Volume 3. No 3
Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Spring 1995
Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Spring 1995
No one would accuse Ken Weiss of shying away from e big stuff. As a programmer/analyst with I.T.'s Distributed Computing Analysis and Support team, his job is to facilitate the use of computing network tools on campus and thereby help expand access to electronic information resources and services.
Along with Steve Faith, also of DCAS, he maintains UCD's World Wide Web server, the UC Davis Home Page, and the DCAS Home Page. He is also the UC Project Manager for the Whois++ testbed project, which will expand the online white pages Whois directory protocol to the entire UC system -- and perhaps ultimately to the whole world through the Internet. (See Project is Testbed for Global White Pages).
Weiss is also working to help instructors use information technology in teaching, particularly through high-speed data networks. So far he has helped develop applications in political science, environmental studies, entomology, religious studies, computer science and English. At the same time, he is working with IBM on a multimedia indexing project that makes it possible to search a collection of images in a database according to color, shape, pattern, texture and other visual attributes. And he coordinates I.T. activities aimed at implementing digital libraries and at developing distributed multimedia databases on campus.
Does he enjoy the challenge? "That's why I show up for work every day, " he says.
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