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national information infrastructure is another term for Wi-Fi in the C band.
SGI(Nasdaq:SGI), a provider of technical computing, announced on Monday that the
National Information Infrastructure Development (NIIF) Institute headquartered in Budapest, Hungary has purchased a combined SGI Altix UV 1000 and SGI Altix ICE 8400 supercomputing solution.
In the United States in the mid-1990s, the Clinton administration unveiled the ambitious
National Information Infrastructure initiative, with the goal of linking every school and school-age child to the Internet by the turn of the century.
The first, "A Report to ARPA on Twenty-First Century Intelligent Systems" (21st century; AI Magazine 15:3, 10-20, 1994), resulted from a meeting AAAI organized "to assist ARPA in defining an agenda for foundational AI research." The second, "The Role of Intelligent Systems in the
National Information Infrastructure" (Nil; AI Magazine, 16:3, 45-64, 1995), reports on a workshop organized by AAAI and cosponsored by the National Science Foundation with two complementary purposes: to increase awareness of the "opportunities presented by the
National Information Infrastructure activities" in the AI community and to "identify key contributions of research in AI to the NII."
Working with Chinasoft, CETC and ECI's Tong Office to promote advanced technologies and build high quality technology expertise, CS2C is committed to helping build a secure
national information infrastructure.
Editorial will cover such topics as: commercial law, computer crime, copyright, e-governance, electronic fund transfer, privacy, insurance, IP rights, international law, national security,
national information infrastructure, patents, technology policy, and telecommunications law and policy.
Tiffany Olson, the deputy chief of staff on the president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (CIPB), explains that the plan is divided into five levels: home users and small businesses; major enterprises; sectors of
national information infrastructure (including local, state, and federal government); national level institutions and policies (including groups that oversee the mechanics of the Internet itself); and global.
Recent policy initiatives to boost the country's
national information infrastructure are part of these larger transformations of Indian society.
That path began in the early 1990s, when the incoming Clinton administration set out to shape policy for the "
National Information Infrastructure," its new name for what had been termed, for a brief period at the beginning of the decade, "the information superhighway." Content policy was delegated, ultimately, to a working group on intellectual property that was chaired by Bruce Lehman, the newly appointed patent commissioner and a former copyright lawyer for the computer industry.