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- NATIONAL NET'93
- EXTENDING THE BENEFITS
- April 14-16, 1993
- Loews L'enfant Plaza Hotel
- Washington, DC
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- Sponsoring Organizations
- American Library Association; Association of Research Libraries;
- CAUSE; Coalition for Networked Information; Coalition for School
- Networking: Computing Research Association; CREN; EDUCOM
- Networking & Telecommunications Task Force; FARNET, Internet
- Society; NASULGC; National Science Foundation
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- Corporate Sponsors:
- AT&T; IBM; Novell; Xerox
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- PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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- Wednesday, April 14, 1993
- Registration
- 1:00pm-8:00pm
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- Opening Reception
- 6:00pm-8:00pm
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- Thursday, April 15, 1993
- Registration
- 7:30am-5:30pm
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- Continental Breakfast
- 7:30am-8:30am
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- WELCOME AND KEYNOTE SESSION
- 8:30am-9:30am
- Robert C. Heterick, Jr., President, EDUCOM
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- Keynote Speaker (invited)
- Jim Hunt, Governor, North Carolina
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- PLENARY PANEL SESSION
- 10:00am-11:00am
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- THE NREN AND THE NATIONAL INFORMATION
- INFRASTRUCTURE--COMPETING VISIONS?
- The Clinton Administration is moving aggressively to expand the
- NREN towards a National Information Infrastructure that embraces
- priorities in fields outside research and education, including health
- care and manufacturing. Panelists from government, the private sector
- and the non-profit sector will present and debate their visions of
- achieving the broader goals of the NII. (Chair: Mike Roberts,
- EDUCOM)
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- PARALLEL SESSIONS
- 11:30am-12:30pm
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- NATIONAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT & GRAND
- CHALLENGES
- The next stage in High Performance Computation involves the
- creation of a National Computing Environment that links the
- country's largest supercomputers with gigabit network links to produce
- a massively parallel system capable of addressing Grand Challenge
- applications. (Chair: Peter Siegel, Cornell National Supercomputer
- Facility)
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- CITIZEN ACCESS
- Protecting and enabling citizen access to public information in
- electronic form is a major challenge for the NREN. This session will
- identify and discuss some of the key information policy issues
- underlying the NREN. (Chair: Rick Weingarten, Computing Research
- Association)
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- AT THE STATEHOUSE: THE "E" IN NREN
- State budgets provide over 90% of all education financing but states'
- role has not been visible at the federal level. This session highlights
- states with active NREN programs and the keys to their success.
- (Chair: Richard Hezel, Hezel Associates)
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- INTERNET ARCHITECTURE FOR 100 MILLION USERS
- Blue sky projections for 108 users look increasingly real as net
- connections have zoomed past one million. The Chair of the Internet
- Architecture Board will describe plans for accommodating growth and
- new services on the network. (Chair: Lyman Chapin, Bolt Beranek &
- Newman)
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- Lunch and Luncheon Address
- 12:45pm-2:00pm
- Speaker: Eric Benhamou, Chief Executive Officer, 3Com Corporation
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- INTERNATIONAL INTERNET REPORT
- Along with the annual Landweber Report, a representative from the
- European Commission will discuss that community's plans for
- network collaboration, both intra-Europe and internationally.
- 2:00pm-2:30pm
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- DEMONSTRATIONS/EXTENDED BREAK
- Several leading edge applications showing the power of the NREN will
- be demonstrated. The primary forms of the demonstrations will be
- video, network navigation and network information services.
- 2:30pm-3:30pm
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- PLENARY PANEL SESSION
- 3:30pm-5:00pm
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- FROM A NETWORK OF NETWORKS TO A COMMUNITY OF
- COMMUNITIES
- The Internet is increasingly being used to meet the needs of
- communities, and to link these communities. This session will focus
- on the linking of scholarly communications, Indian groups, and on
- citizen-based, geographically delimited community information
- systems. (Chair: Steve Cisler, Apple Computer)
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- RECEPTION
- 5:30pm
- The evening is open for you to explore the many neighborhood
- restaurants in Washington, DC.
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- Friday, April 16, 1993
- Continental Breakfast
- 7:30am-8:30am
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- Registration
- 7:30am-Noon
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- PARALLEL SESSIONS
- 8:30am-9:30am
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- K-12 SESSION
- This session will present current projects involving networking for K-
- 12 education, with an emphasis on projects in which schools and
- universities are collaborating. (Chair: John Clement, Consortium for
- School Networking)
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- IMAGES AND DOCUMENTS
- Storage and transmission of images files and documents in image
- formats are rapidly growing Internet applications. These applications
- enable networked information resources and services that go far
- beyond the mechanization of text. They also promote the evolution of
- just-in-time (e.g., information provided at the time of demand) in
- addition to just-in-case (e.g., information provided in anticipation of
- demand) information access and delivery systems. This session will
- survey the architectures and standards used by the developers of such
- applications, and will explore prospects for interoperating systems and
- services in this area. (Chair: Cliff Lynch, University of California-
- Berkeley)
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- PRODUCTIVE PARTNERING
- This session will describe projects that have used federal and state
- leveraging effectively to bring Internet access and applications to their
- communities. The panelists will give examples of local successes and
- provide recommendations from their experience that will aid in
- developing future NREN programs. (Chair: Sue Fratkin, Fratkin
- Associates)
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- PARALLEL SESSIONS
- 10:00am-11:00am
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- MULTIMEDIA ON THE INTERNET: REACHING THE
- CLASSROOM
- The promised integration of voice, video and data applications on the
- Internet opens powerful opportunities for distance learning and
- collaborative education. Today's experiments set the tone for the
- future. This session examines the activities of the NSF-funded
- Synthesis Coalition of eight universities who are collaborating to bring
- the best of engineering education across the network. (Chair: Arvin
- Eide, Iowa State)
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- SEX ON THE INTERNET: RIGHT OR WRONG?
- First Amendment rights are colliding with institutional and legal
- concerns over the content of Internet traffic. This session will survey
- strategies that institutions are adopting to promote free speech and
- expression on the network while providing protections and safeguards
- for members of their communities who do not wish to be exposed to
- certain types of communications. (Chair: Frank Connolly, American
- University)
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- LISTENING TO THE USERS
- The Internet Pioneers have blazed the trails, now it's time to start
- concentrating on the needs of the real consumers of Internet services--
- the end-users. This session provides a forum for views and reports
- from a cross-section of Internet "settlers"--the people who have come
- out to homestead the territory cleared by the early adventurers. (Chair:
- Dan Updegrove, University of Pennsylvania)
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- PARALLEL SESSIONS
- 11:30am-12:30pm
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- INTERNET VIDEO: MELTDOWN OR THE NEXT E-MAIL?
- There are a growing number of experiments in IP-based digital video
- that focus on desktop workstation multi-party collaboration.
- Widespread use with today's protocols could seriously overload
- existing network capacity and interoperability is an ever present
- problem. Yet the promise of low-cost packet-switched digital video
- opens up the potential of powerful collaborative tools that could over
- the next few years become as ubiquitous as today's electronic mail.
- This session explores the state-of-the-art, looks ahead to the near
- future, and examines the issues that must be resolved if such
- technologies are to become ubiquitous. (Chair: Scott Brimm, Cornell
- University)
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- EASY ACCESS
- Over the past two years, there has been an explosion in "second-
- generation" Internet applications: Archie, WAIS, Gopher, WWW.
- These have opened up the network to new classes of users, people who
- have previously been intimidated by Internet alphabet soup and a
- generally hostile user environment. But this is still not enough; before
- Internet access become truly ubiquitous, another order-of-magnitude
- improvement in user interface is needed. Where will these innovations
- come from? What form(s) will they take? What communities will see
- their impact first? This session features presentations to answer these
- questions. (Chair: Jean Polly, NYSERnet)
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- INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE 103rd CONGRESS
- Gore II, GPO WINDO, and a long list of other bills have been
- introduced in the new Congress. The annual legislative review features
- key committee staffers and community advocates. (Chair: Bob
- Gillespie, Robert Gillespie Associates)
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- Lunch
- 12:45pm
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- Closing Remarks
- 1:30pm
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- REGISTRATION AND HOTEL INFORMATION
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- Hotel: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Loews L'enfant Plaza
- Hotel, 408 L'enfant Plaza, SW Washington, DC 20024 until March 13,
- 1993 with rates guaranteed at $145 single/double (less than last year!).
- Please call the hotel directly at 202-484-1000 to reserve your room.
- The hotel is conveniently located on the Metro Line and a block south
- of the Smithsonian Museums.
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- REGISTRATION FEES:
- Early Registration $345
- Late Registration $395 (after March 13)
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- Payment must be received by March 13 for early registration
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- Questions, call Elizabeth Barnhart at 202-872-4200 or email
- barnhart@educom.edu
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