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Wheeler, Brad; Waggener, Shelton – EDUCAUSE Review, 2009
The concept of today's cloud computing may date back to 1961, when John McCarthy, retired Stanford professor and Turing Award winner, delivered a speech at MIT's Centennial. In that speech, he predicted that in the future, computing would become a "public utility." Yet for colleges and universities, the recent growth of pervasive, very high speed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internet, Computer Software, Computers
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Breeding, Marshall – Library Hi Tech, 1991
Describes microcomputer-based networks which have been implemented at Vanderbilt University's library to support technical services workstations that use NOTIS, catalog with OCLC, and transfer OCLC records to the NOTIS database using GTO (Generic Transfer and Overlay). It is noted that the network configurations can serve as models for other…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographic Utilities, Cataloging, Computer Networks