Comparable Centers

Centers and Institutes Comparable to the UT Center for Technology, Literacy, and Culture

The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, UVA "The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established at the University of Virginia in 1992, with a major grant from IBM and a multi-year commitment of support from the University, as part of an effort to bring Jefferson's educational ideals into the twenty-first century. The University's strong information-technology and library facilities, along with its historical dedication to the ideal of democratizing access to information, put it in a position to exercise national leadership in the application of information technology to the arts, humanities and social sciences."
Offers consulting services to on- and off-campus groups. Has fellowships.

Humanities & Technology Project, Berkeley, UCB "Three years ago the Humanities & Technology (H&T) Project grew out of the simple realization that acquiring hardware was only a small step in providing humanities faculty resources for integrating the Web into teaching and research. The project, conceived as an experimental model, has three goals: (1) Integrating Web and Internet applications into ordinary teaching and research; (2) Providing graduate student support and training in utilizing these technologies; (3) Providing a one-stop, technologically "smart" venue where graduate students and faculty can meet to share knowledge and collaborate in developing new Internet applications. Our model provides a relatively low-cost and administratively simple way to create a core of graduate students with detailed knowledge of Web technology. These graduate students have the opportunity to directly share that knowledge with those faculty and graduate students who want to develop course home pages and other creative uses of the Internet. One of the strengths of the model is its focus on content, rather than on the technology for its own sake; it is a project born out of scholarship rather than technology. This year the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center will expand its role in the project by supporting experiments with interactive hypermedia courseware, especially audio and video applications."

The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is a distinct research and teaching unit within the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. The Program joined the Faculty of Information Studies in 1994.
The McLuhan Program's mandate is to encourage understanding of the impacts of technology on culture and society from theoretical and practical perspectives, and thus to continue the ground-breaking work initiated by Marshall McLuhan.
The Program offers courses, conducts and supports research, and draws together members of the University community whose interests lie in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of communications, culture and technology. Through its research, course offerings, publications, speaking engagements, and experimentation in new and old media, the Program also provides a bridge between the University and government, industry, educators, artists and the general public.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center "In 1970, Xerox Corporation gathered together a team of world class researchers and gave them the mission of creating "the architecture of information." The scientists of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) lived up to this challenge by inventing personal distributed computing, graphical user interfaces, the first commercial mouse, bit-mapped displays, Ethernet, client/ server architecture, object-oriented programming, laser printing and many of the basic protocols of the Internet."

MIT Media Laboratory, MIT "Unlike other laboratories at MIT, the Media Laboratory comprises both a degree-granting academic program and a research program. The Laboratory's faculty and senior research staff number approximately 30; another 80 staff members also support the Laboratory's research, facilities, and administration. Graduate enrollment totals 164, divided nearly equally between master's and PhD candidates. Of these students, 138 are enrolled in the Media Arts and Sciences program, while another 26 are formally based in other MIT departments, but carry out their research under the direction of Media Laboratory faculty. In addition, approximately 150 undergraduates come to work at the Laboratory each year through MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)." (The Media Laboratory's annual budget is nearly $30 million per year.)

Communication, Culture and Technology Graduate Program , Georgetown U. "CCT was founded at Georgetown in 1995 in response to the need for an interdisciplinary program of study in media and communication for the Information Age. In CCT, we believe that the current networked society- with the global convergence of communications, digital media and computing- requires a different kind of education. Knowledge from multiple fields must be combined to meet the demands of convergence, change, complexity, and globalization. The CCT curriculum and learning environment thus provide an integrative understanding, drawn from multiple fields and disciplines, to build the "big picture" needed for today's careers. In addition to CCT's own faculty, professors from eight departments at Georgetown, as well as from the Washington area professional and business community, contribute to the CCT curriculum and intellectual resources."

Penn State School of Information Science and Technology On the Baccalaurate major: "This major is structured to provide students with the theoretical frameworks and skill sets necessary to compete and be productive in the information technology-intensive global context that defines the new "Information Age." Specifically, the degree will be focused on a program that will build an understanding of core information technologies and related areas of study; will prepare students for the practical application of various information sciences and related technologies; and engage students in sharpening their abilities to think critically and to work in teams. All this will be done with considerable interdisciplinary integration in order to expose students to the cognitive, social, institutional, and global environments of IST. Team projects in most courses, a required internship, and a senior capstone experience provide additional, focused venues for involving students in the cutting-edge issues and technologies of the field."

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The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, UVA	"The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities was established at the University of Virginia in 1992, with a major grant from IBM and a multi-year commitment of support from the University, as part of an effort to bring Jefferson's educational ideals into the twenty-first century. The University's strong information-technology and library facilities, along with its historical dedication to the ideal of democratizing access to information, put it in a position to exercise national leadership in the application of information technology to the arts, humanities and social sciences." Offers consulting services to on- and off-campus groups. Has fellowships.
Humanities & Technology Project, Berkeley, UCB	"Three years ago the Humanities & Technology (H&T) Project grew out of the simple realization that acquiring hardware was only a small step in providing humanities faculty resources for integrating the Web into teaching and research. The project, conceived as an experimental model, has three goals: (1) Integrating Web and Internet applications into ordinary teaching and research; (2) Providing graduate student support and training in utilizing these technologies; (3) Providing a one-stop, technologically "smart" venue where graduate students and faculty can meet to share knowledge and collaborate in developing new Internet applications. Our model provides a relatively low-cost and administratively simple way to create a core of graduate students with detailed knowledge of Web technology. These graduate students have the opportunity to directly share that knowledge with those faculty and graduate students who want to develop course home pages and other creative uses of the Internet. One of the strengths of the model is its focus on content, rather than on the technology for its own sake; it is a project born out of scholarship rather than technology. This year the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center will expand its role in the project by supporting experiments with interactive hypermedia courseware, especially audio and video applications."
The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology	The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology is a distinct research and teaching unit within the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. The Program joined the Faculty of Information Studies in 1994. The McLuhan Program's mandate is to encourage understanding of the impacts of technology on culture and society from theoretical and practical perspectives, and thus to continue the ground-breaking work initiated by Marshall McLuhan. The Program offers courses, conducts and supports research, and draws together members of the University community whose interests lie in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study of communications, culture and technology. Through its research, course offerings, publications, speaking engagements, and experimentation in new and old media, the Program also provides a bridge between the University and government, industry, educators, artists and the general public.
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center	"In 1970, Xerox Corporation gathered together a team of world class researchers and gave them the mission of creating "the architecture of information." The scientists of the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) lived up to this challenge by inventing personal distributed computing, graphical user interfaces, the first commercial mouse, bit-mapped displays, Ethernet, client/ server architecture, object-oriented programming, laser printing and many of the basic protocols of the Internet."
MIT Media Laboratory, MIT	"Unlike other laboratories at MIT, the Media Laboratory comprises both a degree-granting academic program and a research program. The Laboratory's faculty and senior research staff number approximately 30; another 80 staff members also support the Laboratory's research, facilities, and administration. Graduate enrollment totals 164, divided nearly equally between master's and PhD candidates. Of these students, 138 are enrolled in the Media Arts and Sciences program, while another 26 are formally based in other MIT departments, but carry out their research under the direction of Media Laboratory faculty. In addition, approximately 150 undergraduates come to work at the Laboratory each year through MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)." (The Media Laboratory's annual budget is nearly $30 million per year.)
Communication, Culture and Technology Graduate Program , Georgetown U.	"CCT was founded at Georgetown in 1995 in response to the need for an interdisciplinary program of study in media and communication for the Information Age. In CCT, we believe that the current networked society- with the global convergence of communications, digital media and computing- requires a different kind of education. Knowledge from multiple fields must be combined to meet the demands of convergence, change, complexity, and globalization. The CCT curriculum and learning environment thus provide an integrative understanding, drawn from multiple fields and disciplines, to build the "big picture" needed for today's careers. In addition to CCT's own faculty, professors from eight departments at Georgetown, as well as from the Washington area professional and business community, contribute to the CCT curriculum and intellectual resources."
Penn State School of Information Science and Technology	On the Baccalaurate major: "This major is structured to provide students with the theoretical frameworks and skill sets necessary to compete and be productive in the information technology-intensive global context that defines the new "Information Age." Specifically, the degree will be focused on a program that will build an understanding of core information technologies and related areas of study; will prepare students for the practical application of various information sciences and related technologies; and engage students in sharpening their abilities to think critically and to work in teams. All this will be done with considerable interdisciplinary integration in order to expose students to the cognitive, social, institutional, and global environments of IST. Team projects in most courses, a required internship, and a senior capstone experience provide additional, focused venues for involving students in the cutting-edge issues and technologies of the field."