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An advanced program is now available online. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/wace/program.htm _______ WORKSHOP ON ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace/ Thursday, September 23, 2004 Four Points by Sheraton Elysee Palace Nice, France Fourth Annual Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments This workshop will address research, technological, and social issues of developing persistent collaboration infrastructure to address the needs of emerging communities. Examples of such communities include the following: " Bioinformatics and Computational Biology " Nanoscience and Molecular Technology " Wide Area Environmental Sensing " Biomedical Imaging and Simulation " Education, Humanities and Technology " Unique One-of-a-Kind Facilities The goal of the workshop is to provide an open technical forum to promote the discussion of high-end, high-value solutions to the problem of supporting distributed collaboration. Baseline assumptions about the evolution of future computing technologies (e.g., networking, computing, storage, and displays) useful for collaboration environments should be taken into account in developing position papers. The workshop intends to look at future-generation systems. The following are examples of future infrastructure predictions likely to affect collaboration systems: " Network bandwidth -gigabits/s to terabits/s " Display -desktop monitors to room-oriented systems " Computing -gigaflops to teraflops PCs " Mobile devices -PDAs to personal information accessories " Storage -gigabytes to personal terabytes " Ubiquitous grid software environments Overall registration for the workshop will be limited to 75 participants. To stay up-to-date on WACE see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/wace, send questions to w...@mcs.anl.gov. ---WACE 2004 Program Committee
