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2010 BICSI Board of Directors named (Jan 26, 2010)

The 2010 BICSI Board of Directors was introduced at the association's annual business meeting at the BICSI Winter Conference, held last week. Leviton's Brian Hansen begins his two-year term as the new BICSI President.

BICSI crowns third annual Installer of the Year (Jan 26, 2010)

For the third consecutive year, Vision Technologies' Jessie Spearman takes home the top honor and a $5K check.

Legrand-Ortronics' Brian Ensign elected to BICSI board of directors (Jan 14, 2010)

Legrand-Ortronics announced that Brian Ensign, RCDD, NTS, OSP, CSI, was re-elected by the BICSI membership as Northeast Regional Director and to serve a second term (2010 - 2011) on the BICSI board of directors.

BICSI seeking Installer of the Year (Oct 26, 2009)

The annual competition will be held during the association's Winter Conference, January 17-20, 2010.

BICSI elects new officers, including future president (Oct 16, 2009)

Jerry Bowman, a board member for four years, will become the association's president-elect in January.

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BICSI releases 12th edition of TDMM (Sep 23, 2009)
The latest edition includes new information on data centers, network security, and network design. It remains the basis for the RCDD exam, and now for the RITP exam as well.
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Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent
by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

Copper connectors putting Large Hadron Collider out of commission

Are you familiar with the Large Hadron Collider? I knew nothing about it until I read Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Then it started popping up in the news all the time, so it seemed. The LHC -- I don't know if that's its real abbreviation or not -- is a...

You aren't planning to abandon that cable, are you Uncle Sam?

Government Computer News (GCN) is reporting that cabling-integration firm Automated Systems Design (ASD) was contracted to install the cabling for some 500 temporary offices for the Census Bureau as that government entity ramped up for its data-collection...

TIA TR-42 subcommittee elections bring new names to the fore

While posting to our Web site the news about the recent election of new chairs and vice-chairs for TR-42 and several of its subcommittees, I was reminded of a conversation I had several years ago with an executive of the training organization BICSI.It was...

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