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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points on July 29-30 98. Foils prepared August 2 98
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Short PET Year 2 Presentation of Info Comm Team
Highlighting Year 2 Achievements of NPAC
and Year 3 Activities of NPAC in joint NPAC-NCSA Context
Main Resource is <a href="http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/petcandt/index.html" >Here</a><br>
with <a href="http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/bernhold/petcandt/arltasks.html" >ARL Tasks </a><br>
and <a href="http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/petcandt/candtback.html" >Background Context</a><br>
and <a href="http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/petcandt/candtplan.html" >NPAC Tasks PET-Wide</a>

Table of Contents for full HTML of Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities

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1 Info-Comm PET Activity Summary
2 Info-Comm Team Structure
3 Year 2 Highlights I
4 Year 2 Highlights II
5 Year 3 and Beyond I
6 Structure of InfoComm Year 3-5 Activities II

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Foil 1 Info-Comm PET Activity Summary

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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Geoffrey C.Fox
NPAC 111 College Place
Syracuse University
gcf@npac.syr.edu
ARL MSRC PET Annual Review
Aberdeen, 29-30 July
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Foil 2 Info-Comm Team Structure

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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Joint between NPAC and NCSA, with Geoffrey Fox (NPAC) Academic Lead
NPAC team includes
  • Geoffrey Fox, David Bernholdt, Deepak Ramanathan, Marek Podgorny and Tango/Systems teams (for database etc. support)
NCSA team includes
  • Lex Lane, Sandie Kappes, Lisa Gatzke, .......
NPAC emphasis on development and assessment of collaboration, multimedia database & training technologies
NCSA emphasis on assessment & deployment of C & T, and non-C & T aspects (i.e. web site)
Roles not rigid
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Foil 3 Year 2 Highlights I

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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As NPAC only started 7 months ago and much work generic, hard to estimate impact on users numerically
Web log analysis system based on Java GUI to Oracle or Illustra database developed and ready for deployment
Deployment of collaboration tools
  • Derek trained in Tango Dec'97
  • Tango functionality enhancements, improved architecture and major effort to remove bugs (mainly "Netscape features")
  • Tango 1.01 released July 98
  • Tango server to be deployed on site in August 98 as we develop "beta site" support team in NPAC.
Collaborative Visualization (to be discussed by SciVis team?)
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Foil 4 Year 2 Highlights II

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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Training & PET-Related Meetings
  • Tango training (NPAC, Dec 97; NCSA, April 98; SDSC, June)
  • WWW Interfaces to Relational Databases (ARL, Feb and ITEA July)
  • Dod UGC invited Presentation and ITEA paper on Tango
  • ASC Training Workshop (May 98)
  • NSF CILT projects (May 98) include lead of distance learning requirements effort
  • HiPCAT Symposium (CAU, Mar)
  • PET Webmasters Meeting (NCSA, Feb)
Trip reports (http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/bernhold/trip-reports/)
  • 10 conferences strongly InfoComm-related (13 total)
  • no PET funding of these trips
Assistance with Oracle 8 RDBMS installation at ARL
PET wide Training and Collaboration Planning Summary (http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/petcandt/)
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Foil 5 Year 3 and Beyond I

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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ARL plans part of (proposed) PET-wide C & T implementation plan derived from PET Exec. Committee Vision document which is consistent with NSF PACI, NSF Education Research(CILT), DoD(ADL) and Industry (Microsoft, Centra, Placeware, Docent)
Structure of InfoComm Year 3-5 Activities
  • Year 3 prototype deploy, Year 4 evaluate and extend, year 5 production with adjustments for rapidly changing technologies
G1) Monitor ongoing progress in InfoComm technologies and transfer as appropriate to DoD Modernization community through training and deployment activities
  • e.g. Microsoft ChromeEffects and "battle" with Java3D (VRML is doomed?)
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Foil 6 Structure of InfoComm Year 3-5 Activities II

From Summary of ARL Review Discussion of Info-Comm Team Activities ARL End of Year 2 Review Aberdeen Sheraton 4 Points -- July 29-30 98. *
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G2) Deployment in Staged Fashion of basic RESEARCH and MANAGEMENT collaboratory with gradual broadening of user community and addition of advanced features. This would be supported by training and evaluation functions.
  • Use Tango for synchronous and a selection of Asynchronous tools including databases and Lotus Notes
G3) Produce an evaluation and associated training to allow use of multimedia (audio/video over foils) enhancements to training material. Phase in use of databases as back-end support
  • RealPlayer, NCSA Webcasting
G4) Deployment of proven Tango education and training capabilities and enhancement with especially addition of integrating backend database support. (NPAC)
G5) Evaluate and deploy authoring techniques for both training and other web pages. (NCSA)
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