Layer Leader Wienhausen Accepts Computerworld Honor
On April 7, the leader of Calit²'s Education initiatives at UCSD, Gabriele Wienhausen, attended induction ceremonies in San Francisco for the 2002 Computerworld Honors Collection. Wienhausen and UCSD's Director of Constituent Relations, Jim Shea, accepted on behalf of UCSD, which was cited for "Reinventing the University Campus" at Sixth College, where Wienhausen is Provost.
Nominated by Deborah Nelson, V.P. Marketing of Hewlett-Packard, in the Education & Academia category, UCSD is one of 300 laureates drawn from the year's "most innovative applications of technology," and will be housed in the archival institutions of the International Archives.
Sixth College, which will welcome its inaugural freshman class in Fall 2002, was cited for being "born wireless, better able to meet the unique needs of individual students by leveraging the power of technology to provide a choice of learning modes and instill true digital literacy."
"Each year, The Computerworld Honors Program identifies and honors men and women from around the world whose visionary use of Information Technology produces and promotes positive social, economic and educational change," said Joe Levy, President, Computerworld. "The innovators represented in this Collection are true revolutionaries in their industry and have been recognized by the leading chairmen of the industry as such."
"This is a great honor for the campus and for the men and women who are working very hard to make Sixth College an exemplar demonstrating how digital technologies can enhance teaching and learning in the 21st Century university environment," said Wienhausen. "The theme of Sixth College - an exploration of the interrelationships between culture, art and technology - requires interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches, and we are committed to integrating wireless and other technologies into an ideal intellectual and artistic framework for a contemporary liberal arts education."
Acceptances for the first class of an estimated 330 freshmen are going out this April, and enrollment is scheduled to grow annually until it reaches the upper limit that UCSD has set for each of its colleges-about 3,500 students. "We recognize that we are really a testbed for the entire campus," added Wienhausen. "The lessons learned here at Sixth will bleed out over time to the rest of the UCSD student population, about 21,000 today and about 29,000 within approximately eight years."
Among faculty mentioned in the Case Study: Calit²'s UCSD layer leader for Interfaces and Software Systems, Bill Griswold, who is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Griswold, working with faculty and graduate students across the
campus, is currently investigating the use of wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) among computer science and electrical engineering students, with plans to expand the ActiveClass and ActiveCampus Explorer projects to the entire Sixth College starting in September.
Case studies from the 2002 Computerworld Honors Collection will be available at http://www.cwheroes.org, the official internet site of the Computerworld Honors Program, where the entire Collection is available to scholars, researchers and the general public worldwide.
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