To DARPA/ITO IC&V PIs, agents and community: You are invited to attend the first IC&V Principle Investigator (PI) Meeting October 9 and 10, 1996 in Dallas, TX. This message provides an overview of the meeting, information about the location of the meeting, and a preliminary agenda. To attend the meeting you will need to: - register on the WWW (or via email :-() - make your own hotel and travel arrangements. Meeting Overview ================ The purpose of the meeting is to begin building a community that will have synergistic effects on all the research efforts within the program. Supporting this purpose, one overarching goal of the meeting is to identify common research or demonstration themes that run through the program. To begin, all projects within the community will be asked to brief their projects. The project briefs will be followed by briefs from some specific collaboration application areas that IC&V technology might support. Then, armed with this knowledge, we will spend some time in working groups to discuss common research or demonstration themes that run through the program. The meeting will conclude with reports from each working group and other closing remarks. The goal of the project briefs is to inform the community of each project. Suggested outline for each project brief is: introduction of research team, overview, vision of research result, research basis/tools, major challenges, and planned milestones. Place emphasis on "what" you are researching rather than "why". Each project will be allocated 20 minutes. Plan to allow time for Q&A. The goal of the application briefs is to introduce to the PI community some specific application requirements and scenarios. It is hoped that these applications will then drive some of the research and demonstrations performed in the projects and will be the basis for technology transfer. PIs are asked to consider how their work can support these application scenarios. The reports from the working groups should be a list of projects related to an application scenario via some technology or demonstration. For instance, Project X creates a framework for rapidly constructing collaboration groups across heterogeneous systems which is required in application I. The overall intent is to identify potential relationships among projects and between projects and applications. When, Where and How ==================== The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn DFW South. A block of 80 rooms have been reserved on October 8 and 9 at the per diem rate of $84.00. Government employees showing a gov't ID, credit card, or travel orders will receive the $84.00 rate and will not pay tax. Non-government employees will receive a rate of $76.58 plus 11% tax for a net rate of $84.00. Call 1-800-360-2242 for reservations. Identify the group as "DARPA/ITO IC&V PI Meeting" to receive these reduced rates. The Holiday Inn offers free transportation from DFW; dial 305 from the phone at the Hotel Call Board near the baggage claim and a van will be dispatched immediately. If you are attending the DARPA/ITO General PI Meeting at the Wyndham Anatole on October 7 and 8 we can assist in arranging transportation from the Anatole to the Holiday Inn DFW South. Contact Scott Lane, slane@snap.org, to make these arrangements. Discount travel will be available throught American Airlines to and from DFW. Our Website =========== A web page will be available at http://www.ito.darpa.mil/PIMeetings/icv/index.html on or before August 30, 1996. Visit this site when it is available to register for the meeting and to get additional information. Contact Scott Lane, slane@snap.org with any questions. Preliminary Agenda =============== Wednesday October 9, 1996 ===================================== 7:00 Breakfast and Registration 8:00 Introduction: Kevin Mills PROJECT BRIEFS: 15 minute brief + 5 minute Q&A TASK Area: Develop Collaboration Middleware 8:30 Collaboration Support for the Development and Evolution of Complex Systems, University of Illinois, Simon Kaplan 8:50 Collaboration Bus: An Infrastructure for Supporting Interoperating Collaborative Systems, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Prasun Dewan 9:10 Distributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and Learning (DISCIPLE), Rutgers University, James L. Flanagan 9:30 Framework for Integrated Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (NCSA), Daniel LaLiberte 9:50 Human-Computer Symbiotes: Cyberspace Entities for Active and Indirect Collaboration, Hughes Research Laboratories, Michael J. Daily 10:10 Break 10:40 Media Net, Cornell University, Thorston von Eiken and Brian Smith 11:00 Middleware Services, SRI, Nachum Shacham 11:20 Multi-Tiered Asynchronous Workspace (MAW), Crystaliz Inc., Sankar Virdhagriswara 11:40 A Scalable Architecture for Open Interoperable Multimedia Collaboration in Heterogeneous Environments, University of California Berkeley, Randy H. Katz 12:00 Scaling Object Service Architectures to the Internet (OSA), OSC, Craig Thompson 12:20 Lunch TASK Area: Develop Tools for Sharing Meaning 1:40 World Wide Web: Evolving to Information Infrastructure, MIT, Tim Berners-Lee 2:00 Supporting Organizationally Accepted Practices (SOAP), USC ISI, Cliff Neuman 2:20 Build an Intelligent Information Infrastructure, MIT Randall Davis 2:40 C-Space--Collaboration Information Management, Carnegie Mellon University, William L. Scherlis 3:00 The Campaign-at-a-Glance: Conceptual Models for Visualization Information Extraction and Simulation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Paul Cohen 3:20 Break 3:50 Collaborative Planning As Distributed Programming, University of New Mexico, David Ackley TASK Area: Develop Tools for Sharing Views 4:10 Visualizations and Briefings that Acquire Portray and Communicate Experience, Carnegie Mellon University, Steven Roth 4:30 Distributed Clients, Open Group Research Institute (formerly OSF), Paul Dale and Murray Mazer 4:50 Virtual Environments for Direct Software, University of Illinois, Daniel Reed TASK Area: Prototype and Evaluate Collaborative Applications 5:10 Virtual Work Rooms, Carnegie Mellon University, Stephen E. Cross 6:00 Demos & Reception 7:30 Dinner Thursday October 10, 1996 =============================== 7:30 Breakfast TASK Area: Prototype and Evaluate Collaborative Applications 8:30 NIST 8:50 NEL 9:10 MITRE: Quickturn Application Area Briefs 9:30 JFACC 10:00 Break 10:30 JTF 11:00 Intelligence Community or Genoa 11:30 Working Group Descriptions and Charge 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Working Groups (3) 2:30 Break 4:00 Reports for Working Groups 5:00 Wrap-up Contact David Sanders (dsanders@snap.org) and Scott Lane (slane@snap.org) with any questions.