[gu-l] (09/23/03) Visit to the University of Coimbra, Portugal
Takeshi Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:31:18 -0400
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<<September 23, 2003>>
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Doutor Pedro Manuel Saraiva <pas@ci.uc.pt>
Antonio Dias de Figueiredo <adf@dei.uc.pt>
Antonio Jos=E9 Nunes Mendes <toze@dei.uc.pt>
Professor Alfredo A. V. Soeiro <avsoeiro@reit.up.pt>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Professor Doctor Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas <alex@ufam.edu.br>
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D. <kaisa.kautto-koivula@nokia.com>
Colin Allison <ca@dcs.st-and.ac.uk>
Pierluigi Ritrovato <ritrovato@crmpa.unisa.it>
Piet Kommers <kommers@edte.utwente.nl>
Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com>
Dear Prof=B9s. Saraiva, de Figueiredo and Mendes:
(1) It was certainly our great pleasure to visit you at your University of
Coimbra on September 10th, by the kind introduction of Prof. Alfredo Soeiro
of the University of Porto.
> Dear Dr. Saraiva:
> I was very happy to hear that you got your Ph.D. Chem. Eng. from MIT with
> Fulbright scholarship, since I was also a Fulbrighter almost a half centu=
ry
> ago, and also I once made a lecture to students of the chemical engineeri=
ng
> department while I was working at Stone & Webster Engineering Company in
> downtown Boston about three decades ago =8B I was then a senior coordinator=
of
> design engineers for ethylene plants (US$800 million a piece), many of wh=
ich
> were constructed in Japan and elsewhere.
(2) I was very delighted to hear of your willingness to help our Amazon
project, particularly with your Coimbra group.
> A. Pls see about the Amazom project in;
> 1. =B3Creating Global University System=B2 by T. Utsumi, T. Varis, W. Klemm a=
t;
>>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Unive=
rsity
>>> %20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_II_Intercultur/Utsumi%20Cr=
eatin
>>> g%20GUS/Creating_GUS/GUS_web/Creating%20GUS-D12.htm
>>=20
> 1. "Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Developmen=
t in
> Amazon, Brazil" by Alexandre Rivas and Jackson Colares da Silva , Univers=
ity
> of Amazona at;
>>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Unive=
rsity
>>> %20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Ri=
vas,%
>>> 20Alex/Rivas_web/RivasD8.htm
>=20
> B. Pls see about Coimbra Group in;
> "Global Learning and Virtual Mobility" by Jose Silvio , UNESCO in Caracas=
,
> Venezuela at;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univer=
sity%
>> 20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Silv=
io,%2
>> 0Jose/Silvio_web/SilvioD9.htm
Dave Johnson is now start working on the construction of a concept paper of
this project for fund raising from various sources =8B which may include;
> Japan Special Fund of Inter-American Development Bank
> http://www.iadb.org/jsfund/
As mentioned, once we secure the fund, we plan to have a workshop in Manaus=
,
Amazon, and we would be very happy to have your participation.
>> Dear Alex:
>> A Brazilian at the IADB recently told me that this fund also has a grant=
as
>> similar to;
>>=20
>>> Japan Social Development Fund of the World Bank
>>> http://www.worldbank.org/rmc/jsdf/approvals.htm
> I was very happy during our mtg to hear that many Brazilians have already
> being accessing your university web sites, because of the same language.
>=20
>> Dear Dave:
>> Dr. Saraiva said to me that your friend, Vice Rector and Professor Lusit=
ano
>> dos Santos, is now sabbatical vacation to Brazil =8B you may recall our di=
nner
>> mtg with him at the Chemists=B9 Club in May of 1996. At that time, he
>> mentioned of his interest to initiate e-learning on environmental issues=
with
>> Brazilians.
>=20
>> BTW, pls visit the following web to view some of photos taken in Coimbra
>> which may remind your visit to him in Coimbra in 1995 or so years ago;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univer=
sity%
>> 20System/2003-09_SEFI_Porto,%20Portugal/Keynote_Speech_at_SEFI.html
(3) During our mtg, another vice rector sat next to you =8B though he had to
leave earlier. He said that he knows the following person;
> Paulo Jorge Melo=20
> Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro
> Gabinete de Informatica e Estatistica
> Coimbra University
> R. Bernardim Ribeiro, 80
> 3000 Coimbra - Portugal
> Phone: 351-39-400150/149<<August 11, 2003>>Not working.
> Fax : 351-39-702097
> pmelo@ccr-c.pt
> Cu-SeeMe: 193.236.210.6
> Iphone: 193.236.210.6
> (OneNet BBS FirstClass Systems)
> ( 14.400 bps - 351-39-703442 )
> ( ISDN - 351-39-7081340 )
> http://www.ccr-c.pt/~pmelo
>> He was introduced to me by Dave and participated in the =B3Global Lecture =
Hall
>> (GLH)=B2 multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia, interactive videoconference
>> which was originated at my workshop in Florianopolis, Brazil in June of =
1996,
>> from Coimbra with a photo of the University of Coimbra which is similar =
to
>> the last one of the series I took mentioned above.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can get Paul=B9s current address (with
email) at European Commission in Luxemburg from the vice rector, and inform
it to me at your earliest convenience.
(4) In addition to your willingness to work together on our Amazon project,
I was greatly appreciate it to hear of your strong interest to create a
GUS/Portugal.
> This will then provide you with a chance to become a member of our
> GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program which headquarters is located=
at
> the University of Tampere.
>=20
>> BTW, this program was created by Marco Antonio Dias, our Vice President =
for
>> Administration, who is a Brazilian of French descendent and former Direc=
tor
>> of Higher Education at UNESCO.
This may lead to help Portuguese speaking developing countries in Africa
(e.g., Angola, Mozambique, etc.) and in Southeastern Asia (e.g., Macao, Eas=
t
Timor, etc.), as utilizing the Japanese fund mentioned above =8B they are
eligible countries for the fund. The idea here is to enrich your
experiences as helping underserved people in those developing countries.
For example, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) now provides
Asian countries with J-Net at 1.5 Mbps satellite Internet via INTELSAT free
of charge.
> For example, one of our colleagues is now working to reduce infant mortal=
ity
> in Angola with the University of Washington in Seattle and the University=
of
> Pittsburgh and another colleague (a former UNESCO officer) is training
> trainers of e-learning in Mozambique, with Common Wealth of Learning in
> Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as utilizing chapters of our book
> =B3Creating Global University System=B2 which can be retrieved at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univers=
ity%2
> 0System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Bk_outline-D13.html
>=20
Should you be interested, you may follow the model of our colleagues in
Malawi and Uganda =8B pls visit my previous list distribution =B3[gu-l]
(07/18/03) Initial fund raiding for starting GUS=B2 at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2003q3/000219.html
(5) I was also very delighted to receive a =B3Call for Chapters: Managing
Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context,=B2 a book edited by Ant=F3ni=
o
Dias de Figueiredo and Ana Paula Afonso to be published by Idea Group, Inc.
>> BTW, I have requested to publish a book =B3Electronic Global University Sy=
stem
>> and Services=B2 from the Idea Group many years ago, but haven=B9t been able =
to
>> complete its manuscript yet =8B see;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html
>=20
This is a very impressive and interesting book, indeed!! The direction of
this book indicates the future of e-learning.
> Dear E-Colleagues:
> Pls access its web at;
> http://www.dei.uc.pt/context/
> Although its deadline is over, should you be interested, pls feel free to
> contact Prof. de Figueiredo.
>=20
> Dear Kaisa:
> You may contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating your followin=
g
> paper with how to cope with =B3Creative Destruction (the famous words of Jo=
seph
> Shumpeter)=B2 when the emerging new technology confronts with the basic fab=
ric
> of traditional society =8B which we discussed before;
> "Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn f=
rom
> Global Corporations?" by Kaisa Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtaniemi , Nok=
ia
> Ventures Organization at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univers=
ity%2
> 0System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning/Kautto-K=
oivul
> a/Kautto_web/KauttoD5_web/KauttoD5.htm
>=20
> Dear Colin and Pierluigi:
> You may also contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating your
> following paper with some more examples (in addition to the training of
> weather forecasters) with the use of protocol software for GRID computing
> networking (emphasizing particularly for its use in e-learning), which ar=
e now
> being developed by your group with the European Commission=B9s fund;
> "Human Learning as a Global Challenge: European Learning Grid Infrastruct=
ure"
> by Colin Allison, Stefano A. Cerri, Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Ritrovato, an=
d
> Saverio Salerno , University of St. Andrews, Universit=E9 Montpellier II et
> CNRS, and University of Salerno, Italy, at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univers=
ity%2
> 0System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Ritrov=
ato,%
> 20Pierluigi/E-LeGI_web/E-LeGIv9.htm
>=20
> Dear Piet:
> You may also contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating your
> following paper with additional cases of using virtual laboratories =8B if
> possible, with the use of GRID technology;
> "Virtual Reality Environments for Experiential Learning in the Science an=
d
> Medical Domains" by Piet Kommers, Steffan R=F6del, Jan-Maarten Luursema, Bo=
b
> Geelkerken and Eelco Kunst , University of Twent at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univers=
ity%2
> 0System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Kommer=
s,%20
> Piet/Kommers_web/KommersD7.htm
>=20
> You may also emphasize the importance of utilizing such collaborative
> experiential learning by the dispersed youngsters around the world as
> elaborating your following paper;
> "ICT in Secondary Education for the Knowledge Society" by Piet Kommers,
> Vladimir Kinelev and Boris Kotsik , University of Twente and UNESCO/Mosco=
w in;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univers=
ity%2
> 0System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Kommer=
s,%20
> Piet/Kommers-ICT/Kommers-ICT_web/%23IV-33%20Kommers-B.htm
>=20
> Dear Paul:
> At the annual conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities in
> Manila, the Philippines in 2000, your paper received a gold award, which =
said
> that Japanese have a lot of context but none of content. This observatio=
n met
> with the same by several Americans, including an article in The New York =
Time
> which I mentioned in my previous list distribution.
> You are an English, Oxford graduate, married to a Japanese girl to be ado=
pted
> by her family with her family name. You have then sharp, critical eyes t=
o
> Japanese life. You may then contribute your chapter to this book as
> elaborating your paper =8B or better yet, as including your report of the s=
urvey
> among the Japanese Self-Defense Force which you said that they may have m=
ore
> content oriented nature =8B I introduced them to you through a former Secre=
tary
> of the Force, my family friend a few years back.
>=20
Dear Prof. de Figueiredo:
(6) I am tempted to contribute my paper to your book, as elaborating the
last half of my paper =B3"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming"
at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Universit=
y
%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Utsumi=
,
%20Tak/GCEPG_D10_Web/GCEPG_D10.htm
However, I am afraid I don=B9t have much time to prepare for it.
Senator Fulbright once said that learning together and working together are
the first steps toward world peace .
My hope/intention of our GLOSAS/GUS projects is to find the way how to let
youngsters around the world get together for collaborative experiential
learning through GRID computer network, in order to fulfill the words of th=
e
senator.
ATTACHMENT I below is the GRID approach, but it is synchronous, rich-man=B9s
approach for large simulation project -- Colin and Pierluigi paper
mentioned above said that the US/NSF will spend almost US$1 billion for the
next phase of Internet development with GRID technology (see ATTACHMENT II
for its historical development). As mentioned in my paper, I would like to
proceed with asynchronous, poor-man=B9s approach. This is because we need to
have participants in developing countries which can only access through
geosynchronous orbiting satellite for which signal travels, at least, in
0.253 second. Also, interactive experiential virtual learning requires
head-scratching time, too, in addition to time difference among them around
the world.
Anyway, pls make sure to inform me when your book available for my
purchasing.
Wishing you a very good luck to your project.
Best, Tak=20
P.S.:
My wife and I are invited for my delivering a talk at the roundtable
discussion on =B3The Virtual University and the Usage of New Educational
Technologies=B2 at the International Book Fair at the University of Veracruz,
Mexico from September 27 to October 1st. Subsequently, my list distributio=
n
will be put off for a while again.
ATTACHMENT I=20
<<July 15, 2003>>
Excerpt from
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html?8hpib=3D&pagewanted=3Dpri=
n
t&position=3D
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July 15, 2003
Teaching Computers to Work in Unison
By STEVE LOHR
Computers do wondrous things, but computer science itself is largely a
discipline of step-by-step progress as a steady stream of innovations in
hardware, software and networking pile up. It is an engineering science
whose frontiers are pushed ahead by people building new tools rendered in
silicon and programming code rather than the breathtaking epiphanies and
grand unifying theories of mathematics or physics.
Yet computer science does have its revelatory moments, typically when
several advances come together to create a new computing experience. One of
those memorable episodes took place in December 1995 at a supercomputing
conference in San Diego. For three days, a prototype project, called I-Way,
linked more than a dozen big computer centers in the United States to work
as if a single machine on computationally daunting simulations, like the
collision of neutron stars and the movement of cloud patterns around the
globe.=20
There were glitches and bugs. Only about half of the 60 scientific computer
simulations over the I-Way worked. But the participants recall those few
days as the first glimpse of what many computer scientists now regard as th=
e
next big evolutionary step in the development of the Internet, known as gri=
d
computing.
"It was the Woodstock of the grid =8B everyone not sleeping for three days,
running around and engaged in a kind of scientific performance art," said
Dr. Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunication=
s
and Information Technology, who was the program chairman for the conference=
.
The idea of lashing computers together to tackle computing chores for users
who tap in as needed =8B almost as if a utility =8B has been around since the
1960's. But to move the concept of distributed computing utilities, or
grids, toward practical reality has taken years of continuous improvement i=
n
computer processing speeds, data storage and network capacity. Perhaps the
biggest challenge, however, has been to design software able to juggle and
link all the computing resources across far-flung sites, and deliver them o=
n
demand.
The creation of this basic software =8B the DNA of grid computing =8B has been
led by Dr. Ian Foster, a senior scientist at the Argonne National Laborator=
y
and a professor of computer science at the University of Chicago, and Dr.
Carl Kesselman, director of the center for grid technologies at the
University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.
They have worked together for more than a decade and, a year after the San
Diego supercomputing conference, they founded the Globus Project to develop
grid software. It is supported mainly by the government, with financing fro=
m
the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA and the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
There has been a flurry of grid projects in the last few years in the Unite=
d
States, Europe and Japan, most of them collaborations among scientific
researchers at national laboratories and universities on projects like
climate modeling, high-energy physics, genetic research, earthquake
simulations and brain research. More recently, computer companies including
IBM, Platform Computing, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft
have become increasingly interested in grid technology, and some of the
early commercial applications include financial risk analysis, oil
exploration and drug research.
This month, grid computing moved further toward the commercial mainstream
when the Globus Project released new software tools that blend the grid
standards with a programming technology called Web services, developed
mainly in corporate labs, for automated computer-to-computer communications=
.
Enthusiasm for grid computing is also broadening among scientists. A report
this year by a National Science Foundation panel, "Revolutionizing Science
and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure," called for new financing of $=
1
billion a year to make grid-style computing a routine tool of research.
The long-term grid vision is that anyone with a desktop machine or hand-hel=
d
computer can have the power of a supercomputer at his or her fingertips. An=
d
small groups with shared interests could find answers to computationally
complex problems as never before.
Imagine, for example, a handful of concerned citizens running their own
simulation of the environmental impact of a proposed real-estate developmen=
t
in their community. They wouldn't need their own data center or consultants=
.
They would describe what they want, and intelligent software would find the
relevant data and summon the computing resources needed for the simulation.
"The ultimate goal is a fundamental shift in how we go about solving human
problems, and a new way of interacting with technology," Dr. Kesselman said=
.
That grand vision, however, is years away, perhaps a decade or more. Dr.
Smarr is the former director of the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications at the University of Illinois, where Web browsing software
later used by both Netscape Communications and Microsoft was developed in
the 1990's.
He compares the state of grid computing now to the Web in 1994, when
groundbreaking work in a new technology had come from the elite science lab=
s
in the United States and Europe but before commercial investment had
gathered momentum.
The grid is widely regarded as the next stage for the Internet after the
World Wide Web. The Web is the Internet's multimedia retrieval system,
providing access to text, images, music and video. The promise of the grid
is to add a problem-solving system.
Computer scientists say the contribution of Dr. Foster and Dr. Kesselman to
grid computing is roughly similar to that made by Tim Berners-Lee to the
development of the Web. Mr. Berners-Lee, who is now the director of the
World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, cam=
e
up with the software standards for addressing, linking and sharing document=
s
over the Web: U.R.L.'s (uniform resource locators), HTTP (hypertext transfe=
r
protocol) and HTML (hypertext mark-up language).
The heart of the grid problem is managing and linking computing resources.
Dr. Foster and Dr. Kesselman, assisted by another software designer at the
Argonne lab, Steve Tuecke, have devised basic grid standards with their own
acronyms: GRAM (Globus resource allocation manager), M.D.S. (monitoring and
discovery service), G.S.I. (grid security infrastructure) and GridFTP (grid
file transfer protocol).
The wisdom of their work, according to computer scientists, lies in its
farsighted simplicity, designing a set of minimalist standards that others
can build upon. It is the same design philosophy, they note, found in the
original Internet and the Web.
"If you look at the history of computer science, the people who have had th=
e
biggest impact are the ones who envisioned big systems and then came up wit=
h
simple but smart mechanisms for building those systems," said Dr. Ken
Kennedy, a computer science professor at Rice University. "That's what Ian
Foster and Carl Kesselman have done."
In 1998, after they developed some early working software, the Globus
leaders had to decide the best way to proceed. After long discussions, they
chose not to make Globus commercial. Instead, they opted for the open-sourc=
e
model, in which computer code is openly shared, allowing programmers to
modify, improve and fix the software. The decision, Dr. Foster recalled, wa=
s
both practical and ethical.
"Our belief was that open source was the best way to maximize adoption," he
said. "Globus is an infrastructure technology, and it is only going to be
successful if everyone uses it. And if you're doing something that is
primarily funded by the government, sharing the software seemed the most
appropriate thing to do."
Grid computing is a far bigger challenge than simpler forms of distributed
computing. Today, most grid projects remain the province of supercomputing
centers and university labs. The research centers are linked by network
connections about 20 times as fast as the standard high-speed connections
and are equipped with storage systems able to handle vast data files and
high performance computers.
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network, begun in 2001 and supported by
the National Institutes of Health, is a grid created to help scientists gai=
n
a better understanding of the way the brain works.
One project, called the Brain Morphometry BIRN, involves pooling and
processing magnetic resonance imaging data to look for early anatomical and
functional precursors of Alzheimer's disease. That knowledge may then be
used to tailor drugs to inhibit the onset of the disease.
Researchers from Harvard, Duke, the University of North Carolina, Johns
Hopkins, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of
California at San Diego, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and
Women's Hospital participate in the study. From their desktop computer, any
of them can tap into data anywhere on the brain project's grid.
"BIRN is a leading example of how you use this cyberinfrastructure to make
team science happen to achieve stretch goals in research," said Dr. Mark
Ellisman, the neuroscientist at the University of California at San Diego
who led the design of the BIRN data grid.
The collaborative computing tools for data sharing are also fostering a new
style of research. "We're helping a scientific community to understand that
it does more good to make information more generally accessible than
squirreling it away," Dr. Ellisman said.
Dr. Foster, the software tool maker, is encouraged by the applications buil=
t
on his group's underlying technology.
"Like nearly everything in computer science, the work we've done on the
Globus software is incremental," he said. "But it is having an impact. Ther=
e
are thousands of people doing collaborative, computing-intensive work in a
variety of fields that they could not do before."
Copyright 2003=A0The New York Times Company
ATTACHMENT II=20
Historical Development of Internet
Taken from
=B3The Internet Reborn=B2
By Wade Roush
October, 2003
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush1003.asp?p=3D7
1969 ARPANET
The first major attempt to use computers for communication, and the testing
ground for the standards that would come to define the Internet. Built by
universities and technology firms with funding from the U.S. Defense
Department=B9s Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA).
1973-1983 The Internet
A network of smaller networks in which computers exchange packets of data
formatted and addressed according to, respectively, the Transport Control
Protocol and the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which were conceived in 1973
and officially replaced the ARPANET=B9s protocols in January 1983.
1992 MBone
The Multicast Backbone: a system that allows many people to view the same
real-time information, such as video broadcasts, over the Internet. Created
by members of the Internet Engineering Task Force in 1992 to overcome the
limitations of standard Internet protocols, which can route a given data
packet to only one destination.
1996 Internet2
A consortium of more than 200 universities that has created Abilene, a
network of high-performance routers and fiber-optic links. Abilene is able
to transmit an entire DVD movie in about 36 seconds, as much as 3,500 times
faster than a typical home DSL or cable connection.
The Grid
A collection of public and private organizations and projects that use
software developed at the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of
Southern California to link scattered supercomputers, scientific
instruments, and data storage facilities into a =B3grid=B2 that can take on
tough computational problems=8Blike screening for new drug molecules.
2000 ABone
The Active Network Backbone: a network built to test the efficiency of
=B3active networking,=B2 in which the network is stripped of nearly all
intelligence=8Beven the basic message-passing software that runs on today=B9s
Internet=8Band packets of data contain all the software and instructions
needed to deliver themselves to their destinations. Funded by DARPA and
created by SRI International, a private research institute in Menlo Park,
CA, and the University of Southern California.
2002 PlanetLab
An effort by academic and corporate networking researchers to augment, and
eventually replace, today=B9s =B3dumb=B2 Internet with a much smarter network abl=
e
to monitor itself for worms and viruses, relieve bottlenecks automatically,
and make personal-computing environments portable to any terminal on earth.
List of Distribution
Doutor Pedro Manuel Saraiva
Pro-Reitor
Universidade de Coimbra
Paco das Escolas
3004-531 Cosmbra
Tel: 351 239 859 890
Fax: +351 239 852 841
pas@ci.uc.pt
Antonio Dias de Figueiredo
Professor of Informatics Engineering
Doyen
Department of Informatics Engineering (DEl)
Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC)
LIS - Instituto Pedro Nunes (LIS/IPN)
Department of Informatics Engineering
Polo 2 - University of Coimbra
Coimbra, PORTUGAl
Tel: 351 39 790021
Fax: 351 39 701266
adf@dei.uc.pt
Antonio Jos=E9 Nunes Mendes
Professor Auxiliar
Departamento de Engenharia Informatica
Faculdade de Ci=E9ncias e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
Polo II - Pinhal do Marrocos
P - 3030 Coimbra
Portugal
tel: + 351 39 7000000 / 7000036
fax: + 351 39 701266
toze@dei.uc.pt
http://www.dei.uc.pt/"toze
Professor Alfredo A. V. Soeiro
President of the International Association for Continuing Engineering
Education (IACEE)
President of the Portuguese Association of Universities for Continuing
Education
Chairman, Engineering faculty of the University of Porto (FEUP)
Pro-Reitor
Universidade do Porto
Rua D. Manuel II
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Doutor Pedro Manuel Saraiva <pas@ci.uc.pt><BR>
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Antonio Dias de Figueiredo <adf@dei.uc.pt><BR>
<BR>
Antonio José Nunes Mendes <toze@dei.uc.pt><BR>
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Professor Alfredo A. V. Soeiro <avsoeiro@reit.up.pt><BR>
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Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu><BR>
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Professor Doctor Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas <alex@ufam.edu.br><BR=
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Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D. <kaisa.kautto-koivula@nokia.com&=
gt;<BR>
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Colin Allison <ca@dcs.st-and.ac.uk> <BR>
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Pierluigi Ritrovato <ritrovato@crmpa.unisa.it><BR>
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Piet Kommers <kommers@edte.utwente.nl> <BR>
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Paul Kawachi <paul@paulkawachi.com><BR>
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<B><U>Dear Prof’s. Saraiva, de Figueiredo and Mendes:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(1) It was certainly our great pleasure to visit you at your University of =
Coimbra on September 10th, by the kind introduction of Prof. Alfredo Soeiro =
of the University of Porto.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'><B><U>Dear Dr. Saraiva:<BR>
</U></B>I was very happy to hear that you got your Ph.D. Chem. Eng. from MI=
T with Fulbright scholarship, since I was also a Fulbrighter almost a half c=
entury ago, and also I once made a lecture to students of the chemical engin=
eering department while I was working at Stone & Webster Engineering Com=
pany in downtown Boston about three decades ago — I was then a senior =
coordinator of design engineers for ethylene plants (US$800 million a piece)=
, many of which were constructed in Japan and elsewhere.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
(2) I was very delighted to hear of your willingness to help our Amazon pro=
ject, particularly with your Coimbra group.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'><U>A. Pls see about the Amazom project in;<BR>
</U></SPAN></FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>“Creating Global University System” by T. Utsumi, T. Varis, W=
. Klemm at;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></OL><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=
=3D'font-size:12.0px'><a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_U=
niversity/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_II=
_Intercultur/Utsumi%20Creating%20GUS/Creating_GUS/GUS_web/Creating%20GUS-D12=
.htm">http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univ=
ersity%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_II_Intercultur/Utsumi%20C=
reating%20GUS/Creating_GUS/GUS_web/Creating%20GUS-D12.htm</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><OL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-s=
ize:12.0px'>"Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable=
Development in Amazon, Brazil" by Alexandre Rivas and Jackson Colares =
da Silva , University of Amazona at;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></OL><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=
=3D'font-size:12.0px'><a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_U=
niversity/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV=
_Global_Collaboration/Rivas,%20Alex/Rivas_web/RivasD8.htm">http://www.friend=
s-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_=
Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Rivas,%20Alex/Rivas_web/=
RivasD8.htm</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'f=
ont-size:12.0px'><BR>
<U>B. Pls see about Coimbra Group in;<BR>
</U>"Global Learning and Virtual Mobility" by Jose Silvio , UNESC=
O in Caracas, Venezuela at;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'><a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%=
20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collabora=
tion/Silvio,%20Jose/Silvio_web/SilvioD9.htm">http://www.friends-partners.org=
/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Man=
uscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Silvio,%20Jose/Silvio_web/SilvioD9.htm=
</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times"><=
SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:16.0px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>Da=
ve Johnson is now start working on the construction of a concept paper of th=
is project for fund raising from various sources — which may include;<=
BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times"><SPAN STYLE=3D'fo=
nt-size:16.0px'><B>Japan Special Fund of Inter-American Development Bank <BR=
>
</B><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><a href=3D"http://www.iadb.org/jsfund/">http://www.=
iadb.org/jsfund/</a> <BR>
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times">=
<SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:16.0px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>As=
mentioned, once we secure the fund, we plan to have a workshop in Manaus, A=
mazon, and we would be very happy to have your participation.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'fon=
t-size:12.0px'><B><U>Dear Alex:<BR>
</U></B>A Brazilian at the IADB recently told me that this fund also has a =
grant as similar to;<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times"><SPAN STYLE=3D'fo=
nt-size:16.0px'><B>Japan Social Development Fund of the World Bank <BR>
</B><FONT COLOR=3D"#000080"><a href=3D"http://www.worldbank.org/rmc/jsdf/approv=
als.htm">http://www.worldbank.org/rmc/jsdf/approvals.htm</a> <BR>
</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FA=
CE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>I was very happy during our mtg to hear that many Brazilians have already=
being accessing your university web sites, because of the same language.<BR=
>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'><B><U>Dear Dave:<BR>
</U></B>Dr. Saraiva said to me that your friend, Vice Rector and Professor =
Lusitano dos Santos, is now sabbatical vacation to Brazil — you may re=
call our dinner mtg with him at the Chemists’ Club in May of 1996. &nb=
sp;At that time, he mentioned of his interest to initiate e-learning on envi=
ronmental issues with Brazilians.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>BTW, pls visit the following web to view some of photos taken in Coimbra =
which may remind your visit to him in Coimbra in 1995 or so years ago;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/2003-09_SEFI_Porto,%20Portugal/Keynote_Speech_at_SEFI.ht=
ml">http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Univer=
sity%20System/2003-09_SEFI_Porto,%20Portugal/Keynote_Speech_at_SEFI.html</a>=
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'f=
ont-size:12.0px'><BR>
(3) During our mtg, another vice rector sat next to you — though he h=
ad to leave earlier. He said that he knows the following person;<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>Paulo Jorge Melo <BR>
Comissao de Coordenacao da Regiao Centro <BR>
Gabinete de Informatica e Estatistica <BR>
Coimbra University<BR>
R. Bernardim Ribeiro, 80<BR>
3000 Coimbra - Portugal <BR>
Phone: 351-39-400150/149<<August 11, 2003>>Not working.<BR>
Fax : 351-39-702097<BR>
pmelo@ccr-c.pt<BR>
Cu-SeeMe: 193.236.210.6<BR>
Iphone: 193.236.210.6<BR>
(OneNet BBS FirstClass Systems)<BR>
( 14.400 bps - 351-39-703442 )<BR>
( ISDN - 351-39-7081340 )<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.ccr-c.pt/~pmelo">http://www.ccr-c.pt/~pmelo</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'fon=
t-size:12.0px'>He was introduced to me by Dave and participated in the ̶=
0;Global Lecture Hall (GLH)” multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia, int=
eractive videoconference which was originated at my workshop in Florianopoli=
s, Brazil in June of 1996, from Coimbra with a photo of the University of Co=
imbra which is similar to the last one of the series I took mentioned above.=
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'f=
ont-size:12.0px'><BR>
I would greatly appreciate it if you can get Paul’s current address (=
with email) at European Commission in Luxemburg from the vice rector, and in=
form it to me at your earliest convenience.<BR>
<BR>
(4) In addition to your willingness to work together on our Amazon project,=
I was greatly appreciate it to hear of your strong interest to create a GUS=
/Portugal.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>This will then provide you with a chance to become a member of our GUS/UN=
ESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program which headquarters is located at the U=
niversity of Tampere.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>BTW, this program was created by Marco Antonio Dias, our Vice President f=
or Administration, who is a Brazilian of French descendent and former Direct=
or of Higher Education at UNESCO.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'f=
ont-size:12.0px'><BR>
This may lead to help Portuguese speaking developing countries in Africa (e=
.g., Angola, Mozambique, etc.) and in Southeastern Asia (e.g., Macao, East T=
imor, etc.), as utilizing the Japanese fund mentioned above — they are=
eligible countries for the fund. The idea here is to enrich your expe=
riences as helping underserved people in those developing countries. F=
or example, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) now provides A=
sian countries with J-Net at 1.5 Mbps satellite Internet via INTELSAT free o=
f charge.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>For example, one of our colleagues is now working to reduce infant mortal=
ity in Angola with the University of Washington in Seattle and the Universit=
y of Pittsburgh and another colleague (a former UNESCO officer) is training =
trainers of e-learning in Mozambique, with Common Wealth of Learning in Vanc=
ouver, British Columbia, Canada, as utilizing chapters of our book “Cr=
eating Global University System” which can be retrieved at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Bk_outline-D13.html">http://www.friend=
s-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_=
Chair_Book/Bk_outline-D13.html</a><BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'>Should you be interested, you may follow the model of our colleagues in =
Malawi and Uganda — pls visit my previous list distribution “[gu=
-l] (07/18/03) Initial fund raiding for starting GUS” at;<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U><a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail=
/gu-l/2003q3/000219.html">http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/200=
3q3/000219.html</a><BR>
</U></FONT><BR>
(5) I was also very delighted to receive a “Call for Chapters: Managi=
ng Learning in Virtual Settings: The Role of Context,” a book edited b=
y António Dias de Figueiredo and Ana Paula Afonso to be published by =
Idea Group, Inc.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'fon=
t-size:12.0px'>BTW, I have requested to publish a book “Electronic Glo=
bal University System and Services” from the Idea Group many years ago=
, but haven’t been able to complete its manuscript yet — see;<BR=
>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Boo=
k.html">http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.=
html</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'>This is a very impressive and interesting book, indeed!! The direc=
tion of this book indicates the future of e-learning.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'><B><U>Dear E-Colleagues:<BR>
</U></B>Pls access its web at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.dei.uc.pt/context/">http://www.dei.uc.pt/context/</a><B=
R>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>Although its deadline is over, should you be interested, pls feel free to=
contact Prof. de Figueiredo.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Kaisa:<BR>
</U></B>You may contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating your fo=
llowing paper with how to cope with “Creative Destruction (the famous =
words of Joseph Shumpeter)” when the emerging new technology confronts=
with the basic fabric of traditional society — which we discussed bef=
ore;<BR>
"Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Lear=
n from Global Corporations?" by Kaisa Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtani=
emi , Nokia Ventures Organization at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning=
/Kautto-Koivula/Kautto_web/KauttoD5_web/KauttoD5.htm">http://www.friends-par=
tners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair=
_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning/Kautto-Koivula/Kautto_web/Kautt=
oD5_web/KauttoD5.htm</a><BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Colin and Pierluigi:<BR>
</U></B>You may also contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating yo=
ur following paper with some more examples (in addition to the training of w=
eather forecasters) with the use of protocol software for GRID computing net=
working (emphasizing particularly for its use in e-learning), which are now =
being developed by your group with the European Commission’s fund;<BR>
"Human Learning as a Global Challenge: European Learning Grid Infrastr=
ucture" by Colin Allison, Stefano A. Cerri, Matteo Gaeta, Pierluigi Rit=
rovato, and Saverio Salerno , University of St. Andrews, Université M=
ontpellier II et CNRS, and University of Salerno, Italy, at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaborati=
on/Ritrovato,%20Pierluigi/E-LeGI_web/E-LeGIv9.htm">http://www.friends-partne=
rs.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Bo=
ok/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Ritrovato,%20Pierluigi/E-LeGI_we=
b/E-LeGIv9.htm</a><BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Piet:<BR>
</U></B>You may also contribute your chapter to this book as elaborating yo=
ur following paper with additional cases of using virtual laboratories ̵=
2; if possible, with the use of GRID technology;<BR>
"Virtual Reality Environments for Experiential Learning in the Science=
and Medical Domains" by Piet Kommers, Steffan Rödel, Jan-Ma=
arten Luursema, Bob Geelkerken and Eelco Kunst , University of Twent at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaborati=
on/Kommers,%20Piet/Kommers_web/KommersD7.htm">http://www.friends-partners.or=
g/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Ma=
nuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Kommers,%20Piet/Kommers_web/KommersD7=
.htm</a><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><FONT FACE=3D"Times"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:16.0=
px'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>Yo=
u may also emphasize the importance of utilizing such collaborative experien=
tial learning by the dispersed youngsters around the world as elaborating yo=
ur following paper;<BR>
"ICT in Secondary Education for the Knowledge Society" by Piet Ko=
mmers, Vladimir Kinelev and Boris Kotsik , University of Twente and UNESCO/M=
oscow in;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaborati=
on/Kommers,%20Piet/Kommers-ICT/Kommers-ICT_web/%23IV-33%20Kommers-B.htm">htt=
p://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20=
System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Kommers,%2=
0Piet/Kommers-ICT/Kommers-ICT_web/%23IV-33%20Kommers-B.htm</a><BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Paul:<BR>
</U></B>At the annual conference of the Asian Association of Open Universit=
ies in Manila, the Philippines in 2000, your paper received a gold award, wh=
ich said that Japanese have a lot of context but none of content. This=
observation met with the same by several Americans, including an article in=
The New York Time which I mentioned in my previous list distribution.<BR>
You are an English, Oxford graduate, married to a Japanese girl to be adopt=
ed by her family with her family name. You have then sharp, critical e=
yes to Japanese life. You may then contribute your chapter to this boo=
k as elaborating your paper — or better yet, as including your report =
of the survey among the Japanese Self-Defense Force which you said that they=
may have more content oriented nature — I introduced them to you thro=
ugh a former Secretary of the Force, my family friend a few years back.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><B><U>Dear Prof. de Figueiredo:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(6) I am tempted to contribute my paper to your book, as elaborating the la=
st half of my paper “"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace =
Gaming" at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20=
University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaborati=
on/Utsumi,%20Tak/GCEPG_D10_Web/GCEPG_D10.htm">http://www.friends-partners.or=
g/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Ma=
nuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Utsumi,%20Tak/GCEPG_D10_Web/GCEPG_D10=
.htm</a><BR>
<BR>
However, I am afraid I don’t have much time to prepare for it.<BR>
<BR>
Senator Fulbright once said that <I>learning together and working together =
are the first steps toward world peace </I>.<BR>
<BR>
My hope/intention of our GLOSAS/GUS projects is to find the way how to let =
youngsters around the world get together for collaborative experiential lear=
ning through GRID computer network, in order to fulfill the words of the sen=
ator.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>ATTACHMENT I</U></B> below is the GRID approach, but it is synchronou=
s, rich-man’s approach for large simulation project =
-- Colin and Pierluigi paper mentioned above said that the US/NSF will spend=
almost US$1 billion for the next phase of Internet development with GRID te=
chnology (see <B><U>ATTACHMENT II</U></B> for its historical development). &=
nbsp;As mentioned in my paper, I would like to proceed with asynchronous, po=
or-man’s approach. This is because we need to have participants =
in developing countries which can only access through geosynchronous orbitin=
g satellite for which signal travels, at least, in 0.253 second. Also,=
interactive experiential virtual learning requires head-scratching time, to=
o, in addition to time difference among them around the world.<BR>
<BR>
Anyway, pls make sure to inform me when your book available for my purchasi=
ng.<BR>
<BR>
Wishing you a very good luck to your project.<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak <BR>
<BR>
<B><U>P.S.:<BR>
</U></B>My wife and I are invited for my delivering a talk at the roundtabl=
e discussion on “The Virtual University and the Usage of New Education=
al Technologies” at the International Book Fair at the University of V=
eracruz, Mexico from September 27 to October 1st. Subsequently, my lis=
t distribution will be put off for a while again.<BR>
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<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><B><U>ATTACHMENT I
</U></B></SPAN></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><BR>
<<July 15, 2003>><BR>
Excerpt from<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html?8hpib=3D&pagew=
anted=3Dprint&position=3D">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html=
?8hpib=3D&pagewanted=3Dprint&position=3D</a><BR>
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>
<BR>
July 15, 2003<BR>
<BR>
Teaching Computers to Work in Unison<BR>
By STEVE LOHR<BR>
<BR>
Computers do wondrous things, but computer science itself is largely a disc=
ipline of step-by-step progress as a steady stream of innovations in hardwar=
e, software and networking pile up. It is an engineering science whose front=
iers are pushed ahead by people building new tools rendered in silicon and p=
rogramming code rather than the breathtaking epiphanies and grand unifying t=
heories of mathematics or physics. <BR>
<BR>
Yet computer science does have its revelatory moments, typically when sever=
al advances come together to create a new computing experience. One of those=
memorable episodes took place in December 1995 at a supercomputing conferen=
ce in San Diego. For three days, a prototype project, called I-Way, linked m=
ore than a dozen big computer centers in the United States to work as if a s=
ingle machine on computationally daunting simulations, like the collision of=
neutron stars and the movement of cloud patterns around the globe. <BR>
<BR>
There were glitches and bugs. Only about half of the 60 scientific computer=
simulations over the I-Way worked. But the participants recall those few da=
ys as the first glimpse of what many computer scientists now regard as the n=
ext big evolutionary step in the development of the Internet, known as grid =
computing.<BR>
<BR>
"It was the Woodstock of the grid — everyone not sleeping for th=
ree days, running around and engaged in a kind of scientific performance art=
," said Dr. Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telec=
ommunications and Information Technology, who was the program chairman for t=
he conference.<BR>
<BR>
The idea of lashing computers together to tackle computing chores for users=
who tap in as needed — almost as if a utility — has been around=
since the 1960's. But to move the concept of distributed computing utilitie=
s, or grids, toward practical reality has taken years of continuous improvem=
ent in computer processing speeds, data storage and network capacity. Perhap=
s the biggest challenge, however, has been to design software able to juggle=
and link all the computing resources across far-flung sites, and deliver th=
em on demand.<BR>
<BR>
The creation of this basic software — the DNA of grid computing ̵=
2; has been led by Dr. Ian Foster, a senior scientist at the Argonne Nationa=
l Laboratory and a professor of computer science at the University of Chicag=
o, and Dr. Carl Kesselman, director of the center for grid technologies at t=
he University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute.<BR>
<BR>
They have worked together for more than a decade and, a year after the San =
Diego supercomputing conference, they founded the Globus Project to develop =
grid software. It is supported mainly by the government, with financing from=
the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, NASA and the Def=
ense Advanced Research Projects Agency.<BR>
<BR>
There has been a flurry of grid projects in the last few years in the Unite=
d States, Europe and Japan, most of them collaborations among scientific res=
earchers at national laboratories and universities on projects like climate =
modeling, high-energy physics, genetic research, earthquake simulations and =
brain research. More recently, computer companies including IBM, Platform Co=
mputing, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have become increas=
ingly interested in grid technology, and some of the early commercial applic=
ations include financial risk analysis, oil exploration and drug research. <=
BR>
<BR>
This month, grid computing moved further toward the commercial mainstream w=
hen the Globus Project released new software tools that blend the grid stand=
ards with a programming technology called Web services, developed mainly in =
corporate labs, for automated computer-to-computer communications. <BR>
<BR>
Enthusiasm for grid computing is also broadening among scientists. A report=
this year by a National Science Foundation panel, "Revolutionizing Sci=
ence and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure," called for new finan=
cing of $1 billion a year to make grid-style computing a routine tool of res=
earch. <BR>
<BR>
The long-term grid vision is that anyone with a desktop machine or hand-hel=
d computer can have the power of a supercomputer at his or her fingertips. A=
nd small groups with shared interests could find answers to computationally =
complex problems as never before.<BR>
<BR>
Imagine, for example, a handful of concerned citizens running their own sim=
ulation of the environmental impact of a proposed real-estate development in=
their community. They wouldn't need their own data center or consultants. T=
hey would describe what they want, and intelligent software would find the r=
elevant data and summon the computing resources needed for the simulation.<B=
R>
<BR>
"The ultimate goal is a fundamental shift in how we go about solving h=
uman problems, and a new way of interacting with technology," Dr. Kesse=
lman said.<BR>
<BR>
That grand vision, however, is years away, perhaps a decade or more. Dr. Sm=
arr is the former director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applica=
tions at the University of Illinois, where Web browsing software later used =
by both Netscape Communications and Microsoft was developed in the 1990's.<B=
R>
<BR>
He compares the state of grid computing now to the Web in 1994, when ground=
breaking work in a new technology had come from the elite science labs in th=
e United States and Europe but before commercial investment had gathered mom=
entum.<BR>
<BR>
The grid is widely regarded as the next stage for the Internet after the Wo=
rld Wide Web. The Web is the Internet's multimedia retrieval system, providi=
ng access to text, images, music and video. The promise of the grid is to ad=
d a problem-solving system.<BR>
<BR>
Computer scientists say the contribution of Dr. Foster and Dr. Kesselman to=
grid computing is roughly similar to that made by Tim Berners-Lee to the de=
velopment of the Web. Mr. Berners-Lee, who is now the director of the World =
Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came up wi=
th the software standards for addressing, linking and sharing documents over=
the Web: U.R.L.'s (uniform resource locators), HTTP (hypertext transfer pro=
tocol) and HTML (hypertext mark-up language).<BR>
<BR>
The heart of the grid problem is managing and linking computing resources. =
Dr. Foster and Dr. Kesselman, assisted by another software designer at the A=
rgonne lab, Steve Tuecke, have devised basic grid standards with their own a=
cronyms: GRAM (Globus resource allocation manager), M.D.S. (monitoring and d=
iscovery service), G.S.I. (grid security infrastructure) and GridFTP (grid f=
ile transfer protocol).<BR>
<BR>
The wisdom of their work, according to computer scientists, lies in its far=
sighted simplicity, designing a set of minimalist standards that others can =
build upon. It is the same design philosophy, they note, found in the origin=
al Internet and the Web.<BR>
<BR>
"If you look at the history of computer science, the people who have h=
ad the biggest impact are the ones who envisioned big systems and then came =
up with simple but smart mechanisms for building those systems," said D=
r. Ken Kennedy, a computer science professor at Rice University. "That'=
s what Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman have done."<BR>
<BR>
In 1998, after they developed some early working software, the Globus leade=
rs had to decide the best way to proceed. After long discussions, they chose=
not to make Globus commercial. Instead, they opted for the open-source mode=
l, in which computer code is openly shared, allowing programmers to modify, =
improve and fix the software. The decision, Dr. Foster recalled, was both pr=
actical and ethical.<BR>
<BR>
"Our belief was that open source was the best way to maximize adoption=
," he said. "Globus is an infrastructure technology, and it is onl=
y going to be successful if everyone uses it. And if you're doing something =
that is primarily funded by the government, sharing the software seemed the =
most appropriate thing to do."<BR>
<BR>
Grid computing is a far bigger challenge than simpler forms of distributed =
computing. Today, most grid projects remain the province of supercomputing c=
enters and university labs. The research centers are linked by network conne=
ctions about 20 times as fast as the standard high-speed connections and are=
equipped with storage systems able to handle vast data files and high perfo=
rmance computers. <BR>
<BR>
The Biomedical Informatics Research Network, begun in 2001 and supported by=
the National Institutes of Health, is a grid created to help scientists gai=
n a better understanding of the way the brain works.<BR>
<BR>
One project, called the Brain Morphometry BIRN, involves pooling and proces=
sing magnetic resonance imaging data to look for early anatomical and functi=
onal precursors of Alzheimer's disease. That knowledge may then be used to t=
ailor drugs to inhibit the onset of the disease.<BR>
<BR>
Researchers from Harvard, Duke, the University of North Carolina, Johns Hop=
kins, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Califor=
nia at San Diego, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hos=
pital participate in the study. From their desktop computer, any of them can=
tap into data anywhere on the brain project's grid.<BR>
<BR>
"BIRN is a leading example of how you use this cyberinfrastructure to =
make team science happen to achieve stretch goals in research," said Dr=
. Mark Ellisman, the neuroscientist at the University of California at San D=
iego who led the design of the BIRN data grid.<BR>
<BR>
The collaborative computing tools for data sharing are also fostering a new=
style of research. "We're helping a scientific community to understand=
that it does more good to make information more generally accessible than s=
quirreling it away," Dr. Ellisman said.<BR>
<BR>
Dr. Foster, the software tool maker, is encouraged by the applications buil=
t on his group's underlying technology.<BR>
<BR>
"Like nearly everything in computer science, the work we've done on th=
e Globus software is incremental," he said. "But it is having an i=
mpact. There are thousands of people doing collaborative, computing-intensiv=
e work in a variety of fields that they could not do before."<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Copyright 2003=A0The New York Times Company<BR>
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<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><B><U>ATTACHMENT II
</U></B></SPAN></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><B><U>
</U></B></SPAN></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'>Historical Development =
of Internet<BR>
Taken from<BR>
“The Internet Reborn”<BR>
By Wade Roush<BR>
October, 2003<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush1003.asp?p=3D7">http:/=
/www.technologyreview.com/articles/roush1003.asp?p=3D7</a>
</SPAN></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><B><U><BR>
</U>1969 ARPANET<BR>
</B>The first major attempt to use computers for communication, and the tes=
ting ground for the standards that would come to define the Internet. Built =
by universities and technology firms with funding from the U.S. Defense Depa=
rtment’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA).<BR>
<B>1973-1983 The Internet<BR>
</B>A network of smaller networks in which computers exchange packets of da=
ta formatted and addressed according to, respectively, the Transport Control=
Protocol and the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), which were conceived in 1973 a=
nd officially replaced the ARPANET’s protocols in January 1983.<BR>
<B>1992 MBone<BR>
</B>The Multicast Backbone: a system that allows many people to view the sa=
me real-time information, such as video broadcasts, over the Internet. Creat=
ed by members of the Internet Engineering Task Force in 1992 to overcome the=
limitations of standard Internet protocols, which can route a given data pa=
cket to only one destination.<BR>
<B>1996</B> <B>Internet2<BR>
</B>A consortium of more than 200 universities that has created Abilene, a =
network of high-performance routers and fiber-optic links. Abilene is able t=
o transmit an entire DVD movie in about 36 seconds, as much as 3,500 times f=
aster than a typical home DSL or cable connection. <BR>
<BR>
<B>The Grid<BR>
</B>A collection of public and private organizations and projects that use =
software developed at the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of So=
uthern California to link scattered supercomputers, scientific instruments, =
and data storage facilities into a “grid” that can take on tough=
computational problems—like screening for new drug molecules.<BR>
<B>2000 ABone<BR>
</B>The Active Network Backbone: a network built to test the efficiency of =
“active networking,” in which the network is stripped of nearly =
all intelligence—even the basic message-passing software that runs on =
today’s Internet—and packets of data contain all the software an=
d instructions needed to deliver themselves to their destinations. Funded by=
DARPA and created by SRI International, a private research institute in Men=
lo Park, CA, and the University of Southern California.<BR>
<B>2002 PlanetLab<BR>
</B>An effort by academic and corporate networking researchers to augment, =
and eventually replace, today’s “dumb” Internet with a muc=
h smarter network able to monitor itself for worms and viruses, relieve bott=
lenecks automatically, and make personal-computing environments portable to =
any terminal on earth.<BR>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><B><U>List of Distribut=
ion=20
</U></B></SPAN></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><BR>
Doutor Pedro Manuel Saraiva<BR>
Pro-Reitor<BR>
Universidade de Coimbra<BR>
Paco das Escolas<BR>
3004-531 Cosmbra<BR>
Tel: 351 239 859 890<BR>
Fax: +351 239 852 841<BR>
pas@ci.uc.pt<BR>
<BR>
Antonio Dias de Figueiredo<BR>
Professor of Informatics Engineering<BR>
Doyen<BR>
Department of Informatics Engineering (DEl)<BR>
Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC)<BR>
LIS - Instituto Pedro Nunes (LIS/IPN)<BR>
Department of Informatics Engineering<BR>
Polo 2 - University of Coimbra<BR>
Coimbra, PORTUGAl<BR>
Tel: 351 39 790021<BR>
Fax: 351 39 701266<BR>
adf@dei.uc.pt<BR>
<BR>
Antonio José Nunes Mendes<BR>
Professor Auxiliar<BR>
Departamento de Engenharia Informatica<BR>
Faculdade de Ciéncias e Tecnologia<BR>
Universidade de Coimbra<BR>
Polo II - Pinhal do Marrocos<BR>
P - 3030 Coimbra<BR>
Portugal<BR>
tel: + 351 39 7000000 / 7000036<BR>
fax: + 351 39 701266<BR>
toze@dei.uc.pt<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.dei.uc.pt/">http://www.dei.uc.pt/</a>"toze<BR>
<BR>
Professor Alfredo A. V. Soeiro<BR>
President of the International Association for Continuing Engineering Educa=
tion (IACEE)<BR>
President of the Portuguese Association of Universities for Continuing Educ=
ation<BR>
Chairman, Engineering faculty of the University of Porto (FEUP)<BR>
Pro-Reitor<BR>
Universidade do Porto<BR>
Rua D. Manuel II<BR>
4050-345 Porto<BR>
Portugal<BR>
Tel: +351.2.607.35.79<BR>
Cel: +351-9-669-17698<BR>
Fax: +351.2.609.87.36<BR>
avsoeiro@reit.up.pt<BR>
<BR>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP<BR>
Board member of GLOSAS/USA<BR>
Former President of Fulbright Association<BR>
Lead Faculty Member,<BR>
International Honors Program on Globalization, 2002<BR>
Professor Emeritus<BR>
Department of Urban and Rgional Planning<BR>
University of Tennessee<BR>
108-I Hoskins Library<BR>
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015<BR>
USA<BR>
Tel: +1-865-974 5227<BR>
Fax: +1-865-974 5229<BR>
daj@utk.edu<BR>
davidj@buncombe.main.nc.us<BR>
<a href=3D"http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/">http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/</a><B=
R>
<BR>
Professor Doctor Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas<BR>
General Director of the Center of Sciences of the Environment<BR>
Center for Environmental Sciences (CCA)<BR>
Universidade Federal do Amazonas / FundacaoUNI-SOL<BR>
Campus Universitario<BR>
3000 Manaus, AM<BR>
Brazil 69000<BR>
Tel: +55-92-647-4063<BR>
Cel: +55-92- 998-4-9323 (from 7:30am to 7:00pm, Monday to Friday)<BR>
Fax: +55-92-647-4066<BR>
alex@ufam.edu.br<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.fua.br/">http://www.fua.br/</a><BR>
<BR>
Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D.<BR>
Senior Manager<BR>
Education, Learning & Knowledge Management<BR>
Nokia Ventures Organization<BR>
P. O. Box 300<BR>
FIN-00045 NOKIA GROUP<BR>
FINLAND<BR>
Mob: +358-400-40 3632<BR>
+358-718-06 2084<BR>
Fax: +358-951-13 8210<BR>
kaisa.kautto-koivula@nokia.com<BR>
<BR>
Colin Allison <BR>
Senior Lecturer <BR>
School of Computer Science <BR>
University of St Andrews <BR>
Scotland <BR>
Tel: +44 (0)1334 46 3239 <BR>
E-mail: ca@dcs.st-and.ac.uk <BR>
Web: <a href=3D"http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~colin">http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.=
uk/~colin</a><BR>
<BR>
Pierluigi Ritrovato <BR>
CRMPA Manager <BR>
Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata <BR>
C/O DIIMA - University of Salerno <BR>
Via Ponte Don Melillo <BR>
84084 - Fisciano (SA) <BR>
Italy <BR>
Tel: +39 089 964289 <BR>
E-mail: ritrovato@crmpa.unisa.it Web: <a href=3D"http://www.crmpa.it/">http:/=
/www.crmpa.it/</a> <BR>
<BR>
Piet Kommers <BR>
Faculty of Behavioral Sciences <BR>
University of Twente <BR>
P.O. Box 217 <BR>
7500 AE Enschede <BR>
The Netherlands <BR>
Tel. +31 53 4893576 or 3611 <BR>
Fax +31 53 4894580 <BR>
kommers@edte.utwente.nl <BR>
<a href=3D"http://users.edte.utwente.nl/kommers/index.htm">http://users.edte.=
utwente.nl/kommers/index.htm</a> <BR>
<BR>
Paul Kawachi<BR>
80-4 Minou Yamamoto Machi,<BR>
Kurume City, 839-0826<BR>
Japan<BR>
Cel: 090-4-999-7820<BR>
Fax: (81) 942-44-9727<BR>
paul@paulkawachi.com<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.paulkawachi.com">http://www.paulkawachi.com</a><BR>
or,<BR>
Home:<BR>
1927-1-206 Higashi Kushiwara<BR>
Kurume City, Fukuoka 830-0003<BR>
Japan<BR>
fax: 0942 40 2080 (home)<BR>
or<BR>
Paul Kawachi, Editor,<BR>
Asian Journal of Distance Education<BR>
c/o Dept Informatics<BR>
Kurume Shin-Ai Womenís College,<BR>
2278-1 Mii Machi<BR>
Kurume City, Fukuoka 839-8508, Japan<BR>
Tel: 0942-43-4531<BR>
Fax: 0942-43-2531<BR>
kawachi@asianjde.org<BR>
tandai@kurume-shinai.ac.jp<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.kurume-shinai.ac.jp">http://www.kurume-shinai.ac.jp</a>=
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* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. &n=
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