Albert Willis

``At first it was sort of shock, because that's a totally different shape for a computer to have,'' said Albert Willis, who works in information systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ``But the movable screen and being able to adjust that, that was pretty cool.''

Standard configurations of the new iMac start at $1,299 for the model with a CD-burning drive model, and top out at $1,799 for one with a DVD burner.

Macs in Higher Education with Al Willis, MIT.

The panel will include Tech Superpowers' Ian Blanton, Duke Design and Consulting's Jon Duke, CallAndy.com's Andy Espo, MIT's Al Willis and Andy Holleron of Boston College and X-MacGenius.

Al Willis, Macintosh Platform Coordinator, MIT
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Tom Bartlett, Todd Houle, John Lemansky, Vince Spiars, Ginny Williams, Albert Willis
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Albert Willis joined MIT's Information Systems department in 1993 as a member of the Helpdesk and immediately became known as the Mac guy.During his time in Information Systems, he's been a team leader of the Desktop Products hardware and software evaluation team, written custom software installers, written articles for the I/S newsletter and has presented at Macworld Expo and NERCOMP.After helping lead the effort to provide support for Mac OS X at MIT, Al joined the Software Release Team full-time in January 2003 where he oversees the support and release of Macintosh software to the MIT community.In his spare time, he coordinates Mac Partners, the Mac user group at MIT.As far as we know, he's the only vegan in Information Systems.

11:20-12:05pm Planning Migration to Mac OS X - Support Speakers: Ginny Williams and Al Willis, MIT Information Systems This session will focus on migrating your current support organization to Mac OS X. Using MIT's transition activities as an example, we'll go over testing, training, documentation, communication, events and resources that will help both end users and support providers deal with the change.
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Al Willis Al Willis is a consultant in the Information Systems department at MIT.Currently, he's co-leading the Mac OS X Release Team with Ginny Williams, which oversees the testing, documentation and training for Mac OS X at MIT.Al also writes for I/S, the newsletter of MIT's Information Systems department and is the coordinator of Mac Tech Partners, the Macintosh user group at MIT.

He's the only vegan in MIT's I/S department as far as he knows; he started his computer career when he learned to program the Apple II in 1979 when in high school.

Albert Willis, MIT

Albert WillisMIT Macintosh Partners