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	TRAVEL TO ROME Rome (Italian: Roma, Latin: Roma), capital of the world (Caput Mundi), the Eternal City (la Cittą Eterna), the city of the seven hills (la cittą dei sette colli) or simply the City (l'Urbe): enough reasons to visit and get impressed by the many, many historical sights. Smell ancient Rome in the middle of this cosmopolitan-crazy Italian capital. Rome is the country's largest and most populous city, with over 4 million residents! The old 'capital of the world' is thoroughly modern and cosmopolitan. As one of the few major European cities that escaped World War II relatively unscathed, central Rome remains essentially Renaissance and Baroque in character. The Historic Centre of Rome is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. For centuries, Rome has been the center of Western civilization, and is the seat of the Catholic Church. The State of the Vatican City, the sovereign territory of the Holy Sea is an enclave of Rome. Situated on the River Tiber, between the Apennine Mountains and the Tyrrhenian Sea, the "Eternal City" was once the administrative center of the mighty Roman Empire, governing a vast region that stretched all the way from Britain to Mesopotamia. Today, Rome is modern and cosmopolitan. It is the third most-visited tourist destination in Europe and a city of both cultural and political importance. Its international airport at Fiumicino is the largest in Italy; it hosts the head offices of the vast majority of the major Italian companies, as well as the headquarters of three of the world's 100 largest companies (Enel, ENI, Telecom Italia). For more travel suggestions, please visit www.toptenvacationspots.net. NETWORKING Networking is a Department under the School of Computer Science. Courses focus on the interconnection of computing systems to share resources, and ultimately should provide an ever-increasing level of complexity in subject material, much as advancing classes in a traditional university do. Networking is the practice of enabling and harnessing the transmission of data from one computer system to another. A crude analogy of a data network is pictured at right: two tin cans connected by a simple string. Note that what this basic analogy suggests holds true for actual implementations of data networks: The network exists merely as a medium for communications of some kind, across it A protocol of some form is needed to initiate and carry on conversations (this is not intrinsic to the network itself) The same protocol (a spoken language) can also be used with different media for the same purpose; different networks have different advantages and uses A network may require one engineer to design it, another engineer to build it, and another engineer entirely to administer it. The skills needed for each stage in the process are related but not necessarily dependent; hence, Networking is interdisciplinary. The distinction between Networking and Computer Science in general is difficult to precisely define; it is better perhaps to consider that Networking grew out of Computer Science, because of a need to extend the existing capabilities of a computer (which includes data transmission) across large distances and with other unlike systems. However, an extensive background in Computer Science is not necessary to study or even practice Networking. A Network Engineer is a qualified individual who works with networks of some form, but the scope of that work and the skills required may be as diverse - even from one job to the next - as those of any scientist. Networking is the practice of enabling and harnessing the transmission of data from one computer system to another, and can be divided into three categories: Connectivity Concepts - The principles and methods devices use to communicate over a network Mediums - The actual, physical method used to communicate. Administration - The process of maintaining a network.