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- NYSERNet CONFERENCE '92
- Network Access for All: Learn, Teach, Collaborate
-
- NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
-
- SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 1992
-
- *********************************************************************
- The first New York State conference focused on computer networking
- and worldwide information resources.
-
- Sponsored by NYSERNet (the New York State Education & Research Network),
- for New York professionals in K-12 schools, colleges, library
- organizations, state-funded technology organizations, state agencies,
- and private sector companies and corporations.
-
- ______________________________________________________________
- | WIN A NYSERLink E-MAIL ACCOUNT! |
- | Early Registrants will be automatically entered in |
- | our NYSERLink Free Giveaway Drawing! One year free email! |
- | See registration form for details! |
- |______________________________________________________________|
-
- *********************************************************************
- THURSDAY PROGRAM SESSIONS
-
- AT-A-GLANCE: Thursday, September 24 --
- NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
-
- 8:00-9:00 am Registration/Continental Breakfast
- 9:00 am Welcome: Richard Mandelbaum
- 9:00-10:15 am Keynote Speaker: ROBERT KAHN,
- President of the Corporation for
- National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
- 10:30-Noon Parallel Sessions I
- Noon-1:30 pm Luncheon, Speaker to be announced
- 1:45-3:15 pm Parallel Sessions II
- 3:30-5:00 pm Parallel Sessions III
- 5:00-6:30 pm Wine and Cheese Reception
-
- You will receive a complete schedule of sessions when you pick up
- your NYSERNet '92 information packet at registration.
-
- ********************************************************************
- TRACK 1: Tools for Collaboration
-
- ON-LINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
- The power of any on-line information system is defined by the broad
- range of useful information it easily makes available to the
- community it serves rather than the technology it is built upon. This
- session will focus on three uses of on-line information available
- today.
-
- PNN - Princeton News Network:
- Howard Strauss, Princeton University
-
- On-line Undergraduate Admissions Information:
- Jeff Bary, New York University
-
- Finding People on the NET:
- Jim Gerland, SUNY at Buffalo
-
- INTERFACE TO NETWORK SERVICES
- The myriad of information and computational services available on
- the Internet often brings confusion and frustration to the common
- user. The commands and procedures to access even the simplest of
- documentation can range from being bothersome to being
- incomprehensible. The three presentations will highlight work being
- done to simplify the interface to network services.
-
- NYSERLink:
- Linda Carl, Information Services Coordinator, NYSERNet
-
- Scientist Workbench:
- Dan Dwyer, Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
-
- Easy Access to Network Resources:
- Speaker to be announced
-
- NEW VIEWS OF INFORMATION APPLICATIONS
- Networking is more than just technology or resource sharing. It is an
- enabler that uses innovation to leverage information resources and
- human expertise by putting new applications together. This session
- will examine applications that have been developed with a new view
- of networking in mind.
-
- Comparison of information retrieval systems:
- Steve Worona, Cornell University
-
- Print on Demand Applications Involving Campus Stores:
- Richard McDaniel, Cornell University
-
- "Ask Liberty-Hi": Behind the Scenes:
- Barbara Florini, User Services Coordinator, NYSERNet
-
- *********************************************************************
- TRACK 2: Education
-
- INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF THE INTERNET
- Internet connectivity offers many exciting possibilities for
- improved and enhanced instruction. This session presents a variety
- of current applications across educational levels which take
- advantage of computer networking, including a 5th grade toxic waste
- project, a college class taught using the Internet as the classroom,
- supercomputing high school projects, and a high school project using
- an international mainframe simulation.
-
- K-12:
- John E. Newton, Main Street Elementary School
- Nancy Leib, Townsend Harris High School at Queens College
-
- Higher Education:
- Norman Coombs, Professor, History Department,
- Rochester Institute of Technology
-
- Higher Education/K-12 Collaborations:
- Susan Mehringer, Project Leader, Education and Training,
- Cornell Theory Center
-
- ADMINISTRATIVE MODELS
- The addition of computer networking to a school's infrastructure
- presents administrators with a variety of issues and concerns. There
- are currently a number of different models of connectivity to
- consider. This session will present individuals who have considered
- the administrative issues of connectivity from a variety of
- administrative perspectives.
-
- School-Level:
- Donald Black, Principal, Selma Middle School, Selma, Indiana
-
- District-Level:
- Argie Johnson, Deputy Chancellor for Curriculum and
- Instruction, New York City Board of Education
-
- State-Wide:
- Connie Stout, Director, TENET, Texas Education Network
- and President of the Coalition for School Networking
-
- EDUCATION PROJECT REPORTS
- Bank Street College Survey:
- Margaret Honey, Associate Director,
- Center for Children and Technology, Bank Street College
- The results of a nation-wide survey of approximately 600 K-12
- educators from around the country investigating use of
- telecommunications systems for professional enhancement and
- student learning will be presented.
-
- TNT Network:
- Denis Martin, Associate, Michael Radlick, Director,
- Division of Planning, Evaluation and Technological
- Services New York State Education Department
- An overview of the TNT network and the various options being
- implemented to support connectivity to/from NYSERNet.
-
- College/K-12 Collaborations:
- Marion French, Project Coordinator, Bridging the Gap, NYSERNet
- NYSERNet's "Bridging the Gap" projects: K-12 Network Scholars, New
- Connections and Liberty High.
-
- Project WeatherWatch:
- Steve Richards, Director, District 11 Weather Study Program,
- NYC Board of Education, and Field Coordinator for
- Project WeatherWatch, City College of New York.
- An NSF funded planning grant, permits the transmission of weather
- data from Unidata over the Internet to participating schools.
-
- ********************************************************************
- TRACK 3: Libraries
-
- NETWORK ACCESS: TRAINING ISSUES FOR THE LIBRARY
- Getting connected to the Internet raises many training issues for
- librarians: planning for incorporating this new service, who does the
- training, how do we train the trainers, and what and how do we
- teach new users.
-
- Marilyn Moody, Head of Technical Services, Folson Library,
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-
- Jean Currie, Director of Special Projects, South Central
- Research Institute
-
- Ree DeDonato, Head of General and Humanities Reference,
- Bobst Library, New York University
-
- NETWORKING - WHAT IS IT? WHAT DO WE WANT IT TO BE?
- This session will feature speakers from public, academic and
- corporate libraries who will address, not only their current
- participation in a networking environment, but will present their
- views on the realistic utility of short and longer term network
- applications for libraries.
-
- J. Michael Bruer, Associate Director for Preparation
- Services of the Research Libraries,
- The New York Public Library
-
- Ellen Sleeter, Information Systems Librarian at
- Davis, Polk and Wardwell
-
- Arnold Hirshorn, Director, University Libraries
- at Wright State University
-
- DOCUMENT ACCESS AND DELIVERY
- The number and variety of information resources available through
- the Internet is growing rapidly. Background information on
- navigational tools and their implementation in campus wide
- information systems and document delivery initiatives such as CARL
- UnCover 2, RLG's ARIEL and CiteDel services, and OCLC's Fax on
- Finder service will be presented.
-
- Pamela W. McLaughlin, On-Line Services Coordinator,
- Syracuse University
-
- Ron Kalinoski, Director, Faculty Computing Services,
- Syracuse University
-
- ********************************************************************
- TRACK 4: Network Technologies
-
- IMPLEMENTING NETWORK NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
- Networks and network connections are growing in ever increasing
- pace every day within and outside of our institutions. What we, as
- administrators of these connections at our respective organizations,
- and our users expect is network access, not just connections. This
- session will cover issues related to finding, installing and supporting
- such applications.
-
- Implementation of ColumbiaNet:
- A single electronic information system for all: Scholars, students,
- librarians, administrators. What it takes to install, support,
- feed the Gopher system. How Columbianet implements Gopher protocols.
-
- David Millman, Columbia University Academic Information
- Systems, Coordinator of Research and Development.
-
- Other Net Navigators:
- What else is there other than Gopher. Summary of activities and
- information about how to get more involved, and learn before your
- users do.
-
- Walter Bourne, Columbia University Academic Information
- Systems, Assistant Director, Academic Computing.
-
- WAIS:
- What is it, where is it now, where it's going.
-
- Willem Scholten, Columbia University, Law School,
- Director of Computer Systems and Development.
-
- GATHERING AND MANAGING RESOURCES
- This track focuses on the need to look within as well as outside an
- organization to obtain and manage support for data networking.
- Internal considerations include: the education of your base of users
- to what the Network can do for them; the extension of your network
- to that base of users; the use of network applications to support goals
- common to multiple departments within an organization. External
- considerations include: building strategic alliances with other
- organizations and manufacturers; obtaining sponsored funding for
- new projects; positioning your organization to be a "player" in local
- and regional initiatives.
-
- Gathering/Managing Internal Resources:
- Geraldine MacDonald, Associate Vice President for Computing
- Services, State University of New York at Binghamton
-
- Gathering/Managing External Resources:
- M. Stuart Lynn, Vice President, Information Technologies,
- Cornell University
-
- TECHNICAL CHALLENGES IN MOVING TO GIGABIT NETWORKS
- With the move from T1 to T3 well along, the frontier has shifted to
- planning and testing of networks with gigabit per second data rates.
- Many of the problems at lower speeds such as slow distributed name
- servers, finite address space, support for multimedia, are
- exacerbated as raw network speed increases. The speaker will
- discuss what he sees as the challenges and opportunities as we move
- to the next plateau.
-
- David Farber is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at
- the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Distributed
- Systems Laboratory. He is a principal investigator on the Aurora
- Gigabit Testbed and a director of the Electronics Frontier Foundation.
-
- *********************************************************************
- FRIDAY SESSIONS
-
- AT-A-GLANCE
-
- Friday, September 25 --
- NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
-
- 9:00-9:30 am Tutorial Registration
- 9:30-Noon Parallel Tutorial Sessions
- NYSERNet Open Board Meeting
- (open to the public)
- NYSERTech Meeting**
- Noon-1:30 pm Lunch on your own
- 1:30-5:00 pm Parallel Tutorial Sessions continued
- NYSERTech Meeting continued
-
- You will receive a complete schedule of sessions when you pick up
- your NYSERNet '92 information packet at registration.
-
- ** NYSERTech, NYSERNet's Technical Users' Group, resumes its regular
- meetings at NYSERNet '92. An important topic for discussion will be
- the issues arising in connection with WAN router ownership by
- individual NYSERNet members, especially those related to the burden
- of maintaining these routers and their tables. NYSERTech members
- are invited to propose other agenda items for both this and future
- meetings. Send your suggestions to Ben Chi (bec@albany.edu) or Mel
- Ferentz (mel@nysernet.org).
-
- *********************************************************************
- TUTORIAL 1:
- GETTING STARTED: AN INTERNET WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS
-
- This hands-on tutorial provides discussion, demonstration and
- practice with the basic tools of the Internet. Participants will gain
- experience in sending and receiving electronic mail, subscribing to
- mailing lists and on-line journals, anonymously transferring files,
- using archival systems and on-line databases, exploring special
- interest and news groups. Participants will have time to explore
- resources appropriate to their areas of interest.
-
- WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- This tutorial is targeted for new users who have little hands-on
- experience with using Internet tools. All novices are welcome.
- IMPORTANT: If new users have access to their own Internet account
- they should bring that information with them. All participants will
- be provided with temporary accounts.
-
- INSTRUCTORS
-
- Urban LeJeune, Associate Professor, Computer & Information
- Sciences, Stockton College, has developed tutorial programs for new
- K-12 and university users.
-
- Marion French, Project Coordinator, "Bridging the Gap", NYSERNet, is
- currently advising educators and librarians in the use of the Internet
- in developing collaborative projects involving K-12 curriculum.
-
- ***********************************************************************
- TUTORIAL 2:
- INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT OF YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION
-
- A discussion with an extended question and answer portion, this
- tutorial will provide the basics required to obtain a NYSERNet
- connection. This session will assist attendees in understanding the
- administrative, technical, and operational issues which must be
- addressed in order to ease the management of such a project. The
- extensive Q&A session will aid in helping attendees to grasp these
- concepts for implementation at their own facilities.
-
- WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- This session is for data processing managers, system managers, and
- users involved in the acquisition of an Internet connection via
- NYSERNet. Previous knowledge of Internet and data communications
- concepts while helpful is NOT required.
-
- INSTRUCTOR
-
- Paul Lohnes is an experienced tutorial developer and provider using
- his many years of University level teaching experience to offer
- informative and enjoyable technical seminars. Currently a full-time
- telecommunications professor at the SUNY Institute of Technology,
- Paul Lohnes has been involved with the Internet for over 11 years
- both at the University of California, Berkeley and as a member of the
- SUNYNET Technical Advisory Group.
-
- ***********************************************************************
- TUTORIAL 3:
- A FURTHER EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET
-
- The intermediate user will get hands-on experience with a variety of
- Internet resources. Systems such as library catalogs, Gopher, Archie,
- and WAIS will be demonstrated and accessed from a computer lab
- facility. Telnet, tn3270, and ftp will be explored. In the afternoon
- session, a "treasure hunt" through the Internet will be conducted
- with prizes for the winners.
-
- WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- This workshop is recommended for users with some computing
- experience wishing to know more about Internet resources and how
- to use them.
-
- INSTRUCTORS
-
- Andrew Perry, Assistant Director of Libraries for Systems at
- Binghamton University, is an authority on Internet resources and
- principle author of the "NYSERNet new user's guide to useful and
- unique resources on the Internet."
-
- Martin Raish is in charge of Information Instruction at the
- Binghamton University Libraries, and owner of the popular listserv,
- BI-L (Bibliographic Instruction List).
-
- *********************************************************************
- HOTELS
-
- New York Marriott Marquis
- In the heart of the theater district. Location of Thursday's
- conference.
-
- 1535 Broadway (45th-46th Streets.)
- New York, NY 10036-4017
- Reservations: 212-398-1900 or 800-228-9290
-
- The conference rate is $175 per night for single or double occupancy.
- Be sure to reference NYSERNet '92 for the conference rate.
-
- Washington Square Hotel
- Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, near NYU, where tutorials
- will be held on Friday.
-
- 103 Waverly Place
- New York, NY 10011-9194
- Reservations: 800-222-0418
- $96-117 per night
-
- ********************************************************************
- REGISTRATION FORM
-
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- Title: _________________________________________________________
- Co./Assoc.: ____________________________________________________
- Address: _______________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- Phone: ___________________________________________
- FAX: ____________________________________________
- E-Mail: __________________________________________
-
- Please indicate special dietary needs: _________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
-
- FEES:
- NOT-FOR CORPORATE
- PROFIT AFFILIATE OTHER
- CONFERENCE SESSIONS
- THURS. SEPT. 24, 1992
- (includes refreshments, $95 $145 $195
- lunch, & reception)
- ________________________________________________________________________
- TUTORIALS
- FRI. SEPT. 25, 1992
- (see below to select $95 $95 $195
- tutorial desired)
- ________________________________________________________________________
- OPEN BOARD MEETING
- and NYSERTech NO CHARGE FOR EITHER MEETING
- FRI. SEPT. 25, 1992
- ________________________________________________________________________
- LATE REGISTRATION FEE OF $25 APPLIES TO REGISTRATIONS
- RECEIVED AFTER SEPTEMBER 1, 1992
-
- Please make checks or money orders payable to NYSERNet.
- (Registration fee). Check enclosed in the amount of: $__________
-
- So that we can plan meeting space more effectively,
- please check your anticipated attendance:
-
- *** Registration for Tutorials is limited.
- Please indicate first and second choices.
-
- THURSDAY
-
- ____ TRACK 1: Tools for Collaboration
- ____ TRACK 2: Education
- ____ TRACK 3: Libraries
- ____ TRACK 4: Network Technologies
-
- FRIDAY
-
- ____ NYSERNet Open Board of Directors Meeting
- ____ NYSERTech Meeting
-
- FRIDAY
-
- ____ TUTORIAL 1: Getting Started:
- An Internet Workshop for Beginners
- ____ TUTORIAL 2: Installation and Management of Your
- Network Connection
- ____ TUTORIAL 3: A Further Exploration of the Internet
-
- To be eligible for the NYSERLink Giveaway Drawing, full payment
- must be received on or before September 1, 1992. Registration after
- that date will be accepted on a space-available basis, with payment
- of a $25.00 late fee. Refunds for registration cancellation (less $15
- handling fee) will be made after Conference, if request is received in
- writing by 9/16/92.
-
- *******************************************************************
-
- For further information, or to mail your registration:
-
- NYSERNet, Inc.
- 111 College Place
- Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
- Voice: 315/443-4120
- Fax: 315/425-7518
- Email: conference@nysernet.org
-
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