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IDEA Award Winners 2009

IDEA award winners represent applied advanced networking at its best. The winning submissions for 2009 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.

The award recipients for 2009 are:

Winner: Enabling Virtual Organizations (EVO)

EVO, developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a videoconferencing and desktop sharing system designed to provide a seamless real-time collaboration platform for bridging remotely located collaborators and resources in support of science and research. Originally designed to meet the unique and demanding needs of the High Energy Physics (HEP) community, EVO is today in wide and continual use by thousands of collaborators in many disciplines, as well as by many groups of educators and students worldwide.

Honorable Mention: The DRAGON (Dynamic Resource Allocation via GMPLS Optical Networks) Project, with development collaborators from Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute (ISI) East, and George Mason University.

Honorable Mention: The Muse project, with development collaborators from MAGPI, MCNC, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Washington.