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Subject: NYSERNet CONFERENCE '92,  Sept. 24-25, New York City
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:11:32 GMT
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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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REGISTRATION FORM

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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
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OPEN BOARD MEETING
and NYSERTech	NO CHARGE FOR EITHER MEETING
FRI. SEPT. 25, 1992
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Please make checks or money orders payable to NYSERNet. (Registration fee). Check 
enclosed in the amount of: $__________ 

So that we can plan meeting space more effectively, please check your anticipated 
attendance: 

*** Registration for Tutorials is limited. 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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