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To: Scrapps who wrote (2723)	2/18/1998
From: flickerful	Respond to of 9236

<<intratopic>> thought this was interesting... it is not exactly new but i came across it again: BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE NEWS FLASH September 24, 1997 Edited by Douglas Harbrecht MILKEN AND MALONE: SELLING SCHOOLING TO AMERICA Two of the biggest dealmakers in America -- former junk-bond king Michael Milken and cable maven John Malone -- are joining hands to turn education into a business. Milken's privately financed Knowledge Universe and Malone's cable giant Tele-Communications Inc. have reached a tentative agreement on a joint venture to bring education into homes, schools, and businesses via the Internet and cable TV. Details have yet to be announced. But the basic outlines call for TCI education unit ETC to provide for schools an online service called Ingenius, as well as cable wiring to the classroom. Knowledge Universe would fund the venture and take a majority stake along with running it. Terms for the cash infusion are unclear at the moment, TCI execs say, and still must be negotiated. The education field has a huge potential payoff. Milken's Knowledge Universe operation has been aggressively making acquisitions in worker training, temp-help, and information-technology consulting. It has also been looking at software and other products, including virtual universities, to make education more exciting and effective for kids. Knowledge Universe has more than $600 million in revenues. In the last 13 months, it bought a 50.1% stake in CRT, a British broad-based training and consulting company; most of the franchisees of Florida's Productivity Point International, which offers software training courses; and Boston's Symmetrix, a info-tech consulting outfit. TCI has aggressively sought to provide cable-TV hookups to schools in hopes of linking them together for so-called long-distance learning. TCI also operates Sparkman Center near Denver, which trains school teachers to use cable TV and online services to educate their students. By Kathleen Morris and Ronald Grover in Los Angeles News Flash Archives Copyright 1997, by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

To: Scrapps who wrote (2723)	2/18/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 9236

<<intratopic2>> ironically, tonight i found this: February 17, 1998 New Company Seeks Wider Role for Old Technology By John Markoff A computer designer who earned an international reputation for renegade innovation at IBM says he has found a way to take advantage of 30-year-old research with analog communications to offer low-cost, high-speed alternatives to today's digital networks. The designer, R. Andrew Heller, said Monday that he would announce Wednesday the formation of a new company to develop technology that enables high-speed computer communications over telephone lines and existing building wiring. He said that the technology was based on research that was all but abandoned after the 1960s. Heller said that the new company, Innovative Network Technologies Inc., to be based in Austin, Texas, would be backed by $2.6 million in private financing and would begin shipping preliminary versions of its products later this year. The company has already conducted field trials for distributing high-resolution video and computer data in the Texas State Capitol and to link a digital display on a prototype gasoline pump to a remote central computer for Dresser Industries, he said. Heller has ambitious plans for revitalizing analog technologies, which represent information in a continuous spectrum rather than the discrete one's and zero's of digital computers and communications. "Back in the 1960s there were many good ideas in analog communications technologies," he said. "We found that no one had gone back and looked at these ideas for modern applications." Heller said he was not yet willing to announce specifics of how his system compared with digital network speeds, but he said it might be possible to transmit as much data as a typical 100-megabit Ethernet as well as multiple video and audio signals over significant distances on standard telephone wires. The technology will be useful for a variety of applications, he said, including the so-called last-mile challenge of getting high-speed Internet data to residences and businesses that are not situated next to fiber optic cables and increasing the efficiency of the radio spectrum to revitalize analog cellular telephones. The company's first product, Heller said, would be aimed at school buildings, which are often old and expensive to wire for computers. "One of the issues for schools is how to get Internet data from the point it connects to the school into the classroom," he said. Heller went to work for IBM in the 1960s and was a protege of John Cocke, the legendary computer architect who pioneered the Reduced Instruction Set Computing, or RISC, processors that now power some of the world's most popular high-end work stations. In the late 1980s he moved to IBM's computer operations in Austin, where he led the development of the microprocessor that would evolve into the Power PC developed in a partnership between IBM and Apple Computer. Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company