A formal dedication of the ICTC is scheduled Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the new building, located at 535 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis.

Keynote speaker will be IU alumnus and inventor Scott Jones, whose voicemail system for Boston Technology in the 1980s transformed the modern workplace.

Jones graduated from IU in 1984, served as a research scientist at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and founded Boston Technology in 1986. He is founder/chairman of the Hoosier companies Gazelle TechVentures, Gracenote and Escient. He also is chair of IU’s Information Technology Advancement Council.

Schools and organizations inhabiting the new facility are: the IU School of Informatics; the IU School of Journalism; the IU School of Music; the Pervasive Technology Labs and University Information Technology Services, which manages global network operations for IU and a number of high-speed networks, including Internet2.

Tours of both the IT wing and the academic wing will be conducted following the dedication ceremony.

Informatics and Communications Technology Complex

	Photos by Chris Meyer The academic wing of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex (ICTC) has 33 classrooms, including two auditoriums. The IT wing includes the Network Operations Center (NOC), the hub of telecommunications, and I-Light, the optical fiber infrastructure that links IUPUI, IUB and Purdue University to each other, to the Internet and Internet2. NOC, the Pervasive Technology Labs and the Advanced Visualization Lab are among key IT components housed at the ICTC. A five-story atrium at the ICTC connects the academic and information technology wings, and a colonnade on the fifth floor features a terrace that overlooks the southwest side of the campus. The exterior is Indiana limestone; interior accents include limestone, granite, maple and brushed chrome.
Construction of the ICTC began in the autumn of 2001; the building was designed to create an environment for collaboration among its academic units, information technology research initiatives and related telecommunications interests. The IU schools of Informatics, Journalism and Music are new neighbors at the ICTC. Tours of both the academic and IT wings of the new structure will be conducted following the formal dedication ceremony Oct. 13.
Robert Dittmer, IUPUI journalism professor, instructs his mass media law class. The School of Journalism had been housed in the Education-Social Work building for 10 years before its move to the new ICTC this year.	IUPUI School of Informatics instructor Durwin Talon is using advanced technology to teach a class in game theory.
In addition to the 90-seat and 200-seat auditoriums, ICTC will have a fourth-floor virtual reality theater that will be used for both research and teaching initiatives by UITS and the School of Informatics.	Music instructor Chuyoung Yon Short is utilizing new classroom facilities to teach beginning piano students.
	IUPUI software engineer Paul Lineback was busy setting up computer workstations in the new University Information Technology Services’ (UITS) Student Technology Center.