I am a graduate student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, hoping to complete my degree in May 1999. My areas of interest include international science collaboration and higher education administration. Currently, I am working for the UM ATLAS Project, a new program directed toward the organization and execution of modern, large-scale collaborative experiments. Our first collaborative studies will be focused on high-energy physics research at CERN. The UM ATLAS Project is partnering with the School of Information in developing this first research project, and will also draw upon faculty in the College of Engineering and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts for additional expertise. In higher education administration, I am particularly interested in the issue of interdisciplinary research, and how faculty from discrete disciplines goes about developing new programs that do not fit into any particular school or college. One of the reasons I joined the graduate program at SI is that it is an attempt to develop a School that crosses many boundaries, with faculty in economics, computer science, library science, business, as well as others. I decided to take the Visual Communications and Control course this term because I wanted to more fully understand the technical differences between different communication media, and how they can be made to work together. I am also enrolled in a course called Understanding Networked Computing. The material presented in these two courses has fit together nicely this term, and I have a good base upon which to develop my knowledge in these technical areas.