October 12, 2001
Reluctant to Fly, Campus-Computing Officials Replace a Meeting With a Videoconference
Many of the more than 500 campus-computing officials who were to convene last week in Austin, Tex., were reluctant to fly out of concerns about air safety. So they met in a videoconference instead -- a switch that a growing number of colleges and businesses are making in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks.
The meeting was for members of the Internet2 consortium, a group of 180 colleges working to build the next generation of computer networks. It was scheduled to be held
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