[AG-TECH] Announcing the WACE 2005

Patrick Bristow pbristow at microsoft.com
Wed Apr 13 11:29:22 CDT 2005


  Fifth Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments
                      September 8-9, 2005
                  Microsoft Conference Center
                      Redmond, Washington

I would like to personally invite everyone to the Fifth Annual Workshop
on Advanced Collaborative Environments, September 8-9th.  For those
unfamiliar with the workshop, it is a two-day discussion of the
research, technological, and social issues of developing persistent
collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of emerging scientific
communities, such as:

* Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
* Nanoscience and Molecular Technology
* Wide Area Environmental Sensing
* Biomedical Imaging and Simulation

The goal of this workshop is to provide an open, technical forum to
discuss high-end, high-value solutions for supporting distributed
scientific collaboration. When developing position papers, baseline
assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (for
example, networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for
collaboration environments should be taken into account. The workshop
intends to look at future-generation systems. For example, the following
future infrastructure predictions are likely to affect collaboration
systems:

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

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

* Requirements for emerging scientific communities
* High-end, high-value solutions for scientific communities
* New ideas and concepts for advanced collaboration environments 
* Removal of barriers to more rapid adoption of high-end technologies
* Roadmaps for development of high-end collaborative technologies
* Modes of evaluating high-end collaborative technologies
* Software environments for advanced collaboration environments
* Tools for enabling and enhancing advanced collaboration environments 
* What is beyond virtual reality (VR), video, audio, and text?

The morning sessions of each day will feature invited talks from the
application community, followed by several invited talks by technology
providers. The afternoon sessions will consist of presentations and
discussion by the collaboration research community. Talks will be 20
minutes plus 5 minutes allocated for questions and comments. Thursday
will end with a dinner cruise on Lake Washington, and Friday day will be
concluded by a town hall-style discussion of the future of
collaboration.

Please note, overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75
participants.

For more information, please visit the workshop's website at
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace, or contact us at wace at mcs.anl.gov. 

We'll look forward to seeing you there.

Patrick Bristow




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