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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 12, 2000
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Rooms will make technology handier
By Kandwa Kankonak
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Kansha staff writer
By Kondwa Kankondo
The University of Kansas Information and Telecommunication Technology Center has begun construction on four "smart rooms" that will allow students and teachers easier access to information, and there are plans for more.
become the smart rooms.
The project received $1.29 million March 24 from the National Science Foundation, most of which will go to equipment to construct the rooms.
Daniel DePardo, electronic engineer with ITTC, said he had installed an overhead projector in one of the four rooms in Nichols Hall designated to
The rooms that will be transformed are Gemini room, which seats about 10, a reading room that seats between 12 to 15 and Apollo room, which has a capacity of 100. The fourth room might be a faculty office.
A fifth smart room is planned for Learned Hall, and a sixth room smart room will be added in Snow Hall.
Judith Galas, ITTC public relations and marketing manager, estimated that some of the rooms would be ready by spring 2001.
"This is probably the only visible part of the whole setup." DePardo said, pointing at the projector that was hanging from the ceiling of the first room being renovated.
Gary Minden, ITTC's chief technologist and the project's lead investigator, said that when completed, the smart rooms would be similar to a computer network. The rooms will have a series of screens and control pads, and users will be able to access a broad array of information.
"This technology could eventually change the way people use computer resources," he said.
DePardo said the room he was working in would use technological screens.
When completed, people could walk to the screen and bring up information with a simple touch.
People carry a lot of stuff just to move their information from one place to another, DePardo said. He
said they had cell phones, laptops and many other such devices that they carried with them.
"The human being has been turned into a data-transport device," DePardo said. "We are trying not to do that. We want it so that where you go your data is there, readily accessible."
"The technology is available," DePardo said.
For example, he said it would be possible for a person in one of these smart rooms to meet with people somewhere else.
The smart rooms project has pooled personnel from a cross-section of the disciplines on campus, including psycholinguistics, human information retrieval and learning systems.
'Hugh Hefner Way' causes a stir in Chicago
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — Playboy may seem tame in today's world of online porn, lewd pro wrestling and shock-talk shows, but the old magazine still can cause a stir.
After heated debate, a City Council committee yesterday approved the naming of a street after Hugh Hefner, whose Playboy empire has its headquarters in Chicago. The vote came after Hefner's daughter pulled a rabbit out of her hat by taking centerfold, uh, center stage.
On Monday, the committee had voted down the proposed "Hugh Hefner Way" after listening to arguments that Hefner's work was degrading to women. But by midday yesterday, Hugh Hefner Way got the OK.
"I understand that my father and Playboy provoke debate and discussion about deeply felt issues of personal freedom, about sexuality and about morality," said Playboy chairman and CEO Christie Hefner, who requested the street naming. But she defended her father's work as a celebration of things that were beautiful and sexy.
Hugh Hefner is the quintessential American success story — one of many that deserve recognition on our city's streets," she said.
City aldermen have honored more than 800 Chicagoans with street signs, most of them in the past few years. Debate is rare and a City Council vote is usually a formality.
Hefner, in Chicago to sign a Playboy issue featuring his twin girlfriends, took the debate in stride.
"Hey, they made it very exciting," he said. "It shows the prejudice in this society that still exists. But it's what has made me a very successful and very wealthy man."
To make Hefner's sign — posted yesterday at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Walton Street — permanent, it must be approved by the full City Council today.
Hefner started Playboy in Chicago in the 1950s, and his bunny symbol was long associated with the Chicago skyline. The company has grown beyond the magazine into cyberspace and pay television, but its headquarters remain in town something that was not lost on members of the City Council.
During a rancorous debate following Hefner's speech, several adermen spoke of Hefner's contributions to the city. Christie Hefner offered a laundry list of donations her father has made to local organizations, including the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Chicago Urban League.
the Chicago Just before calling a vote, Alderman Ed Burke reminded the city of Playboy's place in Chicago's business landscape.
"You continue to be a remarkable, successful and caring Chicagoan." Burke told Christie Heher. "We our proud to keep your business in Chicago."
University of Chicago law student Jim Madigan testified against Hefner, calling the magazine masturbation material. Madigan brought a copy of Playboy and opened the centerfold for the committee's inspection.
"Clearly money and business trumps the exploitation of women," he said.
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