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IDEA Award Winners 2006

IDEA award winners represent applied advanced networking at its best. The four winning submissions for 2006 were chosen from many distinguished nominations. Award submissions were judged on the depth of their positive impact on their primary users, the technical merit of the application, and the likelihood the application would be broadly adopted by its full natural community of potential users. 

This year's award recipients are applications being used in a wide range of disciplines: from advanced radio astronomy to virtual master music classes, from remote global collaboration to digital archiving.

The Megaconferences and their Spinoffs
Collaborators:

  • Robert Dixon, Ohio State University and OARnet (Nominating award winner)
  • Jennifer Oxenford, Mid-Atlantic Gigapop in Philadelphia for Internet2 (MAGPI) and the University of Pennsylvania

Interactive Music Education
Collaborators:

  • Tom Snook, New World Symphony (Nominating award winner)
  • Thomas Knab, Case Western Reserve University in partnership with the Cleveland Institute of Music
  • Christianne Orto, Manhattan School of Music
  • Brian Shepard, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music

Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype
Collaborators:

  • Robert Chadduck, Electronic Records Archives, National Archives and Records Administration (Nominating award winner)
  • Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  • Joseph JaJa, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Very High Speed Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI)
Collaborators:

  • Alan Whitney, MIT Haystack Observatory
  • Yasuhiro Koyama, NICT
  • Arpad Szomoru, Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry in Europe (JIVE)
  • Hisao Uose, NTT Laboratories GEMnet2/GALAXY Project (Nominating award winner)
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