About Peter

Office: Wheatley 3-154/10
Tel: 7-7118
Hours: M-Th 9:00-4:00
Fri. 8:30-5:30 (home office)

Peter C.S. Adams

Director of Communication and Information Technology
College of Public and Community Service

University of Massachusetts at Boston

Peter is responsible for the web, email, and file servers for the College of Public & Community Service at UMass Boston. In addition, he manages the Taylor Center computer classroom and assists with general computer and printing issues throughout the College. He serves on the University's Technology Advisory Committee, and is a member of both the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the Graphic Artists Guild.

He is a graduate of Rice University and has been using computers since 1976 (Honeywell mainframe via teletype, though he no longer has the paper tape to prove it). His first personal computer was an Apple II and he was among the first people to use Apple Lisa (1983) and Macintosh computers (1984), and set up one of the world's first AppleTalk networked LaserWriter printers (1985).

He has worked at UMass Boston since 1993.

Following are selected writings on various topics:

University of Massachusetts

Technology Articles

Increasing Network Security through Heterogeneity

Top Ten Tips for Safe Computing

Why the music industry is wrong about DRM

Technology Letters

Windows Vista: One Expensive Operating System

Standards, not standardization

Microsoft does not innovate
(with examples and links to computer history sites)

UMass should keep its Macs