ORGANIZATION
NTU's Computer and Information Networking Center was originally named “Center of Electronic Computing.” Established in 1963, it was run and managed by the Department of Electrical Engineering in the early years. In 1975, the jurisdiction of the

Center was reassigned to the College of Engineering. In 1986, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Center became a first grade unit directly under the supervision of the university president. In December of 1995, in accordance with the revisions of the ordinances of university structure, the Center was renamed “Computer and Information Networking Center,” or briefly as “C&INC.”

The positioning and qualifications of the Center are: the center of an e-university, the center for computing, the center for information, and the center of networking. The Center is comprised of six components, which are: the administrative office, the division of system design, the division of teaching research, the division of operation management, the division of information networking, and the division of advisory services. These agencies within the Center provide innovative, safe, convenient, and high quality computing and networking environments to the NTU community with a view toward upgrading the quality of teaching, research, and services.

Overview of the Center's Operating Units

• Chief Director's Office:
  This office is responsible for the common affairs of the Center, such as personnel, accounting, dispatch and receiving of official documents, procurement, maintenance and repair, general services, and university wide applications for telephone services.
• Division of System Design:
  This division exists to provide digitalized information services to university operations, which include: administrative affairs management, student affairs management, on-line applications or enquiry services, academic or decision-making support services, website construction and maintenance, server management and technical support. Over the years the System Design Division has developed and maintained more than 170 systems. The NTU overall website performance is ranked 73rd globally in Webometrics January 2008 survey, and 2nd in Asia. (Webometrics is conducted by the Center of Scientific Information and Documentation of the Spanish National Research Council)
• Division of E-learning:
  This division exists to assist, promote, and enhance the computer literacy and application capability of NTU's faculty, staff, and students. It offers all types of hardware and software courses, ranging from the elementary courses on computer applications to the advanced courses on algorithms, for the purpose of fostering talents in various areas of specialization. At the same time this division sets up a sound environment for computer and network , to be used by faculty and students in their teaching and learning. Furthermore, this division develops and installs a platform for NTU's electronic bulletin, and a recommendation system whereby all units within the university can publish and manage their own electronic newspapers, providing faculty and students with the fastest and the most correct information.
• Division of Information Management:
  This division exists to plan, install, manage, and maintain information system environment that relate to teaching and research. It provides stable universal and high efficiency computing environment which effectively support the implementation of various types of teaching and research jobs. Its operations include: single window advisory services, processing the application for internet accounts, providing a single mechanism for in school accreditation, e-mail and personal webpage services, dispatching of in school messages, providing external uplink serves for the main library, procurement of authorized software for campus use, computer classroom services, high efficiency algorithm services, maintenance of the power system and the hosting system, etc.
• Division of Network Management:
  This division exists to plan, install, manage, and maintain a high speed, strong and ubiquitous campus information network for the university community. It offers DNS, web servers, ftp, BBS, Internet forums, dial-up internet, ADSL, wireless network, and other technical advisory services. At the same time, it supports the operations of Northern district of Tanet, which is an academic network of Taiwan run by the Ministry of Education. In addition, it provides technical advisory services regarding internet up-linking to universities, colleges, high schools, and vocational schools located in the Northern part of Taiwan. Moreover, in collaboration with the National Center for High Performance Computers, it participates in the planning of advanced technologies for Taiwan's high quality academic networks.

Prospects for the Future
In the effort to implement the digitalization of university administrative affairs, the Center adopts a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a framework geared toward providing information services to the university community, and integrating the various information resources within the university. The Center actively promotes the use of electronic forms and digital certificates to cut down the use of paper and to abridge the administrative procedures. The Center continues to purchase important hardwares and softwares that are needed for teaching and research, and adopts a mechanism whereby the softwares can be shared by many units, thereby providing a diversified universal computing environment. Moreover, The Center constructs a high performance computing environment to provide sufficient support to research teams, expedite the progress of experiments , and to increase the research output. The Center aims to implement a universal upgrading of the networking infrastructure, and to install a campus internet phone system, providing computing and communication services that are available all over campus, culminating in a university that is completely saddled with information technology.

CONTACT INFORMATION
• Chief Director: Yeali S. Sun
• Tel: +886-2-33665000
• Fax: +886-2-23637204
• Website: http://www.cc.ntu.edu.tw
• E-mail: cchelp@ntu.edu.tw