- The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business signed an agreement
with educational publisher and distributor Pearson Addison Wesley to produce a series
of interactive software simulations for business, finance, and economics education, based
on the principle that students need to learn through experience developed in real-world,
real-time scenarios. Software the school is currently accessing includes: Wharton
Securities Exchange (a trading environment simulation;) Fare Game (an airline price
simulation;) the Online Trading and Investment Simulator (a buy and sell of equities
using real-time market data;) and Oil Production Equilibrium (OPEQ) (an oil-producing
decision-making simulation) - http://www.pearsoneduc.com/

- A new project announced last week by the Library of Congress will preserve large
amounts of material that exist only in electronic formats. Initial funding of $100 million,
enough to get started, will come from Congress. The Congressional appropriation
anticipates matching contributions of up to $75 million from federal agencies, libraries,
research institutions, and commercial interests. Early planning for this National Digital
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, has included officials from Kodak,
the American Institute of Architects, Elsevier Science, Random House, the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, and some universities -
http://chronicle.com/free/2003/02/2003021702t.htm