Core I/C Work

1) Attend and talk at MAPINT
2) Attend meeting Palo Alto October 12-14 on integration
   of Information Technology into American Indian Colleges and Reservations
   This is outreach to Minority Institutions
   and major recomendation was to establish "American Indian Collaboratory"
   Expect to continue working with White House Council on Tribal Colleges
3) Evaluated Internet Audio Conferencing Systems Hearme and Lipstream -- will install
   Hearme system for use by FSU and our PET partners
   This will be augmented by an Access Grid System to be installed in main FSU Conference
   Room.
4) Worked with Grid Forum in setting up new working group on "Grid Computing Environments"
   This will bring together all the workers in areas of Computing portals. This effort
   led by Mary Thomas (SDSC), Dennis Gannon (Indiana) and Fox. This will help to ensure
   we can offer ASC best technology in this area where Gateway is situated.
   This supercedes DATORR effort
5) Looking at XML databases as an alternative to "full blown Oracle" for smaller databases
6) Substantial examination of hand-held devices with view to using as interfaces for
   submitting jobs; computational steering and controlling visualiation. Use in training
   also being looked at.
7) Looking at Macromedia authoring systems for producing high-end training material
8) Evaluated new IMS and DoD SCORM "learning object" standards. Extended to include
   lessons from WebWisdomNT database system designed at Syracuse. Included XML structure
   of Gateway
9) Support for TMD -- I don't know much here
10) Support for IE solicitation -- you know this I think
11) Talked to several scientists about their needs in portals area. These include
   physics experiments, your adviser, Professor Chandra at FSU who works with ARL
   Material Science (CSM), NASA (for mission control), Earthquake community (where
   book containing chapter on this topic has just come out). These help to ensure
   work satisfies broad requirements.
12) As chief technologist for FSU's 70 person Office Distance and Distributed Learning
   office, I have studied their approach to distance education. They use commercial
   Blackboard system and make use of off site "mentors"


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Gateway
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Collaborative Computing
1) We wrote a detailed report on this ( http://www.new-npac.org/users/fox/documents/collabcompmay00/collabviz.html )
2) We have studied the latest commercial collaborative systems (Centra, WebeX, Caliber ....)
   for collaborative learning environment. There seems to be a consensus as to how
   to build the virtual classroom. We are following plan in proposal -- designing and
   building infrastructure to support training and computing. This is emphazing
   collaboartion that supports both hand-held and conventional clients
3) We have negotiated with one of these companies (anabas.com) to license their
   core collaboration infrastructure so we can provide a better supported system.
4) This project is on schedule to deliver integrated prototype -- compatible with
   Gateway -- by end of contract year with earlier less integrated capabilities