07/17/1998 - Summer Research Opportunities Program

    Cristina Beldica
    net: cbeldica@ncsa.uiuc.edu

On July 17th, next Friday, a group of 700 minority students will be arriving at the University to participate in the annual Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) for the weekend. Since their arrival will be sporadic throughout the day, we have arranged for several of you to host the students by either giving tours, hosting an open house with videos and information, or arranging for Professors and Graduate Students to be available to answer questions. These tours are voluntary and not all the students will participate.

see earleir SORP demo aswell.

07/17/1998 - Cannan Academy

    Stephanie Tatum
    statum@soltec.net

37 students 4 groups for 20 minutes.

07/16/1998 - Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering Department

    Philippe H. Geubelle                    
    Assistant Professor                     
    Dept. of Aero. & Astro. Eng.            
    Univ. of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign    
    306 Talbot Lab.
    104 South Wright Street
    Urbana, IL  61801;  USA
    tel: (217) 244 7648
    fax: (217) 244 0720
    net: geubelle@uiuc.edu
    www: http://ssm2.aae.uiuc.edu/PHG_GROUP/

07/14/1998 - Title I

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    217-244-0768(office)
    217-244-2909(fax)
    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

simple CAVEdemo - 3 groups of 10

07/14/1998 - DOE, Martha Krebs

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    217-244-0768(office)
    217-244-2909(fax)
    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

Argonne/NCSA collaboration using spine data set in CRUMBS in the CAVE. Virtual Director collaboration on the Iwall and the Idesk.

07/02/1998 - Artworld & KCPA Director

    Wendy Tulman 
    wtulman@bu.edu
    617/353-7800

Thursday July 9 Meet in Room 3514 Beckman
Hosts:          Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stuart Levy, Tom Coffin
Visitors:       Michael Ross, Director Krannert Center for Performing Arts
                Gary Bernstein, Technical Lead for KCPA
                Kathleen Conlin, Dean College Fine and Applied Arts

        Art World                                                   4:00 PM
                Realtime CAVE to CAVE collaboration with
                Boston University

        Virtual Director Collaboration
                Realtime collaboration from Idesk<->IWall
                software used to make IMAX movie "Cosmic Voyage"
                url:http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/grants/virdir/      4:15 PM

        Crayola Land & Cathedral /or Push/Pop
                UIC Art demonstrations                              4:40 PM

Subject: ArtWorld Opening - Thursday July 9, 1998 a web invite can be found at: http://scv.bu.edu/HiPArt/opening.html.

**************************************************************
        NCSA will be collaborating in the CAVE
             with Boston University on 
          Thursday July 9, 1998 3pm - 7pm. 
      email: tcoffin@ncsa.uiuc.edu for more info.
**************************************************************

---------------------------------------------------------------------- You are cordially invited to a special HiPArt Opening at Boston University's Laboratory for Immersive and Virtual Environments (LIVE), featuring the work of:

Glenn Bresnahan         Boston University
Erik Brisson            Boston University
Tom Coffin              National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Al Colleti              Rhode Island School of Design
Richard Cornell         Boston University
Kathleen Curry          Boston University
Rita DeWitt             Rhode Island School of Design
Aaron Fuegi             Boston University
Laura Giannitrapani     Boston University
Paul Haman              Massachusetts College of Art
Peter Hamilton          Springfield College
Matt Harter             Boston Museum of Fine Arts School
Claire H. Chin          Boston University
Jeong-Hoon Lee          Boston University
Robert Putnam           Boston University
Mark Schane-Lydon       Springfield College
Karlo Takki             Independent
Stephen Thompson        Rhode Island School of Design
Ruth West               Springfield College

Thursday July 9, 1998 4-8PM 111 Cummington Street room 202 (Computer Graphics Lab) High Performance Computing in the Arts (HiPArt) was formed in March 1998 by the Scientific Computing and Visualization Group to bring high-performance computing and networking to artistic endeavors in the Northeast. The realization of our first project, ArtWorld, is a collaborative, networked, multi-user, virtual reality environment filled with animated models, artwork and audio created by local artists. During the opening, ArtWorld will connect several sites using Next-Generation Internet technologies. Talk with the artists and engineers who worked together to make this project a success and find out how you can get involved. If you are an artist, graphic designer, 3D computer graphics modeler, teacher, musician, or just interested in how high performance computing and networking can benefit the arts, please join us! Visit HiPArt on the web at http://scv.bu.edu/HiPArt

07/02/1998 - Donna R Thompson

    Donna R Thompson
    Production Editor
    Applied Mechanics Reviews
    Heat Transfer - Recent Contents
    ASME
    22 Law Drive
    Fairfield NJ  07007-2900
    Phone: 973-244-2232
    Fax: 973-882-5155
    thompsond@asme.org

simple CAVE demo

06/29/1998 - Summer Research Opportunities Program

    Cristina Beldica
    net: cbeldica@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Minority undergraduates are invited to apply for a summer program designed to prepare them for graduate study and faculty careers. Through the SROP students work on a research project guided by a faculty mentor and have the opportunity to explore a topic of interest at one of fifteen host CIC universities (see the listing of institutions below). Special educational enrichment activities such as workshops and social gatherings are also scheduled during the summer.

Underrepresented minority students, inlcuding African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Latinos, who are sophomores or juniors majoring in any field are eligible to apply. Participants are expected to devote full time to the program during the eight-to-ten week summer session.

An in-depth research experience, working one-on-one with a faculty mentor, is the main focus of the program. All SROP students on the host campus meet weekly as a group for educational enrichment activities and special seminars. In July, participants from all fifteen campuses will come together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the annual SROP Conference. The conference program affords SROP students the opportunity to discuss their projects with one another, hear talks given by former participants, meet CIC graduate students, and learn about graduate admission procedures and financial aid.

SROP students are required to write a paper and an abstract describing their projects and to present the results of their work at a campus symposium.

06/29/1998 - Robert Morris College

Springfield Illinois' Robert Morris College saw Bargars industry application on the Iwall and demos in the CAVE.

06/29/1998 - CNN

    Dr. Melanie J. Loots
    Senior Associate Director, Institutional Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    tel: 217-244-2921
    fax: 217-244-2909

CNN Visit

Scott Teissler, Senior Vice President
Steve Korn, Chief Operating Officer

June 30, 1998

8:30 NCSA Introduction, Dr. Melanie Loots, Senior Associate Director Room 5239 Beckman Institute

9:00 Image Formation and Processing Laboratory, Professor Thomas Huang Demos with Vladimir Pavlovic in 2203 Beckman Institute

9:30 3rd Floor Tour: Sound Lab, Editing Suite, Hank Kaczmarski CAVE, Virtual Director, Professor Donna Cox and Robert Patterson

11:00 NCSA Visualization and Virtual Environments, Dr. Polly Baker Room 5269 Beckman Institute

11:45 Lunch with roundtable discussion of possible areas for collaboration All participants invited Room 5269 Beckman

1:15 Michael Welge, Knowledge Discovery in Databases discussion

2:00 Wrap-up

06/25/1998 - UIUC Disabilities Summer Camp

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    tel: 217-244-0768
    fax: 217-244-2909
    www: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

We are having summer technology literacy camps for high school students with disabilities. As part of the camps we will be giving tours of campus factilities and I would really like to include NCSA as part of the tours. I think the cave technology would be great for the students to see. The visually impaired students would probably be interested in some of the work related to tactile feedback and audio exploration of data.

06/24/1998 - Shell Oil

    Sundaresan "Bala" Bala
    Emerging Technology Analysis
    Planning, Finance and Investment Services
    Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas.
    tel: 713-241-5424
    net: bala@shellus.com
    url: http://els/pfisfirm/mcs.htm

Bill Sherman demonstrated Boiler on the Iwall and the CAVE, idesk

06/24/1998 - CNRS

    Maxine D. Brown
    Associate Director, Electronic Visualization Laboratory
    University of Illinois at Chicago          
    851 S. Morgan St., Room 1120               
    Chicago, IL 60607-7053                     
    tel: (312) 996-3002
    fax: (312) 413-7585
    net: maxine@uic.edu
    www: http://www.evl.uic.edu

Demo showed collaborative Virtual Director on the Iwall, Idesk and CAVE. CNRS, the French equivalent of NSF (http://www.uiuc.edu/cnrs), is investigating the requirements of its university labs in terms of networking; in particular, the combination of commodity Internet and research project oriented networking. RENATER, from their email below, seems like their equivalent to Internet2.

Christian Michau and (CNRS network manager) and Claudine Schmidt Laine (CNRS manager of the computing and networking board) are coming to the USA at the end of June for several days to visit NSF, NCSA, and NPACI. Given their interest in STAR TAP for connectivity to foreign research institutions, I volunteered to help set up their visit to NCSA.

Specifically, from one of their emails, they request "...discussing issues around high speed networking for research, including:
- high speed requirements
- distributed computing
- Internet vs research networks
etc ... and to discuss possible common projects and maybe connection between current CNRS networks experiments and VBNS or other related experimental platforms."

06/24/1998 - Dan Fay of Microsoft

    Jae Allen
    net: jallen@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Demo showed Dan Fay collaborative Virtual Director on the Iwall and CAVE

06/24/1998 - Ansys

    Polly Baker
    net: baker@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium in the CAVE, the more advanced Caterpllar demo on the Idesk and Woodwards sun on the Iwall to 2 Ansys reps and 3 Caterpillar reps.

06/23/1998 - Gary Kielhofner

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    tel: 217-244-0768
    fax: 217-244-2909
    www: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathdral.

06/22/1998 - 46th Biennial Gamma Sigma Delta Conclave

    Roger D. Shanks                            
    University of Illinois                     
    Professor of Genetics                      
    Department of Animal Sciences              
    308 Animal Sciences Lab.
    1207 West Gregory Drive 
    Urbana, Illinois 61801
    Editor, Genetics and Breeding, Journal of Dairy Science
    tel: (217) 244-3155       
    fax: (217) 333-8286
    net: r-shanks@uiuc.edu

Thank you for agreeing to a tour at the last minute. The group is the participants of the 46th Biennial Gamma Sigma Delta Conclave being held at the University of Illinois. Gamma Sigma Delta is the honor society of Agriculture. Representatives from 17 different chapters from across the United States are attending the conclave. I expect 22 or 23 people to enjoy visiting the CAVE between noon and 1pm today. Again, thank you.

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathdral to 3 groups of ~ 10 people.

06/22/1998 - AFS International Exchange Students

Maggie Dougherty-Roberts
tel: 359-2772

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathdral to 4 groups of ~ 10 people.

06/16/1998 - UIUC chapter of the Black Graduate Students

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    tel: 217-244-0768
    fax: 217-244-2909
    www: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathdral.

06/13/1998 - Under priveledged children from Danville

    Camille Gillmore
    tel: 333-3105
    Paul Magelli
    tel: 244-3407

About two dozen underprivileged children from the Danville area will get a taste of life at one of the country's top universities on Saturday, June 13, when the wives of the Fighting Illini football coaches and staff of the Illinois MBA program's Office of Strategic Business Initiatives host a day-long visit to the U of I and its many attractions. The children all attend programs at the Laura Lee Fellowship House in Danville, and are being brought to campus through a joint effort between that agency and East Central Illinois Community Action of Danville. The youths are from economically underprivileged households, and most have never had the opportunity to visit a university campus. The event begins at 8 a.m. with registration and a breakfast donated by Bagleman's at 241 Commerce West Building, 1206 S. Sixth. An opening ceremony, featuring Fighting Illini football Coach Ron Turner begins at 8:30 a.m. The group will have a tour of the campus and visit the College of Veterinary Medicine and the football stadium in the morning. Lunch will be provided by McDonalds in the football stadium Squad Room. At 1:30 p.m., the group will head to the Illini Union, where it will divide into smaller groups, which will rotate between bowling at the Union and visiting the CAVE, a virtual reality system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Closing ceremonies will take place in room 404 of the Illini Union and will feature snacks provided by Frito-Lay and gifts and posters provided by TIS and Follets. Other local businesses supporting the event are Schnuck's and the Illini Union Bookstore.

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathdral.

06/11/1998 - Special Libraries Association

    William H. Mischo
    Engineering Librarian & Professor of Library Administration
    Director, Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    1301 W. Springfield Ave.
    Urbana, IL 61801
    tel: 217-333-7497
    fax: 217-244-7764
    net: w-mischo@uiuc.edu

A group of about 45 people from around the country attending a national conference in Indianapolis who are going to take a day trip here June 11 to see information technologies at UIUC.

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium Cathdral.

06/11/1998 - Yamaha

    Kaoru Okui
    Yamaha Motor Corp. U.S.A.
    Detroit office
    c/o Ford Motor Co.
    Poee Building
    Mail drop #39
    P.O. box 2053
    21500 Oakwodd Blvd.
    Dearborn, Mi. 48121-2053
    tel: 313-845-4251
    fax: 313-594-7323
    www: http://www.yamaha-motor.com

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium Cathdral and VirDir.

06/10/1998 - Executive Development Program

Scott Lathrop
Division Manager
NCSA Education Division
tel: 217-244-1099
fax: 217-244-1987

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium Cathdral and VirDir.

06/10/1998 - Allstate

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Crayoland. Also Woodwards star movie on the Iwall and VirDir on the Idesk.

06/10/1998 - SGI

Rod Guthrie and Bob Henry, VP from SGI Demo showed the collaborative CAVE application CAVE5D/Virtual Director. Also Woodwards star movie on the Iwall.

06/09/1998 - HPC training demo

    Beth Richardson
    net: bethr@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Demo showed simple CAVE apps like Aquarium and Cathedral. Also Woodwards star movie on the Iwall and GRID on the ImmersaDesk.

06/03/1998 - UI Cont. Ed.'s Elderhostel program

    Cheryl Barber
    Program Coordinator
    Programs for Older Adults
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    tel: 217-333-7369
    fax: 217-333-9561
    net: c-barber@uiuc.edu
    url: http://www.conted.ceps.uiuc.edu/ceps/senior/Over_50's_Crowd/index.html

Demo was conducted by Dave Bock and Rob Stein.

05/29/1998 - Rob Pennington - BSA

    Rob Pennington 
    tel: 244-1052  
    net: robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu

About 8 Boy Scouts (ages 11-14) who are finishing up their Computer Merit Badge and the only requirement left is to visit a place where computers are used. They each played CAVE Gladiator, high score ws 21.

05/29/1998 - Beckman Symposium on the Frontiers of Mesoscale Systems and Microfabrication

    Jennifer M. Quirk                          
    Associate Director for External Affairs and Research                       
    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology 
    University of Illinois
    405 North Mathews Avenue
    Urbana, IL  61801
    tel: (217)244-8378
    fax: (217)244-1995
    net: quirk@uiuc.edu

There were 4 groups of ~8 people. Demos included, aquarium, cathedral, virtual director.

05/22/1998 - Shell Oil

    Sundaresan "Bala" Bala
    Emerging Technology Analysis
    Planning, Finance and Investment Services
    Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas.
    tel: 713-241-5424
    net: bala@shellus.com
    url: http://els/pfisfirm/mcs.htm

Demos included, ribosome molecule, Chesapeake Bay, Sandbox, Merc and Chaos sonification.

05/20/1998 - UIUC Faculty Summer Institute

    Thomas Ramage
    Illinois On-Line Network
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    444 Henry Administration Building
    506 S. Wright St
    Urbana, Il. 61801
    ramage@uillinois.edu
    tel: 217-244-7980
    url: http://www.online.uillinois.edu/ramage

The Illinois Online Network is acollaboration of the University of Illinois and ten Community Colleges working together to advance the utilization of Internet-based instruction and service throughout the State of Illinois. It is a HECA-funded organization administratively placed under the UI-Online initiative. The group will be Community College Instructors, administrators, and tech support staff.

The reason for the tour is to give them an idea of the kinds of projects the University is involved in as well as the opportunity to view state-of-the-art technologies.

05/20/1998 - UIUC Mechanical & Industrial Eng.

    Jeffrey A. Oberg
    Assistant to the Head
    Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    142 Mechanical Engineering Building
    1206 West Green Street
    Urbana, IL 61801
    tel: (217)333-6741
    fax: (217)244-6534
    net: j-oberg@uiuc.edu

Basic Cave demo. The group will consist of aproximately 5 adults and 8 children. The children range in age from 7-15 years old. One family comes from Sudbury, Ontario and the husband is a database programmer for municipalities in that area. The other family is local. I have interacted extensively with Caterpillar and have heard a lot about the CAVE facility but have never seen it myself.

05/18/1998 - Urban League

    Scott Lathrop
    Division Manager
    NCSA Education Division
    tel: 217-244-1099
    fax: 217-244-1987

The Cyberclub (afterschool enrichment computer & math program) with Professor Hubler (U of I contact) as a sponsor or leader of the group.

05/07/1998 - Campus Day

    Allison Clark
    Assistant Director, Office of Campus Relations
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    152 CAB
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    tel: 217-244-0768
    fax: 217-244-2909
    url: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/campusrelations/

NCSA First Annual Campus Day Schedule of Virtual Environment Demonstrations Virtual Environment Demonstrations are ticketed events. Space is limited. Please send email to campusday98@ncsa.uiuc.edu to sign up for the CAVE, I-Wall, or Immersadesk Demonstrations. Indicate time and event you wish to attend.

CAVE 
     9:00- 9:20 AM  Networked Virtual Director with CAVE5D
     9:30- 9:50 AM  Networked Virtual Director with CAVE5D
    10:00-10:20 AM  3D Visualization of Geographic Data Using the CAVE
    10:30-10:50 AM  3D Visualization of Geographic Data Using the CAVE
    11:00-11:20 AM  The Optiverse
    11:30-11:50 AM  The Optiverse

Infinity -Wall
     9:00- 9:20 AM  Networked Virtual Director with CAVE5D
     9:30- 9:50 AM  Networked Virtual Director with CAVE5D
    10:00-10:20 AM  Inside A Forty Eight-Hour Chick Embryo
    10:30-10:50 AM  Inside A Forty Eight-Hour Chick Embryo
    11:00-11:20 AM  Path-Integral Simulations of Atomic and Molecular Hydrogen
    11:30-11:50 AM  Converging Horizons: Collaborative 2D/3D Visualization Tools
		    for Astronomy

ImmersaDesk
     9:00- 9:20 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System
     9:30- 9:50 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System
    10:00-10:20 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System
    10:30-10:50 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System
    11:00-11:20 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System
    11:30-11:50 AM  Caterpillar's Distributed Virtual Reality System

05/06/1998 - GEMS

The Girls in Engineering, Mathematics, and Science (GEMS) Program exposes middle school girls to careers in science, engineering, and mathematics.

05/06/1998 - Danville High School

    Connie Smith
    Vicki Shields
    Danville High teachers
    net: dhs@soltec.net

Basic Cave demos to 5 groups of 8 students

05/04/1998 - Dr. HongJiang Zhang - HP

05/04/1998 - Mitch Kazel - Department of Journalism

05/04/1998 - Prof. Alexander V. Bogdanov

05/04/1998 - Dr. William Walters - ARL

    Dr. William Walters, P.E.
    U.S. Army Research Laboratory
    Weapons Technology Directorate
    Terminal Effects Division
    Lethal Mechanisms Branch
    Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
    21005-5066
    tel: 410-278-6062
    fax: 410-278-6564

Bill Walters received his Ph.D. from the UIUC AAE Department in 1972. He has been with the Army Research Laboratory (formerly, the Ballistics Research Laboratory) for the past twenty-two years. He is called a General Research Engineer and heads a team of engineers/scientists engaged in analytical/experimental aspects of terminal ballistics. He is active in the areas of explosive effects, blast loading, hypervelocity impact, penetration mechanics, and explosive/metal interactions. He has about one hundred and forty technical publications, including involvement in three books, and eight patents. His awards include Fellow of the Ballistic Research Laboratory, Fellow of the ASME, and Outstanding Recent Alumni of the U. of Ill. Basic Cave demo

04/25/1998 - CNRS delegation with Dinshaw Balsara

    Dinshaw Balsara
    e-mail: u10956@ncsa.uiuc.edu

The dean of research at UIUC, Earl Kellog, is hosting a visit by a delegation from the CNRS. The CNRS is the French equivalent of the NSF. They are considering the UIUC as a potential collaborative partner to be funded by them.

04/24/1998 - UI Foundation & Mrs. Donald (Jeannette) Reuben

    Nancy Testory
    Administrative Assistant
    UI Foundation
    Harker Hall MC 386
    tel: 244-3673
    net: ntestory@uif.uiuc.edu

Visit by Mrs. Donald (Jeannette) Reuben, a colleague of a major donor to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

04/21/1998 - David Tewksbury's Speech Communication class
04/16/1998

    David Tewksbury                                   
    Speech Communication                                           
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    244 Lincoln Hall
    702 S. Wright St.
    Urbana, IL 61801       
    net: tewksbur@uiuc.edu

04/20/1998 - Champaign Chamber of Commerce - foreign exchange students

    Karen Green
    Public Information Officer
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications
    605 E. Springfield Ave.
    Champaign, IL 61820
    tel: 217-265-0748  
    net: kareng@ncsa.uiuc.edu 

Special request from the Champaign Chamber of Commerce. About 11 students from France and two teachers will be touring the Unviersity

04/16/1998 - Secretary of State Ryan

04/14/1998 - Alaina Kanfer - UIUC MBA Students

    Alaina Kanfer
    net: alaina@ncsa.uiuc.edu 

This was a group of ~20 MBA students who toured the CAVE for an hour. I spoke with them for a half hour concerning the CAVE technologies and the possibile applications with buisness. A link to their essays will appear here soon.

04/01/1998 - Randy Butler and NT visitors

    Randy Butler
    net: rbutler@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Randy Butler had four visitors in town for a NT networking meeting. This CAVE demonstration included Virtual Director in the CAVE and on the Iwall.

03/30/1998 - CNRS

    Jean-Louis Picque
    Adjunct Director
    Centre National de la Rechereche Scientifique
    3 rue michel-ange
    75794 Paris Cedex 16
    tel: 01 44 96 42 64
    fax: 01 44 96 50 08
    net: jean-louis.picque@cnrs-dir.fr

CNRS visit.

This CAVE demonstration included Aquarium , Virtual Director and Burchard Militzers Crumbs data set..

03/24/1998 -

    Kathy Painter
    Administrative Office
    Graduate School of Library and Information Science 
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
    net: painter@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu

The conference is the 35th Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) Clinic. This year's conference is being held March 22-24 at the Beckman Institute in conjunction with the Digital Libraries Initiative Partners meeting, and is titled "Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries."

This general CAVE demonstration included Aquarium and Cathedral.

03/24/1998 - Prof. Muroga and Prof. Tatsuta from Dokkyo University

    Zigrida Arbatsky
    secretary to Prof. Muroga
    net: zigrida@cs.uiuc.edu

Prof. Muroga in CS dept. had visitors from Japan this week and they were interested in CAVE and Supercomputers. The visitors were Prof. Tatsuta from Dokkyo University near Tokyo and her two students. They do speak English.

This general CAVE demonstration included Aquarium and Cathedral.

03/17/1998 - Digital Imaging Initiative

03/13/1998 - EOH - Engineering Open House

    Judy Jones
    Coordinator of Publications and Special Events
    Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    405 North Mathews Avenue
    Urbana, IL  61801
    tel: 217-244-5582; Fax: 217-244-8371
    net: jcj@uiuc.edu
    www: http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu

Engineering Open House at Beckman brought through over 400 people into the CAVE.

The demonstration was organised and maintained by George Francis' class.

03/9/1998 - Esko Johannes Hammaren

    Esko Johannes Hammaren        tel.  +358 - (0)14 - 602366
    Department of  Physics        fax.  +358 - (0)14 - 602351
    University of Jyvaskyla
    POB 35                        email  hammaren@jyfl.jyu.fi
    FIN 40351 Jyvaskyla
    Finland

CAVE5D and the Virtual Director was demonstrated and then Bill Sherman and Tom Coffin talked with Dr. Hammaren regarding VR in general.

03/6/1998 - AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers

    Kathy Tritz
    AIChE office
    210A RAL
    600 S. Mathews
    Urbana,IL 61801
    net: tritz@students.uiuc.edu

The purpose is really to introduce students from other schools to some of the advanced technology here at UIUC. It will be a group of chemical engineerings students, probably mostly upperclass undergrads, from schools all over the midwest (Purdue, Northwestern, Michigan...).

The demonstration used the CAVE. In the CAVE Crayoland, Crumbs were shown.

2/24/1998 - Alaina Kanfer - UIUC MBA Students

    Alaina Kanfer
    net: alaina@ncsa.uiuc.edu 

This was a group of ~20 MBA students who toured the CAVE for an hour. I spoke with them for a half hour concerning the CAVE technologies and the possibile applications with buisness. A link to their essays will appear here soon.

02/19/1998 - Allstate

    Jeri Kyle 
    email: jerik@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Allstate Client Advocate meeting. The group, whose names are attached, are all experienced Systems personnel who play a key role within Allstate. They work in the Emerging Technologies area (Roger's group) and are called Client Advocates. Their job is to work in their clients' (or users') area and assist them with any systems matters (project definition, strategic planning, budgeting, etc.) , and to be an advocate for them should any issues arise.
Attendees: Jim Cormier, Division Director, Emerging Technologies Fred Geinosky, Systems Director, I/T Emerging Technologies Rob Hair, Underwriting Desktop Owner Rene Hutchinson, Underwriting Randy Ishikawa, Personal Lines Manager Ed Oberle, Enterprise Architecture Consultant Joe Porter, Underwriting Research and Development Director Pam Scott, Information Management Consultant Yvonne Sharp, Underwriting I/M Consultant Rick Smith, Assistant Vice President, Pricing Floyd Yager, Pricing Associate Actuary

The demonstration used the CAVE and NL. In the CAVE Virtual Director with CAVE5D was shown and in the NL was the collaborative application of Caterpillar's Digging Dirt.

02/18/1998 - CAMSE

    Melanie Loots 
    net: mloots@ncsa.uiuc.edu 

The presentation used NL. No VR applications were shown. Overhead presentation only.

02/17/1998 - NucE 101D:Professor David N. Ruzic

02/16/1998 - Physiology 404:Professor Dr. Joan Dawson

    Sheela Konda
    email: s-konda@students.uiuc.edu

As part of a class project (Physiology 404: Professor Dr. Joan Dawson), we are preseting to fellow graduate students the services and facilities that are available to us as researchers at the University of Illinois.

The basic CAVE demonstration showing Aquarium and Cathedral.

02/04/1998 - Fund for Rural America (FRA)

    John P. Tubbs
    Laboratory for Community and Economic Development
    Information Technology and Communication Services
    College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences
    528 Bevier Hall
    905 South Goodwin
    Urbana, IL  61801
    tel: (217)-244-5962
    net: tubbsj@mail.aces.uiuc.edu

The FRA Center for Rural Community Development is a collaborative planning project, organized by the Laboratory for Community and Economic Development at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development,funded by the USDA's Fund for Rural America competitive grant program. The Center will use collaborative partnerships to support the development of telecommunications based learning environments which rural citizens will use to enhance and improve their communities.

The workshop used both REL and NL for web presentations. The Immersadesk was used to demonstrate the CAVE technology.

02/02/1998 - NCSA Advisory Committee

    Allison Clark 
    NCSA

the members of the NCSA Advisory Committee: David Campbell, Chair Richard Alkire, Hassan Aref, George Badger, David Ceperley, Neal Cohen, Robert Dodds, Leigh Estabrook, Susan Fowler, Eric Jakobsson, Melanie Loots, Dan Reed, Gene Ruoff, Richard Schacht, Tim Trick, Peter Woylnes, Charles Zukoski, were given a demonstration of the CAVE, Infinitywall and Immersadesk systems. They saw the standard demos. Aquarium, Cathedral, Virtual Director and Mercantile Exchange.

01/15/1998 - Jim Gray - Microsoft

    Jim Gray  
    Microsoft

As a part of the seminar on NT and Clusters, Jim Grey who was a speaker ("Microsoft Clustering, DNA, etc.") will visit the CAVE and Powerwall. Stauart Levy demonstarted the Virtual Director and Bill Sherman demonstrated the Powerwall.

01/15/1998 - USDA - Cathy Bridwell

    Cathy Bridwell, Distance Education Specialist
    Cooperative State Research, Education and 
    Extension Service
    Room 3328-South Building    
    Washington, DC  20250-0900
    tel: (202) 720-6084
    Fax: (202) 690-0289
    net: cbridwell@reeusda.gov

This is intended as part of a visit to NCSA by the program officer (Cathy Bridwell) at USDA who is currently funding a planning grant on technology through the College of ACES and NCSA. We want to show her what is possible with various emerging technologies at NCSA, including the CAVE. She will also be meeting with other NCSA staff during her visit.

During her CAVE demonstartion she saw the GIS experimentation project dealing with watershed management by Doug Johnston and the Virtual Director demo.

01/14/1998 - Ready School - Champaign

    Steve Higgins
    Regional Educational Alternative for Developing Youth
    2112 North Market
    Champaign 61820
    tel:   (217) 352-6903
    tel:   (217) 352-0122

Steve Higgins from the Ready School of Champaign, IL. visited with 6 students to see the CAVE technology. They saw a standard demonstration.

01/14/1998 - NASA Goddard

    Michael A. K. Gross                      
    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
    Code 931  
    Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA                 
    email: gross@fozzie.gsfc.nasa.gov
    tel:   +1 (301) 286-9096

01/13/1998 - Fisher Technology Group

01/09/1998 - Shell Oil

    Sundaresan "Bala" Bala
    Emerging Technology Analysis
    Planning, Finance and Investment Services
    Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas.
    tel: 713-241-5424
    net: bala@shellus.com
    url: http://els/pfisfirm/mcs.htm

Royal Dutch/Shell Oil visit of NCSA. 9 visitors - 4 from London and 5 from Houston (all CEO and Advisors) were shown demos by Bill Sherman in the CAVE and Ruwarts Powerwall movies on the Iwall.

12/16/1997 - Objectspace

12/15/1997 - Congressman Dr. Ehlers

    John Melchi
    email: jmelchi@ncsa.uiuc.edu

Congressman Dr. Ehlers heads the science policy study sponsored by the Clinton Administration. He was the evening speaker at President Stukel's retreat.

EHLERS OUTLINES EXPECTATIONS FOR SCIENCE POLICY STUDY

At a congressional briefing sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Tuesday, Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) laid out his expectations for the science policy study he is leading on behalf of the House Science Committee. Ehlers said the main report would be finished by the end of 1998, but the portion addressing mathematics and science education would likely spill into the new congressional session in 1999. A new national science policy, he said, must:

• Look to the future, not the past, and provide vision for the next 50 years;
• Recognize the unique nature of science as a mode of inquiry, including the interplay of the most fundamental with the most user-focused research;
• Address both science and technology;
• Outline the rules for partnerships among universities, corporations and governments, including state, national and foreign governments;
• Offer new models for government support and management of science, especially for international research efforts;
• Recognize scientific research as a good long-term investment for the country with a substantial payoff; and
• Include a good cooperative extension model that would get lab results more quickly into practice.

Ehler's visit was scheduled from 2:45-3:30. The following applications were shown:
1) Caterpillar "DIG DIRT" demo on Idesk (Lance Arsenault)
2) Physics in Crumbs on the IWALL (Burkhard, Ceperley)
3) Chesapeake Bay on the CAVE (Rob Stein)

11/25/1997 - Alaina Kanfer - UIUC MBA Students

    Alaina Kanfer
    email: alaina@ncsa.uiuc.edu 

This was a group of ~10 MBA students who toured the CAVE for an hour. A link to their essays will appear here soon.

11/24/1997 - Illinois State University Mathematics Department

    Mike Plantholt
    ISU Mathematics Department
    tel:   (309) 438 7174
    net: mikep@math.ilstu.edu  

Mike Plantholt is a Math faculty member at Illinois State University. This was a group of 10 people who toured the CAVE for an hour. A link to their essays will appear here soon.

11/22/1997 - Minority Engineering Graduate Recruitment Program (MEGRP)

    Preston L. Ransom
    Assistant Dean of Engineering
    Director, Office of Continuing Engineering Education
    Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    422 Engineering Hall                   
    1308 West Green St.                     
    Urbana, Il. 61801-2936
    tel: (217) 333-6634
    fax: (217) 333-0015
    net: p-ransom@uiuc.edu                

The College of Engineering's Minority Engineering Graduate Recruitment Program for 1998 is a major part of the College's efforts to identify and recruit into our graduate programs, persons from groups traditionally under-represented in engineering. The group of 30+ toured the CAVE and saw the University of Minnesota's Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (LCSE) simulation of velocity structures in a rotating model star with convection in equilibrium in its unstable outer half on the IWALL.

11/07/1997 - University High - Foreign Exchange Students

    Maria Wolkanoswki
    University High
    tel: (217) 244-4805
    net: marysiaw@uiuc.edu

University High toured the CAVE with a group of ~10 newly arrived Russian foreign exchange students. The students were Science and Mathematics majors.