INTEGRATING ACADEMIC SERVICES IN A MODERN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT

Recent developments within the World Wide Web (WWW) and attendant user interfaces (e.g., Mosaic, Netscape) have produced well-defined protoc ols for describing, communicating, and viewing hypertext information, This ability to uniformly handle different types of information has cr eated tremendous opportunities for re-engineering the means by which d isparate data is managed and communicated among individuals and organi zations, In the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, this technology is being used as the building block for integrating administrative, instructional, and research services, This paper describes tools, applications, experien ces, and observations surrounding the development of the ECE Web Serve r.