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“Though I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet,

yet I venture to predict that before the end of the century

many a person who now reads this page will receive a flash of intelligence

from some other mortal thousands of miles distant,”

“The Telegraph and the Press”

—  Charles F. Briggs (New York Herald, 1844)

(c) The New Yorker

Today we break down the literature for building, maintaining and supporting the computing infrastructure of education settlements.  We use the term “infotech” gingerly to explain action for a  broad span of technologies that encompass enterprise servers and software, wireless and wired networks, campus phone networks, and desktop computers that provide administrative services and career tech video production.   The private sector has moved at light speed to respond to the circumstances of the pandemic; so have vertical incumbents evolving their business models to seek conformance revenue.  Starting 2023 we break down the topic accordingly:

Infotech 200:  Wired and wireless infrastructure for education and administration related to teaching sciences and supporting fine and lively arts

Infotech 400:  Physical system middleware for research facilities; data center location, power supply, cooling systems, fire suppression, security, monitoring and management.

The literature radiates continually by consortia, open-source, or ad hoc standards-setting domains rather than the private standards system administered by global and standards setting bodies; to wit:

International:

IEC (EN 50600), IET, ISO, ITU

Freely Available ICT Standards

IEEE

Education & Healthcare Facility Electrotechnology Committee

United States:

ASHRAE

Energy Standard for Data Centers

ATIS

BICSI

Data Center Operations and Maintenance Best Practices

INCITS, NFPA, NIST, TIA (942)

Everywhere else:

3GPP & 3GPP2,  Apache Software Foundation,  ISTE,  OneM2M,  Uptime Institute

The ICT domain is huge, replacing physical libraries.  The foregoing is a highly curated sample.

We continue to include teaching and learning media standards on our colloquia however it is likely that will break up this topic into at least two related colloquia as 2022 proceeds; with primary focus on the design, construction and maintenance of the physical ICT infrastructure.  Much depends upon the interest of our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders.  We collaborate closely with the IEEE Education and Healthcare Electrotechnology Committee.

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A Study of Children’s Password Practices

Standing Agenda / Infotech 200

Readings:

“The Proposed Union of the Telegraph and Postal Systems” 1869 | Western Union Telegraph Company

“Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals” 1938 | Alan Turing, Princeton University