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by Mark D. Stewart
Welcome to the Minnesota Technolog -- that is, the award winning Minnesota Technolog.
Once again recognized for excellence, the Technolog took home nine awards from the 1998 Engineering College Magazines Association (ECMA) Conference held last April in Madison, Wisconsin. Among them were three first place awards -- two for excellence in editorials and the other for Best Article in General Science -- and second place recognition for Most Improved Magazine and for Best All-Around Magazine. The Technolog also received two third place awards and two honorable mentions.
As new editor-in-chief, I am dedicated to continuing this long tradition in excellence, a commitment shared by the editoral and writing staffs. In an effort to raise the standard of quality even higher, between Fall 1998 and Spring 1999 we will publish three issues of the Technolog instead of the usual five.
In bringing you just three issues, we believe that we can give our topics more in-depth coverage and better illustrate how technology and research is changing the world. Our focus, as always, will remain on IT.
In this issue, our cover story on streaming video illustrates how the Internet and other technologies are making education more accessible and how IT is taking a leading role in the development of streaming video not only here at the University but across the nation as well. Please take time to read last year's award winning science fiction stories. Entry information for this year's contest can be found on page 10. The 1999 Science Fiction Contest winners will be published in the Spring 1999 issue of the Technolog. We are looking forward to reading your submissions.
