State Presentation Nov 17 1995 InfoMall Bringing the Economic Development Opportunities of the Internet/World Wide Web to New York State Presentation at Syracuse University November 17,1995 Geoffrey C. Fox 111 College Place Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244-4100 Abstract of NII for NYS Economic Development Presentation This presentation involves these foils and WWW material taken from NPAC projects including Living Schoolbook and eight business Collaborations We describe NPAC, InfoMall and what we can do for New York State We first present the standard infrastructure vision and describe some of the impacts of the current computer and communication revolution on Business Society Medicine and Education The education discussion includes a short description of the Living Schoolbook collaboration led by Steve Bossert -- Dean of SU School of Education Business Enterprise Systems, Medicine and Public Communication applications are highlighted Applications are grouped into Digital Library, Collaboration and InfoVision (text video and image information on demand), and Geographical Information Systems What is NPAC and InfoMall and how do we partner? NPAC is an integrated technology development and research organization aimed at bringing latest computing and information ideas into the Òreal worldÓ NPAC involves professional staff, faculty and students and combines advantages of university and professional organization NPAC uses concepts of Òvirtual corporationÓ and sets up partnerships to transfer and develop technology -- this is InfoMall For example in the World Wide Web Area NYNEX provides ÒbitwaysÓ including ISDN/ATM NPAC is leading organization in state for advanced Web technologies to develop best Internet/Web based products OneWorld is an example of a company that creates Web resources for large corporations while CSN provides them to schools -- they use NPAC technologies to provide better services InfoMall helps Òservice/systemsÓ companies as well as end-users The Mall analogy! Your full service Information Age Business Development Store The Mall Layout Why is InfoMall Important? Most Businesses Communities and Jobs will be impacted by the Information Age The World Wide Web / Internet is the Information Age today InfoMall is focused on bringing current and future opportunities of the Information Age to all aspects of the New York State enterprise from Large and Small businesses, Government, Communities, Education, Health Care .... Most Jobs in the future will Need NII(Internet, World Wide Web) Skills Computer, Telephone, and Cable Engineers Journalists from both print, photography, and video fields Artists, Advertising designers, Architects, Film Producers, ÒBookÓ Publishers etc. Real Estate Brokers School Teachers, Librarians, Government and Business workers involved with giving information to public or fellow workers Technology for Business enterprise systems one of largest opportunities! Shop owners and staff advertising their wares on digital highway. Allow woodworkers in Adirondacks or heart of Africa to advertise material to all on the World Wide Web All those in medical area -- from Virtual reality to allow surgeon in Syracuse to manipulate robot devices at accident scene to Multimedia patient records Law enforcement (police searching worldwide databases) and lawyers accessing case histories. Some Examples of InfoMall Activities InfoMall has some 40 active members and today we will choose eight examples NYNEX -- a Large Corporation suplying Information Age Infrastructure Rome Laboratory -- Federal laboratory developing state of the art information technologies for the military State DOED Bureau of Media Services using our technologies to enhance economic development Five small businesses from Upstate, MidHudson and New York City Community School Network -- MidHudson OneWorld -- Albany Sonnet Software -- Syracuse Textwise -- University spin-off ThinkMedia -- New York City (coming from Newhouse collaboration) Some InfoMall Services in Information Technology Area Partnership with Corporations including Mentoring of Small Businesses Access to facilities and expertise Partnering in SBIR and NIST ATP proposals Education and Training Masters degree and certificates in Computing for the Information Age Courses on ÒLatest Web Technologies and their use in your businessÓ or ÒHow to install and Configure Parallel DatabasesÓ .............................etc......... Consulting with Corporations who are worried about how to integrate World Wide Web and High Speed Networks Large parallel Servers and Datamining of large databases What support does a new Information Age business need? Conventional start-up assistance Incubator space Marketing and administrative help Tax breaks ... Funding Venture and other private capital SBIR Grants Other Federal Grants Enabling Technologies Web and other Technologies needed for specific product Technologies/Interfaces used in other products with which this must integrate Access to HPCC facilities Distributed workstations and Web Servers World Wide Web and High speed networks Central state of the art parallel computers (Parallel) Databases / Visualization support Support for Virtual Corporation of several small companies Distributed Collaboration Technologies NPACÕs HPCC Programs NPAC Staff and Associated Academic Units Geoffrey Fox - Director Gene Woodcock -- Executive Director Denny Eaton - InfoMall MidHudson Steve Warzala -- Manager InfoMall Approximate Level of NPAC Funding Calendar Year 1995 Total NPAC Operating and Infrastructure Funding Level $4,620K for CY1995 Percentages below are taken wrt this total State Operating $700K 15.2% State Infrastructure $1000K 21.6% Industry $430K 9.3% Note averaged over two years (1994-1995) as industry projects tend to be short time periods. CY1994 was approximately $260K, CY 1995 $600K which is an optimistic trend! Federal Total Operating $2290K 49.5% Breakdown of federally funded work: InfoVision(Rome) $440K 9.5% Base HPCC(CRPC) $1150K 24.9% HPCC Simulations $300K 6.5% HPCC Education $400K 8.6% University $200K 4.3% Including Nason Foundation Fellowship This excludes all funds passing through NPAC as subcontracts to other organizations. This only includes cash and does not estimate value of Òin-kindÓ discounts on equipment, software and content (for media companies). Integration of Industry Sectors forming the NII -- Digital Super Information Highway What will National Information Infrastructure(NII) give us? NII is/will be digital superhighway provided to you by ÒOptical FiberÓ : NYNEX and Newchannels (Phone and Cable Industry) ÒServicesÓ: CNN, America On-line, Prodigy, Syracuse Newspapers, Blockbuster and indeed YOU!! Current NII is INTERNET and World Wide Web Currently access NII through Internet directly or through an intermediary such as America On-line Currently use a Computer and modem on POTS -- plain old telephone service In future Computers/TV set sets will ÒconvergeÓ and access will be dedicated cable/optical fiber which will be much faster and allow high quality video delivery ÒEveryÓ Business Office, Every doctorÕs Office, ÒEveryÓ school desk, ÒEveryÓ home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have such a two-way high speed link to the NII The Next Generation Home Computers include Settop Boxes and Videogame Controllers ÒAllÓ children will have the equivalent of todays $20,000 business or university computer processing capability in BOTH Settop Boxes and in Video Game Controllers which will ÒjustÓ be Personal Computers The InfoVision Scenario INFOrmation Video Imagery and Simulation ON demand -- Home clients and High Performance Multimedia Servers Information Video Imagery and Simulation on Demand Tomorrows Communities will be centered not just on roads, libraries, schools and local businesses but EVERY community will have a High Speed Digital Community network that will both drive the community internally but also tell the outside world about business services, tourist attractions etc. What is so important about Digital ? Analog as in current Cable Satellite or broadcast TV or radio represents informations by WAVY SHAPES Shapes can be arbitrary and if changed (distorted) canNOT be easily corrected Digital as in current computers represents everything by NUMBERS and uses Òerror-correctionÓ so that you receive EXACTLY what is sent with NO distortion of text or images So information is more precise Can do on-line banking using digital cash can search information by keywords and navigate through sophisticated structured information systems and looks better -- your great art piece is not distorted or the medical picture is transmitted without adding or subtracting tumors/pathologies etc. Business Enterprise Systems and the Web The World Wide Web will develop a marvellous WebTop Environment allowing users to access Web versions of Word Excel(Lotus123) Persuasion(Powerpoint) Databases Lotus Notes etc. We have database and presentation software (WebFoil) prototypes This (as developed) enables a wonderful new software industry as Microsoft no longer has key advantages This (as used) enables very effective (business) enterprise systems where ÒWebÓ used internally to an enterprise e.g. University linking Students Trustees Administrators Faculty Staff e.g. any business including virtual corporations of organizations linked to deliver a particular product ÒEasierÓ (than full World Wide Web) to implement as organization can control security and performance (network speed) internally Curricula Opportunities Opened Up by the World Wide Web We can either TEACH about this technologies Opportunities in Computer Science, IST, VPA, Newhouse, Education, Maxwell etc. See new proposed masters degree in multimedia Or use New Teaching Methodologies with Information presented with: Multi Media sources of material -- text,images,video,simulations Hyper linked (non sequential and World Wide) material suggesting new form of material -- short modules (Encyclopedia articles) rather than monolithic material At K-12, University or Continuing Education levels Use technologies within University/Community OR .. The digital superhighway will be worldwide -- a challenge and opportunity for Syracuse University Some Classes of Uses of the Internet and the future National Information Infrastructure (NII) Collaboration between teachers and students, businesses and customers, and more generally like minded people Video information on demand Text Information on demand Image Information on demand Interactive Simulation of products/scenarios Geographical Information Systems Overview of the Living Schoolbook Project The Living Schoolbook is a New York State funded Initiative to create K-12 educational applications that exploit leading information technologies Living Schoolbook Uses high performance multimedia server computers at NPAC linked via ATM NYNET network to 6 schools School of Education/NPAC/Local Schools Innovative Educational Applications Interactive Multimedia Geographic Information System -- Virtual Field Trip -- New York State The Interactive Journey Video Image and Text Information on Demand Teacher selected Internet Resources Telecollaboration in the classroom across the state (world) Realistic Simulations on demand (e.g. weather) Collaborative Technology and the NII Applied to Education Input from real time video of collaborating individuals as well as: Keyboards, Pens, Video/Images, Simulations Software will run on ÒSettopÓ downloaded from information server. Allow Sick Children to participate in lessons while at home and in hospital Allow discussions of Homework among teachers and students etc. Software such NPACboard and WebChat will enable future ÒtalkshowsÓ as well as more structured interactions among communities -- back up with sophisticated database search for previous insights Cached Internet Resources in Living Schoolbook Project ÒAutomaticallyÓ or ÒManuallyÓ explore the WWW for resources relevant to K-12 Classroom Kidsweb is our initial selection based on teaching experience over the summer Local Storage at NPAC to support focused teacher selection of material and high performance delivery over NYNET Selection by teacher teams provides high-value materials, efficiency in teacher preparation time and K-12 appropriate material Support of WWW searches with knowledge agents from variety of sources Offer to produce CDROMÕs of selected material for sites with poor Internet access InfoVision - Text or Image Information on Demand Can store Books Newspapers Encyclopedias Photo Archives etc. as full text (cf: Microsoft Encarta CD) Rather than keyword or abstract searches, search full text for say all newspaper articles with words Syracuse Bargain Price Twizzlers in same paragraph Digital Library Integrate sophisticated full text front end with backend video, imagery and simulation Example is Kidsweb where images labelled with text Sophisticated Examples at NPAC include Major commercial Information source -- Newsbank and informal ÒchatÓ from USENET news groups -- messages exchanged between experts And New York State Tourism Images NPAC -- SUNY Health Science Center Collaboration SUNY HSC is juxtaposed to Syracuse University Campus and hopefully NYNET will extend from NPAC to SUNY HSC Initial Experiments demonstrated to Hillary Clinton and involved: Telemedicine over ATM using commercial collaboration technologies including remote instrument control SUNY HSC responsible for large rural area including Adirondacks Image Processing on MPP for Pathology Images using multi-resolution browsing techniques Explore as cost effective enabling technology for wide spread pathology screening Patient Records and Results of Medical Instruments and emergency room analysis can be viewed by specialist doctors from either their home or central hospitals Video (Movie and News) on Demand (VOD) and the NII The simplest VOD applications treat InfoVision server as a ÒglorifiedÓ digital VCR with a huge stock of readily accessible prerecorded tapes Movies -- With granularities of around one hour Videotaped lectures -- and which can be restarted, rewound etc. Interactive VOD will have granularity of order a minute ÒBrowseÓ text or video indices to form customized ÒchannelsÓ such as CNN or Reuters which provide several hours per day with textual index Quite practical (modest cost) to material spanning several years Use close captioning to get text automatically Can use same approach as for text -- relational databases -- to search for material VASTNET -- NPAC, Newhouse School, University Electronic Media Services Collaboration Video and Server Technology Network is prototype of Wire Service of future using Web Technology to service Mass Communications Industry NYNET ATM network extended internally to allow linkage of NPAC to Newhouse School of Public Communications and University Electronic Media Production Unit Faculty and students -- the multimedia digital journalists of the future will use: Archives stored on huge computers browsed at low (VHS) resolution but stored(delivered by wire server) at broadcast quality. Browsing also using text interfaces (index to a clip of average length 15 seconds) Allows University to understand Integration of media and computer fields both at technology and academic level Industrial partners from traditional print and analog video fields CNN and Reuters Manhattan Transfer Edit -- Video Post Production Company ThinkMedia helping Education and Business Together President of ThinkMedia is Robert Frye who is an independent television and film producter and director Emmy and CINE Golden Eagle award winner Executive producer of ABC News, World New Tonight, World News This Morning and Good Morning America. Linked with NPAC through Newhouse and other University Contacts Exploring combining his expertise in video documentaries with NPACÕs collaborative Web technology (developed with Rome lab and NYNEX support) Result will be a generalized forum where people from around the world can interact in a rich electronic environment Bob Frye has donated some of his video material to NPAC for use in Living Schoolbook High Performance Computers as ÒservicesÓ on the NII NPAC helped Sonnet Software develop for the government advanced parallel versions of their electromagnetic circuit simulation Textwise can use parallel computing as a backend for their natural language processing to provide needed performance on large document databases Manufacturers can use advanced Java VRML and Oracle-web integration technology to offer customers and distributers product information stored in databases but accessed on the web from anywhere downloaded software to view 3D images of products and simulation to support configuration Living Schoolbook can offer students simulations such as lake effect snow for use in class Content of New York State -- The Interactive Journey NPACÕs part of Living Schoolbook will provide 3D journeys through both Mars (courtesy of NASA) and parts of New York State Computer holds digital maps and basic spatially tagged information such as Video, text and Images of locations in New York State Cultural, Historical, Geological Information Teachers can add such information for particular classes to their clients or server. Use for virtual field trips such as simulated trip down Hudson river or Erie canal Other Uses of Geographical Information Systems with the NII Other applications that will be important with the NII include: Yellow Pages You will be to access a ÒchannelÓ on the NII which allows you to request ÒTaco BellÓ and travel through Syracuse on the computer seeing where they are and how busy Travel Agencies Try out your holiday on the computer first! Community Information as part of Community network Weather -- Cruise around 3D world with real weather superimposed to plan trips etc. Real Estate ÒParade of HomesÓ will be presented on-line or as a CDROM which you can browse at your leisure