The key personnel include six faculty members: Assoc. Prof. Prasun Dewan, Assoc. Prof. Kevin Jeffay, Prof. John Smith, Assoc. Prof. Dave Stotts, Prof. Hussein Abdel-Wahab, and Assoc. Prof. John McHugh.
All faculty members are currently involved in several individual and group projects studying issues related to collaboration infrastructures. These projects are sponsored by NSF, NSA, ARPA, ONR, NIST, Intel, and IBM.
We will work with graduate research assistants, at UNC-Chapel Hill, ODU, and PSU. In addition, we will collaborate with John Menges of Hewlett Packard on both the definition of the bus and how the desktop conferencing products of the company should be adapted to interface to the bus. We have ongoing collaborations with our industrial partner. HP will to cover the cost of the efforts put in by John Menges and we have not included this cost in our budget.
We give below the amount of effort (in full time months) to be expended by each of the key personnel during each contract year.
Personnel Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total
Dewan (UNC) 1 1 1 3
Jeffay (UNC) 1 1 1 3
Smith (UNC) 1 1 1 3
Stotts (UNC) 1 1 1 3
Abdel-Wahab (ODU) 1 1 1 3
McHugh (PSU) 1 1 1 3
Menges (HP) 1 1 1 3
GRA1 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
GRA2 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
GRA3 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
GRA4 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
GRA5 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
GRA6 7.5 7.5 7.5 22.5
The 7.5 month of student effort each year includes 9 months (academic year) at half time and 3 months (summer) at full time.