News Stories Let no Yale computer stand alone, says ITS director Dan Updegrove With an almost instinctive motion of his wrist, Dan Updegrove taps the electronic mouse on his desk and watches the restless screen-saver pattern dissolve into numerous overlapping windows.
Computers get their power from being connected to other computers.
Completing that massive task, which was started several years ago, requires extending a fiber optic backbone to all 225 buildings on campus and stringing Ethernet cable to every faculty desk, every laboratory, every student room, and every clerical workstation. The goal is to have it done by the end of 1997, perhaps sooner. Not satisfied with completely wiring the campus, Mr. Updegrove is constantly monitoring federal telecommunications regulations and technological innovations that could bring high-speed Internet connections to the entire New Haven area. Then Yale's faculty, staff and 4,000 off-campus students could readily access academic and administrative information from home. Yale also is among 34 research universities that announced Oct. 1 their intent to create Internet II, a higher-speed network to support advanced research and collaboration.