Daniel Finnigan <finnigan@pender.ee.upenn.edu> (03/14/90)
DON RITTER WILL BE GIVING A CLOSING ADDRESS AT CONFERENCE ON MARCH 23 AND 24 FULFILLING THE PROMISE FOR THE 1990's Telecommunications Technologies and Policies for Industry, Consumers and Education In a unique interdisciplinary approach this conference will bring together engineers and sociologists, industry representatives and regulators, as well as computer scientists, educators and exonomists to explore the proposition that dramatic advancements in information and telecommunication technologies have outpaced our understanding of how they affect organizations, individual consumers and the public interest. Special attention will be paid in the conference to the deep policy differences that now exist between the United States and Europe. Critical questions to be examined include: - Are American business opportunities being lost as the policy struggle continues? - How can information technologies enhance productivity in business, teaching and research? Organized faculty of the Wharton Business School, the Annenberg School of Communications and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, the conference will include speakers such as Raymond Smith, CEO of the Bell Atlantic Corporation and Ed David, former Science and Technology Advisor to the President and former head of AT&T Bell Laboratories. Panels include: - New Technologies and Public Policy: American and European Perspectives - Telecommunications and the Business Organization of the Future - Consumers and the Intelligent Network - Education: Is there a Telecommunications Fix? - Is Public Policy Meeting the Needs of Consumers? For further information and a brochure, contact the Center for Communications and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania at (215) 898-9494.