[AG-TECH] Registration Open! WACE 2004

[Mary Fritsch]

WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS

Thursday, September 23, 2004
Four Points by Sheraton Elysee Palace
Nice, France

Fourth Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace/

-Registration

Registration Fee for WACE 2004: $95 USD
Registration/Payment Form Online - 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace/registration/registration.html

-Accommodations

Please make your hotel reservations directly with the hotel. A discounted 
room rate (140 EURO) has been established for WACE 2004 participants:

SHERATON ELYSEE PALACE
Nice, France
59, Promenade des Anglais (BP 1291)
Nice, France
Phone: +33(4)93979090
Fax: +33(4)93445040
REFERENCE - Argonne/WACE 2004
WACE Participant Rate - 140 EURO (including breakfast)


This workshop will address research, technological, and social issues of 
developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of 
emerging communities. Examples of such communities include the following:

" Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
" Nanoscience and Molecular Technology
" Wide Area Environmental Sensing
" Biomedical Imaging and Simulation
" Education, Humanities and Technology
" Unique One-of-a-Kind Facilities

The goal of the workshop is to provide an open technical forum to promote 
the discussion of high-end, high-value solutions to the problem of 
supporting distributed collaboration. Baseline assumptions about the 
evolution of future computing technologies (e.g., networking, computing, 
storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be 
taken into account in developing position papers. The workshop intends to 
look at future-generation systems. The following are examples of future 
infrastructure predictions likely to affect collaboration systems:

" Network bandwidth -gigabits/s to terabits/s
" Display -desktop monitors to room-oriented systems
" Computing -gigaflops to teraflops PCs
" Mobile devices -PDAs to personal information accessories
" Storage -gigabytes to personal terabytes
" Ubiquitous grid software environments

Position papers are being solicited on topics including but not limited to:

" Requirements for emerging collaborative communities
" Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies
" High-end, high-value solutions for scientific communities
" Modes of evaluating high-end collaborative technologies
" What is beyond VR, video, audio, and text?
" Use of collaboration technologies in the humanities
" Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies
" Software environments for advanced collaboration environments

Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants.

To stay up-to-date on WACE see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace, send questions 
to wace at mcs.anl.gov.


---WACE 2004 Program Committee