Indiana University, Purdue University, the University of Notre Dame, and the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology collaborated to present a high-tech display at the Supercomputing 2001 conference. This display highlighted Indiana's growing stature as The annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, held Nov. 10-16th in Denver, Colorado, is the largest and most important national and international conference in the area of supercomputing and high performance networking.

Research@Indiana, in its second year at SC2001, remains unique in the history of the SuperComputing conference. Research@Indiana is the only display that brings together the leading institutions of higher education in a state to jointly promote that state's accomplishments. Research@Indiana organizers estimate that approximately one third of the 5000 conference attendees visited the display. Participants, observers, and conference organizers all regarded the collaborative display, called Research@Indiana, as a great success - something clearly evidenced by the amount of press coverage this display received . A particularly special recognition of the display's importance and quality was its nomination for an INITA Cyberstar award for 2001 .

Research@Indiana 2001 showcased developments within Indiana in several areas of advanced information technology, including supercomputing systems and applications, massive data storage systems, high performance telecommunications, virtual reality, and e-commerce. The technology featured in Research@Indiana has applications in science, engineering, medicine, the arts, and informatics. A particular highlight this year was the presents of the Rose Hulman Institute of technology and its technology transfer organization, Rose Hulman Ventures

More than 75 representatives of Purdue University, the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, and Indiana University participated in the SuperComputing2001 conference. The Research@Indiana display included demonstrations of 28 advanced computer applications. In addition, a virtual poster display featured brief snapshots of many other innovations created by universities in the State of Indiana.

The Research@Indiana booth occupied 1600 square feet, making it one of the largest research exhibits at the conference. The Research@Indiana web site (www.research-indiana.org) provides a summary of the accomplishments of this display, and will serve as an ongoing source of information about the importance of university research in advanced computing technology as a source of economic growth for Indiana.

Financial contributions from the Indiana Pervasive Computing Research Initiative, and the Indiana Information Technology Association assisted Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame, and the Rose Hulman Instittue of Technology in funding this display. Compaq Computer Corporation, IBM Corporation. and Sun Microsystems all provided equipment loans in support of Research@Indiana.