Attending: jose, ted, dan, bill, tim, homer

Homer presented his slides overview of project (in packet).

Attempt at VRVS demonstration failed (RAT)

Web Lecture Archive project demonstration

What should we do?

Tim said that the collab as we define it is comm tools and concept of digital library and elec pub

In Atken judgement CERN is a la SPARC but distance based learning and training also As Jose indicated institution needs to decide what the next genration of collab research will be. Integrates instruction, computing, labs, libraries. We need to confront the infrastructure issues and better packet switching (a la QoS). Our internal version of Internet2 needs to be designed. Group computing world has a threshold effect where people who you want to participate will be at different appliances, with different connectivity. We ought think about the implications of wireless broadband.

Group that involves fawaz, deans of medicine, lsa, si, okeefe and jmg to talk about IT initiatives. LCB interested in a major initiative in IT. JMG to meet with him to discuss.

www.webx.com evaluation of this now. Hosting the system themselves. Runs in vanilla browser environment. Does not support IP audio yet.

HAN feels a few things are very special abut researchers pressed to work off campus. Need communication tools but also need visualization tools like WIRED. Joseph hasn’t been able to do much with it however.

We’ve connected with those that are interested but all are very very busy and the only way to advance in this area is to have an energized clearly specified “center” (couldn’t hear HAN).

Look at the webcast lecture http . . . /kunz