From: ahersh@lynx.cat.syr.edu (Adam Hersh)
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 16:46:51 EDT

**** NYSERNet Conference '92 Announcement

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                        NYSERNet CONFERENCE '92
          Network Access for All:  Learn, Teach, Collaborate

                       NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS
                          NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

                        SEPTEMBER 24 & 25, 1992

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The first New York State conference focused on computer networking 
and worldwide information resources.

Sponsored by NYSERNet (the New York State Education & Research Network),
for New York professionals in K-12 schools, colleges, library 
organizations, state-funded technology organizations, state agencies, 
and private sector companies and corporations.

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THURSDAY PROGRAM SESSIONS

AT-A-GLANCE:  Thursday, September 24 --
NEW YORK MARRIOTT MARQUIS

8:00-9:00 am            Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00 am                 Welcome: Richard Mandelbaum
9:00-10:15 am           Keynote Speaker: ROBERT KAHN,
                        President of the Corporation for
                        National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
10:30-Noon              Parallel Sessions I
Noon-1:30 pm            Luncheon, Speaker to be announced
1:45-3:15 pm            Parallel Sessions II
3:30-5:00 pm            Parallel Sessions III
5:00-6:30 pm            Wine and Cheese Reception

You will receive a complete schedule of sessions when you pick up 
your NYSERNet '92 information packet at registration.

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TRACK 1: Tools for Collaboration 

ON-LINE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
The power of any on-line information system is defined by the broad 
range of useful information it easily makes available to the 
community it serves rather than the technology it is built upon. This 
session will focus on three uses of on-line information available 
today.

      PNN - Princeton News Network:
             Howard Strauss, Princeton University

      On-line Undergraduate Admissions Information:   
             Jeff Bary, New York University

      Finding People on the NET:   
             Jim Gerland, SUNY at Buffalo

INTERFACE TO NETWORK SERVICES
The myriad of information and computational services available on 
the Internet often brings confusion and frustration to the common 
user. The commands and procedures to access even the simplest of 
documentation can range from being bothersome to being 
incomprehensible. The three presentations will highlight work being 
done to simplify the interface to network services.

      NYSERLink:   
              Linda Carl, Information Services Coordinator, NYSERNet 

      Scientist Workbench:   
              Dan Dwyer, Cornell National Supercomputer Facility

      Easy Access to Network Resources:
              Speaker to be announced

NEW VIEWS OF INFORMATION APPLICATIONS
Networking is more than just technology or resource sharing. It is an 
enabler that uses innovation to leverage information resources and 
human expertise by putting new applications together. This session 
will examine applications that have been developed with a new view 
of networking in mind.

      Comparison of information retrieval systems:
              Steve Worona, Cornell University 

      Print on Demand Applications Involving Campus Stores:
              Richard McDaniel, Cornell University

      "Ask Liberty-Hi": Behind the Scenes:
              Barbara Florini, User Services Coordinator, NYSERNet

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TRACK 2: Education

INSTRUCTIONAL USES OF THE INTERNET
Internet connectivity offers many exciting possibilities for
improved and enhanced instruction. This session presents a variety 
of current applications across educational levels which take 
advantage of computer networking, including a 5th grade toxic waste 
project, a college class taught using the Internet as the classroom, 
supercomputing high school projects, and a high school project using 
an international mainframe simulation.

      K-12:   
              John E. Newton, Main Street Elementary School
              Nancy Leib, Townsend Harris High School at Queens College

      Higher Education:   
              Norman Coombs, Professor, History Department, 
              Rochester Institute of Technology

      Higher Education/K-12 Collaborations:   
              Susan Mehringer, Project Leader, Education and Training, 
              Cornell Theory Center

ADMINISTRATIVE MODELS
The addition of computer networking to a school's infrastructure 
presents administrators with a variety of issues and concerns. There 
are currently a number of different models of connectivity to 
consider. This session will present individuals who have considered 
the administrative issues of connectivity from a variety of 
administrative perspectives.

      School-Level:   
              Donald Black, Principal, Selma Middle School, Selma, Indiana

      District-Level:   
              Argie Johnson, Deputy Chancellor for Curriculum and 
              Instruction, New York City Board of Education

      State-Wide:   
              Connie Stout, Director, TENET, Texas Education Network 
              and President of the Coalition for School Networking

EDUCATION PROJECT REPORTS
      Bank Street College Survey: 
              Margaret Honey, Associate Director, 
              Center for Children and Technology, Bank Street College
The results of a nation-wide survey of approximately 600 K-12 
educators from around the country investigating use of 
telecommunications systems for professional enhancement and 
student learning will be presented. 

      TNT Network:   
              Denis Martin, Associate, Michael Radlick, Director, 
              Division of Planning, Evaluation and Technological
              Services New York State Education Department
An overview of the TNT network and the various options being 
implemented to support connectivity to/from NYSERNet.

      College/K-12 Collaborations:   
              Marion French, Project Coordinator, Bridging the Gap, NYSERNet 
NYSERNet's "Bridging the Gap" projects: K-12 Network Scholars, New 
Connections and Liberty High. 

      Project WeatherWatch: 
              Steve Richards, Director, District 11 Weather Study Program, 
              NYC Board of Education, and Field Coordinator for 
              Project WeatherWatch, City College of New York.
An NSF funded planning grant, permits the transmission of weather 
data from Unidata over the Internet to participating schools.

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TRACK 3: Libraries 

NETWORK ACCESS: TRAINING ISSUES FOR THE LIBRARY
Getting connected to the Internet raises many training issues for 
librarians: planning for incorporating this new service, who does the 
training, how do we train the trainers, and what and how do we 
teach new users.

              Marilyn Moody, Head of Technical Services, Folson Library, 
              Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

              Jean Currie, Director of Special Projects, South Central 
              Research Institute

              Ree DeDonato, Head of General and Humanities Reference, 
              Bobst Library, New York University

NETWORKING - WHAT IS IT?  WHAT DO WE WANT IT TO BE?
This session will feature speakers from public, academic and 
corporate libraries who will address, not only their current 
participation in a networking environment, but will present their 
views on the realistic utility of short and longer term network 
applications for libraries.

              J. Michael Bruer, Associate Director for Preparation 
              Services of the Research Libraries, 
              The New York Public Library

              Ellen Sleeter, Information Systems Librarian at 
              Davis, Polk and Wardwell

              Arnold Hirshorn, Director, University Libraries 
              at Wright State University

DOCUMENT ACCESS AND DELIVERY
The number and variety of information resources available through 
the Internet is growing rapidly. Background information on 
navigational tools and their implementation in campus wide 
information systems and document delivery initiatives such as CARL 
UnCover 2, RLG's ARIEL and CiteDel services, and OCLC's Fax on 
Finder service will be presented.

              Pamela W. McLaughlin, On-Line Services Coordinator, 
              Syracuse University
              
              Ron Kalinoski, Director, Faculty Computing Services, 
              Syracuse University

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TRACK 4: Network Technologies

IMPLEMENTING NETWORK NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
Networks and network connections are growing in ever increasing 
pace every day within and outside of our institutions. What we, as 
administrators of these connections at our respective organizations, 
and our users expect is network access, not just connections. This 
session will cover issues related to finding, installing and supporting 
such applications.

      Implementation of ColumbiaNet:
A single electronic information system for all: Scholars, students, 
librarians, administrators.  What it takes to install, support, 
feed the Gopher system. How Columbianet implements Gopher protocols.

              David Millman, Columbia University Academic Information
              Systems, Coordinator of Research and Development.

      Other Net Navigators: 
What else is there other than Gopher. Summary of activities and 
information about how to get more involved, and learn before your 
users do. 

              Walter Bourne, Columbia University Academic Information 
              Systems, Assistant Director, Academic Computing. 

      WAIS: 
What is it, where is it now, where it's going. 

              Willem Scholten, Columbia University, Law School, 
              Director of Computer Systems and Development. 

GATHERING AND MANAGING RESOURCES
This track focuses on the need to look within as well as outside an 
organization to obtain and manage support for data networking. 
Internal considerations include: the education of your base of users 
to what the Network can do for them; the extension of your network 
to that base of users; the use of network applications to support goals 
common to multiple departments within an organization.  External 
considerations include: building strategic alliances with other 
organizations and manufacturers; obtaining sponsored funding for 
new projects; positioning your organization to be a "player" in local 
and regional initiatives.

       Gathering/Managing Internal Resources:   
              Geraldine MacDonald, Associate Vice President for Computing 
              Services, State University of New York at Binghamton

       Gathering/Managing External Resources:   
              M. Stuart Lynn, Vice President, Information Technologies, 
              Cornell University

TECHNICAL CHALLENGES IN MOVING TO GIGABIT NETWORKS
With the move from T1 to T3 well along, the frontier has shifted to 
planning and testing of networks with gigabit per second data rates.  
Many of the problems at lower speeds such as slow distributed name 
servers, finite address space, support for multimedia, are 
exacerbated as raw network speed increases.  The speaker will 
discuss what he sees as the challenges and opportunities as we move 
to the next plateau.

       David Farber is a Professor of Computer and Information Sciences at 
       the University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Distributed 
       Systems Laboratory.  He is a principal investigator on the Aurora 
       Gigabit Testbed and a director of the Electronics Frontier Foundation.

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FRIDAY SESSIONS

AT-A-GLANCE

Friday, September 25 --
 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

9:00-9:30 am           Tutorial Registration
9:30-Noon              Parallel Tutorial Sessions
                       NYSERNet Open Board Meeting 
                          (open to the public)
                       NYSERTech Meeting**
Noon-1:30 pm           Lunch on your own
1:30-5:00 pm           Parallel Tutorial Sessions continued
                       NYSERTech Meeting continued

You will receive a complete schedule of sessions when you pick up 
your NYSERNet '92 information packet at registration.

** NYSERTech, NYSERNet's Technical Users' Group, resumes its regular 
meetings at NYSERNet '92.  An important topic for discussion will be 
the issues arising in connection with WAN router ownership by 
individual NYSERNet members, especially those related to the burden 
of maintaining these routers and their tables. NYSERTech members 
are invited to propose other agenda items for both this and future 
meetings.  Send your suggestions to Ben Chi (bec@albany.edu) or Mel 
Ferentz (mel@nysernet.org).

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TUTORIAL 1: 
GETTING STARTED: AN INTERNET WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS

This hands-on tutorial provides discussion, demonstration and 
practice with the basic tools of the Internet. Participants will gain 
experience in sending and receiving electronic mail, subscribing to 
mailing lists and on-line journals, anonymously transferring files, 
using archival systems and on-line databases, exploring special 
interest and news groups. Participants will have time to explore 
resources appropriate to their areas of interest.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This tutorial is targeted for new users who have little hands-on 
experience with using Internet tools. All novices are welcome.
IMPORTANT: If new users have access to their own Internet account 
they should bring that information with them. All participants will 
be provided with temporary accounts.

INSTRUCTORS 

Urban LeJeune, Associate Professor, Computer & Information 
Sciences, Stockton College, has developed tutorial programs for new 
K-12 and university users.

Marion French, Project Coordinator, "Bridging the Gap", NYSERNet, is 
currently advising educators and librarians in the use of the Internet 
in developing collaborative projects involving K-12 curriculum.

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TUTORIAL 2: 
INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT OF YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION

A discussion with an extended question and answer portion, this 
tutorial will provide the basics required to obtain a NYSERNet 
connection. This session will assist attendees in understanding the 
administrative, technical, and operational issues which must be 
addressed in order to ease the management of such a project. The 
extensive Q&A session will aid in helping attendees to grasp these 
concepts for implementation at their own facilities.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This session is for data processing managers, system managers, and 
users involved in the acquisition of an Internet connection via 
NYSERNet. Previous knowledge of Internet and data communications 
concepts while helpful is NOT required.

INSTRUCTOR

Paul Lohnes is an experienced tutorial developer and provider using 
his many years of University level teaching experience to offer 
informative and enjoyable technical seminars.  Currently a full-time 
telecommunications professor at the SUNY Institute of Technology, 
Paul Lohnes has been involved with the Internet for over 11 years 
both at the University of California, Berkeley and as a member of the 
SUNYNET Technical Advisory Group.

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TUTORIAL 3: 
A FURTHER EXPLORATION OF THE INTERNET

The intermediate user will get hands-on experience with a variety of 
Internet resources. Systems such as library catalogs, Gopher, Archie, 
and WAIS will be demonstrated and accessed from a computer lab 
facility. Telnet, tn3270, and ftp will be explored. In the afternoon 
session, a "treasure hunt" through the Internet will be conducted 
with prizes for the winners.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This workshop is recommended for users with some computing 
experience wishing to know more about Internet resources and how 
to use them.

INSTRUCTORS

Andrew Perry, Assistant Director of Libraries for Systems at 
Binghamton University, is an authority on Internet resources and 
principle author of the "NYSERNet new user's guide to useful and 
unique resources on the Internet."

Martin Raish is in charge of Information Instruction at the 
Binghamton University Libraries, and owner of the popular listserv, 
BI-L (Bibliographic Instruction List).   

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HOTELS

New York Marriott Marquis
In the heart of the theater district. Location of Thursday's 
conference.

   1535 Broadway (45th-46th Streets.)
   New York, NY 10036-4017
   Reservations:  212-398-1900 or 800-228-9290  

The conference rate is $175 per night for single or double occupancy. 
Be sure to reference NYSERNet '92 for the conference rate.

Washington Square Hotel 
Located in the heart of Greenwich Village, near NYU, where tutorials 
will be held on Friday.

   103 Waverly Place
   New York, NY 10011-9194
   Reservations:    800-222-0418
   $96-117 per night

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FEES:
                                NOT-FOR        CORPORATE             
                                PROFIT          AFFILIATE         OTHER
CONFERENCE SESSIONS
THURS. SEPT. 24, 1992
(includes refreshments,          $95              $145             $195
lunch, & reception)
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TUTORIALS
FRI. SEPT. 25, 1992
(see below to select             $95               $95             $195
  tutorial desired)
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OPEN BOARD MEETING 
and NYSERTech                          NO CHARGE FOR EITHER MEETING
FRI. SEPT. 25, 1992 
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LATE REGISTRATION FEE OF $25 APPLIES TO REGISTRATIONS 
RECEIVED AFTER SEPTEMBER 1, 1992

Please make checks or money orders payable to NYSERNet.  
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So that we can plan meeting space more effectively,
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 Please indicate first and second choices.

THURSDAY  

____ TRACK 1:  Tools for Collaboration  
____ TRACK 2:  Education 
____ TRACK 3:  Libraries   
____ TRACK 4:  Network Technologies 

FRIDAY  

____ NYSERNet Open Board of Directors Meeting
____ NYSERTech Meeting

FRIDAY   

____ TUTORIAL 1:  Getting Started: 
                  An Internet Workshop for Beginners  
____ TUTORIAL 2:  Installation and Management of Your
                  Network Connection
____ TUTORIAL 3:  A Further Exploration of the Internet

To be eligible for the NYSERLink Giveaway Drawing, full payment 
must be received on or before September 1, 1992. Registration after 
that date will be accepted on a space-available basis, with payment 
of a $25.00 late fee. Refunds for registration cancellation (less $15 
handling fee) will be made after Conference, if request is received in 
writing by 9/16/92.

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For further information, or to mail your registration:

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