| THEME |
SESSION |
CONCURRENT
SESSIONS |
DESCRIPTION |
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title |
title |
chair |
chair
organization |
chair
country |
chair
e-mail |
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speaker |
speaker
organization |
speaker
country |
speaker
e-mail |
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| 1 |
Technologies
for Internet Infrastructure |
Eliminating the World Wide
Wait |
Geoff Huston |
Telstra |
Aus-tralia |
gih@
telstra.net |
Paper |
Tsukasa Ogino |
FastNet, Inc. |
Japan |
ogino@
fastnet.co.jp |
There are many ways to improve
responsiveness - add bandwidth, cache content closer to its user,
optimize routes around the content being accessed, and better exploit
the bandwidth which is there. The panel will discuss experience with
these technologies. |
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Roberto Sabatino |
DANTE |
UK |
Roberto.Sabatino
@dante.org.uk |
| Pankaj K.Jha |
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR |
USA |
pkj@cypress.com |
| Ivan Lovric |
France Telecom |
France |
ivan.lovric@cnet.
francetelecom.fr |
| 2 |
Internet Science and
Technology for the 21st Century |
iGrid2000: Demonstrating New Means for
Global Collaboration |
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Panel |
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iGrid 2000, a major research demonstration
at INET 2000, will demonstrate the ongoing development of International
Grid (iGrid) for global community networking. This panel session will
highlight several key scientific applications that are made possible
by global collaboration on high performance networks. |
| 3 |
Mobile Internet
and IP Network Appliances |
Technical Frontiers of Wireless
Wide Area Technologies |
Gabriel Montenegro |
Sun Microsystems |
USA |
gab@
sun.com |
Paper |
Hsing Mei |
Fu Jen Catholic University |
Taiwan, ROC |
mei@csie.fju.
edu.tw |
Wireless links disperse networks
geographically. This creates challenges terms of privacy, content
delivery and transport optimizations. |
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Michiko Izumi |
Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Japan |
michi-i@
is.aist-nara.ac.jp |
| Fei Peng |
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
(BUPT) |
China |
fpeng@
bupt.edu.cn |
| 4 |
Interactive,
Multimedia, Innovative Contents (Live Demonstrations) |
Emerging Multimedia |
Jeremy R. Cooperstock |
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Paper |
Kaoru Hiramatsu |
NTT Communication Science Laboratories |
Japan |
hiramatu@cslab.
kecl.ntt.co.jp |
Videos, movies and interactive
mapping systems emerge as new and robust internet applications exploiting
broad public access and low-cost transmission. This session explores
the integration of digital media technologies with high-speed internet
communications. |
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Keiko Tanaka |
University of Washington |
USA |
keiko-tanaka@
email.msn.com |
| Tetsuro Ogi |
Gifu MVL Research Center, Telecommunications
Advancement Organization ofJapan / Intelligent Modeling Laboratory,
University of Tokyo |
Japan |
tetsu@iml.
u-tokyo.ac.jp |
| 5 |
Bio-Medical Issues |
Quality of Medical / Health Information
on the Internet |
Alex Jadad |
McMaster University |
Canada |
jadada@
fhs.csu.
McMaster.CA |
Panel |
Akira Sekikawa |
Graduate School of Public Health / University
of Pittsburgh |
USA |
akira@imap.pitt.edu |
As Internet communications grow, there
are exciting opportunities as access to valuable medical information
expands. To cope with this growth consumers must have the ability
to winnow the grains of good information from the huge and growing
amount of worthless chaff. This panel discussion will discuss issues
in quality information delivery to physicians, educators and patients. |
| 6 |
Education |
Novel Views and Uses of the
Internet in Education and Communication |
Okhwa Lee |
Chungbuk National University |
Korea |
ohlee@
trut.
chungbuk.ac.kr |
Paper |
Kim H. Veltman |
Maastricht McLuhan Institute |
Nether-lands |
k.veltman@
mmi.unimaas.nl |
Most educational uses of
the Internet apply technology to improve the efficiency and/or effectiveness
of current practices. This session brings together several diverse
papers that present innovative applications, new technologies, and
new ways of thinking about the role of the Internet in global education. |
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Jason Leigh |
Electronic Visualization Laboratory at
the University of Illinois at Chicago |
USA |
spiff@evl.uic.edu |
| Masami Okyudo |
Misato Observatory |
Japan |
okyudo@obs.
misato.wakayama.jp |
| 7 |
E-Commerce
and E-Business |
E-Commerce Policies and Strategies
for a Global Inclusive e-Market |
Bruno Lanvin |
UNCTAD |
Switzer land |
Bruno.Lanvin@
UNCTAD.ORG |
Paper |
Jonathan P. Mitchener |
BT plc |
UK |
jonathan.mitchener
@bt.com |
E-commerce is intended to
open a global marketplace with benefits for everybody. It is clear
though that global policies and agreements in trade and political
issues are in order if everybody is going to participate. This session
will explore these issues from the developed and developing world
point of view. |
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Freddie E. Beaver |
University of Memphis |
USA |
fbeaver@
memphis.edu |
| Jeffrey Mark Alexander |
Washington CORE and TheGeorge Washington
University |
USA |
jeffalex@
wcore.com |
| Magda Ismail |
Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology and E-commerce Committee, Internet Society of Egypt |
Egypt |
magdam@
idsc1.gov.eg |