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Contributions to Education and Human Resources: 1. As part of ongoing practice, Vaishnavi and Vandenberg meet biweekly in open status meetings with project members and extended group of faculty (Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and occasionally other institutions, including a visiting professor from Korea), students (PhD, Masters, and undergraduate) and technical staff. These meetings are held on occasion at Georgia Tech. Discussions range broadly, from specifics of project tasks to general discussions of information integration, software component design, visualization techniques and knowledge systems. These meetings serve at multiple levels: as research discussions, as mentoring opportunities, and in dissemination of results. 2. CIS 9220: Topics in Information Systems Technology. Vaishnavi offered a doctoral level course with topics related to semantic heterogeneity in the Spring semester of 2005. 3. Several synergistic training activities are related to our directory interoperability research a) Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference pre-conference seminar, 'Identity and Access Management: People, Policies, and Practices,' Baltimore, Maryland, January 12, 2005. The audience was higher education institutions. 4. Since September 2003, the ITR project has included (in addition to 2 Masters students that are presently directly assigned to project tasks): 4 PhD students -- 3 (currently 2) Georgia State, 1 Georgia Tech 9 Masters students -- 7 (currently 3) Georgia State, 2 (currently 1) Georgia Tech 3 undergraduate students (Georgia State) As part of associated middleware discussions and activities, Vaishnavi and Vandenberg, et al. are involved in deployment of grid middleware for Georgia State University and associated members of the NMI Integration Testbed (cf. subaward to NSF Contract #ANI-0123837, 'Supporting Research and Collaboration through Integrated Middleware'). As part of this activity undergraduate and graduate students have participated in preparation of presentations and research papers. Three students (2 undergraduate, 1 Masters) were accepted, with partial scholarship for the Grid Summer Workshop offered by the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy's iVDGL/GriPhyn Education and Outreach division at the University of Texas at Brownsville, June 21-25, 2004. 6. Several synergistic training activities are related to our directory interoperability research: a. Art Vandenberg participated development and instruction for the SURA PACS NMI workshop on 'Enterprise Directories and Directory-enabled Applications,' Atlanta, GA, Aug19-20 and Sept. 23-24, 2003. The audience for these workshops included the Council of Independent Colleges (www.cic.edu) and the NSF Advanced Networking Project with Minority-Serving Institutions (AN-MSI http://www.anmsi.org/). b. Art Vandenberg participated in development and instruction for the Second NMI Integration Testbed Workshop, 'Experiences in Middleware Deployment,' Anaheim, CA, November 3, 2003. (http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed/meetings/workshop1103/1103agend .html). The audience was higher education institutions. c. Art Vandenberg was co-instructor for Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference pre-conference seminar, 'Enterprise Directory Implementation Roadmap,' Baltimore, Maryland, January 13, 2004. The audience was higher education institutions. d. Art Vandenberg was part of conference team for 'SURA Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Grid Application Planning & Implementation,' Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, January 5-7, 2005. e. Art Vandenberg was instructor for Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference pre-conference seminar, 'Identity and Access Management: People, Policies, and Practices,' Baltimore, Maryland, January 12, 2005. The audience was higher education institutions. |