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Carnegie Mellon Will Expand Its
Information Networking Institute
        PITTSBURGH The Carnegie Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon
University's engineering college, is expanding its Information Networking
Institute to meet the demands of growing Internet technologies, including
high-speed networking, Internet security  and wireless mobile computing.
            To accomplish this new expansion objective, the Information
Networking Institute will be housed in the Engineering School's Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department under the direction of Dowd Professor
Pradeep K. Khosla. During the past year, the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department has hired new faculty in the areas of networking and
wireless, two strategic areas of interest to the Information Networking
Institute.
             "The Information Networking Institute has grown to be a very
important component of education in information technology, and its
integration of engineering, computer science and business makes it a unique
program at a national level,'' said  John L. Anderson, dean of the
engineering college.
             The institute was established in 1989 by the Carnegie Institute
of Technology, the School of Computer Science and the Graduate School of
Industrial Administration.  The institute awards a master's degree in
information networking to about 30 students a year.
             "We have found just the right place for the Information
Networking Institute,'' said Ben Bennington, institute director since 1992.
"We continue to work to make the institute one of the premier places for
research and education.''
               The Information Networking Institute developed the wireless
Andrew system. It also has been a leader in developing mobile applications
for emergency response, health care and systems for the mining and
construction industry. Some of the institute's work and research has been
sponsored by a variety of information technology providers, including AT&T,
Digital Equipment Corp., Nippon Mining, Lucent Technologies, Caterpillar and
Daimler-Chrysler.