What does Internet2 Mean for SDSU Faculty?

Since June 1999, SDSU has used the Abilene Network [PDF file] for high speed access to the Internet.

June 4, 1998 Summary of vBNS, might be an interesting historical viewpoint on SDSU's evolving high-performance connection to the National Network. NOTE: this program was phased out for funding through NSF/CISE in the Final Opportunity Dear Colleague Letter [June 8, 1999 NSF Doc NSF99131]

CENIC 2000 "Leading the Way to Tomorrow's Internet", will be held in San Diego, May 18 and 19, 2000. This is an excellent opportunity to interact with network specialists and see demonstrations of what this Anvanced Networking means for SDSU faculty. Please join us [register by May 10 for the reduced rate]

A comparison table developed at the Ed Center allows users to give a file size and have the optimal transportation time computed given different available connections:

Table to Compute Transport Time based on connection speed. Note: SDSU has an OC3 (152 Mbps) connection.

NSF Award 9729574 CalREN-2: The Calfornia Research and Education Network- Phase 2

Internet2 Spring 2000 Agenda - March 27-29, Washington, D.C.

IP to Lat/Long conversion tool.

"Manifest Destiny" and "Internet 2" (Historial Perspective)

Railrod Maps Archived by US Library of Congress using wavelet-based image compression:

• memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html
• www.lizardtech.com/

History of the Internet and WWW - Road 1 - USA to Europe. This document was announced in the March 13, 2000 [Special Issue (#2000-128) Net-Happenings

Backbone Fiber map (mostly laid on the Railroad Tracks in America):
www.qwest.net/about/inside/network/northamerican.html

Background History of America (to help put things in perspective):

memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html

This is an excellent introduction to the "Westward expansion" which our government supported to encourage investment needed for the Railroads. This work is presented from the U.S. Library of Congress.

odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/manifest/manif1.htm

"Manifest Destiny: An essay on "The Philosophy That Created a Nation" from a group of researchers from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, Netherlands

The U.S. Mexico War: 1846-1848 (www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/) [PBS special from KERA]

Any discussion of Manifest Destiny should be accompanied by a careful consideration of its impact on the relations between the United State and Mexico. This Public Broadcasting System (PBS) documentary companion web site provides online access to this powerful story. The site is also available in Spanish and Bilingual fashion.

home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/lectures.html

Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources" http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998). "This page provides information for students in Greg Feldmeth's Advanced Placement U.S. History course offered to juniors and seniors at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. A number of teachers and students at the high school and college level have visited the site, made suggestions as to improvements, and volunteered to help broaden its coverage. "

Digital Repositories

For Ed Center student assistants, I would like to propose a project reviewing the tools made available by the NPACI partner IATH = Inst. for Advanced Tech. in the Humanities

IATH

www.iath.virginia.edu/software.html

specifically their experience with digitizing resources, sgml/xml and web interfaces. Who would like to volunteer to look into this in the next few weeks.