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Sunday, April 17, 2005
Ball State’s ‘Digital Middletown’ Project Explores Wireless Broadband Initiatives - Layne Cameron, THE Journal
The fabled middletown Studies, conducted by Robert and Helen Lynd in the 1920s and ’30s, established Muncie, Ind., as the most studied city in America. Since then, technological initiatives such as the wireless broadband effort at Ball State University have established the Midwestern institution as a leader in cutting-edge innovations. It’s not surprising, then, that the university, which was founded in Muncie in 1899, has merged the two efforts not only to develop technology that will benefit students, faculty and Indiana residents, but also to study its sociological impact.

 



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