Word: intranets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similar system is already in use at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA.) At Harvard Business School (HBS) a "Course Platform" on the Intranet makes all course assignments and other information available to students through their computers...
...technology expanded exponentially last fall when the FBI activated its new Combined DNA Index System. A database containing the gene prints of 250,000 convicted felons--as well as 4,600 DNA samples left behind at the scene of unsolved crimes--the system acts as a sort of investigatory intranet through which law-enforcement officials can surf when trying to match a known criminal to a crime...
...curious about the notion that the Net could somehow be "boxed." In that imagined future, Chinese citizens would have easy access to domestic websites, but sites outside the mainland--cnn.com for instance--might be blocked. China would become one big, self-contained Internet--what techies like to call an intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access to foreign sites would remain under government control. Says a Hong Kong engineer who has worked with China on high-level information policy for two decades: "The Chinese worry about the Net. Will it just be an inundation of Western content...
...idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look at the hard drives; look at the bookmarks in the browsers. It's all U.S. content...
...intranet is the method by which all HBS students, faculty and staff get just about all of their information, from curriculum to social activities. "They all live by it," said MBA IT Support Service Product Specialist Kevin F. Canavan...