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BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 11:58:02 -0400
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 11:43:11 EDT From: Erich Bloch <ebloch () nsf gov> David, as you know the Council on Competitiveness is organizing a major symposium/demonstration on NII applications for the Fall of 1994. Suzy Tichener of the Council has been managing and originating the proceedings. We thought your readership would be interested and want to attend. Erich BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE The Council on Competitiveness and the Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force invite you to participate in a conference focusing on the applications being developed to run on the national information infrastructure. Come explore the implementation hurdles that users and application developers are experiencing as they create and deploy new applications in health care, education, manufacturing, electronic information management and commerce as well as entertainment/home services. Panels of experts will share the lessons they are learning as they grapple with financing issues, contend with legal, policy and regulatory issues, probe market demand for new applications and services, and cope with the changes individuals and organizations are facing as they attempt to embrace these new applications and incorporate them into their environment. There will also be a series of hands-on demonstrations so that conference attendees can more readily grasp the personal benefits this robust infrastructure will deliver. Ample time will be allocated for interaction between conference attendees, panelists and demonstrators. A conference registration form is attached to the end of this document. You may also obtain a copy of the registration form by calling our automated fax system at 908-885-6758. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, September 7, 1994 7:30 am - 8:30 am REGISTRATION 8:30 am - 9:00 am WELCOME John Young - Chairman, Smart Valley, Inc. Ronald H. Brown - Secretary of Commerce 9:00 am - 11:30 am HEALTHCARE APPLICATIONS Moderator: Michael Wood, MD - Mayo Foundation Speakers: Stanley Fowler, PhD - University of South Carolina Medical School David Gustafson, MD - University of Wisconsin Julian Rosenman, MD - University of North Carolina School of Medicine Helen Smits, MD - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services .....more to come 11:30 am - 1:00 pm LUNCHEON Jim Manzi - Chairman and CEO, Lotus Development Corporation 1:00 pm - 1:45 pm BREAK/Showcase Demonstrations*** 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm ELECTRONIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT & COMMERCE APPLICATIONS Moderator: Daniel Schutzer - Vice President and Director for Advanced Technology, Citibank Speakers: Carol Christian - Professor of Astro Physics, University of California at Berkeley and the National Information Infrastructure Testbed Alan Kerry - President and CEO, Image Works Jim Mulvaney - Senior Consultant, Electric Power Research Institute Randy Rehn - Information Express Manager, Nordstrom .....more to come 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS Moderator: Al Narath - President, Sandia National Laboratories Speakers: Dale Hougardy - Vice President, Operations, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Henry Morneau - Director of the Scientific Computing Division, DuPont Thomas Patterson - Director, Information Security, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) William Ranson - Southeast Manufacturing Technology Center, University of South Carolina .....more to come 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm RECEPTION/ Showcase Demonstrations*** 7:00 pm DINNER Michael Metz - Managing Director, Oppenheimer & Co. THURSDAY, September 8, 1994 8:00 am - 10:00 am EDUCATION APPLICATIONS Moderator: Linda Roberts - Special Advisor on Education Technology, Department of Education Speakers: Lionel Baldwin - President, National Technical University Thomas Highton - Superintendent of Schools, Union City, NJ Jacqueline Shrago - Director, Office of Technology Transfer, Vanderbilt University Connie Stout - Director, Texas Education Network Leona Williams - President and CEO, Educational and Corporate Technologies, Inc. 10:00 am - 11:30 am ENTERTAINMENT & HOME SERVICES APPLICATIONS Moderator: John Cooke - President, The Disney Channel Speakers: Gene Quinn - General Manager, Chicago On-line Michael Sherlock - Executive Vice President, Technology, NBC Stephen Tomlin - Vice President and General Manager, Interactive Technology, QVC, Inc. .....more to come 11:30 am - 1:00 pm LUNCHEON Albert Gore, Jr. - Vice President of the United States (invited) 1:00pm - 1:45 pm IITF REPORT: PUTTING THE INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO WORK Arati Prabhakar - Chair, Committee on Applications and Technology and Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm MODERATOR PANEL: UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS Chair: Charles Vest - President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm CLOSING SPEAKER *** There will be 25 INTERACTIVE, HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS ongoing throughout the two-day conference. These demonstrations have been selected to reflect how the National Information Infrastructure will influence your everyday life. We invite you to experience: real-time remote medical consultations, a ride in an intelligent car, home-based medical support programs, cable delivered and on-line learning tools for both teachers and students, a crime prevention communications system, the manufacturing of your next automobile, and many more leading-edge demonstrations. DEMONSTRATIONS: THE ADVANCED DRIVER AND VEHICLE ADVISORY NAVIGATION CONCEPT (ADVANCE) DEMONSTRATION - This demonstration will allow conference participants to take a ride in an intelligent vehicle that delivers real-time traffic information to drivers. This project is a public/private partnership to evaluate in-vehicle route guidance. PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION TELEMEDICINE PROJECT - Conference participants will witness physicians at the conference performing a remote evaluation of a patient with heart disease in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. This real-time connection will be via the NASA ACTS satellite. Physicians will demonstrate the remote use of an electronic stethoscope for listening to the heart sounds, an ultrasound, and an electrocardiogram. Conference participants will be able to converse with the patient. BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY INTERACTIVE PROGRAM - Through this demonstration, the conference attendees will view a future interactive children's TV program on science education. Conference attendees will be "at-home" participants of on-line experiments, quizzes, games, and various other activities. ONLINE SERVICES- The presentation will take the audience through many information, shopping and interactive online services available including that text of a daily newspaper, event ticket purchasing and electronic mail capabilities. Attendees will be given an opportunity to individually experiment with the system. DYNAMIC RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING - A physician will walk conference participants through a real-time demonstration of radiation treatment planning for cancerous tumors. The audience will see a computer rendering of the anatomy and real-time calculation of radiation dose distribution using a remotely located supercomputer. MANUFACTURING IN THE INFORMATION AGE - Through a real-time connection, conference participants will be able to remotely control certain elements of the manufacturing process at a fully automated General Motors automobile assembly plant located in Wilmington, Delaware. INTERPRACTICE - This application will highlight for conference participants an electronic environment (paperless system) for practicing physicians and clinical staff. This system allows medical personnel to capture, store and communicate patient medical information in real time. It also includes on-line order placement (lab, pharmacy, etc.), referral prompts, clinical reminders, and allergy or medical alerts. This demonstration will also allow attendees to explore the next generation voice activated, intelligent InterPractice System. GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE - Conference participants will be able to participate in an interactive/video conferencing link between several K-12 schools. Global Schoolhouse will show how these students use these advanced video tools to work and learn together with students, teachers, and scientists in other locations. NATIONAL CATASTROPHIC OIL SPILL MANAGEMENT - This demonstration will allow conference participants to view a state-of-the-art emergency management response tool that is used in the event of an oil spill. This system integrates multiple facets of an oil-spill response effort: initial response decisions, damage mitigation actions, environmental, social and economic threat assessments, and equipment procurement efforts. HEALTHNET - This demonstration will show conference participants a prototype interactive television application that provides health care information. Conference participants will be able to select informational segments on such topics as breast cancer treatment options; the long-term effects of divorce on children; fitness for women; nutrition for men; and coping with depression. EDUPORT - Conference participants will explore the use of a digital multimedia library designed to enhance K-12 education. They will be able to access video, audio, image and text information from various sources including the Discovery Museum, NASA, FDR Library, and the Smithsonian. WIRELESS IMAGERY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR CRIME INFORMATION - This demonstration will illustrate to participants a highly visual and interactive system that provides law enforcement officials on patrol the ability to accurately identify a wanted, missing or unidentified person within seconds. This device is used to transmit images of fingerprints, mug shots, stolen objects, contraband & personal property between state, local and federal public service and emergency management agencies. MATHLINE - Participants will be able to see the power of public television's telecommunications highway as it delivers professional development services to teachers throughout the nation in support of Goals 2000. The demonstration will feature on-line dialogue among teachers in this electronic learning community who are helping each other to meet Professional Teaching Standards. ELECTRIC UTILITY INFORMATION NETWORK - This demonstration will walk participants through a comprehensive information system that is used by the entire electric power industry to provide high-value internal information services. At a work station, participants will be able to see how collaborative research is being done as information is traded and received over the network. VARIATIONS IN MUSIC - A digital music library will enable conference participants to select audio and visual recordings for review directly from workstations and will provide them the ability to quickly select specific passages for listening or viewing. This tool has been developed to augment the music curriculum at Indiana University. PICTURE EXCHANGE - Conference participants will witness a new method that many advertising agencies and graphic designers are using to obtain wider access to a variety of work done by photographers. These pictures are stored in an on-line library and are ready for rapid brokerage between photographer and agency. THE COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ENANCEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM (CHESS) - This home-based workstation demonstration will showcase how some hospitals have opted to provide health care consumers with the information, referrals, decision support and social support specific to certain illnesses such as cancer and aids. This system is being successfully used to assist patients in the management of their own disease and health care. CO-VIS - This demonstration will showcase three students, located at the conference, as they study environmental and atmospheric science using collaborative work benches that provide interactive desk-top videoconferencing capabilities. These capabilities will allow them to work with other students located in Indiana, professors at Northwestern University, and researchers at the Center for Atmospheric Studies in San Diego. ..........MORE TO COME - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BREAKING THE BARRIERS TO THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE September 7-8, 1994 *** ANA Hotel, Washington, DC REGISTRATION FORM (please print or type) Name__________________________________________________________ Title_________________________________________________________ Organization__________________________________________________ Address_______________________________________________________ Phone/Fax_____________________________________________________ Two-Day Conference Fee: _________ Corporate ($395) _________ Government/Academic/Nonprofit ($295) Please enclose this registration form along with a check made payable to the: COUNCIL ON COMPETITIVENESS, a private, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization. Mail your registration to: 900 17th Street, NW Suite 1050 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: (202) 785-3990 Fax: (202) 785-3998 REGISTRATION POLICY: Space available in a first come first served basis CANCELLATION POLICY: No refunds after August 1, 1994 Hotel Accommodations The ANA Hotel is providing special rates for conference participants. Participants must make their reservations with the ANA Hotel no later than August 15, 1994. When making reservations please reference the Council on Competitiveness to obtain the special group rate. ANA Hotel 2401 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 Phone: (202) 429-2400 Fax: (202) 457-5010 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Council on Competitiveness is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of chief executives from business, higher education and organized labor who have joined together to pursue a single overriding goal: to improve the ability of American companies and workers to compete in world markets while building a rising standard of living at home. Paul Allaire, Chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, is the Council's Chairman. The Clinton Administration's Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) consists of high level representatives of the Federal agencies that play a major role in the development and application of information technologies. Working together with the private sector, the Task Force is coordinating Administration efforts to develop, demonstrate and promote applications of information technology, formulating Administration positions on key telecommunications issues, and addressing critical information policy issues. Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown is the chairman of the IITF. ------- End of Forwarded Message
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