Netcentricity Video

 

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About the 2001 Netcentricity Conference & Video

Netcentricity, Measuring its Impact... Mapping its Future.

"With tech stocks plunging and confidence in the Internet at an all time low, some people are asking themselves if the Internet revolution is over," says Ritu Agarwal, associate professor of information technology at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, in the new video, Netcentricity, Measuring its Impact... Mapping its Future.

The video offers interesting insights into the future impact of netcentricity on the way we do business, courtesy of the Smith School of Business and the Dell Computer Corporation.

Experts gathered at the Smith School's first national conference on netcentricity believe that the Internet era is only just beginning. Under the auspices of the school’s Decision and Information Technology Symposium Series, this two-day conference presented critical, timely topics examined by some of today’s leading experts in information technology.

Featured interviews include: Dean Howard Frank (Smith School), Alice Rivlin (The Brookings Institution), Tridas Mukhopadhyay (Carnegie Mellon University), Bruce Weber (City College of New York), Hank Lucas (Smith School), Robert Zmud (University of Oklahoma), Steve Harris (Dell) and Thomas Mesenbourg (U.S. Census Bureau).