4 options
Revolution in the U.S. information infrastructure / National Academy of Engineering.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Academy of Engineering Staff, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information superhighway--United States--Congresses.
- Information superhighway.
- Internet--United States--Congresses.
- Internet.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 p.)
- Other Title:
- Revolution in the US information infrastructure
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While societies have always had information infrastructures, the power and reach of today's information technologies offer opportunities to transform work and family lives in an unprecedented fashion. This volume, a collection of six papers presented at the 1994 National Academy of Engineering Meeting Technical Session, presents a range of views on the subject of the revolution in the U.S. information infrastructure. The papers cover a variety of current issues including an overview of the technological developments driving the evolution of information infrastructures and where they will lead; the development of the Internet, particularly the government's role in its evolution; the impact of regulatory reform and antitrust enforcement on the telecommunications revolution; and perspectives from the computer, wireless, and satellite communications industries.
- Contents:
- The evolution of information infrastructures : the competitive search for solutions / John S. Mayo
- The role of government in the evolution of the Internet / Robert E. Kahn
- The promise of the National Information Infrastructure / Robert W. Stearns
- Satellite communications in the global information infrastructure / Steven D. Dorfman
- Current trends and likely futures in wireless systems / John E. Major
- Antitrust enforcement and the telecommunications revolution : friends, not enemies / Robert E. Litan.
- Notes:
- Papers presented during the annual meeting of the National Academy of Engineering technical session, held October 6, 1994, in Washington, D.C.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 75).
- ISBN:
- 9786612081187
- 9780309176323
- 0309176328
- 9781282081185
- 1282081187
- 9780309520454
- 0309520452
- 9780585143187
- 0585143188
- OCLC:
- 559342035
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.