Western Printing Machinery Co. gives $150,000 high technology gift to Luther College; software development division to provide document management software, hardware and related services.SCHILLER PARK Schiller Park, village (1990 pop. 11,189), Cook co., NE Ill., a residential suburb of Chicago; inc. 1914. O'Hare International Airport is to the west, and the county forest preserve is to the east. , Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 1996--Western Printing Machinery Co. (WPM wpm abbr. words per minute wpm words per minute Noun 1. wpm - the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing) words per minute ) of Schiller Park, Illinois Schiller Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 11,850 at the 2000 census. Geography Schiller Park is located at (41.956230, -87.870447)GR1. , announced today that it has made a donation of approximately $150,000 in document management software, hardware and related services to Luther College Luther College is the name of several educational institutions:
The gift includes DocStor's suite of document management modules, a Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill 1000 server, consulting, system training, and integration services. For Luther College, a four-year liberal arts college Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a, "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge in northeast Iowa, this gift represents the potential opportunity to apply a high technology solution to the cumbersome paper-handling tasks of managing an institution. "The DocStor system complements Luther's widespread use of computers on campus and our goal of linking students to the world with state-of-the-art technology," according to David J. Roslien, Luther's president. "WPM's gift will give us the ability to automate much of the college's documentation, manage it electronically, and make it available to our academic community through our extensive network of PCs." Michael Musgrave, vice president at WPM and a 1986 graduate of Luther College, commented, "Through our Salix Systems division, we're able to give the school DocStor, a document management system designed to help businesses move from a paper-intensive to an electronic environment. This system should fit well with the technology innovations that have recently been expanded on Luther's campus." Luther College, a four-year liberal arts school with an enrollment of about 2,400 students, has recently established a new computer-equipped conference and classroom facility through a grant from the F.W. Olin Foundation. Last year, the school received funds from the U.S. Department of Commerce to develop an interactive video classroom linking the college with a classroom at the Mayo Clinic, and the National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) U.S. independent agency. Founded in 1965, it supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. awarded the college a grant to fund two networked computer classrooms. WPM is a privately held design engineering firm specializing in solutions for the graphic arts industry. The Salix Systems division is a leading developer of Unix-based, client-server document management systems for departments and work groups. NOTE TO EDITORS: There is an "at" symbol which appears between "metamktg" and "AOL.com" in the E-mail address below. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Meta Marketing, Cincinnati Mindy Brooks, 513/531-6382 metamktg@AOL.com or Western Printing Machinery, Schiller Park Todd Ponicki, 847/678-5600 |
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