Cisco donates to research !
■The technology giant will
make a donation for the
development of television
quality Internet broadcasts
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
The University’s efforts to devel
op better Internet broadcasting
technology and maintain a vibrant
research-based business park were
recently bolstered by the Internet
network equipment manufacturer
Cisco Systems, Inc.
The technology company, based
in San Jose, Calif., gave $257,300
to help fund the University’s Inter
net multicast technology, and en
tered into a lease agreement for a
6,820-square-foot space in the Uni
versity’s Riverfront Research Park.
Cisco’s donation is the first in
stallment of a nearly half-million
dollar donation to expand the Uni
versity’s network research efforts.
The research park, located on the
south bank of the Willamette Riv
er, is home to many companies
that license, market and develop
information technology products
derived from University research.
Cisco Systems, Inc. will employ
about 24 people at their new loca
tion, which is expected to open by
early April.
Computing Center director
Joanne Hugi said the donation will
ensure that the University has ac
cess to the latest technology and
will be able to provide profession
al opportunities for students and
researchers at the University. She
said both the grant and lease agree
ment were obtained through the
work of David Meyer, director of
the Advanced Network Technolo
gy Center. Meyer is also a senior
network engineer with Cisco Sys
tems, Inc. He was unable to be
reached for comment.
Hugi said due to Meyer’s work
and other research agreements be
tween the University and Cisco
Systems, Inc., the company even
tually decided to give the grant.
“I would say it was because we
have a staff member who works
with Cisco,” she said. “One thing
led to another, and Cisco felt that a
gift was in order.”
She said the funding will go to
ward the University’s efforts to de
velop secure transmission tech
nologies to deliver television
quality broadcasts over the Inter
net.
Hugi said she was glad Cisco
Systems, Inc. had pledged the
funding, and was pleased the com
pany decided to open a facility in
Eugene because it will bring more
talented researchers to the area
and provide opportunities for stu
dents and staff to enter the profes
sional field.
“You can’t have too many good
network engineers in Eugene,” she
said.
Hans Kuhn, an academic user
specialist at the Computer Center,
is developing the broadcast tech
nology. He said the funding allows
the University to continue expand
ing their research efforts, while
giving Cisco Systems, Inc. valuable
feedback about the technology.
“The research we do ties in with
the products they offer,” he said.
Kuhn said the technology in
question has already been used by
the Computing Center to broadcast I
events such as the Prefontaine Clas- ■
sic track meet held last June. Unlike
standard Web broadcast technology
that sends out one stream of data to
every viewer logged on, multicast
technology enables hundreds and
thousands of viewers to watch one
source of data.
Even though Cisco Systems, Inc.
has provided funding and equip
ment, Kuhn said that does not
mean the University is in any way
obliged to the company.
“Cisco does not dictate the terms
on which we purchase or use tech
nology,” he said. “We’re constant
ly evaluating other products out
there.”
Diane Wiley, director of the
Riverfront Research Park, said Cis
co Systems, Inc. has entered into a
five-year agreement with the Re
search Park Associates company.
She said Cisco Systems, Inc.’s
space is not one of the largest loca
tions in the research park, but the
University is still happy to have a
new tenant.
China rebukes Tiananmen Papers
By John Leicester
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Stung by newly pub
lished documents that vividly ex
posed how Chinese leaders split over
the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen
Square protests, China’s government
on Tuesday rejected the papers and
suggested they were fake.
“Any attempt to play up the mat
ter again and disrupt China by the
despicable means of fabricating ma
terials and distorting facts will be
futile,” Foreign Ministry
spokesman Zhu Bangzao said in a
statement issued early Tuesday via
the official Xinhua News Agency.
The crackdown was “highly nec
essary to the stability and develop
ment of China,” Zhu said, adding
that the ruling Communist Party’s
“correct conclusion” about the 1989
protests would not change.
It was the first official reaction to
the papers, which were purportedly
smuggled out of China by a disaf
fected civil servant and published
in the United States.
Beijing has long argued the
protests were an anti-government
rebellion that had to be crushed to
safeguard economic growth and
communist rule. It has ignored calls
for an inquiry into the crackdown
that began June 4, 1989, in which
hundreds were killed and thou
sands arrested in a nationwide ef
fort that also froze debate about po
litical reforms.
Initially, the government had no
comment about the documents and
China’s wholly state-run media did
not report them. But news of the pa
pers leaked into China via the Inter
net, foreign radio broadcasts and
word of mouth, stirring the begin
nings of debate.
Chinese Web site censors sought
to silence the discussion. One mes
sage that detailed CNN’s coverage of
the documents was deleted within
minutes of appearing on a popular
chat site. But other messages, some
questioning why news of the docu
ments was suppressed and whether
they were authentic, briefly got
through.
“To know whether the Tianan-.
men Papers are true or not, just look
at them on an overseas Web site and
judge for yourself.... If one has done
no wrong why fear other people
knowing?” one surfer, using the
name “sakel,” said in a Web posting
that was later deleted.
Said to be based on the minutes
of secret high-level meetings, Chi
nese intelligence reports and
records of late Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping’s private phone calls, the
documents were published in “The
Tiananmen Papers: The Chinese
Leadership’s Decision to Use Force
Against Their Own People.” The
489-page book was released in the
United States over the weekend.
If genuine, they offer a rare
glimpse into the motivations and
fears behind the communist leader
ship’s decision to order troops into
Tiananmen Square.
The papers detail how hard-line
and reformist Chinese leaders dis
agreed about how to handle the
huge pro-democracy demonstra
tions. The documents show how
Communist Party elders led by
Deng imposed martial law, ousted
reformist party chief Zhao Ziyang
and replaced him with Jiang Zemin,
now China’s president.
As with “Deep Throat,” the secret
source whose information helped
expose the Watergate scandal, the
identity of the civil servant who
compiled the materials was a per
plexing mystery for Chinese.
Wu Guoguang, a former aide to
purged party chief Zhao, said the
fact the papers got out indicated the
existence of a faction within the
Communist Party that supports po
litical reform and wants the Tianan
men crackdown re-examined.
“Maybe the person who carried
the documents is not a very high
level official, but quite senior lead
ers must have known about this,”
Wu said by telephone from Hong
Kong.
The former civil servant, who
uses the pseudonym Zhang Liang,
painstakingly transcribed original
records from files in Beijing and
elsewhere onto computer disks,
which he brought out ofiGhina.-ac*
cording to the book’s editors, An
drew Nathan, a professor of politi
cal science at Columbia University,
and Perry Link, a professor of Chi
nese language and literature at
Princeton University.
Nathan says Communist Party
members associated with the civil
servant believe that challenging the
official view that the Tiananmen
protests were a violent anti-govern
ment riot will help spur political
change.
But Bao Tong, a once senior com
munist official and adviser to Zhao
who was imprisoned after the
crackdown, said the documents
could have the opposite effect.
“It’s possible some people will be
scared and therefore say ‘politics
cannot be reformed, news must
continue to be blocked off, rights
must be stripped away to an even
greater extent,”’ said Bao, who
spent seven years in prison and an
other year detained in a guest house
for leaking word of the crackdown.
But Bao also said the documents
would be a revelation to a majority
of today’s government officials who
were not privy to the leadership bat
tles of 1989.
“It will make them reconsider
how this incident happened, what
kind of problem it was, what kind
of society China’s is, what kind of
system we work under, what proce
dures and systems are used in Chi
nese decision-making, how did
Tiananmen happen and how can
we avoid a recurrence?” Bao said.
“Everyone will be bound to consid
er these questions. ”
Dai Qing, a journalist of the 1980s
also imprisoned after the crack
down, said the documents’ release
could convince President Jiang and
Li Peng, China’s No. 2 leader who as
then-premier declared martial law
in 1989, that it is not safe for them to
step down in the coming iwo years,
as is expected.
“If it has an effect on political re
form in China it will be a bad one. It
can’t have a good effect,” said Dai,
now an author and frequent govern
ment critic. “It will make them even
more obstinate.” ..
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