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["Greg Wood" <>]

To:     SURA Members

From:  Jill Gemmill, UAB

Re:     September SURA Applications Workshop

Date:   April 27, 1999

I would like to draw your attention to the Advanced Network Applications
Workshop to be held September 7-9, 1999 at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham.

The workshop will focus on four areas:

· Biotechnology, Biomedicine, and Telemedicine
· Data Mining, Informatics, and Digital Libraries
· Video Conferencing, the SURA ViDe Project, and Distance Education
Technologies
· Network Engineering Research

The keynote speaker(s) and emphasis of this workshop will be on the
biotechnology, biomedicine, telemedicine area.  There will be demonstrations
of advanced network applications in each area, and also a showcase of
videoconferencing products.

A program committee is being organized; the program committee will
recommend/select the speakers and panelists for the breakout sessions.  All
SURA institutions are invited to participate in the program committee-please
send nominations (self-nominations included) to either Sue Fratkin
()
 or Jill Gemmill 
().
  Nominations should
include a brief statement of your interest areas.  Nominations for the
program committee must be received by May 22, 1999.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: EXPANSION OF VIDE MEMBERSHIP

The Video Development Initiative (ViDe) was established in March 1998 to
leverage collective resources and expertise towards removing barriers to
the adoption of digital video in higher education, such as lack of
interoperability, volatile standards and high cost. ViDe was founded by
The Georgia Institute of Technology, The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and North Carolina
State University. NYSERNet (New York State, Educational and Research
Network) also partnered with ViDe in its Phase 1 activities.

As Phase 2 efforts begin, ViDe is very pleased to announce the expansion
of its membership to include eight additional institutions and
organizations, which share ViDe technical directions and can lend
additional resources and expertise to the initiative. The new members of
ViDe are: CANARIE, George Washington University, The University of Hawaii,
Ohio State University, The University of South Carolina, Vanderbilt
University, The College of William and Mary, and Yale University.
NYSERNet, a ViDe partner in Phase I, will henceforth be a full member.
Research TV will be collaborating with ViDe in Phase 2 also.

Phase 1 of this multi-year initiative was funded by the Southeastern
Universities Research Association (SURA) to focus ViDe efforts on the
promotion of digital video among the 44 SURA member institutions. Two
deliverables were prepared in Phase I: A Video Conferencing Cookbook and a
White Paper on Video-on-Demand, both of which are accessible at
http://vide.utk.edu. Responses to the RFI released to video system vendors
nationally in September 1998 contributed to the creation of both
deliverables.

The next phases of the ViDe initiative will consist of the pursuit of
collaborations and partnerships with video system vendors to test and
improve interoperability between systems and to develop new
functionalities for the academic environment. Demonstration
projects/applications deploying the selected technologies, and cooperative
purchasing agreements will also be pursued.

More information on ViDe is available at http://vide.utk.edu


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Ms. Mairead Martin                              

Network Information Consultant                  Tel: (423) 974-6454     
Telecommunications & Network Services           Fax: (423) 974-2622      
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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