Website: http://www.umich.edu
Contributing Member
About:
The University of Michigan is a public research university serving the people of Michigan and
the world through preeminence in creation, communication, preservation and application of
knowledge, art, and technology. Michigan develops leaders who challenge the present and
enrich the future.
The University of Michigan co-founded IMS in 1997, and has been an active Contributing
Member of IMS GLC ever since.
Michigan has long played a leadership role in creating the information age. In the 1950s,
Michigan established the field of engineering psychology that eventually evolved into the
contemporary field of human-computer interaction. In the 1960s, Michigan worked with IBM
to create one of the first virtual memory operating system, the Michigan Terminal System,
MTS, which was used for three decades and was supported by an international higher
education consortium. In the 1980s, Michigan was one of the first universities to deploy
distributed computing for faculty, staff and students.
In 1987, Michigan helped create the
partnership that developed NSFNET, the forerunner of the contemporary Internet that
changed the world. In the early 1990s, Michigan co-created the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol, LDAP, an important advancement in online directory controls that has been
adopted globally as the Internet standard. In the late 1990s, Michigan led the creation of
Internet2, a consortium to advance the state of the art in networking for higher education.
In 2003, Michigan led the creation of a partnership with MIT, Stanford, and Indiana that
became the Sakai Project, the world’s largest community-source effort to build collaboration
and learning infrastructure, which now involves more than 100 universities throughout the
world. In 2004, Michigan pioneered a groundbreaking partnership with Google to digitize
the entire University of Michigan Library for common access. Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the
New York Public Library and similar institutions have joined this project, but Michigan is the
only institution committed to digitizing its entire library collection.
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