Below is an overview of the projects represented at SC2004, as well as a look at how Indiana University contributes significantly to improving the Indiana economy.
Building the 21st Century Economy
The IU School of Informatics leads the nation in the development of an innovative and successful curriculum that emphasizes the practical application of information technology across a wide variety of disciplines. Over 80 percent of Informatics graduates remain in the State of Indiana. (www.informatics.indiana.edu)
The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology sponsors internship programs and community outreach efforts to involve members of traditionally underrepresented groups in high-tech experiences, encouraging students to consider math and science careers.
Enhancing the Indiana Economy
Indiana University helps to develop new businesses in Indiana, such as proteomics innovator InProteo, an external enterprise which has created a unique, collaborative environment for life sciences innovation. (www.inproteo.com)
Indiana University leads efforts to build Indiana's life sciences and high-tech economies, and sponsors Indiana's BioCrossroads and TechPoint - organizations focused on promoting life sciences and technology in Indiana.
The Indiana University Research Technology Corporation facilitates collaborations with industry, works with researchers to develop commercially viable technologies, and commercializes innovations produced at Indiana University. (iurtc.iu.edu)
Figures from the Association of American Universities indicate that each $1M in grant funds received by Indiana University helps to create and maintain 41 Hoosier jobs. In 2003, Indiana University's grants and sponsored research totaled more than $400M.
Visualization Research
IU's Pervasive Technology Labs is home to two visualization-related labs: the Visualization and Interactive Spaces lab creates innovative physical spaces to support easy interaction with visual displays; the Scientific Data Analysis lab collaborates with researchers to solve challenging problems in scientific data management, analysis, and visualization. (ptl.iu.edu)
IUPUI's Visual Information Sensing and Computing Center is a cross-disciplinary research center dedicated to fundamental and applied research in the emerging field of multi-sensory information processing. (www.cs.iupui.edu/~visc)
IUB's Information Visualization Lab conducts research into visualizing knowledge domains and abstract information spaces. (ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/ivlab/)
IU' s Advanced Visualization Lab provides resources, consulting, and development services in support of IU's missions in research, education, and creative activity across all University campuses and departments. AVL resources include state-of-the-art immersive and portable VR displays, high-resolution display walls, and graphics clusters and supercomputers. (avl.iu.edu)
Open Source Initiative
Indiana University develops and distributes many open source applications, ranging from course management software, to critical grid middleware, to scientific applications for biochemistry and life sciences research.
IU's Open Systems Lab conducts research on fundamental technologies that enable productive and efficient computing with large-scale hardware and software systems. Advocating open, standardized interfaces for scalability, the OSL has ongoing projects in languages, libraries, tools, middleware, and applications. (osl.iu.edu)
Indiana University is a partner in several national open source initiatives, including Sakai and Kuali, aimed at developing open source software for the teaching and learning and financial management needs of higher education communities. (www.sakaiproject.org), (kuali.org)
Indiana University participates in the development and distribution of open source desktop solutions, particularly Gentoo Linux.
IU's open source activities help to accelerate scientific discovery, optimize valuable human and financial resources, and promote economic growth within the State of Indiana.
Advanced Networking
Indiana University's Global NOC manages national and international networks, including the Abilene network operations center for Internet2 and TransPAC, the high performance international research network connecting the US and the Asia Pacific region.
The Indiana GigaPoP provides a regional connection point from research and educational institutions to national networks and the commercial Internet.
Indiana University and Purdue University own I-light, an award-winning high-speed network connecting campuses in West Lafayette, Indianapolis, and Bloomington.
Grid Computing
Indiana University contributes supercomputers, data storage, and access to life sciences databases to the TeraGrid initiative, the NSF's multi-year effort to build and deploy the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. (www.teragrid.org)
Indiana University provides a production grid operations center for the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory, a unique environment supporting Grid technologies at international and global scales for use in leading edge physics and astronomy experiments. (www.ivdgl.org)
Indiana University facilitates the development of grid technologies through leadership in computer science, supercomputing, and networking.
LifeSciences and IT at Indiana University
The Indiana Genomics Initiative, the largest research undertaking in the history of Indiana University, is using data from the Human Genome Project to enable discoveries that improve basic human health. ( ingen.iu.edu)
Biocomplexity is a cross-disciplinary area fusing physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics and the life sciences. Indiana University's Biocomplexity Institute applies complexity theory to the understanding and discovery of biological phenomena. (biocomplexity.indiana.edu)
The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics carries out independent research in genomics and bioinformatics, collaborates in projects developed by faculty, and promotes interdisciplinary interactions to enhance genomics and bioinformatics at IUB. (cgb.indiana.edu)
Research at Indiana University
Over the past decade, Indiana University has received approximately three billion dollars in sponsored research awards, with an increase of 75 percent in the last five years. In 2004, Indiana University received a record 413 million dollars in research funding, fostering growth in numerous disciplines and spanning all eight Indiana University campuses.
Indiana University's excellence in music, education, fine arts, business, public administration, international studies, and the social sciences is recognized worldwide. Through the collaboration of faculty in the sciences, information technology, and the School of Medicine, Indiana University is establishing international prominence in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics - disciplines destined to impact nearly every aspect of our lives.
PervasiveTechnology Labs
Pervasive computing envisions a time when the relentless decrease in the price of microprocessors, coupled with the equally relentless increase in their power, allows microprocessors to become seamlessly integrated into every aspect of day-to-day life.
In partnership with the Lilly Endowment and building on Indiana University's considerable IT infrastructure, Pervasive Technology Labs was established to research these fundamental technologies driving the 21st century information economy and fostering the growth of Indiana's information technology sector.
Leveraging what has clearly emerged as one of the major macro-phenomena in information technology - through technology transfer, commercialization of innovations, and partnerships with industry - Pervasive Technology Labs is helping to create the high-wage information technology opportunities needed to retain our highly trained Indiana graduates and to attract new scientific talent to the State.