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In this one hour and twenty minute podcast, we feature the closing speech from the 2007 Seminars On Academic Computing in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The speaker is Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. His speech is entitled, The Institutional Challenges of Cyberinfrastructure and E-Research.

It has become clear that scholarly practice and scholarly communication across a wide range of disciplines are being transfigured by a series of developments in IT and networked information. While this has been widely discussed at the national and international levels in the context of large-scale advanced scientific projects, the challenges at the level of individual universities and colleges may prove more complex and more difficult. This presentation will focus on these challenges, as well as the development of truly institution-wide strategies that can support and advance the promises of e-research.

In this hour and ten minute long podcast from the 2007 Seminars on Academic Computing, we hear from Fred H. Cate, Distinguished Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, with a speech entitled, Privacy and Security in Higher Education: Filling the Policy Vacuum .

The SAC leadership seminars, August 3–8 in Snowmass Village, Colorado, will move to a new location in 2008. Snowmass Village, where the annual seminars have been hosted since 1974, is in the midst of heavy construction in order to create a new base village. This ongoing construction, due for completion in 2011, requires a new location for the seminars. Browse the online agendas for SAC's three seminars by clicking on the links below. Register by July 6 to save money with low, early-bird rates.

Main Program
Directors Leadership Seminar—August 5–8

For those of you that haven't already tuned into the MP3 that Stephen Downes posted on his web site, this recording provides coverage of his speech on Principles of Distributed Representation at the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing Conference.  For those of you who may be more text-orriented, a transcript of his presentation is also available at his web site.

The attached MP3 provides coverage of the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing conference session entitled Transforming the IT Organization

The attached MP3 provides coverage of the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing session entitled Scads of Content: Grappling with the Content Explosion

In the attached MP3, you can listen in on the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing conference session about Succession Planning. 

The attached MP3 provides coverage of the 2005 Seminars on Academic Computing Conferences session enttiled What Are We Playing At? What It Means to Integrate Games into the Curriculum, and Why We Should Do It

In the attached recording from the Seminars on Academic Computing conference, we'll listen in on National Science Foundation CIO George Strawn and his presentation entitled Change: The Constant of Modern Times

In the attached recording, you can listen in on the SAC presentation entitled
Open Source in Education: Evolving the IT Marketplace.  Read more at:
http://www.educause.edu/SA05/Program/6121?PRODUCT_CODE=SA05/DSESS03