Middleware Announcements

[Laurie Burns <>]

Dear Colleagues:

The Spring 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting is scheduled to proceed as
planned, and I look forward to seeing many of you in Arlington, Virginia
next week. While we will continue to monitor the military situation, we
expect to see over 500 of you at the Crystal Gateway Marriott for what
promises to be a productive and informative meeting.

The program includes 44 track sessions, 25 working group meetings,
updates from the International Task Force, and over 17 BoFs and
tutorials. A new Video track reflects the critical work going on in this
area, and will complement the standard tracks of Advanced Applications,
Middleware, Network Planning and Engineering, and Relationships and
Partnerships.

Peter A. Freeman, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation
for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), will open
the meeting in Wednesday’s plenary session with a presentation of his
perspectives on the research programs that NSF is encouraging to meet the
challenges for advanced networking. The closing plenary on Friday will
feature David B. Nelson, who is the director of the National Coordination
Office (NCO) for Information Technology Research and Development and a
member of the Senior Executive Service. Nelson will describe the federal
government’s activities in optical networks, middleware, and grid
computing, and will focus on the recently established High Computing
Revitalization Task Force
(http://www.itrd.gov/hecrtf-outreach/),
which will develop an interagency R&D roadmap for high-end computing
core technologies to guide future federal investments in this
area.

For those of you who have not yet registered, online (late) registration
is open until 5pm eastern time on Friday, April 4. Onsite registration
will open on Tuesday morning, April 8. To register, please visit 
https://services.internet2.edu/spring03mm/home.jsp

I encourage all of you to visit the meeting's Web pages to
preview the entire program at: 
http://events.internet2.edu/2003/spring-mm/

See you in Arlington!

        

Laurie

Laurie Burns, Director of Member Activities
Internet2
3025 Boardwalk, Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Office:  (734) 913-4251
Cell:  (734) 604-9558