Internet2 networks enable advanced applications that would be otherwise impossible over the "commodity" Internet.Examples of advanced applications include: TeleImmersion (UPenn), Digital Libraries such as SCETI, a fully integrated digital library with virtual facsimiles of rare books and manuscripts in the Penn Library's collections, Access Grid, Distance Learning applications, Voice over IP (VoIP) and Video over IP, Voice Over IP (VoIP) such as Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Additional examples of Internet2 applications such as virtual laboratories, intensive data transfer and remote instrumentation can be found on the applications section of Internet2's website.
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Transatlantic Howl:
A Dedication to Allen Ginsberg NJIT participated in this event along with University College London; Birkbeck College, University of London; Renater at ENSAM (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers); San Francisco State University; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Michigan. In this history-making transatlantic poetic happening, celebrating Allen Ginsberg and his epic poem HOWL, poets performed at venues in London, Paris, and across the United States. These live poetry readings and poetic theatre pieces were simultaneously streamed across JANET, Renater, and Internet2 advanced networks. At New Jersey Institute of Technology, the host was Professor Christopher Funkhouser (Humanities) with technical direction by Bill Duelly (ITMS) For more information and to view an archived version, go to http://arts.internet2.edu/howl.html |
 Photo courtesy of Stanford University, Parvati Dev and Leroy Heinrichs |
Remote Surgery Through advances in advanced networking applications such as haptics (touch-sensitive or tactile enabling technologies), surgical simulation training and collaborative videoconferencing technologies, Internet2 is enabling pioneering scientists in medical and technical fields to make minimally-invasive, Internet-based surgery techniques a future reality. Professor W. LeRoy Heinrichs of Stanford University demonstrates the use of haptically-enabled laparoscopic tools to demonstrate simulated surgical procedures across Internet2 advanced networks. |
 Credits: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Advanced Networks & Services, Herman Towles, Kostas Daniilidis |
Office of the Future The Office of the Future project is striving to to bring together geographically distant persons in a realistic, tele-collaborative environment. Using real-time computer vision techniques, dynamic 3D images of your colleague in their office surroundings are captured and transmitted to your Office of the Future where virtual reality technology is used to create a life-size, visual portal into the distant space. By transmitting these 3D streams over the advanced networks of Internet2, participants in remote locations are able to interact with each other and manipulate shared virtual objects in real-time. |
 Image Courtesy of the SCI Institute, Chris Johnson and Nathan Galli |
Problem-Solving Environments The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI Institute) at the University of Utah integrates visualization, simulation, and geometric modeling into computational problem-solving environments in fields including cardiology, neurosurgery, radiology, nuclear fusion, and the atmospheric diffusion of pollutants. Internet2 advanced networks provide a direct data channel to SCI collaborators throughout the country, providing the networking needed to pursue collaborative Grid-based research. |
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Remote Microscopy and Distance Learning For the past four years, a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) at the University of Michigan has played a key role in a “microcourse” taught at Lehigh University. Each year, The Lehigh Microscopy School attracts 100-150 engineers and scientists who receive instruction in a wide variety of microscope techniques. The attendees range from novice users to expert professionals who need to stay current on the latest developments in the field of scanning and analytical electron microscopy. These 4-5 day lecture/lab courses are taught by noted experts and course attendees receive instruction on SEMs and other state-of-the-art instruments. Extending its usability via remote-control to an Internet wide audience resulted from the work of Dr. John Mansfield and collaborators. Mansfield, Manager of the North Campus EMAL at UM, explained, “Advanced networks provide the bandwidth and performance required to control the SEM in real-time from anywhere in the world. Remote access extends the use of this extremely costly resource for instructional and collaborative research purposes.” |
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Tele-vator Excavation Backhoe |
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The nanoManipulator |