On
the Road to a Gigabit Awards
The CENIC On the Road to a Gigabit Awards honor California visionaries
who are applying network technology in innovative ways to encourage
the development and implementation of a ubiquitous gigabit state-wide
network by 2010. Showcasing the pioneering ideas of today's visionaries
and the promise of tomorrow's internet, the awards highlight the
technologies paving the road to a gigabit world. Learn
more about CENIC...
The
Education Award
The Education Award honors innovative uses of high-performance networking
in K-12 and higher education for which Teaching and Learning Interchange
was awarded Honorable Mention. Since our nomination for the award,
the TLI has released the Pedagogy in Practice: Video Case Studies
series for Science. Learn
more about the winning projects...
Evaluation Criteria
Nominations and applications are evaluated according to the
following criteria:
- The stated goals of the award category.
- The extent to which
the application/technology promotes the development
and implementation of a ubiquitous gigabit
state-wide network by 2010.
- The impact and benefits
of the application/technology.
Judging
Judges are comprised of leaders in industry, government
and academia
Background
Academic researchers and information technology executives
in California's higher education and research community
have been in the forefront of shaping national and international
computer networks since the inception of the ARPANET in
the late 1960's. California's universities were among the
first in the nation to deploy "next generation" communications
technology in the early 1980's. They are now in the midst
of planning for the next critical step in the advancement
of data communications services that must be widely available
before the end of this decade in order to support new modes
of teaching, learning, collaboration and research.
Representatives
from Stanford University, the University of California,
the California State University, the California
Institute of Technology, and the University of Southern
California and Information Sciences Institute have articulated
a common
vision for the innovative use of communications technology
to deliver the next generation of data communications services.
Fundamental to this vision is the existence of an advanced
wide area communications infrastructure serving all institutions
of higher education in California and linked seamlessly
with the new advanced national network infrastructure. |
