The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities is located near Baylor College of Medicine and its affiliated institutions and The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston School of Public Health in the Texas Medical Center. Baylor College of Medicine Information Technology and Computing Resource Center collaborate with Rice University and the Texas Medical Center Technology Planning Committee to provide a seamless interface between the Baylor Enterprise system and the National Information Infrastructure.
Computer Resource Center and the National Information Infrastructure Extensive data banks of research information, educational, and vocational learning modules are available through the network of web sites linking colleges, universities, and research centers all over the world. The Internet is one component of the National Information Infrastructure (NII) that was originally created by the federal government and sponsored through the National Science Foundation. The government spends millions of dollars to promote the extension of the NII for educational and research purposes through grants from the Department of Commerce, National Telecommunication Information Administration (NTIA). Houston is the site of a National Science Foundation NII hub, SESQUINET, housed at Rice University. Baylor College of Medicine has shown itself to be a leader in the establishment of a four star award winning home page, which forms the electronic user interface connecting text or video Internet conferencing, telemedicine at the DeBakey Heart Center, and linkage to many resources at the Texas Medical Center, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center / Health Science Center and Rice University with extensive national / international links. The BCM site receives an average of 5,000 hits per day, with an average visitor rate of more than 400 per month for departmental home pages. The NII has been found to be an effective medium for the dissemination of disability related educational materials at numerous institutions including the University of Texas Health Science Center HIV/AID Information Link (HAIL), Independent Living Research Utilization (ILRU) program and University of Alabama, Spain Rehabilitation Center. (http://www.neosoft.com/hail/; http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/ilru; http://www.sci.rehabm.uab.edu/; also see http;//utsph.sph.edu/)
The Baylor College of Medicine Enterprise Services, the Information Technology Program, and departmental local area networks consist of 100 UNIX servers and Sun Workstations, over 200 Xterminals, 250 printers, and about 500 PCs and Macintosh computers serving a client base of 4000 users. An Auspex NetServer 7000 / 600 as the Enterprise Wide Resource Server for world wide web. The server is a high performance corporate UNIX NFS server that functions as a tera byte (1,000,000 MB) data storage unit for the main Baylor College of Medicine web site (http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/ ). The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities has a home page with 15 fact sheets that contains Anonymous FTP service for large research manuscripts and databases ( http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/crowd/ ). The Baylor Computing Resource Center serves to facilitate the use of information technology through educational courses, consultation, computing facilities, and software library.
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