Schedule of Events
UAF Wood Center Ballroom April 22, 2008
*Doorprize drawing during this hour
9:45am – 10:15am:
The Greatland Sounds Chorus
10:00am: Introduction
Karl Kowalski, Executive Director User Services (OIT)
Frank Williams, Director Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)
10:00am – 10:15am: Welcome to Cyberinfrastructure Day! (via Internet2 video)
Steve Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer (OIT)
10:15am – 11:00am: Apple
Transforming learning on-campus, off-campus, and where there is no campus at all!
Kurt Bedell, Apple
11:00am – 12:00pm: TeraGrid*
Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates
high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental
facilities around the country
Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, TeraGrid
12:00pm – 1:00pm: QuasiPseudo
A local band that plays a blend of jazz and funk (called "Junk"). Features Paul Krejci
(piano/keyboards), Steve Lacatena (saxophone), Robin Zimmerman (bass) and
Chris Swaim (percussion).
1:00pm – 2:00pm: NASA (Keynote Speaker)*
Mike Comberiate, NASA Systems Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Ricketts, Computer Science Technical Assistant, University of Maryland
For over 20 years Mike Comberiate has been infamous in creating almost 100
special project initiatives that apply NASA Space technologies to long-standing
problems in unusual places on Earth. He initiated 20 historic milestones in Polar
communications involving both North and South Polar regions. Some, such as the
first Internet link to 90 North and the first pole-to-pole phone call, are recorded in the
Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
2:00pm – 3:00pm: ResearchChannel*
Giving voice and visibility to discovery that is changing the world.
Tim Lorang, Director Membership and Production, ResearchChannel
3:00pm – 3:30pm: UAS online Portfolio System
Cheryl JP Johnson, University of Alaska Southeast, School of Education
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)*
Computing at scale: approaching realistic scale simulations with supercomputers.
Dr. Greg Newby, Chief Scientist (ARSC)
9:45am – 10:15am:
The Greatland Sounds Chorus
10:00am: Introduction
Karl Kowalski, Executive Director User Services (OIT)
Frank Williams, Director Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)
10:00am – 10:15am: Welcome to Cyberinfrastructure Day! (via Internet2 video)
Steve Smith, Chief Information Technology Officer (OIT)
10:15am – 11:00am: Apple
Transforming learning on-campus, off-campus, and where there is no campus at all!
Kurt Bedell, Apple
11:00am – 12:00pm: TeraGrid*
Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates
high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental
facilities around the country
Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, TeraGrid
12:00pm – 1:00pm: QuasiPseudo
A local band that plays a blend of jazz and funk (called "Junk"). Features Paul Krejci
(piano/keyboards), Steve Lacatena (saxophone), Robin Zimmerman (bass) and
Chris Swaim (percussion).
1:00pm – 2:00pm: NASA (Keynote Speaker)*
Mike Comberiate, NASA Systems Manager, Goddard Space Flight Center
Robert Ricketts, Computer Science Technical Assistant, University of Maryland
For over 20 years Mike Comberiate has been infamous in creating almost 100
special project initiatives that apply NASA Space technologies to long-standing
problems in unusual places on Earth. He initiated 20 historic milestones in Polar
communications involving both North and South Polar regions. Some, such as the
first Internet link to 90 North and the first pole-to-pole phone call, are recorded in the
Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
2:00pm – 3:00pm: ResearchChannel*
Giving voice and visibility to discovery that is changing the world.
Tim Lorang, Director Membership and Production, ResearchChannel
3:00pm – 3:30pm: UAS online Portfolio System
Cheryl JP Johnson, University of Alaska Southeast, School of Education
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)*
Computing at scale: approaching realistic scale simulations with supercomputers.
Dr. Greg Newby, Chief Scientist (ARSC)