Speaker 1: Well, what was the vision of information networking in 1989 is actually a reality in today's world. Back in 93, we wanted to create a testbed that could be used by our wireless researchers. We also hoped we could build a wireless network eventually for the entire Carnegie Mellon campus, one that would provide high-speed internet service to users of mobile computers. One example of that is Wireless Andrew, which was the first large-scale wireless local area network anywhere. Wireless Andrew was a forerunner to what we now call Wi-Fi.

Speaker 2: So Grant Morgan, myself, and a few others, and Marvin Servio, who came to Carnegie Mellon with the idea, let's do something on telecommunications, but let's do something which is unique.

Speaker 3: When the online was created, combining computer science and communications was relatively rare in the academy. It's much more common today. What is less common is adding the business and policy dimension, and there we still are among a unique group of institutions who combine those things, and at the same time maintaining serious technical depth. Productivity has been growing in the U.S. at twice the rate in the last 10 years as it did in the previous 10, and the research suggests that this is largely due to the impact of computers and networking in allowing us to rapidly exchange information, speed up the metabolism of design and process development, and generally improve overall industrial productivity.

Speaker 4: So I&I was created by one company to train its engineers in a particular field, and we call it information networking. The vision I've had is to expand from that base into broad-based information technology, basically to focus on cyber security, and also to expand from that single company, single location in Pittsburgh, to multiple companies sending their students, and these students being trained in multiple locations in the world.

Speaker 5: So the goal of the international programs of the Information Networking Institute are to partner, strategically partner, with other academic institutions that have an area of strength that is important to our programs. We offer our educational program, our master's program, but we also open the door to research partnerships.

Speaker 4: The I&I has also become extremely important to Carnegie Mellon in general, and during the last two years, we have made a concentrated effort to raise endowment money for fellowships to our students. About 10 to 15 percent of our graduates every year start companies, and many companies in Pittsburgh and even in the U.S. have been created by our graduates. Some of our graduates go into places like Morgan Stanley, others go into Microsoft, and there is no program, either in engineering or in computer science, that places its graduates in such a diverse set of career paths.

Speaker 2: Well, what the students will get from this program is, number one, jobs, a job which is important, but more important, they will take the piece of Carnegie Mellon which is in education. The world is changing all the time, and the very field where they are experts is going to continue changing, so they have to be able not only to cope with change, but also to be ahead of change.