Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh

Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh
Creating an Urban Research Laboratory

Lloyd W. Briscoe
Pittsburgh Public Schools

Robert D. Carlitz and Janet W. Schofield
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Ralph Z. Roskies and Michael Levine
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Pittsburgh, PA

A proposal to the National Science Foundation
submitted through the MPC Corporation

April 15, 1994

Table of Contents

I. Overview

A. National Information Infrastructure
B. Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh
C. A Triad of Researchers

II. Previous Work

A. Impact on Schools
B. First-Year Research Projects
C. Internal Competition for New Sites
D. Second-Year Research Projects
E. Design of the Local Area Network
F. Design of the Metropolitan Area Network
G. Disseminiation

III. New Initiatives

A. PPS - Educational Practice
B. CK:P Affiliates - Resources
C. CK:P - Research Laboratory

IV. The Urban Research Laboratory

A. Educational Component
B. Technical Component
C. Assessment Component
D. Funding Model

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