FOR RELEASE: Nov. 1, 2000 CONTACT: Kyle Salyers, Indiana Technology Partnership, (317) 275-2000 Karen Adams, Indiana University, (812) 856-5596 New High-Tech Display to Tout Indiana Technology at National Conference Indiana Technology Partnership, State Universities Collaborate to Showcase State Technology Successes The Indiana Technology Partnership, along with Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame, is sponsoring construction of a high-tech display booth touting Indiana technology that will be unveiled in November at the SC2000 Conference, a top international advanced computing and communications conference in Dallas. Built at a cost of approximately $30,000, the Research@Indiana booth will showcase technology developments within Indiana in the fields of advanced information technology, supercomputing software and applications, virtual reality, data storage, and high-performance networking. The 1600 square-foot booth will detail high performance computing and communications applications developed by the three universities in science, engineering, medicine, the arts, and informatics. (Additional information about the booth is available online at (http://www.indiana.edu/~rindiana). The booth features two ImmersaDesks (tm), that enable users to experience a 3-dimensional environment, and a virtual poster section that includes a continuous display of images from Indiana's top universities. The SC2000 conference is the top annual international conference on supercomputing and the most advanced networking technology in the world. More than 6000 technology researchers, faculty members, university information technology staff members, vendors and entrepreneurs will gather at the Dallas Convention Center from November 4-10 for the conference. "The Research@Indiana display will enable Indiana to tout its high-technology culture and successes to key researchers and entrepreneurs from around the world at this conference," said Scott Jones, chairman of the Indiana Technology Partnership. "In order to raise Indiana's technology profile, we have to trumpet our state's high-tech successes, as well as the cutting-edge research being conducted at Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame." A $10,000 financial contribution from the Indiana Technology Partnership, along with additional grants from the Indiana Information Technology Association, IU, Purdue and the University of Notre Dame, helped fund the Research@Indiana booth. Channel-Kor Systems Inc., a Bloomington company, constructed the booth. The ITP is a statewide organization working to boost technology and create fertile ground for high-tech growth in Indiana. The organization's goal is to establish Indiana as the nationally recognized leader in technology in the Midwest by 2005. ITP's efforts are focused in several key areas: capital formation and access, brain gain and human capital development, and the connectivity of technology resources within the state and throughout the world. Companies exhibiting at the SC2000 conference in Dallas provide products and services in areas such as high-performance computing, networking, telecommunications services, storage systems, multimedia, scientific and engineering applications, programming environments, graphics and visualization, virtual environments, education, data mining, knowledge discovery applications, and data-intensive application software. Prominent companies exhibiting at this conference include Compaq Computer Corp., IBM, SUN and StorageTek. More than 50 technology researchers, faculty and graduate students from Indiana University, Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame plan to attend the SC2000 conference.   Top of Page