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David Feeney offers technical assistance as the Fox School's "Digital Concierge." streamline the school's tech support system and encourage full use of the school's technological offerings, explains DeAngelo. "We thought the idea of a tech support office wasn't satisfactory," he points out. "People are busy and may not take the time to visit the office, which can keep them from using features or equipment they should be using." By making tech help accessible, the digital concierge has created a tech-savvy community, says NEWSBYTES ■ INTEL GIVES GRANT The University of Washington Business School's new Center for Technology Entrepreneurship has received an $118,000 equipment grant from Intel Corporation of Santa Clara, Calif. Through the grant, Intel has donated Dell equip- ment, including flat screen monitors, laptops, and multimedia stations. Founded last year, the center will use the equipment to expand its new venture creation laboratory where students from a number of disci- plines can access entrepreneurship- related databases, work closely with inventors, and obtain advice from a number of experts-in-residence. professor of management informa- tion systems. The lab gives students full access to 16 server-client sta- tions, similar to the server-client infrastructures of large organiza- tions. Built with $49,000 from a Link-to-Learn grant and partial subsidies from Microsoft and IBM, the BizTech Lab allows students to develop fully formed server applica- tions. Because the lab is partitioned from the school's main servers, stu- dents can experiment freely without BizTech Lab offers students something they wouldn't get in a typical computer lab, says Paul Weinberg, DeAngelo. "Students now know what David knows," he says. "He encourages them to share what they've learned with others. It's become a very efficient vehi- cle for teaching people how to use the technology." BizTech Server Lab—Fox's compromising any operations of the school's computer system. Students use the BizTech Lab for a variety of Web services and other network-centered projects, explains Weinberg. "Some students are work- ing with situations in which one server is running JAVA and another is running a .net lan- guage," he explains. "In the lab, they can try to get the two languages to com- municate using standard protocols." Other students are experimenting with creating mobile servers that are accessible to some- one using a Palm Pilot or mobile phone. "We want our D ATA B I T students to be able ■ NEW IT SCHOOL Last fall, the Singapore Management University added a fourth school in technology to its current schools in business, economics and social sci- ences, and accountancy. Called the School of Information Systems Management (SISM), the school will open its doors to its first cohort of 50 to 100 undergraduate students in August 2003 and hopes to admit 550 students by 2006. The school's mission, say school administrators, is to pro- duce students who are knowledgeable about business and IT to meet Singapore's growing need for tech-minded business administrators. There's no rest for those weary of full e-mail in - boxes: IDC, a market research firm headquartered in Framingham, Massachu - setts, predicts that the number of e-mails sent per day will reach 60 billion by 2006, nearly double the 31 billion messages sent now. The research indicates that this increasing volume will fuel demand for better filtering technology to help users cope with the e-mail onslaught. ■ INFO IS A HIT Since it was made available for Web site registrants in September 2001, the ".info" domain has already logged its millionth Web site, according to Computerworld. Web addresses in the .com domain have become so hard to obtain that many companies are registering their addresses with the .info domain in tow. About 27 percent of those names registered are now in use, according to Afilias Ltd., the compa- ny that maintains the .info registry. That compares to 35 percent of reg- istered .com names in active use. For the record, the one-millionth Web address to be registered under the .info domain went to www.los- angeles-real-estate-search.info. BizEd JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003 51