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This is a generic description of the concept of InfoVision and some of NPAC's activities in this arena through the close of 1994. It is does not describe the detailed projects in the Living Textbook and WebServer arenas.
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It starts with a standard description of the NII and the consumer forces driving its deployment. We argue that this provides an opportunity for several other application areas to exploit and in fact eventually build a larger and more convincing business case for the NII
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Several examples are given of the dissemination of Text, Video, Image, scientific simulation , GIS, distance learning with the NII and its use for collaboration activities. Education, Health care and Wall Street are used as examples.
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We summarize the demonstrations and technologies prepared for Hillary Clinton's visit on April 5,1994.
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This is a generic description of the concept of InfoVision and some of NPAC's activities in this arena through the close of 1994. It is does not describe the detailed projects in the Living Textbook and WebServer arenas.
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It starts with a standard description of the NII and the consumer forces driving its deployment. We argue that this provides an opportunity for several other application areas to exploit and in fact eventually build a larger and more convincing business case for the NII
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Several examples are given of the dissemination of Text, Video, Image, scientific simulation , GIS, distance learning with the NII and its use for collaboration activities. Education, Health care and Wall Street are used as examples.
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We summarize the demonstrations and technologies prepared for Hillary Clinton's visit on April 5,1994.
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High Performance (Parallel) Computers on High Speed (ATM) Networks linked to clients at a network performance that supporting realtime Video at a resolution between VHS,HDTV .
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MPP's as Internet/Web/NII/GII Servers
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NII/GII= National/Global Information Infrastructure
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Supports Decisions by everybody in society
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Consumers, Healthcare, Teachers, Schoolchildren, Business, Military,
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Dual-Use Philosophy must be extended to Multi-Use
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Different applications must share services
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Standards must be used
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from HPF/HPC++ in simulation arena to
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to TCP/IP on ATM in networking
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to parallel relational databases
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to "Web" technology for multimedia
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"Every" Business Office, Every doctor's Office, "Every" school desk, "Every" home(potential patient) (approximately any home on cable) will have a two-way high speed link to the NII
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about 10 Megabits/second compared to
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about 10 Kilobits/second for a modem (14.4 kbit/sec)
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What does this factor of 1000 increase in performance do for the home?
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TV + Settop Unit becomes Computer (analog) (interactive digital)
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Modem & home PC supporting text interfaces becomes interactive full (VHS Þ HDTV resolution) video receiving unit
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Interactive implies that you can choose what you want when you want it.
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These consumer developments will drive MPP use
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consumer products drives better high end business and research user level products e.g., cheap Virtual Reality Interfaces
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MPP's are information servers for consumers, business, research
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We do not know what are the killer applications of either the general or education specific NII.
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Correspondingly we cannot say firmly how to set up specific servers or networks of the same
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We have some mix of General, Specialized, Public and Private InfoVision Servers
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Web Technologies such as HTML,HTTP,CGI,Java .. established the open multimedia interface which will enable an industry to be set up
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This is analogous to IBM PC and DOS enabling the personal computer industry although this revolution will not be dominated by a single company such as Microsoft as networking assets (World Wide Web resources) are inherently produced in a distributed fashion
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An important driver is the growing use of CDROM's with multimedia PC's the largest segment of Home PC market
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Further educational products are hot sellers
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1 CNN Video on Demand (SGI)
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2 CNN Video on Demand (Sun)
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3 Syracuse Language Systems: Multimedia Information
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4 Image on Demand Technologies: parallel JPEG compression
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5 Tornado Simulation on Demand
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6 Financial Simulation on Demand
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7 Target Tracker Simulation on Demand
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8 Electromagnetic Simulation on Demand
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9 Orangesource Community Information on Demand
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10 Kodak Picture Exchange: Image on Demand
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11 Network Technology: Message Passing
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12 Parallel Database Technology: Transaction Processing
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13 Parallel Database Technology: Query Processing
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14 DR-LINK Text on Demand: Linguistic Knowledge
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15 AskERIC Educational Database: Text on Demand
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16 Re Flex Commercial Multimedia Information on Demand
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17 National Software Exchange Information on Demand
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18 Computational Science Education on Demand
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Base HPCC Technology
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Cornell, CRPC, ISIS, NYNEX, Rome Laboratory
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Telecommunications
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InfoVision Servers (Hardware and Systems)
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Digital, IBM, Loral, Maspar, nCUBE (SGI, Sun, TMC)
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InfoVision Database Software
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IBM (DB2), Oracle, (TMC), IST, Textwise
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Multimedia Integration
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Kodak, Media International, Reflex
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Multimedia Products
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Syracuse University Computational Science -- Courses
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IST -- askERIC database and educational resource
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Maxwell -- Multimedia policy decision support
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Newhouse -- Multimedia Journalism
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Physics -- Science for nonscientists courses
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School of Education -- the lIving textbook
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AGE -- Consumer Virtual Reality System
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CRPC -- HPCC basic technology courses
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Kodak -- Digital Images on demand
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Syracuse Language Systems -- Language Instruction
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Syracuse Research Corporation -- Environmental resource
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