Events, Speeches & Awards
EVENTS
Sunday Night Reception
Location: Social Science Terrace
Sunday night we'll serve light hors d'oeuvres and beverages overlooking Aldrich Park. A registration table will be on site. Shuttle service from the hotels and on campus housing will be available.
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Monday Night Reception
Location: Beall Center - Claire Trevor Bren School of the Arts
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Monday night we'll host an informal buffet of hearty hors d'oeuvres and beverages at the Beall Center for Art & Technology on campus. The reception will also include performances by local musicians, an art exhibit and the UCCSC poster session. http://www.arts.uci.edu/ucartsbridge/gallery.html The Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for Art and Technology is a research and exhibition center that explores new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, promoting new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies. |
SPEECHES
Keynote Speaker
Dr.
Larry Smarr
Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technologies
Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs
School of Engineering, UCSD
"Weaving the Academic Fabric with Photonic Threads"
In 1985 the NSF funded the new supercomputer centers and the backbone network to connect them. Faculty demand to gain convenient access to these computational facilities led to the build-out of the NSFnet, eventually inducing campuses to dig up their quads and lay in cable to connect departments to this remote resource. In 2003 NSF will announce a new program in Distributed Cyberinfrastructure which will support the building of a universal Grid infrastructure to enable access to remote scientific instruments and remote data archives across many disciplines of research. I believe this will induce another transition in campus infrastructure, perhaps on a scale much larger than the one fifteen years ago. I will describe two proposals that I PI on, the OptIPuter and ENDfusion, that involve creating optical networking "clear channels" across the campus, state, nation, and globe to federated repositories of remote large data objects. These photonic threads will weave together a multi-scale storage fabric on the campus that will create a new campus utility for data management. Finally, this LambdaGrid development is occurring simultaneously with the explosion of 3G and 4G wireless technologies. I will describe how this had led some campuses to have a thousand wireless unlicensed spectrum access points, often cross-linked with licensed cellular internet spectrum. This wireless photonic web will reach into the subterranean optical storage fabric both to extract data and to store it. The UCCSC conference provides an excellent forum for the UC campuses to discuss the needed architectural features of this new 21st century infrastructure.
UCOP Address
Associate Vice President Kristine Hafner
Information Resources & Communications
Office of the President, University of California
AWARDS
Larry L. Sautter Award
The University of California Larry
L. Sautter Award for Innovation
in Information Technology honors employees of the University of California,
the Office of the President, and the three UC managed National Laboratories
for "Best IT Practices in Business Processes and Services" or "Innovation
and Entrepreneurship in Information Technology".
Winners of the Sautter
Award will be announced on Monday, August 4. Award recipients will
receive a commemorative wall plaque for permanent
local display.