IP: Mellon Foundation Hires Princeton's Ira Fuchs for a New Technology Post

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

http://chronicle.com/free/2000/04/2000041701u.htm

Mellon Foundation Hires Princeton's Ira Fuchs for a New Technology Post
By FLORENCE OLSEN


Ira H. Fuchs, Princeton University's vice president for computing and 
information technology, will leave the university to join the Andrew 
W. Mellon Foundation on July 1.

In the newly created position of vice president for research in 
information technology, Mr. Fuchs will direct the foundation's 
expanding investigations of digital technologies that can be applied 
to teaching and research -- areas in which he is known as an expert.

Among other topics, the foundation is interested in studying the use 
of information technology for online and distance learning and 
teaching. It will also investigate new technical approaches to 
archiving that will require advanced search protocols, improved 
electronic storage, and innovations in user-interface technologies. 
"I have a feeling," Mr. Fuchs said in an interview, "there will be 
more things than I can look at."

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