Harvard and McGraw-Hill Announce the Publication of
            BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE


The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
and the Primis division of McGraw-Hill, Inc. announce the
publication of BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE/Issues in the
Development of the National Research and Education Network.
Edited by Brian Kahin, BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE is the
outcome of a joint project by the School's Program on Science,
Technology and Public Policy Program and the Program on Strategic
Computing and Telecommunications in the Public Sector.  BUILDING
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE is also the first original book
published by Primis, McGraw-Hill's new electronically
based, on-demand publishing program.

BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE presents the NREN as a
practical enterprise in developing information infrastructure
that must be informed by economic, legal, and technological
insights.  Written for a diverse audience in government,
industry, and education, the book is intended as an aid to
planning and policy development at local, state, and national
levels.


Brian Kahin, ed., BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1992) ISBN# 0-390-03083-X

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Editor's Note
Overview: Understanding the NREN

I. Information Infrastructure as a Public Initiative

Lewis Branscomb:  Information Infrastructure for the 1990s:
     A Public Policy Perspective (16 pp.)
Jerry Mechling:  A State-Level View of Information Infrastructure
     (15 pp.)
Lee McKnight:  European & Japanese Research Networks: Cooperating
     to Compete (13 pp.)

II. Visions of the Network

Richard Mandelbaum & Paulette Mandelbaum:  The Strategic Future of
     the Mid-Level Networks (60 pp.)
Kenneth Klingenstein:  A Coming of Age: The Design of the Low-End
     Internet (25 pp.)
Larry Smarr & Charles Catlett:  Life After Internet (30 pp.)
Leonard Kleinrock:  Technology Issues in the Design of the NREN
     (25 pp.)
Mitchell Kapor & Jerry Berman:  Building the Open Road: The NREN
     as Test-Bed for the National Public Network (19 pp.)

III. The NREN and the Market

Terrence McGarty:  Alternative Networking Architectures (53 pp.)
Gerald Faulhaber:  Pricing Internet (25 pp.)
William Hogan:  Energy and Information Network Infrastructures
     (27 pp.)
Brian Kahin:  The NREN as Information Market (21 pp.)
Henry Perritt:  Market Structures for Electronic Publishing and
     Electronic Contracting (58 pp.)

Appendix:  High-Performance Computing Act of 1991
Glossary
Index


BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE may be ordered directly from
Primis, 1-800-962-9342, for shipment March 10, 1992.  Order as
ISBN# 0-390-03083-X, $34.95 plus shipping and handling.  As part
of the Primis database, the individual chapters are instantly
available for classroom or other use, either on their own or in a
customized textbook combined with other material from the Primis
database.