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SIS On-Line Stand
The SIS On-Line Stand at the ICT4D World Summit
Exhibition demonstrates how the internet
connectivity and technology has the potential to
bring substantial benefits to a wide range of
human activities, thus turning the digital
divide into a digital opportunity for all. The
stand uses the widespread communications
technology provided by collaborating partners
from a large part of the scientific community,
especially from CERN and particle physics. In
particular, the DataTAG Project has extended its
ultra-high speed 10Gb/s trans-Atlantic testbed
especially for this event to ICT4D in Palexpo.
The SIS On-Line Stand features VRVS technology
for high quality video-conferencing over the
Internet using IP from Caltech and CERN. On the
stand we will attempt to show how this
video-conferencing technology - used daily by the
particle physics community - can bring benefits
in a variety of scenarios, including medical
diagnostics and imaging, e-learning, distribution
of video material including teaching lectures,
and distributed conferences and discussions
around the world community. The Canadian
Communications Research Centre, CRC, is
generously sharing some of its demonstrations
with the SIS On-line Stand. In particular a
demonstration of live haptic touch and feel
feedback will show its potential use in remote
medicine. A demonstration of MusicGrid will
feature a jazz ensemble from the Geneva
Conservatory playing with performers in another
jazz ensemble in Newfoundland. Northwestern
University will demonstrate their high speed
video server with a variety of material including
medical images and high definition television and
their use in a number of scenarios. The SWITCH
research network in Switzerland will feature
their Tokyo lectures as a successful example of
distance teaching. The United Nations UNOSAT
satellite operations will demonstrate a
fly-through of 3D terrain constructed virtually
by combining satellite images. Caltech will
show worldwide GRID and network monitoring using
their MonALiSA software, and also their
GRID-enabled Physics Analysis, demonstrating the
potential of the GRID for collaborative work. A
number of video conferences, discussion sessions
and presentations by distinguished speakers are
being arranged and are announced in the detailed
stand programme (http//www.cern.ch/sis-on-line).
The presenters will focus on the benefits that
this technology has brought to their
communities. Finally the SIS On-Line stand will
participate in the Internet2 Megaconference V
The Largest Worldwide Videoconference over
Advanced Networks, which will run for 24 hours
from lunchtime on 10th December
(http//www.megaconference.org)
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Programme of the CERN-CALTECH Demonstrations on
the SIS-On-Line Stand (Hall 4750) at ICT4D/WSIS
in collaboration with CRC (Canada), NorthWestern
University (USA) SWITCH (Switzerland)
Tuesday 9th December 1100 1800 RSIS
conference live from CERN 1430
1530 Tele-Medecine from Newfoundland
(Canada) 1600 1630 High definition Medical
imaging (NWU) 1630 1700 MonALISA
Demonstration 1700 1730 Grid-Enabled Physics
Analysis 1730 1800 VRVS Demonstration Wedne
sday 10th December 0930 1000 Live Tokyo
Lectures in collaboration with SWITCH 1200
1230 Live panel and E-learning from Brazil
1230 1300 Tele-Teaching with Slovakia 1330
1400 Grid-Enabled Physics Analysis 1400
1800 Participation to Internet2s worldwide
Mega Conference 1430 1500 Tele-Learning
with CRC (Canada) 1500 1600 TouchFeel
Haptic, remote Medicine 1600 1630 High
definition Medical imaging (NWU) 1630 1700
MonALISA Demonstration 1730 1800 VRVS
Demonstration Thursday 11th December 0900
1400 Participation to Internet2s worldwide
Mega Conference 1100 1130 Local TouchFeel
Haptic demo 1130 1200 Tokyo Lectures in
collaboration with SWITCH 1230
1300 Tele-Teaching with Slovakia 1430
1530 First Nations Schools with CRC
(Canada) 1600 1630 Impact of Research
networks (Steve Wolff/Cisco) 1630 1700
Grid-Enabled Physics Analysis 1700
1730 MonALISA Demonstration 1730 1800 VRVS
Demonstration Friday 12th December 1030
1100 Grid-Enabled Physics Analysis 1100
1130 Local TouchFeel Haptic demo 1130
1200 Tokyo Lectures in collaboration with
SWITCH 1230 1300 Tele-Teaching with
Slovakia 1330 1430 TouchFeel Haptic ,
Remote Medecine 1500 1530 MonALISA
Demonstration 1530 1600 "Training teachers in
the pedagogical use of ICT (D.Olesen/DK) 1600
1730 Music Grid with CRC (Canada) 1730
1800 VRVS demonstration Saturday 13th
December 1000 1100 Presentation Streaming
Video 1200 1330 Presentation Streaming
Video 1330 1400 MonALISA Demonstration 1430
1530 Presentation Streaming Video
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DataTAG is a joint project of the European Union,
the US Department of Energy and the US National
Science Foundation. The mission is to establish a
very high bandwidth bridge between the European
and American scientific communities. The current
testbed is running at 10 Gigabits/second, and has
been specially extended from CERN to the ICT4D
exhibition. Two partners in DataTAG - Caltech and
CERN - currently hold the Internet2 Land Speed
Record for Data Transmission in which the
equivalent of a full length DVD was transmitted
to Los Angeles every 7 seconds over this testbed.