CICA Changes Name To ECC.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2004 The Chicago Industrial In the early 1980s the Chicago-based record label Wax Trax! helped to forge the industrial music genre. At the forefront of this explosion of musical exploration were bands such as Chicago's Ministry, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Die Warzau and Eight and One Half[1] Communications Association (CICA CICA Competition In Contracting Act of 1984 (USA) CICA Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants CICA Competition In Contracting Act CICA Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (UK) ) announced today that it will change its name to the Enterprise Communications Consortium (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ). Identifying the national constituency of the commercial enterprise organizations it serves, organizers : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
The association previously centered on communications and IT-based challenges facing professionals based primarily in the Chicago Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. area. However, as companies from around the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. have participated in the organization's activities, it became apparent that the group's audience represented a constituency base that is more national in scope. The name change to the Enterprise Communications Consortium is intended to acknowledge this trend. "This change comes at a time when there is increased interest in transformative IT technologies that promise to alter the way companies communicate and do business," says Michael Janowiak, Senior Director of the ECC. "The mission of the ECC is to help enterprise organizations understand and meet the rapidly evolving challenges involved with IT infrastructure developments and communications on a national--even global--scale. The ECC will deliver world-class educational conferences and resources that consistently meet this objective. Geography is no longer the group's defining denominator denominator the bottom line of a fraction; the base population on which population rates such as birth and death rates are calculated. denominator ." The ECC, operating as part of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission ), offers a series of educational programs, publications, and on-line resources designed to assist IT infrastructure professionals at commercial, government, and academic end-user organizations. For full information on the ECC, visit www.ec-consortium.org. About the Enterprise Communications Consortium The mission of the ECC is to provide IT infrastructure managers and executives at commercial, academic, and government end-user organizations with multi-faceted educational opportunities to identify key communications issues, trends, technologies, and resources central to the current and future success of member organizations. The Consortium will focus its educational offerings on enterprise network evolution, achieving operational cost-efficiencies, and utilizing the communications infrastructure to achieve superior customer service. This professional development will be achieved through educational forums that allow for collaborative learning Collaborative learning is an umbrella term for a variety of approaches in education that involve joint intellectual effort by students or students and teachers. Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task in which each and networking among industry professionals and through supplemental publications and Web-based resources. About the International Engineering Consortium The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. dedicated to catalyzing positive change in the information industry and its university communities. Since 1944, the IEC has provided high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals, academics, and students. In conjunction with the industry, the IEC has developed free, on-line, Web-based tutorials, and streaming-video iForum seminars. The IEC conducts industry-university programs that have substantial impact on curricula. It also conducts research and develops publications, conferences, and technological exhibits that address major opportunities and challenges of the Information Age. More than 70 leading high-technology universities are currently affiliated with the IEC. For more information about the IEC, visit www.iec.org. |
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