Caltech seeking to blend sciences
By Kimm Groshong , Staff Writer
PASADENA -- If all goes as planned during the coming decade, a new $100 million initiative at Caltech will transform the institute and alter the way students and researchers approach today's most intriguing scientific problems.
The initiative, dubbed Information Science and Technology, which Caltech will formally launch Thursday, holds the promise of keeping the institute at the forefront in fields important to the Information Age from biotechnology to advanced networking.