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May Demo
October Demo

1999 1998 1997

2000

Facts

Number of sponsored universities: 3

Meetings

1. May Demo

Meeting with demos held at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, on May 9, 2000:

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Guy Almes, Ruzena Bajcsy, Andy van Dam, Kostas Daniilidis, Joseph L. Dionne, Lisa Ernst, Mike Frame, Henry Fuchs, Robert Harris, Loring Holden, Douglas E. Van Houweling, Jaron Lanier, Brian Menkes, Kristin Mortensen, Andrea Papa, Terrence W. Rogers, Jay Rosen, Herman Towles, Allan H. Weis, Greg Welch, Myra Williams, Joe B. Wyatt, Matt Zekauskas, Robert Zeleznik
(Note: all names appear in alphabetical order)

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Wei-Chao Chen, Kostas Daniilidis, Henry Fuchs, Loring Holden, Aditi Majumder, Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Andrew Nashel, Ramesh Raskar, Herman Towles, Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang, Robert Zeleznik
(Note: all names appear in alphabetical order)

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... and joining remotely in 3D: Jane Mulligan from Philadelphia, PA (UPenn) and Amela Sadagic from Armonk, NY (Advanced)

We had following people present (note: all names appear in alphabetical order):

representatives of three universities whose work on the project is supported by Advanced:

Brown University:
Andries van Dam (Principal Investigator)
Loring Holden, Robert Zeleznik

Robert Zeleznik: SOFT-SOftware Framework for Teleimmersion (slides)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - UNC:
Henry Fuchs (Principal Investigator)
Wei-Chao Chen, Aditi Majumder, Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Andrew Nashel, Ramesh Raskar, Srihari Sukumaran, Herman Towles, Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang,

Henry Fuchs: Rendering & Display ( slides)
Henry Fuchs: Rendering & Display: The Future ( slides)
Herman Towles: National Tele-Immersion Initiative ( slides)

University of Pennsylvania:
Ruzena Bajcsy (Principal Investigator)
Kostas Daniilidis, Jane Mulligan (remotely from UPenn)

Kostas Daniilidis: 3D Scene Acquisition for Tele-immersion (slides)
Internet2:
Guy Almes, Matt Zekauskas
Members of Advanced Board of Directors:
Joseph L. Dionne, Mike Frame, Douglas E. Van Houweling, Allan H. Weis, Myra Williams, Joe B. Wyatt
Advanced Network and Services:
Lisa Ernst, Robert Harris, Jaron Lanier, Brian Menkes, Kristin Mortensen, Andrea Papa, Amela Sadagic (remotely from Advanced), Terrence W. Rogers, Jay Rosen

More about demo at: May Demo

2. October Demo

Meeting with demos held at UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, on Oct 23, 2000:

front row: Terrence W. Rogers, Henry Fuchs, Allan H. Weis
middle row: Ruigang Yang, Caroline, Wei-Chao Chen, Jaron Lanier, Michael Lesk
back row: Srihari Sukumaran, Greg Coombe, Justin Hensley, David Gotz, Loring Holden, Herman Towles, Andrew Nashel

front row: Andrew Nashel, Wei-Chao Chen
middle row: Ruigang Yang, Herman Towles, Sang-Uok Kum, Loring Holden
back row: Amela Sadagic (on the screen behind, in 3D)

More about demo: October Demo

1999

Facts

Number of sponsored universities: 4
Central lab in Armonk got two more people: Amela Sadagic, Senior CS Researcher, and Marlone Brown, Software Developer

Meetings

Meeting with demos held in Armonk on May 20, 1999.:

We had following people present:

representatives of four universities whose work on the project is supported by Advanced:

Brown University:
Andries van Dam (Principal Investigator), Loring Holden, Robert Zeleznik

"SOFT - Software Framework for Teleimmersion" and "SOFT Networking and Scalable Virtual Environments" (slides), joint presentation with NPS

Naval Postgraduate School - NPS:
Michael Zyda (Principal Investigator), Michael Capps, Kent Watsen, Don McGregor
"SOFT - Software Framework for Teleimmersion" and "SOFT Networking and Scalable Virtual Environments" (slides), joint presentation with NPS

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - UNC:
Henry Fuchs (Principal Investigator), Herman Towles, Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang

National Tele-Immersion Initiative (slides)

University of Pennsylvania:
Ruzena Bajcsy (Principal Investigator), Kostas Daniilidis, Raymond McKendall, Jane Mulligan

Tele-immersion at GRASP lab (slides)
Internet2:
Guy Almes: Internet2: Technology Innovation and Distributed Infrastructure (slides)
Terry Rogers,
Matt Zekauskas: The Surveyor Project (slides)
Ben Teitelbaum: Internet2 QBone: Building a Testbed for IP Differentiated Services (slides)
Advanced: Al Weis, Jaron Lanier, Amela Sadagic, Michele Ficher, Collier Hyams

1998

Facts

Number of sponsored universities: 8

Meetings

That year we did not have any large meeting, yet lots of work happened at each individual TI site.

1997

Everything started in midd 1997...

Facts

Number of universities: 8

Meetings

The second meeting of the Initiative took place on July 21, 1997.

Rick Satava - Tom DeFanti - Jaron Lanier - Randy Pausch - Ulrich Neuman - Mike Zyda
Rich Riesenfeld - Al Weis - Henry Fuchs - Alex Singer - Steve Feiner
not pictured: Larry Landweber and Guy Almes

The first Software Meeting took place on Nov. 18, 1997:

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	Guy Almes, Ruzena Bajcsy, Andy van Dam, Kostas Daniilidis, Joseph L. Dionne, Lisa Ernst, Mike Frame, Henry Fuchs, Robert Harris, Loring Holden, Douglas E. Van Houweling, Jaron Lanier, Brian Menkes, Kristin Mortensen, Andrea Papa, Terrence W. Rogers, Jay Rosen, Herman Towles, Allan H. Weis, Greg Welch, Myra Williams, Joe B. Wyatt, Matt Zekauskas, Robert Zeleznik (Note: all names appear in alphabetical order)
	Wei-Chao Chen, Kostas Daniilidis, Henry Fuchs, Loring Holden, Aditi Majumder, Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Andrew Nashel, Ramesh Raskar, Herman Towles, Greg Welch, Ruigang Yang, Robert Zeleznik (Note: all names appear in alphabetical order)
	... and joining remotely in 3D: Jane Mulligan from Philadelphia, PA (UPenn) and Amela Sadagic from Armonk, NY (Advanced)

	front row: Terrence W. Rogers, Henry Fuchs, Allan H. Weis middle row: Ruigang Yang, Caroline, Wei-Chao Chen, Jaron Lanier, Michael Lesk back row: Srihari Sukumaran, Greg Coombe, Justin Hensley, David Gotz, Loring Holden, Herman Towles, Andrew Nashel
	front row: Andrew Nashel, Wei-Chao Chen middle row: Ruigang Yang, Herman Towles, Sang-Uok Kum, Loring Holden back row: Amela Sadagic (on the screen behind, in 3D)