguished historian Winton U. Solberg presents a detailed case study of one institution's transformation into a modern American university. The years 1894 to 1904 mark the stormy tenure of Andrew S. Draper as president of the University of Illinois. Draper, a successful superintendent of schools with no college or university experience and no credentials as a post-secondary administrator, presided over many crucial improvements in the university's physical plant, curricula, and other areas. However, he failed to infuse the university with a spirit of cohesion, and his term as president was fraught with conflict. From his inauguration on, the autocratic Draper collided with deans and faculty who opposed both the substance of his changes and the manner in which he presented and implemented them. This volume closely examines the Draper years from the perspectives of faculty, students, and administrators. Solberg outlines the administrative, faculty, staff, and physical infrastructure. He also reveals a vibrant and varied student life, including a whirl of social activities, literary societies, intercollegiate debate and athletics, hazing, religion, and increasingly prominent fraternities. A sharply delineated and detailed picture of a university in transition, The University of Illinois, 1894-1904 traces the school's shift from an institution known primarily as a training ground for engineers to a full-fledged university poised to compete on the national level.
The Michigan Technic
Author: Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Armour Engineer
Author: The Iowa Engineer
Author: Transactions of the Association of Civil Engineers of Cornell University
Author: The Transit
Author: American Gas Association Monthly
Author: American Gas AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gas
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Iowa Engineer
Author: The Friendly Orange Glow
Author: Brian DearPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973633
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how people would learn, engage, communicate, and play through connected computers. Not only did PLATO engineers make significant hardware breakthroughs with plasma displays and touch screens but PLATO programmers also came up with a long list of software innovations: chat rooms, instant messaging, message boards, screen savers, multiplayer games, online newspapers, interactive fiction, and emoticons. Together, the PLATO community pioneered what we now collectively engage in as cyberculture. They were among the first to identify and also realize the potential and scope of the social interconnectivity of computers, well before the creation of the internet. PLATO was the foundational model for every online community that was to follow in its footsteps. The Friendly Orange Glow is the first history to recount in fascinating detail the remarkable accomplishments and inspiring personal stories of the PLATO community. The addictive nature of PLATO both ruined many a college career and launched pathbreaking multimillion-dollar software products. Its development, impact, and eventual disappearance provides an instructive case study of technological innovation and disruption, project management, and missed opportunities. Above all, The Friendly Orange Glow at last reveals new perspectives on the origins of social computing and our internet-infatuated world.