Indiana University is presently developing a new initiative that will provide a unified structure for the development of its information activities on both the IUPUI and IUB campuses. IU will be designating Information Precincts on the IUB and IUPUI campuses. These areas will have a concentration of information-related organizations and buildings and will serve as the location for the core parts of each campus information technology infrastructure. The IPCRES Laboratories will be located in these precincts. In both cases the possibility of colocating technology incubator space within these Information Precincts is being investigated.
As well, the organization of IPCRES into two clusters of laboratories, one concerned with advanced telecommunications research at IUPUI, and the other concerned with software technologies research at IUB, is aligned strategically with Indiana University's overall strategy for geographical location of its information activities, with IU's telecommunications infrastructure at IUPUI and its computation and information infrastructure at IUB.
The Information Precinct at IUPUI will be based on the development of the "super block" bounded by Michigan, West, New York and Blackford and the adjoining block on which the IUPUI Library, School of Engineering and School of Science are located. Sited on this block will be the new Communications Technology Building/Classroom & Academic Building (CTC/CAB Building), the former part of which was recently funded by the State Legislature. The CTC part will house the hub of IU's telecommunications infrastructure as well as the Internet2 NOC. The IPCRES Advanced Telecommunications Laboratories will be located in this building. At IUB, a site for the Information Precinct is under discussion.
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