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The State of Indiana, known as the crossroads of America, is now
becoming the crossroads of the world in high performance networking.
Indiana is home to three major research universities: Indiana University,
Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame. Research@Indiana 2000
showcases high performance computing and communications applications
developed at these universities, and some of the economic and educational
benefits that have accrued.
Demonstrations which might be especially interesting to educators include:
Katy Börner's "iUniverse: Creating a Collaborative Information Universe"
aims to establish collaborative virtual environments in 3D that are inhabited
by avatars and that provide means for interacting with objects in the environment,
with embedded information sources and services, or with other users and visitors of
the environment. A section of the User Interface Design course will be taught from the
exhibit floor at SC00! For further information:
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/iUni/
Andrew Hanson's "Interactive Visualization of Large-scale
Dynamic Astrophysical Environments"
demonstrates methods that handle dozens of orders of magnitude in space and time, and
illustrate them in a 3-1/2 minute film entitled "Cosmic Clock" created to aid the
visualization of complex astrophysical effects such as causality and the Hubble expansion.
Ann Christine Catlin's "WebPDELab: An Internet-based Problem Solving Environment" is
a World Wide Web server that allows users to define, solve and analyze partial
differential equation (PDE) problems using a comprehensive graphical user interface
from any Java-enabled browser. PDEs are used to model continuous systems -- rocks or
rubber, burning gases or competing species. For further information:
http://www.webpdelab.org/
Michael Boyles' "3DIVE: 3D Interactive Volume Explorer" allows physicians and
medical students to view and interact with 3D data sets as high quality, three-dimensional
volumes, volumetric subsections, or 2D cross sections. 3DIVE is also being used by researchers
to explore data sets ranging from cellular microscopy to interstellar gas clouds. For further
information:
http://www.avl.iu.edu/projects/3DIVE/
Margaret Dolinsky's "Blue Window Pane II" is a networked CAVE environment
that explores communication through whimsical characters, conceptual landscapes
and sound activated graphics. Participants share in a world of dreams, dilemmas
and reflections. For further information:
http://dolinsky.fa.indiana.edu/bwp/
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