CALL TO PARTICIPATE
Collaboration and Visualization Over the Network
WHAT: The Ohio Supercomputer Center and Wright State University are
co-sponsoring a one-day conference on November 10, 1997 on the topics of network applications for
collaboration, visualization, and virtual reality.
WHY: The purpose of the session is to assemble representatives from Ohio higher
education institutions and industry to share ideas on research in these areas and to facilitate the
formation of working groups that could pursue opportunities for network experiments using the current
infrastructure and through possible funded research.
WHO: Faculty, technical staff, and industry personnel with interests in these
areas are expected to attend.
WHEN: November 10, 1997 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Wright State University in Dayton. Registrants will be sent a confirmation
and map to the site by regular mail.
Ohio moves toward the Future!
Internet 2 and other proposed high bandwidth networks 2 are being developed with the
expectation of a demand for network capacity to undertake many of these applications. Collaboration
through shared instrumentation, the storage and retrieval of large databases, the sharing of clinical
medical information along with video conferencing, and the creation of shared, virtual environments for
engineering, design, or clinical evaluation are all examples of areas where experiments are on-going.
This workshop will review some of these potentials and then create interest groups by
major subject area. A goal of the workshop is to form working groups of researchers, industry partners,
and technical staff that can pursue funding opportunities by taking advantage of the shared expertise of
our academic institutions.
Preliminary Agenda
| 9 AM |
Welcome |
| 9:10 AM |
Overview of Internet2 and Ohio's vBNS Connectivity |
| 9:45 AM |
The Future of Network Protocol's and Network Research (Raj Jain) |
| 10:15 AM |
Break |
| 10:30 AM |
Demonstration of Internet Video |
| 11:00 AM |
Presentation: "Mutual Reality" (Ben Britton) |
| 11:30 AM |
Demonstration of Shared Virtual Environments |
| Noon |
Lunch (brief meeting of OCARNET) |
| 1:00 PM |
Introduction to Break-Out Sessions |
| 1:15 PM |
Working groups on selected topics: Shared Virtual Environments / Internet Video / Network research / Other? |
| 4:00 PM |
Closing Session |
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