Internet2 Applications Update

11 February 2003

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Topics

- Showcase: Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group

- Orthopaedic Surgery Research Network Expands

- New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium, March 28 & 29

- National Health Information Infrastructure

- Internet2 Detective Version 2 Now Available

- Include a Live Demo with your Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting

Presentation

- Register Now to Attend Internet2 Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting

- VoIP Panel Needs Participants

- Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training, March 26-27

- Integrated Communication BOF at Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting

- Missouri Life Sciences Week, March 3-7

- ViDeNet Munch "Quality of Service," February 26

- New Internet2 Commons Member Universities and Site Coordinators

- New Applications Team Member: Ben Teitelbaum

- Talks and Travel

- Internet2 Days and Other Events

- Archives

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Showcase: Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group

An Internet2 Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group has been formed and will be

chaired by Dr. Chadwick F. Smith. Smith is Clinical Professor of

Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at USC and President-Elect

of SICOT (the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and

Traumatology). Membership in this working group is open to all individuals

who are affiliated with an Internet2 member institution and who have an

interest in Internet2 applications to Orthopaedic surgery. Contact Chadwick

F. Smith at <chadwics@usc.edu> if you would like to join this working group.

http://health.internet2.edu/WorkingGroups/OrthopaedicSurgery.html

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Orthopaedic Surgery Research Network Expands

Following the launch of the California Orthopaedic Research Network (CORN)

on October 29, 2002, there has been growing interest and increasing

engagement in the uses of high-performance networking throughout the

telemedicine, telerobotics, and other medical research communities.

Chadwick F. Smith, Internet2 chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Working Group

announced the expansion of CORN at the annual meeting of the American

Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in New Orleans on February 5. The expanded

network, Western Orthopaedic Research Network (West ORN), will now include

California plus 13 additional western states, Canada, and Mexico. Further

expansion to include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay

will follow in the coming months.

http://health.internet2.edu/news/HSnews.html#CORNLaunch

http://www.sicot.org/

http://www.aaos.org/

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New World Symphony Workshop and Symposium, March 28 & 29

Internet2 and the New World Symphony are hosting a two-day event (at the

New World Symphony campus on Miami Beach) to introduce educators and

technicians from major music schools to the power of high-performance

networking for distance education and music collaboration.

The March 28 Internet2 Performance Production Workshop is designed

primarily for technical personnel supporting schools of music and

performing arts departments involved in producing live performances and

music education events over Internet2. The focus will be on performance

production technologies designed to help members create successful

multi-site, interactive, digital video/audio productions. There is a charge

of $125.00 to attend this event and registration is required. The March 29 Internet2 Music Education Symposium is geared toward deans,

presidents, administrators and faculty of schools of music. Michael Tilson

Thomas, Artistic Director for the New World Symphony, will talk about the

New World Symphony's experience with distance education over Internet2. To

demonstrate the power and potential of using Internet2 for real time

interaction in music education, live demonstrations will be presented,

including several master classes with remote participants. There is no

charge for this event, but registration is required.

Those attending the March 28 Workshop are welcome to stay for March 29

Symposium. Saturday evening, March 29, all will be treated to a reception

and live New World Symphony concert at the Lincoln Theatre conducted by

Maestro Thomas.

http://events.internet2.edu/2003/NWSIndex.html

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National Health Information Infrastructure

Doug Van Houweling, Internet2 President and CEO, testified to the National

Committee on Vital Health and Statistics (NCVHS) at the Hearings on

National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) in Washington, D.C. on

January 27. The two-day event included six panel sessions on topics ranging

from Internet technology to personal health information and authentication

issues. The NCVHS-NHII Workgroup hosted the event.

Van Houweling presented at the first session, titled "The Current and

Future Internet," with Vint Cerf of WorldCom and Aubrey Bush of the

National Science Foundation. Van Houweling promoted a vision for the role

of the advanced Internet in health care and emphasized Internet2's role in

supporting health care research.

This hearing was broadcast live over the Internet, with the help of the

Department of Veterans Affairs. Recordings of broadcasts from the past six

months are available from the VA Virtual Conference Archive at

http://www.va.gov/virtconf.htm .

http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/20030127-NCVHSVanHouweling.htm

http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/030127ag.htm

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Internet2 Detective Version 2 Now Available

Version 2.0 of the Internet2 Detective is now available. The Internet2

Detective is a small, easy to install and use application that can tell you

if a computer can access an Internet2 backbone network, how much bandwidth

may be available, and whether you can receive multicast streaming media. A

small icon in the corner of the desktop indicates at-a-glance the

capabilities of a computer's network connection. Version 2.0 adds the

ability to test network performance between any two computers running the

Internet2 Detective.

The Internet2 Detective, written by Internet2 Applications Technologist Bob

Riddle and Internet2 student intern Adam Saltsman, builds on Iperf and the

Multicast Beacon developed by the National Science Foundation-funded NLANR

Distributed Applications Support Team.

http://detective.internet2.edu/

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Include a Live Demo with your Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting Presentation

Submissions for track session proposals for the spring member meeting are

now closed. Because Internet2 will not be featuring a separate demo area

for high-performance networking applications at the Member Meeting, we

would like to strongly encourage our members to incorporate live,

interactive demos as part of their track session presentations. Internet2

staff will provide members with the technical support, and some of the

equipment resources, required for presenting these demos. If you have

already submitted a spring member meeting track session proposal, and would

like to consider incorporating a live demo into your presentation, please

complete the form found at the URL below or contact Elaine Lauerman via

email <ekl@internet2.edu>.

http://apps.internet2.edu/2003-demoform.html

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The Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 9

through Friday, April 11, 2003, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in

Arlington, Virginia. We are looking forward to a productive, working

meeting to highlight current activities and examine the key relationships

between scholarship, research, and advanced networking. Early registration

online is available now through March 14, 2003.

http://events.internet2.edu/2003/spring-mm/

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VoIP Panel Needs Participants

Walt Magnussen, Internet2 VoIP Working Group co-chair, is pulling together

a group of panelists to talk about the status of VoIP deployment at the

Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting. Magnussen is looking for

implementation success stories and business cases for VoIP deployment. This

session is tentatively titled "VoIP -- Is it Ready for Prime Time?" If you

are interested in being on the panel, contact Magnussen at

<telecom@tamu.edu> with a brief statement of your VoIP involvement.

http://voip.internet2.edu/

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Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training, March 26-27

Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator Training will be held in conjunction

with the SURA/ViDe Digital Video Workshop in Atlanta on March 26-27. Each

university that wishes to participate in the Internet2 Commons worldwide

videoconferencing service must designate a qualified campus site

coordinator. This training will be taught by nationally recognized

professionals in digital videoconferencing. Hands-on training with

equipment will be included. Some of the training topics include:

- Audio and video basics

- Room/environments conditions for videoconferences

- Operating and troubleshooting procedures common to

videoconferencing systems

There will be a fee of $100 for the training. A detailed agenda and online

registration will soon be available at the following URL:

http://commons.internet2.edu/train/Mar03.html

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Integrated Communication BOF at Internet2 Spring 2003 Member Meeting

An Integrated Communication BOF will be held at the Internet2 Spring 2003

Member Meeting on Thursday, April 10. Integrated communication combines

various real-time, or near real-time, communications media (text, voice,

video, and image based) under the umbrella of "Presence." Since these

elements are all layered on SIP/SDP, they need to be strongly oriented to

Internet/IETF standards. Spring member meeting attendees who are interested

in discussing the potential impact of integrated communication technologies

and services are encouraged to attend this BOF. Jeremy George, Director of

the Advanced Networking Group for Information Technology Services at Yale

University, will get the discussion started by making a presentation on the

elements of integrated communications and how they interrelate. For further information, contact Jeremy George at <jeremy.george@yale.edu>.

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Missouri Life Sciences Week, March 3-7

Missouri Life Sciences Week, March 3-7, will focus on life sciences and

biotechnology with the goal of promoting communication and collaboration

throughout Missouri's scientific community and beyond. Doug Van Houweling,

Internet2 President and CEO, will provide introductory remarks at the

opening session. Life Sciences Week presentations will take place in three

different locations in Missouri, with Internet2 providing interactive

videoconferencing between the three sites. In addition, Internet2 will also

be netcasting several sessions for general viewing, including the March 7

panel discussion "Science Education for the 21st Century" which will be

presented as part of the Internet2 Virtual Briefing series. Life Sciences

Week will also feature a virtual poster session for online viewing, in

addition to the live poster session at the MU campus. Gary Allen, Executive

Director of the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium and Chair

of the Internet2 Veterinary Medicine Special Interest Group, is one of the

co-organizers for this event.

Missouri Life Sciences week is presented by the University of

Missouri-Columbia MU Molecular Biology Program and University of Missouri

Bioinformatics Consortium, in partnership with the Stowers Institute for

Medical Research and the Danforth Plant Science Center.

http://lifesciencesweek.missouri.edu/About.html

http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/

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ViDeNet Munch "Quality of Service," February 26

The next ViDeNet Brown-Bag Munch videoconference will host a panel

discussion on IP voice and video quality of service. Mark the date:

February 26 at 4:00pm EST. The panel will present from many perspectives:

standards, infrastructure, endpoint, service provider, enterprise, and

educational network perspectives.

http://www.unc.edu/video/videnet/munch/

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New Internet2 Commons Member Universities and Site Coordinators

The Commons welcomes the following new member university and Site Coordinator:

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill -- Tim Poe

http://commons.internet2.edu/

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New Applications Team Member: Ben Teitelbaum

An Internet2 employee and senior engineer with the Engineering group since

1997, Ben Teitelbaum recently joined the Applications Team as Program

Manager, Voice and Integrated Communications Initiatives. Ben will be

working with the VoIP working group and other Internet2 working groups to

promote the adoption of advanced standards-based IP voice and integrated

communications applications.

You can email Ben at <ben@internet2.edu>.

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Talks and Travel

HARNET

Ted Hanss, Internet2 Director of Applications Development, and Heather

Boyles, Internet2 Director for International Relations, will be attending

the Hong Kong Academic and Research Network (HARNET) network launch event

on February 20 in Hong Kong. HARNET is the wide area network which links up

the campus networks of the eight tertiary institutions in Hong Kong.

http://www.hku.hk/jucc/harnet.html

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Internet2 Days and Other Events

Internet2 Virtual Briefing: E2E Measurement Systems -- February 19 http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/date/200302.html

Case Western Reserve University Internet2 Day -- March 3 http://www.cwru.edu/

Missouri Life Science Week, University of Missouri - Columbia -- March 3-7 http://lifesciencesweek.missouri.edu/About.html

Internet2 Virtual Briefing "Science Education for the 21st Century" (live

from the Missouri Life Science Week) -- March 7, 1 - 3 p.m. http://events.internet2.edu/briefings/

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