1. Fat Pipes Aren’t Enough: Health Science Applications
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Fat Pipes Aren’t Enough: Health Science Applications
Mary Kratz
Chair, Internet2 Health Sciences Working Group
AAMC GIR Spring 2001
March 10, 2001

2. "When the explorer is ready the guide will appear."
                                                                        
"When the explorer is ready the guide will appear."
-- Himalayan Saying
(Reference from EVL at UIC)

3. The Scope of the Internet2 Health Science Workgroup
includes clinical practice,
medical and related biological
research, education, and
medical awareness
in the Public.
Enigma Machine and Bombe
Armed forces have always been dependent on communications. During World War II, the German Army and Navy tried to keep their communications secret by using encryption devices called Enigma machines. These sophisticated coding devices could generate over 1 trillion different coding patterns. The Germans believed they were too sophisticated for Allied forces to break them. But in one of the best-kept secrets of the war, first the Poles, and later the British and Americans succeeded in deciphering messages. The wooden device in the foreground is a 4 rotor German Enigma machine, used for encoding. The large machine in the background is a "Bombe," used for breaking the code. Working out the details of codebreaking machines was one of the developments that fostered electronic computers.
Smithsonian Photo by Laurie Minor-Penland.

4. With an Emphasis On: Medical applications on the Internet.
Development of application tools to take advantage of Internet2 advanced network services.
Leverage and influence Internet2 resources to apply solutions to the medical domain.
Inform the medical community of these activities.

5. Goals and Objectives
Focus on research partnerships for advanced applications
Enhance collaboration and information sharing
Development of demonstrations and tools
Cooperate on standards to maintain global interoperability

6. NCRR: Integration Role for Internet2
Virtual Laboratories
Biocomplexity
Data
Management
Multidisciplinary
Security

7. Internet2 Member Universities 185 Members As of February 2001
120 internet2 member universities have medical colleges (AAMC members)
About 50 members active in health sciences
Strong leadership team
Working closely with NIH/NLM
Hawaii
OHSU
Stanford
UCSD
UAB
TAMU
UIC
UTenn
NLM
UMich
WUSTL

8. Roadmap Networking Health: Prescriptions for the Internet
National Research Council Report
Current and future Internet
Released 24 February 2000
National Academy Press
ISBN

9. Network of Collaborations
People to people
Collaborations
Engineering expertise
Medical expertise
Information access
Libraries and knowledge bases
Data stores (ie. Clinical)
Metadata definitions
Resources
Abilene backbone
Advanced research applications and tools
Facilities
Virtual laboratories
Super computers
Knowledge Clearinghouse

10. Application Attributes
Interactive research collaboration and instruction
Real-time access to remote resources
Large-scale, multi-site computation and data mining
Shared virtual reality
Any combination of the above

11. 3D Brain Mapping: “Watching the Brain in Action”
University of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

13. Teleimmersion University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois-NCSA
Old Dominion University

14. The CAVE

15. The BIG Picture  

16. Much More Information Mary Kratz www.internet2.edu
Internet2, Health Sciences
3025 Boardwalk, Ann Arbor, MI 48108