The creative and innovative use of information technology for teaching and research throughout IU is widely recognized. In 1999, Yahoo magazine ranked IU “the second best-wired public institution in the United States.” In addition, more than 120 courses are available to students and organizations in dozens of countries via satellite, the Internet, and interactive compressed video. For their research, faculty and students at IU have access to advanced computing tools such as supercomputers, a 3-D virtual reality research lab, and "Pervasive Computing" research labs. Pervasive computing is a "computing environment of the future" which combines high-speed computers with devices ranging from scientific instruments to home appliances to on-line digital libraries. IU is also the lead university in TransPAC, a grant to extend the National Science Foundation's high-speed network to research centers in the Asia-Pacific region and Russia. Moreover, IU is shaping the future as the operational center for a consortium of universities in a high-speed (Internet 2) networking project that is the world's most advanced and far-reaching research and education computing network.

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