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["Greg Wood" <>]

For Immediate Release

Contact: 
Thomas W. West
President/Executive Director 
CENIC
(562) 985-9656

http://www.cenic.org 

John Silvester Named Chairman of the Corporation for Education Network
Initiatives in California

LOS ALAMITOS, CA -- (September 13, 1999) - John Silvester has been named
chairman of the board of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives
in California (CENIC), which is building CalREN-2 - the California part of
Internet2. Dr. Silvester has served as Vice-Chair of CENIC since its
inception in 1997, representing the University of Southern California
(USC). He replaces M. Stuart Lynn who recently retired from his post at
the University of California.

"Dr. Silvester has the academic background, high-performance networking
experience and enthusiasm to lead CENIC into the new millennium," said
Thomas West, president of CENIC.  "I look forward to advancing research
and learning in California together with Dr. Silvester and the other CENIC
Board members."

Since 1979, Silvester has been on the faculty of the School of Engineering
at the University of Southern California since 1979 and currently serves
as Vice-Provost of Scholarly Technology. He is the author of over 100
technical papers and has lectured both in the United States and abroad.
He has been active in the Communications Society of the IEEE and was
recently appointed Director of Education. A member of the advisory board
of the USC Advanced Biotechnical Consortium, he is involved with
telemedicine and other applications of technology to the health sciences.
Silvester was a member of the California Virtual University design team.
Active in the community, Silvester is on the Board of Directors of Team
Santa Monica - a community based-competitive youth swimming team and
served as Vice-President from 1996-1998.  

John Silvester was born in Kent, England in 1950.  He received his M.A. in
Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Cambridge; the
M.S. in Statistics and Computer Science from West Virginia University; and
the Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.  He lives with his wife and two
children in West Los Angeles.

Silvester is joined by CENIC Board of Director officers:

Vice Chair - Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley, Associate Vice Chancellor of
 Information Systems and Technology
Secretary - David Ernst, California State University (CSU), Assistant
 Vice Chancellor of Information Technology Services
Treasurer - Rich Fagen, California Institute of Technology, Director of
 Information Technology Services 

Other CENIC board members include:
John D. Welty, CSU Fresno, President
John Charles, CSU Hayward, Associate Vice President of Information
 Technology
Raman Khanna, Stanford University, Chief Information Officer
Jim Dolgonas, UC Office of the President, Acting Associate Vice
 President of Information Resources and Communications
Kumar Patel, UC Los Angeles, Vice Chancellor for Research
Ron Johnson, Outside Director, University of Washington, Vice President
 for Computing and Communications
M. Stuart Lynn, Outside Director, past chair of CENIC, Retired

CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation formed by the California Institute
of Technology, the California State University, Stanford University, the
University of California, and the University of Southern California to
advance the use of communications technology in teaching, learning, and
research at California's institutions of higher education.  CENIC
Associates include Cisco Systems, IBM, Pacific Bell, and Sun Microsystems.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 15, 1999
     
ResearchTV & Sony Electronics Inc. Reach Convergence Milestone in Success 
of High Definition Television Over Internet Demonstration
     
ResearchTV, a consortium of leading research institutions creating greater
access to research information, has teamed with Sony Electronics'
Broadcast and Professional Company to demonstrate the first ever streaming
of High Definition Television (HDTV) over the Internet.  On September 9,
computer engineers and television experts celebrated their first
successful demonstration when an HDTV video stream was sent from the
Stanford University campus in Palo Alto to the University of Washington
(UW) campus in Seattle over the new high bandwidth Internet2 backbone.  
On October 12, this demonstration will be viewable at a meeting of
Internet2 developers at the University of Washington.
     
"HDTV over the Internet brings us closer to a more perfect transfer of 
visual data," said Amy Philipson, executive director of the ResearchTV 
consortium, "Particularly in the case of the accessing vivid images that 
are important to the progress of research activity.  This is one of the
highest speed applications ever run over the Internet."

University of Washington and Sony developers were extremely pleased as
they viewed the success of their work that culminated in a 40 minute
stream of HDTV video sent from Stanford over Internet2 to University of
Washington in an almost "dropless" 270 megabit connection.  The
demonstration used the highest quality industry standards with Sony
HDCAM/HDVS (R) equipment to capture, encode, and compress HDTV video.  
The success in the transfer of data is a result of original software code
written by UW programmers that encapsulated the data into packets which
were reliably transferred across Internet2 and reassembled as HDTV video
in Seattle. This is a significant achievement as currently most television
broadcasts on the Internet employ connections of 20 to 200 kilobits per
second using short clips of video shown in small windows on PC screens.
     
"The challenge of these demonstrations is to be able to sustain a 
continuous stream of high definition video with perfect HD picture quality 
over Internet2," said Michael Wellings, ResearchTV chief engineer at the 
University of Washington,  "The demanding data streams required by high 
definition video have significantly tested the performance characteristics 
of Internet2 and pushed the boundaries of HDTV video distribution over the 
Internet. With these tests we have seen the future and we know that with 
more work this quality can be something everyone will be able to enjoy."
    
For more information:

UW/ResearchTV HDTV Project
David Richardson

206-543-2876 

ResearchTV  www.washington.edu/researchtv
Susan Brandt

212-414-4672

Sony Electronics Inc.  www.sony.com/professional
Lisa Young

408-955-5683 

Internet2  www.internet2.edu
Greg Wood

202-872-9119
















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Contact: Karen Green, NCSA, 217-265-0748, 



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

***SC99 Papers and Panels Feature an Abundance of Topics***
--Conference also includes a dozen panel discussions  

PORTLAND, OR, September 15, 1999--From scientific applications, to OpenMP
and MPI; from architectures and algorithms, to networking and scheduling;
the original technical papers that will be presented at SC99 represent the
diverse interests and expertise of the high-performance networking and
computing community.

SC99, the annual high-performance networking and computing conference, will
be held Nov. 13-19 at the Oregon Convention Center.  Sixty-six original
technical papers reporting results and experiences related to
high-performance networking and computing issues will be presented at this
year's conference. The papers were chosen from 225 extended abstracts that
were submitted to a review committee and represent works and experiences of
exceptional originality, timeliness, relevance and clarity. This year's
authors were also encouraged to consider the implications of high-end
innovations for the broader computing community, including applications in
industry and education.

"This year's papers show how far the high-performance computing community
has come in the 11 years since the first SC conference was held," said
David Bailey of the National Energy Research Scientific Center at Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory and chair of the SC99 technical papers committee. "The
papers being presented here cover work that could impact a wide range of
fields and activities, from medical imaging and bioinformatics, to the
speed and ease of collaborating over high-speed networks."

In addition to the technical papers, the SC99 program will include
technical sessions featuring panels of experts. A total of 12 panel
sessions will be held beginning Tuesday, Nov. 16 and running through
Friday, Nov. 19.  Some panel topics include data mining, the status of the
Internet2 project, the role of Java in high-performance network computing,
and scalable information infrastructure. 

Technical papers will be presented Tuesday, Nov. 16 through Thursday, Nov.
18, and each paper will be published in full in the SC99 Proceedings.  An
award of $1,000 will be presented to the author of the paper selected as
"best paper of the conference." A $500 award will be presented to the
author of the best student paper. The 1999 award winners will be announced
at the SC99 Awards Session.

Schedules for technical paper presentations and panel discussions,
including titles, authors and their affiliations, are available on the SC99
website at http://www.SC99.org.

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****Worldwide Exhibits Give SC99 an International Flair**** 

PORTLAND, OR, September 22, 1999--A decade ago, the annual Supercomputing
conference was small--only 36 exhibitors attended the first conference in
1988--and most of the participants were from the relatively small
high-performance computing community within the United States.

Today that conference is called SC99, the annual international high
performance networking and computing conference. And each year, it becomes
more of an international event as more participants and exhibitors attend
from overseas.

"Over the years we've had people come from South America, Europe, the
Middle East, Asia and Africa to attend SC," said Ron Perrott of Queen's
University in the United Kingdom, who heads the SC International Relations
committee. "What is particularly exciting to see is that people from around
the world are not just attending the conference, they are participating as
exhibitors."

According to Perrott, the international audience is attracted to SC because
of the unique mix of academic, commercial and government agencies that
participate.  New products launches and weeklong discussions and tutorials
about current initiatives and future directions in advanced computing and
networking also lure international participants to the conference, he said.  

At SC99, 24 research exhibits will be operated by organizations located
outside the U.S. Last year, 20 international exhibitors participated in
SC98.  The Japanese, with 12 exhibits planned, will be the best represented
country on the exhibit floor this year. Other countries that will be
represented are Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Norway, Spain,
Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. These exhibitors represent universities,
national high-performance computing centers, cooperative research projects
and software developers.

SC99 will be held Nov. 13 - 19 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
International attendees who register in advance can pay by wire transfer
for an additional processing fee of $25 per wire transfer. Wire transfers
must be received by Friday, Oct. 22 and will not be accepted at on-site
registration.

The general advance registration deadline for SC99 is 5 p.m. Eastern Time,
Friday, Oct. 8. Only registrations received by this date will qualify for
registration discounts. For more information on registration and SC99
programs, see http://www.sc99.org/.

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