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Converged Communications Working Group Meeting Agenda
Sunday, February 1, 2009—Room Palm D
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Session Details |
| 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Breakfast (Break Station East) |
| 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Introduction and remarks
Jim Jokl, Co-Chair CCWG, Director Communications and Systems, UVA |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
Alternative Approaches to Funding Converged Communications
Jim Jokl, Director Communications and Systems, UVA
Bob Vonderohe, Sr. Director, Networking Infrastructure, UChicago
Doug Carlson, Executive Director, Communications & Computing Services, NYU
Steve Updegrove, Senior Director, Penn State |
| 10:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
Video in Research and Education
Larry Amiot, Argonne National Laboratory
Tom Zeller, Senior Technical Analyst, Indiana U
The use of video in research and education has dramatically expanded over the past several years. Driven by the global connectivity of high speed networks and the vender adherence to standards, especially in the area of videoconferencing, has added to this growth. The use of webconferencing and videoconferencing for collaboration, meetings, outreach, seminars, and teaching has become an important tool in research and education. The use of visualization, especially the high-resolution and stereo display of information and the use of virtual reality, has provided an important capability for visualizing data sets and simulations of models in the area of research. This presentation will highlight the use of various webconferencing, videoconferencing, and visualization capabilities that are presently being used in research and education. |
| 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 12:45 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Building a Collaboration Platform Using Microsoft's Office Communications Server
Mike Lucas, Director of Telecommunications, Indiana U
Robert Peteuil, Principle Technical Specialist for Unified Communication, Microsoft |
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Break as needed – (Break Station East) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
What is Happening with WiFi on (your) Campus?
Tammy Closs, Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services Operations, UT Austin
William Green, Director of Networking, UT Austin |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Cyberinfrastructure Update
Mike Staman, Peyton Anderson Chair in IT, Macon State
George Brett, Mgr., Knowledge & Information Services, Internet2
Patrick Dreher, Renaissance Computing Institute and Co-Chair, CCI Working Group
Cliff Lynch, CNI and author or recent Cyberinfrastructure paper in EDUCAUSE Review
Jim Pepin, Clemson, one of the founders of CCI and member of CCI steering committee
The literature on Cyberinfrastructure contains a preponderance of comments focusing on massive networks, high-end computing, and the grants, research, and application opportunities afforded by these resources. Yet the relative newness of the topic makes it difficult to gain consensus when it evolves in group discussion. This panel will endeavor to provide some clarity by focusing on four important questions: What is Cyberinfrastructure? Why does a university need CI and what difference will it make? Where can CI be applied at a university? How can it be implemented? Finally, From the perspective of both resources and capabilities, one might correctly conclude that the Cyberinfrastructure opportunities mentioned above tend to lie within the province 100 - 200 universities, and this leads to the question of the remainder of academe. Given that many (perhaps most) institutions will not be able to participate in relevant NSF solicitations and/or projects such as those afforded by the Large Hadron Collider, the panel will comment on the question of whether there might be elements of the Cyberinfrastructure idea that are sufficiently compelling to attract interest on the part of the overwhelming majority of the nation's colleges and universities. |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Wrap up
Mark Katsouros, Co-chair of CCWG, Director, Telecommunication & Network Services, UIowa |
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