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| Internet2 is soliciting advanced networking applications demonstrations for the Fall 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel in Chicago, Illinois on 4-7 December, 2006. Internet2 university members, corporate members, association members, affiliate members, association members, working groups, and international partners are all invited to participate in the demos. Applications from all disciplines are welcome. The primary objective is that we showcase network-intensive applications that demonstrate the reality and the potential of Internet2 environments. We're also interested in selecting several demos that can be presented during Member Meeting track sessions. Internet2 would like to feature demos that showcase how advanced networking is enabling the research and education community to find new methods of scientific communication, collaboration, and visualization--often in partnership between U.S. researchers, faculty, students and their overseas counterparts. Applications from all disciplines are welcome. The primary objective is that we showcase network-intensive applications that demonstrate the reality and the potential of Internet2 environments. Demos that illustrate how Internet2 can facilitate technology transfer from the lab to the marketplace are also welcome. To get an idea of the types of demos were featured at past events, refer to our demo archive. If you’re interested in demonstrating, please review the demonstration criteria and complete the demo submission form by Thursday, August 31. We may approve the demos as they are submitted, so earlier submissions are preferred. |
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| The first annual TeraGrid conference--TeraGrid '06, Advancing Scientific Discovery--will be held on 12-15 June. The conference will be jointly hosted by Internet2 members Indiana University and the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) of Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana. The meeting will provide a forum for existing and new technology partners, users, and educators. TeraGrid '06 is a forum for individuals and institutions who are interested in building and using cyberinfrastructure. Presentations, demonstrations, poster sessions, and birds-of-a feather sessions will address the development of new grid computing capabilities and the application of TeraGrid to research and education. National Science Foundation Director Dr. Arden Bement, the conference keynote speaker, will speak about the need for deeper and broader collaborations among disciplines, researchers, sectors, and organizations in order to keep pace with global technological change. Office of Cyberinfrastructure Director (Designate) Dr. Daniel Atkins, Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, and Professor Donna Cox, director of Visualization and Experimental Technologies at NCSA, are invited speakers. The TeraGrid project is coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the Resource Provider sites: Indiana University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. The TeraGrid project is funded by the National Science Foundation. |
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| Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a hands-on audio/video production workshop on 30 January--1 February 2006 on the campus of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. The workshop will emphasize real-time experience connecting with remote sites over Internet2 advanced networks, setting up incoming and outgoing audio, creating a multi-camera shoot, placing lights and projectors and operating codecs. This year's workshop will include demonstrations of state of the art codecs for producing events, will explore in depth the elements needed to do everything from simple one-on-one interactions to larger scale stage productions, and will highlight the latest network testing tools developed by Internet2. The workshop is designed for an audience of technologists responsible for setting up distance learning and remote interactive media events. Administrators, deans, CIOs, network and audio engineers, and other hands-on technicians are also invited to attend. Check the workshop page regularly for updated program details.
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Everyone in the world is invited to experience Megaconference VII on December 1, 2005. From the comfort of your own office, classroom, or conference room, you can tour a Christmas Market in Switzerland, look through a telescope in Australia, or hobnob with scientists in Egypt. This year's theme—Increasing Empathy Through Video Conferencing—focuses on improving understanding between individuals and cultures using videoconferencing tools. Presenters and audience members will gather from around the world using advanced networks and H.323 or SIP videoconferencing technology to discuss current projects and developments in order to further the use of videoconferencing in education and research.
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| The Arts Technology Group at NYU has been an advocate and technical integrator for Internet2 applications in the arts since the inception of Internet2. Highlights have included the first Internet2 distributed musical "The Technophobe and The Madman," international collaboration in educational theater, a series of dance/video art/music performances with UC Irvine including "Songs of Sorrow, Songs of Hope" in response to the events of 9/11, and some of the first uses of Internet2 for performance art. "Trespassing Boundaries" is a collaborative performance that will be take place simultaneously in New York and in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2005, with Internet2 technology serving as a site-less location in which artists from different locations and cultural backgrounds can collaborate and exchange their various cultural histories, memories and gestures of renewal. This performance, part of Barbara Rose-Haum's "Torn Texts" series, originates in the two biblical portions that are read during the week of November 10 (Kristallnacht). Relying on the story of the tower of Babylon and the conflict between Sarah and Hagar, Trespassing Boundaries aims to recode and re-perform their mythical, and therefore limiting, systems of signification. On a set that resembles a deserted archaeological site of Jerusalem, the performance deals with concepts of longing for and destroying a home, construction and loss of national and personal identities, language as a barrier, holy texts as markers of sameness and difference, the relations between gendered territory and conquering the land, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Click here to watch during the live broadcast on 10 November 2005, 12:30-2:00 pm EST (UTC -4). |
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| The University of New Hampshire will host an Internet2 Day on 3 November 2005. Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Granite State Distance Learning Network, this full-day program will include demonstrations, examples and presentations intended to demystify access to Internet2 and help stimulate new use. The event will feature opening remarks by Dr Lyonel B. Tracy, Commissioner, Department of Education, and a letter from New Hampshire Governor John Lynch. Internet2 Arts and Humanities program manager Ann Doyle will provide an overview of Internet2 initiatives and applications, and James Werle of Internet2's K20 Initiative will speak about the uses of Internet2 in the K-12 community. Internet2 Day attendees will have the opportunity to explore the wealth of learning experiences available through innovative applications that include interactive videoconferencing, remote instrumentation, and shared work environments—including a virtual trip to the Cincinnati Zoo. |
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| The Department of Dance at Florida State University joins forces with local, national, and international artists to present the world premiere of Aqueous Myth: Tales of a Water Planet, a full evening of modern dance performed in a media-enhanced environment of projected video and surround sound. A work in the planning for a number of years, Director of Aqueous Myth and FSU Assistant Professor of Dance, Tim Glenn, has at last realized his vision, that of creating an evening-length "techno ballet," complete with eight pre-edited video projection sources and two real-time videographers on stage. The production stylistically borrows from the film genre, blurring the boundaries of cinema and concert dance, and results in a sophisticated new work of multimedia dance theater. Twenty-seven consecutive vignettes, including 18 dances, have been combined to create a seamless experience drenched in water-related imagery. Joining Glenn in the production of Aqueous Myth is a long list of contributing artists, designers, and technologists. Wayne State University dance faculty Kelly Gottesman will continue his on-going collaboration with Glenn on projection technologies. During the program, Gottesman will share his expertise in telematic performance. Aqueous Myth will be broadcast live on Internet2 advanced networks. |
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| The world's first Gigaconference videoconferencing event was held 9 August 2005 showcasing the use of high-end, high-performance videoconferencing equipment. The Internet2 Commons and Codian Corp. sponsored the event. Some presentations from the more than 20 sites from around the world included: "Classical Music and the IP Prince" by the Cleveland Institute of Music: "Telemedicine via Live High-Performance Video" from Helsinki, FN; "Live from the Distance Teaching and Learning Conference", in Madison, WI; and "The Ohio State University Marching Band." Dr. Bob Dixon, Chief Research Engineer, Ohio State University (OSU) and OARnet, Gigaconference co-organizer, and one of the world's foremost videoconferencing experts, said the idea for this event was born out of a desire to test the limits of new videoconferencing equipment in a multi-vendor environment. OSU collaborates with the Ohio Supercomputer Center to house and maintain the Commons for the Internet2 community. Gigaconference was the first videoconferencing event to be held completely at speeds above 1 Megabit/s across a bridge that could have included as many as 40 locations. Codian provided technical support for the Codian MCU, resolving compatibility issues encountered at various endpoint types. Polycom and Sony participated in the event providing technology and assistance. Highlights from the event will be shown at the Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting in Philadelphia, 19-22 September 2005. |
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| The Access Grid will make its debut at the SIGGRAPH 2005 conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, as one of 32 interactive installations in the Emerging Technologies venue. The Access Grid (AG) is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments. This emerging, scalable teleconferencing technology enables interaction between individual desktops, 3,000-person theaters, and everything in between. The Access Grid program at SIGGRAPH will focus on the arts, and feature sessions including a dance performance distributed among five continents, demonstrations of Virtual Reality over the AG, and panels on consciousness and connectivity. Internet2 member organizations that are participating in Emerging Technologies venue include Boston University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Purdue University, University of Florida, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Donna Cox, of UIUC and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, served as chair for the SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies Committee. Jennifer Teig von Hoffman, of Boston University, and Jeff Carpenter, of NCSA, served as co-chairs for the Access Grid subcommittee. Significant equipment and software was contributed by Internet2 corporate sponsor inSORS Integrated Communications. "We see this as a great opportunity to enable knowledge creation and learning in this unique and collaborative environment," said James L. Mohler, SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference Chair from Purdue University. "Since SIGGRAPH is the place where barriers are broken, it is especially significant that this will be the first time in history that the Access Grid will host a performance with artists working together on the same piece from five different continents." George Lucas, storyteller, director, producer, and visionary will present the keynote address at SIGGRAPH, which takes place 31 July through 4 August 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Live MPEG-2 and Windows Media video streams will be provided by the Internet2 Commons. The MPEG-2 stream will be driven by new Internet2 corporate member HaiVision Systems recently released hai210 encoders and decoders. Click here for schedule of the events available in MPEG-2 and Windows Media. A subset of these events will also be available at select AG locations. |
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| No, its not a city where people once lived with glamorous ruins creating a backdrop to a former civilization. This city has more in common with life on Mars. The area was discovered in 2000 when scientists using underwater cameras came across strange 90 to 200 foot white towers west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Identified as a completely new kind of underwater hot spring environment, it was named the Lost City Hydrothermal field. 2100 feet below the oceans surface, an extreme environment created by heat, pressure and toxic chemicals surrounds the vents. It provides conditions for life forms that have learned to thrive in ways that may yield new insights into how life evolved on our planet and might survive under the surface of Mars. Dr. Deb Kelley, University of Washington, joins Dr. Bob Ballard, University of Rhode Island as Co-Chief Scientists on this expedition that will collect geologic and biologic data, and provide live educational programming to museums, aquariums and Boys and Girls Clubs nationwide. Live TV-quality video from the expedition will be multicast over Internet2 networks. Captured by deep-sea remote operated vehicles (ROVs) launched from the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, the shipboard control system enables direct broadcast through a satellite telecommunications system to workstations across the country. Equipped with Iinternet2 technology, participating sites will be able to experience the exploration as it happens. Produced shows will take place each day from July 23 through August 1 at 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm U.S. Eastern Time. |
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| Photo courtesy of Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis broadcast its 144th commencement live on 20 May 2005 using multicast over Internet2 advanced networks. In 2004, Washington University provided a live multicast stream as an experiment. The "experiment" was successful enough that the Network Technology Services staff offered a live multicast again for spring 2005 and promoted it as an alternative viewing option for commencement attendees. According to Steven Wiese, Director of Systems and Operations at Network Technology Services for Washington University in St. Louis. "We wanted to provide the friends and family of our graduates the opportunity to view a high-quality stream of the commencement activities. The multicast technology and Internet2 allowed us to do this." And, echoing the apprehensions of all campus event planners, Wiese continued, "We also needed to be able to provide a stream that would provide a high resolution image to our remote viewing areas on campus in the event of bad weather. Luckily, we experienced sunny skies; but we were ready just in case." Former U.S. Representative Richard A. Gephardt delivered the spring 2005 commencement address. Washington University in St. Louis, an Internet2 member since 1998, is a medium-sized, independent university with 6,509 undergraduates and 5,579 graduate and professional students, as well as 1,384 part-time students. Twenty-two Nobel laureates have been associated with Washington University, with nine doing the major portion of their pioneering research there. Washington University offers more than 90 programs and nearly 1,500 courses in a broad spectrum of traditional and interdisciplinary majors. |
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| The 2005 GARR conference in Pisa, Italy—hosted by Garr, the Italian Academic and Research Network—invited members of the Internet2 Arts and Humanities community to help stretch the boundries of technology-enabled, simultaneous, remote learning and teaching. Hosted in Pisa from 10-13 May 2005, the conference was attended by 300 network specialists from the all over Europe who came to report on national and international research and achievements, and to explore the possibilities a ubiquitous network can bring to research, learning, and culture. Working with the hosts at GARR, the team created virtual studio space for viola maestro, Hillary Herndon, at the New World Symphony, and viola student, Anna Simeone, from the Conservatory of Music in Pisa to meet for a class. Bridging languages through translators and distance through technology, the broadcast was the first of its kind between Europe and the US. Two laptop computers were used: one receiving the 30 Mbps NTSC signal from Miami and converting it to PAL, the other sending the outgoing PAL signal to Miami at 30 Mbps where it was decoded running DVTS software resulting in an aggregate bandwidth of 60 Mbps. In addition to the conference attendees on site, 170 viewers attended by netcast. Among the enthused attendees was the Principal of the Trieste Conservatoria who referred to the demonstration as "the most astonishing experience he had ever had" and proposed several future applications for his students. While both geographic and language barriers were being erased, the enabling technology ultimately dropped away to reveal... a student, a teacher, and the intricacies of a music lesson. Internet2 would like to thank the following participants for their assistance in this demonstration, Claudio Allocchio, GARR; Stefano Zani, INFN Multimedia Group/GARR Netcast; Fabio Bisi, INFN Multimedia Group/GARR Netcast; Roberto Giacomelli, INFN Multimedia Group/GARR Netcast; Tom Snook, New World Symphony; Andrew Hollis, New World Symphony and Phil Ribeiro, New World Symphony. |
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| Megaconference Jr. is the world's first all virtual K-12 videoconference event over Internet2 and other advanced networks around the world. The Internet2 Commons H.323 Videoconferencing Service provides the high capacity multipoint videoconferencing technology that makes this event possible. Now in its second year, Megaconference Jr. gives students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and participate in each other's learning, using real-time, advanced multi-point videoconferencing technology. Presenters will conduct learning activities that take advantage of geographical and cultural diversities to build international awareness. Students, teachers and staff will be able to address questions and collaborate with geographically distant peers. The 12-hour duration will make it possible for schools from many time zones to participate during their regular school hours. Megaconference Jr. takes place on 19 May 2005 and runs from 7:00 am until 7:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). This year there are over 190 registered schools with many schools bridging multiple sites from their locations. According to Jennifer MacDougall, Applications Coordinator at the MAGPI GigaPoP and a Megaconference Jr. organizer, "Last year we saw the power of how the Megaconference Jr. event can impact student learning and dramatically increase student engagement with other peoples and cultures using Internet2 and advanced networking technologies. We've already seen huge success in our goal of increasing opportunities for international collaborations using these technologies. Putting the process and the technology in the hands of the students and teachers is the key to empowering learning through engagement and improving our understanding of each other." |
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| The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is hosting an Internet2 Day on 22 April 2005. This daylong event will showcase the advanced networking capabilities of Internet2 and highlight ways it is being used by higher-ed institutions across the US. The program will open with introductions by Dr. Donald Sebastian, Senior Vice President for Research and Development at NJIT, and David Ullman, Associate Provost and CIO at NJIT. A keynote presentation by Charles Yun, Internet2 Program Manager for Science and Engineering, will highlight Internet2 advanced applications activities in the science and engineering discipline areas. Jennifer MacDougall, University of Pennsylvania and Applications Coordinator for MAGPI, will provide perspectives on developing a regional research and education community on Internet2. MAGPI is the gigaPoP for NJIT and other research and education institutions in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. NJIT connects to MAGPI, which operates an OC-12 connection (622 Mbps) to the Abilene Network, via NJEDge.net (New Jersey's Higher Education Network). The Internet2 Day will continue with a panel of NJIT faculty who will discuss research opportunities using Internet2. A series of small group discussions will allow attendees to learn more about applications of Internet2 in the sciences and engineering, the NJIT Access Grid, the Internet2 Commons, the Internet2 K20 Initiative, and other topics. According to Ullman, "NJIT has an active research program in many areas including, engineering, mathematics, the applied sciences, technology, and computer-mediated communications. Our Internet2 Day is aimed at increasing awareness of the capabilities and possibilities that Internet2 brings to the campus and our research agenda. We feel the activities of the Internet2 Day will provide a springboard for new research initiatives not only among our research community, but for our visitors from neighboring academic and research institutions. Internet2 is a major evolution in the way people communicate, collaborate and exchange information. It will have profound effects on teaching, learning, and research." |
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| The University of Notre Dame Office of Information Technologies (OIT) will host an Internet2 Day on 6 April 2005. Notre Dame CIO Gordon Wishon will welcome attendees and provide opening remarks, followed by presentations by Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager for Arts & Humanities Initiatives and Charles Yun, Internet2 Program Manager for Science & Engineering Initiatives. The Internet2 Day program will also feature demonstrations and presentations by Notre Dame faculty, including a professor using Internet2 advanced networks to conduct a cross-cultural class in two languages, in real time and on two continents. There also will be a demonstration of a scanning electron microscope located at the University of Michigan operated via remote control over Internet2. Finally, attendees will be treated to a dual live musical performance coordinated over Internet2 between musicians at Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University. "The event is designed to be both an enjoyable and functional demonstration of how educators, including those at Notre Dame, are using the technologies made possible by Internet2," says Kevin Abbott, an educational technology specialist in the OIT Educational Technologies and Services division, who organized the event. Internet2 related activities continue on 7 April, when Doyle and Yun offer private consultations to Notre Dame faculty and staff on the use of Internet2 resources in classrooms and other learning environments. |
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| Megaconference Jr., now in its second year, is a project designed to give students in elementary and secondary schools around the world the opportunity to communicate, collaborate and contribute to each other's learning in real time, using advanced multi-point videoconferencing technology. Presenters will design and conduct videoconference-based presentations and activities focused on both academic and cultural issues. Participants will be able to address questions to presenters and to collaborate with geographically diverse peers in collaborative learning activities, thus building international cultural awareness. Megaconference Jr. takes place on 19 May 2005 and runs from 7:00 am until 7:00 pm EDT (UTC-4). The 12-hour duration will make it possible for schools from many time zones to participate during their regular school hours. Students, teachers, content providers and technical staff members are all encouraged to participate—by either preparing 15 min presentation about an interesting project at your school, suggesting activities that could be organized between presentations, or you can join us as participants, with no special presentation given from your side. Presenter proposals are due by 18 March and registration closes on 15 April. |
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| What do schoolchildren in Berrien County, Michigan and scientists at the Supercomputing and Networking Center in Poznan, Poland have in common? They'll all be participating in the Megaconference worldwide videoconferencing event on 9 December 2004 (8:00 am to midnight EST, UTC -5). Participants from around the globe will join this interactive conference via videoconference over advanced networks, which will be streamed live for viewing by anyone with an Internet connection. Now in its sixth year, the Megaconference has been a hallmark event for learning about cutting-edge uses of videoconferencing. This year's program focuses on the theme "Let's Talk: Global Communications, Innovation, and Participatory Videoconferencing." Megaconference also pushes the state of the art in videoconferencing, allowing both H.323 and SIP software participants for the first time, with more than 300 sites and an estimated audience of more than 3,000 people worldwide, not counting those who watch the simulcast streams. |
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| The National Library of Medicine (NLM), Internet2, and the Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN) are collaborating to present a series of tutorials and demonstrations of advanced networking technology and its future application in the healthcare arena. The tutorials and demos—taking place at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Chicago on November 28 to December 3—will provide attendees with interactive access to these advanced technologies, while highlighting their relevance to the practice of medicine. The Internet2/NLM tutorials and demos will be part of the infoRAD exhibit space at RSNA. The infoRAD area is designed to showcase the most innovative technology solutions in an interactive, educational environment. MREN provides the high-speed link from McCormick Place to Internet2's Abilene Network, allowing radiologists and researchers to get hands-on experience with high-performance networking applications that show promise for the future of medical education and practice. McCormick Place is the first convention facility to have permanent Internet2 capabilities. |
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| The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN), is an National Institutes of Health information technology initiative that fosters distributed collaborations in biomedical science. Currently, this growing consortium includes multiple research sites from 14 universities and hospitals interconnected via Internet2's Abilene Network. BIRN participants are engaging in three testbed projects centered on neuroimaging studies of human neuropsychiatric illness and associated animal models. The Brain Morphometry BIRN testbed focuses on correlating structural brain differences to neuropsychiatric disorders, starting with studies of Alzheimer's Disease and depression. As part of the NLM/Internet2 Tutorials at RSNA2004, BIRN collaborators will demonstrate three focused applications that highlight the use of high-performance network infrastructure to advance science within the Morphometry BIRN: 1) The Alzheimer's Project demonstrates how the BIRN infrastructure can be used for mining multi-site clinical MRI studies with a preliminary study of Alzheimer's disease, while integrating legacy data from several clinical research studies. 2) The Multi-site Imaging Research in the Analysis of Depression (MIRIAD) project integrates advanced brain morphometry tools from multiple sites to analyze MRI structural data from one site and measure volume changes in cortical and subcortical gray matter, that correlate with various clinical measures in depression and age-matched controls. 3) The Semi-Automated Shape Analysis project (SASHA) is developing a seamless and robust processing pipeline among multiple institutional sites that segments sub cortical structures from structural MRI data, computes the geodesics in the space of infinite dimensional diffeomorphisms, visualizes results and enables statistical analyses of the results. |
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| The University of Arizona will host an Internet2 Day on 4 November 2004. The event will feature opening remarks by University of Arizona President Peter Likins followed by an Internet2 overview by Doug Van Houweling, Internet2 President and CEO. The agenda will include presentations by national and local experts on Internet2 applications in the areas of arts, sciences, humanities, and engineering. Among the presenters will be Mark Ellisman, Director of the Biomedical Informatics Research Network. Internet2 Day attendees will have the opportunity to discuss videoconferencing, health sciences/bioinformatics, grid computing, and educational/instructional applications will occur during breakout sessions. |
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| Interested in China and understanding more about advanced networking directions, new networking technologies, applications and e-Science projects there? The CANS2004 (Chinese-American Networking Symposium) conference includes presentations by networking experts from both countries, presentations by researchers currently using advanced network technologies to collaborate between China and the US and panel discussions about future collaborative areas in next generation networking. This annual conference, alternately held in the US and China, will be hosted by Florida International University and takes place in Miami, FL from November 30 - December 2, 2004. CANS2004 will feature presentations by networking experts, researchers and faculty currently using advanced network technologies to collaborate between China and the US, and panel discussions about future collaborative areas in next generation networking. Attendees include government officials from the science, technology, and education areas; network operators and managers from the research and education networking community; e-Science researchers from both communities; and representatives from networking and technology industries. Simultaneous Chinese/English translation will be provided.
Confirmed speakers include: The Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST-USA), Internet2, the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), and China Science and Technology Network (CSTNET) are co-organizers of the event. The 2004 conference marks the fifth annual gathering of CANS and builds on successful past conferences organized and hosted by the University of Maryland in 1999 and 2001 and CERNET and CSTNET in Shanghai in 2002. The deadline for early registration is October 30 and the hotel block cut-off date is November 9 so make your plans now!
Register today at: http://www.canscouncil.org/cans/2004/index.html
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| Internet2, and several collaborators, will host a transatlantic poetry reading on Thursday, 14 October 2004 at 2:00 pm EDT (GMT 19:00) honoring Allen Ginsberg and the 50th anniversary of his epic poem, HOWL. Poets will perform Transatlantic Howl! A Dedication to Allen Ginsberg at venues in London, Paris, and across the United States in celebration of Ginsberg, the renowned poet and champion of human rights. Using the advanced videoconferencing capabilities provided by the Internet2 Commons—this live, interactive event will be simultaneously streamed across UK's JANET network, France's Renater, and Internet2's Abilene Network to audiences at each site. It will also be netcast to an Internet-wide audience for viewing with QuickTime or Windows Media Player. Featured readers include Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Anne Carson, Ed Sanders, Alice Notley, The Allen Ginsberg Greek Chorus, and many more. Anne Waldman, of Naropa University, and Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager for Arts and Humanities Initiatives, will serve as MCs for this event. Doyle explains, "Transatlantic Howl! will demonstrate how advanced networking technologies can enable the poetry community to interact in real-time. The event also demonstrates how high-speed networks can be used to multicast live events—whether they are arts performances, teaching sessions, or even medical procedures—over vast distances to enable collaboration among separate organizations." As far as the literary importance of HOWL, Anne Waldman explains, "Like any good work, it can speak different things at different times and be relevant. It still has a vitality that is best felt by being vocalized. It still hasn't been buried as a footnote." |
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| On 28 September, Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting attendees will be treated to a performance event on The University of Texas at Austin campus. This event, The Miró Quartet: Live & Virtual, will feature the world-renowned Miró Quartet and showcase the use of cutting-edge networking and streaming technologies. The Miró Quartet was appointed Faculty String Quartet at UT Austin in September 2003, where they teach and coach chamber music at the College of Fine Arts in addition to continuing their active international touring schedule. The Miró Quartet: Live & Virtual will take place in two venues: one where the audience will see and hear the quartet in person and another where the audience will see it via live, streaming High Definition Television (HDTV) and hear it through 11-channel, immersive surround-sound—using technology developed by the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering.
During intermission, the audiences will switch venues giving each a chance to experience both
versions of the performance. Robert Freeman, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, explains, "The
University soon will renovate the largest performing arts venue in the city, rendering it
unavailable for two presenting seasons. This performance event prototypes the delivery of a
concert in two smaller auditoriums, one featuring live performers, the other featuring the
performance streamed live to an immersive audio/video environment." Dan Updegrove, Vice
President for Information Technology, continues, "This will be the"first audience to
experience this, and we are eager to have their feedback. Audience members will be asked to
provide their reactions to the remote vs. the live auditorium environments by completing a
survey designed by researchers from the University of Southern California Institutes for
Social Research and from UT Austin." Updegrove adds, "UT Austin is delighted to host this
cutting edge advanced networking application, research project—and fine performance."
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| Ten Internet2 corporate members will participate in the Corporate Perspectives Forum at the Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting. The forum showcases corporate member engagement in the Internet2 community. Members will present strategic talks, tutorials, case studies, and technical product information on a wide range of topics. Questions and comments from the audience are encouraged during all sessions. Partcipants include Apparent Networks, CIENA, Meriton Networks, Polycom, RADVISION, Sun Microsystems, VBrick Systems, VCON, Tandberg, and YottaYotta. Corporate Perspectives Forum sessions are open to all Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting attendees. |
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| At the Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting, diver Ernie Kovacs will join a session from 60 feet below the surface of the water of Monterey Bay. Session participants in Austin will ask Ernie questions via VoIP while at the same time interactively piloting and receiving TV-quality video from a camera-equipped remotely operated submersible. This ongoing project, made possible through funding from NOAA and with support from the Connecticut Education Network, the University of Connecticut, and the Mystic Aquarium, allows remote viewing and interaction with the wonders of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary for the purposes of research and educational outreach. |
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| Internet2 Days are events hosted by members that generate interest in, and raise awareness of, advanced network applications and activities. A typical Internet2 Day features presentations from faculty, IT-support staff, and administrators, as well as Internet2 staff. Internet2 Days may also feature live demonstrations of advanced networking in action. Internet2 provides equipment, literature, and expertise to support the host member. More than a dozen members hosted Internet2 Days last year. |
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| Register today for the Fall 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting, to be held September 27-30. The general schedule is also online. Watch the Internet2 web site for announcements of future plans for the Meeting. |
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| Register today for the ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshops hosted by the Ohio Valley Internet2 Consortium to be held July 18-21 (with continuing meetings running through July 23). This national conference of networking engineers features presentations, Birds-Of-a-Feather meetings and demonstrations of state-of-the-art high-performance networking technologies at the Fawcett Center of Ohio State University in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Early registration ends Friday, June 25th. |
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| The Internet2 SIP.edu project is promoting the convergence of voice and email identities, is growing SIP-reachability within Internet2, and is building a community of Internet2 schools that are developing and deploying campus SIP services. In one year, the project has extended SIP reachability to nearly 100,000 users at four universities, attracted corporate sponsorship, and published a "cookbook" to lower the implementation hurdle for others. The goals for the First SIP.edu Implementors workshop, scheduled for 16 June, are to build a knowledge base for organizations interested in deploying SIP.edu; investigate areas that the SIP.edu community should pursue in order to leverage SIP as a core technology for new communications services and collaboration applications; expand the leadership group for SIP.edu; and chart a course for scaling up SIP service deployment. The workshop will be hosted by University of Pennsylvania, with generous support from Internet2 corporate member Comcast. |
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| The Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group is engaged in a series of trials to demonstrate integrated voice, video, instant messaging and voice conferencing services over WiFi wireless networking in the context of
rich presence. These trials enable participants to see not only whether other users are online or offline, but also to determine their locations
and communication capabilities. At a related VoIP Working Group workshop at the University of Pennsylvania, participants will focus on a building block of the PIC WG's work: campus SIP deployment within Internet2. |
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| Several Internet2 members are collaborating to bring Bob Ballard's historic return to the Titanic live to classrooms worldwide. Ballard and scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Mystic Aquarium & Institutes for Exploration will spend 11 days (May 30 - June 9) at the site mapping the ship and conducting scientific analyses. A satellite system on the research vessel will send a real-time stream to VBrick Systems where it will be streamed live over the Abilene Network to schools across the country, including the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, where Ballard serves as professor of oceanography and director of its Institute for Archaeological Oceanography. more... |
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Internet2/New
World Symphony Performance and Master Class Production Workshop—January
14-15 in Miami Beach, FL—will provide attendees with an
in-depth look at the elements needed to do everything from simple
one-on-one interactions to large-scale stage productions via
Internet2 advanced networks. Participants in this hands-on audio/video
production workshop will learn how to connect in real-time with
remote sites, set up live collaborations involving incoming
and outgoing video/audio, handle a multi-camera shoot, place
lighting and projectors, and troubleshoot and operate codecs.
The New World Symphony’s Lincoln Theater is a state-of-the-art
facility that has a control booth with robotically-controlled
cameras, codecs, and other production equipment all in one place.
The workshop will begin with a series of overview presentations,
after which participants will break into small groups for tours
of the control booth followed by hands-on mini-workshops for
lighting, videostreaming, and audio techniques. During the lighting
session, Clyde Scott, Video Production Manager at New World
Symphony, will demonstrate the do’s and don’ts of
effective lighting for video transmission by showing participants
how to place lights around a subject. Jonathan Tyman, Internet2
Manager for Digital Video, will assist remotely from the Internet2
office in Ann Arbor, MI, providing critiques of the workshop
participants’ lighting techniques. A mini-workshop on
video streaming will feature a side-by-side comparison of several
codec models. Columbia University will serve as the remote site
workshop participants will connect to using the various codecs,
with Alan Crosswell, Director for Networks and Computing Systems
at Columbia, providing support remotely. An audio mini-workshop
will be hosted by Brian Shepard, Coordinator of Music
Technology Programs at the University of Oklahoma School
of Music. Dr. Shepard—a pioneer in the use of Internet2
to conduct master classes and performances with remote collaborators—will
guide workshop participants through microphone selection, microphone
placement, and other audio techniques. On the second day of
the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to pull
together all these elements—lighting, audio, and codecs—and
set up their own simulated live event. According to Shepard,
“The explosion of artistic and performance collaborations
that are possible as a result of Internet2 advanced networks
has created a huge need for people skilled in the creative uses
of audio and video as well as networking technologies. By bringing
together audio and video specialists as well as network engineers,
this workshop goes a long way towards filling that need.” |
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| The Spring 2004 Internet2 Member Meeting took place in Arlington, Virginia. Netcast information, and a complete program are available. |
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| Marquette University in Milwaukee became an Internet2 member this year, joining 205 other universities, as well as corporate and affiliate members. Marquette has identified three projects that will make immediate use of a high-performance network connection made possible by a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The Chemical
Proteomics Facility at Marquette (CPFM) will provide operational control
of a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer working in conjunction with
University of Wisconsin. A learning project for the Marquette School of Dentistry will provide Marquette-based centralized application hosting and storage for 34 Internet2 members. Lastly, research within the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical
Instrumentation will benefit from enhanced real-time collaboration
between teams of researchers at the University of California, Berkley and Marquette. |
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| The Internet2 Presence and Integrated Communications (PIC) Working Group succeeded in an experimental communications trial at the just completed JointTechs meeting. The trial demonstrated SIP-based (Session Initiation Protocol) voice, video, instant messaging and voice conferencing services over an 802.11 wireless network in the context of rich presence derived from conference calendaring and HP labs location server. Participants downloaded and installed one of several integrated communications clients onto their laptops and PDAs allowing them to initiate communications to other participants using the receiver's email address as a single, converged electronic identity. With the inclusion of rich presence services, participants were able to see not only whether attendees were online or offline, but their locatiions and communications state as well. |
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| Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a Performance and Master Class Production Workshop, January 14-15. This hands-on audio/video production workshop will be held at the New World Symphony campus in Miami Beach, FL. Workshop participants will learn how to connect in real-time with remote sites, set up live collaborations involving incoming and outgoing video/audio, handle a multi-camera shoot, place lighting and projectors, and troubleshoot and operate codecs. This workshop will explore in depth the elements needed to do everything from simple one-on-one interactions to larger scale stage productions via Internet2 advanced networks. According to Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager for Arts and Humanities, "Internet2 is very grateful that the New World Symphony is hosting this workshop on their campus. This provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to work in their state-of-the-art facility, which has cameras, codecs, and other equipment all in one place." |
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| The Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative Performance Environment System (E2E piPES) was one of the featured demonstrations at the Internet2 booth on the SC2003 show floor. piPES indicates performance capabilities and
locates performance problems along the path between two computers connected by Abilene, participating campuses, regional
networks, and gigaPoPs--significantly improving the likelihood that advanced Internet applications can operate at peak performance. Other featured projects included the University of Tennessee's LoCI project, and PlanetLab. Internet2 provided support for the SC Global event and SCinet, the high-performance network built each year to support the SC conference. In addition, more than 40 other Internet2 members exhibited at SC2003. |
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| EDUCAUSE 2003, held November 4-7 in Anaheim, California, included a presentation by Ken Klingenstein, Director the Internet2 Middleware Initiative and
recipient of the 2003 EDUCAUSE Leadership in Information Technologies Award, a session on the EDUCAUSE/Internet2 Computer & Network Security Task Force, as well as an Internet2
organizational update. |
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| The Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, in Indianapolis, Indiana, was held October 13-16! A full complement of track and non-track sessions, advanced applications demos, poster sessions, a gala event at the Indiana State Museum, and two special lunch meetings--the popular Lunchapalooza and Working Group and SIG Awareness--were featured. VoIP and Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training was offered in conjunction with the Meeting (separate registration required). Archived presentations and video-on-demand is available. |
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| K-20 science and music education collaboration was the focus of the September 25 Internet2 Virtual Briefing, “Adventure and All That Jazz: The JASON Virtual Argonauts Project, Live Jazz, K20, and Internet2.”. Moderated by James Werle, Internet2 and University of Washington, with panelists will include Scott Bryan, St. Clair County (MI) ISD; George Loftus, OSHEAN; and Susan Scott, IHETS. The JASON Virtual Argonauts Project enhances science education by building four-school teams from classrooms distributed across the U.S., and using Jason coordinators to bring in scientists and help teachers meet via videoconferencing. California, Indiana, and Rhode Island, Internet2 Sponsored Education Group Participants (SEGPs), are involved in the project, which has its roots in the JASON Project --an effort to expose students to leading scientists who work with them to explore and examine the earth’s biological and geological development. The Briefing also looked at the K-12 University Musical Collaboration, with Internet2-enabled live concerts involving high school and university musicians. |
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| Internet2 Commons
Site Coordinator Training will be offered on March 26 and 27, in
conjunction with the SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop. Registration for the training is separate from the Workshop. |
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| Missouri Life Sciences Week, March 3-7, will focus on life sciences and biotechnology with the goal of promoting communication and collaboration throughout Missouri's scientific community and beyond. Doug Van Houweling, Internet2 President and CEO, will provide introductory remarks at the opening session. Internet2 will also be netcasting several sessions for general viewing. |
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| “End-to-End Performance Measurement Systems” is the topic for the Internet2 Virtual Briefing on Wednesday, February 19, 1:00 pm- 2:30 pm EST (18.00 - 19.30 UTC). Moderator for the Briefing will be Russ Hobby, who is the chief technical architect of the End-To-End Performance Initiative for Internet2. Stay tuned for more information. |
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| Early registration for the Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting is now available online. Individuals who register by March 14th will be eligible for the Early Registration Prize drawing (The actual prize will be announced at a future date. The last Member Meeting's winner took home a digital camera). The preliminary program will be available the week of February 14. Watch the Internet2 web site for announcements of future plans for the Meeting. |
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| The 2003 Internet2 Virtual Briefings will begin January 15 with a discussion of the technologies used to create the virtual environment for the Performance Event held during the Fall 2002 Member Meeting in Los Angeles. Virtual Performance Events: The Bing Technical Environment is scheduled from 1:00pm-2:30pm EST (UTC-5). Featured speakers are: Christianne Orto and Louis Brown from the Manhattan School of Music, Alan Crosswell from Columbia University, and Bob Riddle and Christian Todorov from Internet2. Ann Doyle, Internet2 Arts and Humanities Initiative manager will moderate.
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| Highlights from the Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting include an exciting music and dance performance event USC´s Bing Theatre and a session on The Mars Exploration Rovers. The opening plenary session will feature a demonstration of “Virtual LA,” a real-time virtual reality model of downtown LA. Attendees will be able to see how this technology can be used as a model for urban planning and emergency response training. |
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| EDUCAUSE and Internet2 have teamed up to netcast the General Sessions and Featured Speakers at the EDUCAUSE 2002 conference. Those who are unable to attend these sessions can still see and hear our dynamic speakers through the EDUCAUSE archives. On October 10th, the Internet2 Virtual Briefing will present "The Development and Future of the IT World: Higher Education's Role", a rebroadcast of Douglas Van Houweling's speech at EDUCAUSE 2002 followed by input from key members of the advanced networking community. |
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| The Smithsonian Institution now has access to the Abilene backbone network. The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum and research complex, with 16 museums and galleries and the National Zoological Park as well as research facilities in eight states and the Republic of Panama. Internet2 allows science centers to explore new technologies
for presenting collections, and provides research and educational activities to the public and to scientific colleagues. Texas A&M University, an Internet2 university member, sponsored the Smithsonian's participation in Abilene. |
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| “New Networks, Old Economy” is the topic of the next Internet2 Virtual Briefing, scheduled for Friday, September 13, 1:00-2:30pm EDT, UTC-4. We will discuss various approaches for building advanced networks in a telecommunications environment that some think is reverting to the models of the "old economy." The speakers will explore the fundamental changes in the telecom industry since the end of the "Internet boom" and consider how the higher education community should respond. Steve Corbató, Internet2 Director of Backbone Network Infrastructure, will serve as moderator. The panelists will include Stephanie Copeland, Qwest; Chris Peabody, Georgetown University; Jeff Crowder, Director, NetworkVirginia, Virginia Tech; and State University and Tom West, CENIC. The Virtual Briefing audience is invited to provide input on how their organizations are responding to the changes in the telecommunications environment. |
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| The Fall 2002 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals for concurrent track sessions and poster sessions for the Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting in Los Angeles, CA and on the campus of the University of Southern California. The Fall 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting will be focused on innovative applications that transform many areas of human endeavor.
More information about focus areas for the meeting and the evaluation criteria can be found in the Call for Proposals. The deadline for completing the proposal submission form is Monday, July 8, 2002.
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| Logistical Networking is a new way of synthesizing networking and storage
to create a communicative infrastructure with data persistence for network
multimedia and distributed applications of all types. At the Spring Member
Meeting, researchers from LoCI Laboratory
at the University of Tennessee, where this work is being pioneered, demonstrated
“Video IBPster,” an application which can deliver video at high performance
over Abilene using technology that is simpler and less expensive to deploy
than current approaches to streaming video. Other applications of Logistical
Networking include managing the transfer of large data sets, reliable multicast,
and state management for Grid applications. The basic components — the
Internet Backplane Protocol (IBP)
, the exNode
and exNode toolset
, and the Logistical Backbone (L-bone)
software — are open source and available for download. More>>> |
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| The 6th Joint Techs Workshop is underway on the University of Toronto campus. This workshop will build upon the five previous NLANR/Internet2 Joint Techs Workshops and is jointly sponsored by NLANR, Internet2, and CANARIE. There will be infrastructure, campus, and Gigapop updates addressing various advanced services (native multicast, QoS, IPv6), as well as case studies. |
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| EDUCAUSE, an international, non-profit organization serving information technology professionals in higher education, has more than 1,750 member institutions. EDUCAUSE has had a close working relationship with Internet2 since its inception. Current collaborative efforts involve middleware and network security. A panel at EDUCAUSE 2000 will cover the latest developments in the Internet2 community, and specific sessions will cover middleware and Internet2 applications. |
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| Over 600 members of the Internet2 community are gathered this week for the Fall 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Highlights of the event include advanced network application demonstrations, a Virtual Halloween performance event and plenary presentations by Bill St. Arnaud of CANARIE, Brian Carpenter of IBM, and Mark Poster of University of California-Irvine. In addition, there are over 35 track sessions in Advanced Applications, Middleware, Network Engineering, and Relationships and Partnerships, along with working group and task force meetings and tutorials. Many of the these events will be netcast. |
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| The University of Oregon is hosting a 2-day Internet2 event on November 13th & 14th. This event will showcase the activities of academic and network professionals in the region. The agenda features discussions on partnerships and demonstrations using Internet2 applications. |
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| The APAN/TransPAC/NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop will be hosted by the University of Hawaii at Honolulu, Hawaii. The workshop will build upon the previous NLANR/Internet2 and CANARIE/NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshops and is jointly sponsored by APAN, TransPAC, NLANR. |
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| ITEC-Ohio (Internet2 Technology Evaluation Center of Ohio) and OARnet are sponsoring Windows On The Future which provides a forum in which academic institutions, research centers, corporate laboratories and government agencies can share knowledge, exchange ideas, and form networking relationships that will collectively benefit Ohio´s higher education and industrial communities. This conference will focus on technology briefings by leading researchers in areas such as Internet engineering, networking, communications, and technology development. Internet2´s Douglas Van Houweling and Steve Corbato will be making presentations at this event. |
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| The Networking 2001 conference will bring together leaders from higher education and federal, regional, and state governments to review and evaluate network policy issues, emerging network applications, and the organizational, institutional, and economic opportunities posed by federal government, public, and private sector network development efforts. Networking 2001 is sponsored by American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC), Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), Computing Research Association (CRA), Corporation for Research and Educational Networking (CREN), EDUCAUSE, and Internet2. |
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| NAB2001 is the world's leading conference and exhibition for the converging electronic media communications industries. Produced annually in April by the National Association of Broadcasters, The NAB Show delivers the most comprehensive showcase of digital communications technologies including every element of television and radio broadcasting, film/video production and post production, audio production, multimedia, the Internet, satellite and telecommunications. Ted Hanss, Director of Applications Development for Internet2, will be presenting Extreme Netcasting: Convergence without Compromise, describing the technology and content involved in next generation netcasting using case studies from many events. |
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| The 8th Joint Techs Workshop will be hosted by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 14-17 May 2001. Since 1998, NLANR and Internet2 have collaborated to bring you Joint Techs Workshops, national meetings of networking engineers featuring presentations, Birds-of-a-feather meetings and demonstrations of state-of-the-art high-performance networking technologies. |
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| Version 1.0 of the Internet2 Online Calendar is now available. The calendar includes both Internet2-sponsored events and other events of interest to the advanced networking community. Anyone can submit items to the calendar administrator for posting. Instructions are available here; please send your comments and questions to calendar@internet2.edu. |
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| This
workshop
will bring together leading lights of the peer-to-peer
(P2P) computing community to discuss uses, problems,
and likely future directions of P2P in research and
education. Ian Foster will share his thoughts on P2P
and the Grid, and Bill St. Arnaud will discuss eScience
[ppt]; participants will also include Andy Oram, editor
of Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive
Technologies; Eytan Adar, co-author of "Free
Riding on Gnutella"; David Molnar of the Free
Haven project; and IPv6 and routing expert Christian
Huitema. |
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| Internet2 would like to welcome you to the Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting (VIMM). You can explore the VIMM starting from the agenda or start at the main entrance and explore each room. For example, click on the Ballroom to see the list of Plenaries or click Advanced Applications to see the list of applications sessions. Exploring the VIMM room by room will also show you the various netcasting and videoconferencing options that are available for each session. You may have the option of watching the VIMM from a Participation Site on your campus. If you are new to netcasting and videoconferencing, check out the VIMM Beginners Guide. We look forward to your participation and hearing your feedback. Enjoy the VIMM! |
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| The
Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting takes place this week in Arlington, Virginia. Highlights include a panel discussion on optical networks and grids at the opening plenary on Tuesday, and a keynote address by Howard Schmidt, Vice Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, at the closing plenary on Wednesday.
Netcast information, a
list of featured demos, and a
complete program are available.
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| The fifth in Internet2's series of monthly Virtual Briefings will take place on
Thursday, April 18, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT (1700-1830 UTC). The Briefing
will consist of a netcast of a
panel discussion to be held the previous day at the EDUCAUSE
Net2002 conference; panelists will discuss actual and potential
drivers for fast networking, in particular addressing the role of higher education
in furthering more widespread broadband deployment. An
archive of previous Briefings is available.
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| A workshop titled Connecting the Global VLBI Array in the New Era of High-Speed Networks will take place April 8-9 at the MIT Haystack Observatory. Very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a powerful
technique that connects radio telescopes together to create the equivalent of
a single huge telescope. Currently VLBI data are recorded on magnetic tape at data rates
up to 1 Gbps, then shipped to a central processing
facility; the advent of high-bandwidth international networks will allow
this data to be sent in real-time or near-real-time. At the workshop, VLBI and networking
experts from all over the world will help lay the foundations for this exciting new technology. Click here to view an Internet2 overview to be presented at the workshop. |
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| During a demonstration of uncompressed HDTV over IP at a recent Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency workshop, over 900 terabytes of
data were transmitted at 1.5 gigabits per second over 18
continuous hours across more than 2700 miles of network without a
single dropped packet. The University of Washington, working with
the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern
California, Tektronix, and ResearchChannel used the networks of the Pacific Northwest
GigaPoP, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads and the Internet2 Abilene backbone to
accomplish the feat. More >>> |
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| Ronald Rash, Penn State University, was the lucky recipient of the Fall 2001 Internet2 Member Meeting Early Registration Prize. Mr. Rash’s name was drawn from a pool of more than 450 individuals who qualified as early registrants for the meeting. He received a Palm m505 Handheld with the new v4.0 Palm OS!
Meeting organizers plan to award another early registration prize for the upcoming Spring 2002 Internet2 Member Meeting. Make your plans now to attend this meeting, which will be held May 6-8 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
To qualify for the Early Registration Prize drawing, you must register online for the Spring Meeting by April 15, 2002. |
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| The third in Internet2's series of monthly Virtual Briefings will take place on Wednesday, February 20, from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM EST (1730-1900 UTC). Representatives from three multicampus member universities will discuss issues associated with deploying system-wide middleware solutions. Further information, as well as an archive of previous Briefings, is available here.
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| Arizona State University hosts three
events this week, including the NLANR/Internet2 Techs Workshop sponsored
by the National Science Foundation and Internet2; the Internet2
End-to-End Performance Initiative Measurement Workshop; and the "Collaborative Computing in Higher Education: Peer-to-Peer
and Beyond" workshop, made possible by a grant made by SURA and
cosponsorship by Internet2. Also being held this week in Tempe is the Campus Architectural
Middleware Planning (CAMP) workshop. See the Internet2
Calendar for details. Live netcast information for the Joint Techs Workshop and the P2P Workshop can be found here.
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| The second in the monthly series of Internet2 Virtual Briefings will take place on Thursday, January 24, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST (1800-1930 UTC). The topic for this discussion is The Future of Virtual Collaboration: Perspectives on an Agenda for Action; further information is available here. An archive of the first Virtual Briefing, on Authorization: Pioneering Efforts, is now available. |
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| This workshop
will bring together leading lights of the peer-to-peer (P2P) computing community to discuss
uses, problems, and future directions of P2P in research and education.
Ian Foster will share his thoughts on P2P and
the Grid, and Bill St. Arnaud will discuss eScience
[PPT];
participants will also include Andy Oram, editor of
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies; Eytan Adar, co-author of
"Free Riding on Gnutella";
David Molnar of the Free Haven Project;
David Anderson of SETI@home; and Steve Waterhouse of Project JXTA. Registration ends January 21;
register by January 4 and save $50.
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| Building on the success of the Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting, the Internet2 community is organizing a series of monthly Internet2 Virtual Briefings. The first Virtual Briefing, titled Authorization: Pioneering Efforts, will take place from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST (1500-1630 UTC) on Wednesday, December 12; an agenda and information on how to connect are available here. Like the VIMM sessions, the Virtual Briefings will be archived.
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| SC200l got underway Saturday and
continues through Friday. The conference includes
research exhibits
from dozens of leading high-performance computing and networking
organizations, including Internet2
(live video from the
Internet2 booth); on Wednesday the
Internet2 End-to-End Performance
Initiative will present a
half-day workshop.
Opportunities for virtual participation in SC2001 include
SC Global and the
SC2001 Netcast. |
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| EDUCAUSE 2001, taking place this week in Indianapolis, will include Internet2-related sessions on middleware, the Access Grid, and the Internet2 End-to-End Performance Initiative, as well as an Internet2 organizational update. The Internet2/ResearchChannel Working Group is sponsoring a demonstration of on-demand streaming of HDTV and MPEG-2 video over the Internet. With thousands of participants, the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is one of the largest higher education information technology gatherings in the world.
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