October
2002 Volume I
Issue I
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IIIT Institute Launched
in January |
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Virginia
Tech launches the
International
Institute for Information
Technology (IIIT)
in Alexandria amid
national and regional
crises.

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| IIIT
Director to Advise
Secretary of Technology |
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Virginia’s Secretary
of Technology reaches
out to Virginia
Tech for help in
boosting federal
R&D funding
for Virginia.

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| VT
Experiments with Video
Interviews |
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Virginia Tech’s
Office
of Career Services
and IIIT
are experimenting
with video interviews
to help students
and small businesses.

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| IIIT
Helps CS Hire Two
IT Faculty |
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Drs. Rebecca
Scheckler and
Mike
Hinchey joined
the Virginia Tech
faculty this fall
as part of Tech’s
investment in IT
through IIIT.

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| A
Prototype eCorridors
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Brenda Neidigh in
the Office
of the Vice President
for IT describes
the eCorridors Program
and the pilot project
in Danville that
is bringing gigabit
Ethernet to the
region in an effort
to build a “wired
economy”, helping
local businesses
and attracting new
outside investment.

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| The
Commonwealth Graduate
Engineering Program
eyes its 20th Anniversary |
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Cheryl
Peed, with the College
of Engineering’s
Distance Learning
& Computing
program, looks back
and ahead at the
history and future
of the Commonwealth
Graduate Engineering
Program.

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