[gu-l] (12/14/03) ELeGI workshop in Berlin on December 3rd, 2003
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
utsumi@columbia.edu
Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:12:11 -0500
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<<December 14, 2003>>
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Pierluigi Ritrovato
Head of Unit
Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata (CRMPA)
Centre for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics
C/O DIIMA
Dep. of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics
University of Salerno
Via Ponte Don Melillo
84084 - Fisciano (SA)
Italy
Tel: +39 089 964289/2201;
+39 089 964189 (secretary)
Fax: +39 089 964191
Cel: +39 348-2803487
ritrovato@crmpa.unisa.it
ritrovato@crmpa.it
http://www.crmpa.it/
Dear Pierluigi:
(1) Many, many thanks again for your kind and generous invitation to your
workshop last week in Berlin.
> The 3rd International LeGE-WG Workshop:
> Towards a European Learning GRID Infrastructure (ELeGI)
> =B3GRID infrastructure to support future technology enhanced Learning,=B2
> 3 December, 2003 - Berlin, Germany
(2) Thanks also for your sending me your PowerPoint slides. I took the
liberty of uploading it to our web at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Peace%20Gaming/ELeGI/12-3-03-Berlin/=
E
LeGI%20and%20Online%20Educa.html
> I also appreciated your providing me with the slides of other presenters =
at
> the session. I learned a lot from them.
(3) You can find the pdf file of my presentation at the above URL =8B in a
separate airmail, I will send you its QuickTime file (180 M) in a CD so tha=
t
you can view it as I presented at the session. (This is an enhanced versio=
n
with additional slides than the one I presented.)
> As you know, I use Apple=B9s KEYNOTE presentation software. Its conversion=
to
> MS/PowerPoint is very poor. This is why I had to convert it to QuickTime
> movie file with mouse interaction. I think your Wintel Platform has Quic=
kTime
> capability.
(4) I was really very happy to have met with you and your ELeGI group
people, and to know that you kindly accepted my proposal of making my
Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG) Project as a join=
t
project between GLOSAS/USA and ELeGI, i.e., the GCEPG is to become a
powerful demonstration of the software with the GRID technology for
learning, which your group will develop with the fund you have already been
acquiring from the European Commission.
> I felt as if I am giving my daughter (GCEPG), whom I cared tender lovingl=
y for
> the past three decades, to a handsome young boy (ELeGI) with a dowry of m=
y GUS
> contacts around the world!!
Dear E-Colleagues:
(5) ELeGI project, which is now funded by the European Commission, aims to
design and implement advanced service-oriented GRID-based software
architecture for learning. This project will develop a new paradigm focuse=
d
on knowledge construction using experiential-based and collaborative
learning approaches in a contextualized, personalized and ubiquitous way.
This will replace the current information transfer paradigm, which is based
on content, and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides
information.
=20
GCEPG project could then be a complete and powerful demonstrator of ELeGI
Project to show;
> (a) the advantages coming from using advanced technologies (i.e., GRID fo=
r
> accessing to computing resources and collaboration environments) for
> supporting simulations execution, data analysis, etc.,
> (b) simulations for learning through the definition of innovative pedagog=
ical
> models (i.e., socio-constructivist contextualized learning approach), and
> (c) to show all the benefits coming from the harmonized and synergistic u=
se of
> advanced technologies together with innovative pedagogical models for lea=
rning
> (i.e., ELeGI).
(6) Many now consider GRID technology as the next generation Internet. It
has demonstrated all of the effectiveness in the scientific domains as
becoming a de-facto e-Science technology infrastructure. This technology
promises to do what the Internet has done with data on the applications.
GRID computing extends the scope of distributed computing to encompass
large-scale resource sharing, including massive data-storages,
high-performance networking and powerful computers, highly expansive
equipments (i.e., microscopes, telescopes, 3D Cave), etc.
GRID technology defines a new powerful computing paradigm by analogy to the
electric Power Grid. Users of the GRID will then be able
> (a) to use his/her private workplace (Workstation, PC, UMTS phone, etc.) =
to
> invoke any application from a remote system,
> (b) to use the best suited system for executing their desired particular
> application,
> (c) to access data securely and consistently from remote sites,
> (d) to exploit multiple systems to complete complex tasks in an economica=
l
> manner, or
> (e) to use multiple systems to solve large problems that exceed the capac=
ity
> of a single one.
The support provided by GRID technology for resource sharing and problem
solving in dynamic, multi-institutional Virtual Organizations (VO) is
considered one of the key factor of our project. In this vision, the
sharing doesn=B9t mean simply exchange of data or files but rather a concrete
access to resources (e.g., computers, software, data, etc.). This =B3sharing
capability=B2 imposes the definition and implementation of well-defined
resource management policies to specify what is accessible, from whom and
under which conditions. A set of individuals and/or institutions defined b=
y
such sharing rules forms what is called a Virtual Organization (VO).
Actually, the GRID based on the OGSA (Open GRID Service Architecture) could
be used as a technology-glue (seamless network combining wireless and
broadband network, advanced software solutions for problem solving),
providing the user with a uniform way to access these resources by means of
several kinds of devices.
(7) E-mail and multimedia World Wide Web of Internet so far contributed
significantly to the world society on the dissemination of information. Th=
e
next phase of the Internet development with global neural (or GRID) compute=
r
networks should be the globally collaborative experiential (the so-called
=B3hands-on=B2) learning and constructive creation of wisdom with interactive
actions on virtual reality simulation models of joint global research and
development projects on various subjects. The Chinese proverb says, =B3I hea=
r
and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand!=B2 Another Chines=
e
proverb says, =B3Knowledge gained with interaction becomes wisdom.=B2
This will promote trustful friendship among youngsters around the world to
realize the Knowledge Society of the 21st century, and their collective
creativity will enlarge the size of pie for stakeholders to reach peaceful
win-win consequences. Another Chinese proverb says, =B3Acquiring knowledge i=
s
a joy, and sharing knowledge is an ultimate joy.=B2 I sincerely hope to
foster friendship among the people of the world with our GUS and GCEPG
projects for inevitable emergence of a global civilization.
(8) This new and major Internet technology development will provide our GUS
teams around the world with the so-called =B3hands-on=B2 experiential learning
to acquire wisdom on their newly creating knowledge.
I hope that this will be an additional unique feature of our GUS to its
proposed schemes: =B3Learners in remote/rural regions of developing countries
will be able to take their courses, via advanced broadband Internet, from
member institutions around the world to receive a GUS degree.=B2
This GRID technology can also be used by researchers, even in developing
countries, to perform with their counterparts in developed countries for
joint collaborative researches with virtual reality and virtual laboratory
of various academic and engineering subjects. This will be a paradigm shif=
t
of research and development in global scale, out of the so-called =B3Ivory
Tower=B2 approach.
This will also become a core of a global knowledge forum for the exchange o=
f
ideas, information, knowledge and joint research and development. This in
turn brings forth the possibility of creating new knowledge and wisdom by
global collaboration, and hence global peace. This will foster not only
wisdom by collaborative interaction on knowledge but also true friendship
among people around the world with mutual understanding and lasting peace.
Dear Pierluigi:
(9) I will send you in my following msg, the model of the World Dynamics of
Prof. Forrester and my suggestion how to construct a prototype of a
distributed computer simulation system. They will be a variation of what I
once proposed in the following articles;
1. Utsumi, T. and DeVita, J.=A0 (1982).=A0 GLOSAS Project (GLObal Systems
Analysis and Simulation).=A0 In S. Schoemaker (Editor), Computer Networks and
Simulation II (pp. 279-326).=A0 Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.
2. Utsumi, T., Mikes, P. O., Rossman, P.=A0 (1986).=A0 Peace Games with Open
Modeling Network.=A0 In S. Schoemaker (Editor), Computer Network and
Simulation III, pp. 267-298,=A0 Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publisher B.V.,
(North-Holland).
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_V/Schoe=
maker
> -III/SCHOEMKR-III_total.htm
Have a very pleasant holiday season and happy and healthy New Year!!
Best, Tak
**********************************************************************
* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel/Fax: 718-939-0928; (day time only--prefer email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ *
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Pierluigi Ritrovato<BR>
Head of Unit<BR>
Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata (CRMPA)<BR>
Centre for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics<BR>
C/O DIIMA<BR>
Dep. of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics<BR>
University of Salerno <BR>
Via Ponte Don Melillo <BR>
84084 - Fisciano (SA) <BR>
Italy<BR>
Tel: +39 089 964289/2201;<BR>
+39 089 964189 (secretary)<BR>
Fax: +39 089 964191<BR>
Cel: +39 348-2803487 <BR>
ritrovato@crmpa.unisa.it<BR>
ritrovato@crmpa.it<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.crmpa.it/">http://www.crmpa.it/</a><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Pierluigi:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(1) Many, many thanks again for your kind and generous invitation to your w=
orkshop last week in Berlin.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>The 3rd International LeGE-WG Workshop:<BR>
Towards a European Learning GRID Infrastructure (ELeGI)<BR>
“GRID infrastructure to support future technology enhanced Learning,&=
#8221;<BR>
3 December, 2003 - Berlin, Germany<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
(2) Thanks also for your sending me your PowerPoint slides. I took th=
e liberty of uploading it to our web at;<BR>
<a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Peace%20Gaming/ELeGI/12-3-0=
3-Berlin/ELeGI%20and%20Online%20Educa.html">http://www.friends-partners.org/=
GLOSAS/Peace%20Gaming/ELeGI/12-3-03-Berlin/ELeGI%20and%20Online%20Educa.html=
</a><BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>I also appreciated your providing me with the slides of other presenters =
at the session. I learned a lot from them.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
(3) You can find the pdf file of my presentation at the above URL — i=
n a separate airmail, I will send you its QuickTime file (180 M) in a CD so =
that you can view it as I presented at the session. (This is an enhanc=
ed version with additional slides than the one I presented.)<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>As you know, I use Apple’s KEYNOTE presentation software. Its=
conversion to MS/PowerPoint is very poor. This is why I had to conver=
t it to QuickTime movie file with mouse interaction. I think your Wint=
el Platform has QuickTime capability.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
(4) I was really very happy to have met with you and your ELeGI group peopl=
e, and to know that you kindly accepted my proposal of making my Globally Co=
llaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG) Project as a joint project be=
tween GLOSAS/USA and ELeGI, i.e., the GCEPG is to become a powerful demonstr=
ation of the software with the GRID technology for learning, which your grou=
p will develop with the fund you have already been acquiring from the Europe=
an Commission.<BR>
<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>I felt as if I am giving my daughter (GCEPG), whom I cared tender lovingl=
y for the past three decades, to a handsome young boy (ELeGI) with a dowry o=
f my GUS contacts around the world!!<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
<B><U>Dear E-Colleagues:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(5) ELeGI project, which is now funded by the European Commission, aims to =
design and implement advanced service-oriented GRID-based software architect=
ure for learning. This project will develop a new paradigm focused on =
knowledge construction using experiential-based and collaborative learning a=
pproaches in a contextualized, personalized and ubiquitous way. This w=
ill replace the current information transfer paradigm, which is based on con=
tent, and on the key authoritative figure of the teacher who provides inform=
ation.<BR>
<BR>
GCEPG project could then be a complete and powerful demonstrator of ELeGI P=
roject to show;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>(a) the advantages coming from using advanced technologies (i.e., GRID fo=
r accessing to computing resources and collaboration environments) for suppo=
rting simulations execution, data analysis, etc.,<BR>
(b) simulations for learning through the definition of innovative pedagogic=
al models (i.e., socio-constructivist contextualized learning approach), and=
<BR>
(c) to show all the benefits coming from the harmonized and synergistic use=
of advanced technologies together with innovative pedagogical models for le=
arning (i.e., ELeGI).<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
(6) Many now consider GRID technology as the next generation Internet. &nbs=
p;It has demonstrated all of the effectiveness in the scientific domains as =
becoming a de-facto e-Science technology infrastructure. This technolo=
gy promises to do what the Internet has done with data on the applications. =
GRID computing extends the scope of distributed computing to encompass=
large-scale resource sharing, including massive data-storages, high-perform=
ance networking and powerful computers, highly expansive equipments (i.e., m=
icroscopes, telescopes, 3D Cave), etc.<BR>
<BR>
GRID technology defines a new powerful computing paradigm by analogy to the=
electric Power Grid. Users of the GRID will then be able <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0p=
x'>(a) to use his/her private workplace (Workstation, PC, UMTS phone, etc.) =
to invoke any application from a remote system,<BR>
(b) to use the best suited system for executing their desired particular ap=
plication,<BR>
(c) to access data securely and consistently from remote sites,<BR>
(d) to exploit multiple systems to complete complex tasks in an economical =
manner, or<BR>
(e) to use multiple systems to solve large problems that exceed the capacit=
y of a single one.<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0=
px'><BR>
The support provided by GRID technology for resource sharing and problem so=
lving in dynamic, multi-institutional Virtual Organizations (VO) is consider=
ed one of the key factor of our project. In this vision, the sharing d=
oesn’t mean simply exchange of data or files but rather a concrete acc=
ess to resources (e.g., computers, software, data, etc.). This “=
sharing capability” imposes the definition and implementation of well-=
defined resource management policies to specify what is accessible, from who=
m and under which conditions. A set of individuals and/or institutions=
defined by such sharing rules forms what is called a Virtual Organization (=
VO).<BR>
<BR>
Actually, the GRID based on the OGSA (Open GRID Service Architecture) could=
be used as a technology-glue (seamless network combining wireless and broad=
band network, advanced software solutions for problem solving), providing th=
e user with a uniform way to access these resources by means of several kind=
s of devices.<BR>
<BR>
(7) E-mail and multimedia World Wide Web of Internet so far contributed sig=
nificantly to the world society on the dissemination of information. T=
he next phase of the Internet development with global neural (or GRID) compu=
ter networks should be the globally collaborative experiential (the so-calle=
d “hands-on”) learning and constructive creation of wisdom with =
interactive actions on virtual reality simulation models of joint global res=
earch and development projects on various subjects. The Chinese prover=
b says, “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I underst=
and!” Another Chinese proverb says, “Knowledge gained with=
interaction becomes wisdom.”<BR>
<BR>
This will promote trustful friendship among youngsters around the world to =
realize the Knowledge Society of the 21st century, and their collective crea=
tivity will enlarge the size of pie for stakeholders to reach peaceful win-w=
in consequences. Another Chinese proverb says, “Acquiring knowle=
dge is a joy, and sharing knowledge is an ultimate joy.”<FONT COLOR=3D"#=
00CC00"><B> </B></FONT>I sincerely hope to foster friendship among the=
people of the world with our GUS and GCEPG projects for inevitable emergenc=
e of a global civilization.<BR>
<BR>
(8) This new and major Internet technology development will provide our GUS=
teams around the world with the so-called “hands-on” experienti=
al learning to acquire wisdom on their newly creating knowledge.<BR>
<BR>
I hope that this will be an additional unique feature of our GUS to its pro=
posed schemes: “Learners in remote/rural regions of developing countri=
es will be able to take their courses, via advanced broadband Internet, from=
member institutions around the world to receive a GUS degree.”<BR>
<BR>
This GRID technology can also be used by researchers, even in developing co=
untries, to perform with their counterparts in developed countries for joint=
collaborative researches with <FONT COLOR=3D"#333333">virtual reality and vir=
tual laboratory of various academic and engineering </FONT>subjects. T=
his will be a paradigm shift of research and development in global scale, ou=
t of the so-called “Ivory Tower” approach.<BR>
<BR>
This will also become a core of a global knowledge forum for the exchange o=
f ideas, information, knowledge and joint research and development. <F=
ONT COLOR=3D"#333333">This in turn brings forth the possibility of creating ne=
w knowledge and wisdom by global collaboration, and hence global peace.</FON=
T> This will foster not only wisdom by collaborative interaction on kn=
owledge but also true friendship among people around the world with mutual u=
nderstanding and lasting peace.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Pierluigi:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(9) I will send you in my following msg, the model of the World Dynamics of=
Prof. Forrester and my suggestion how to construct a prototype of a distrib=
uted computer simulation system. They will be a variation of what I on=
ce proposed in the following articles;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Helvetica"><BR>
</FONT></SPAN><OL><LI><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">U=
tsumi, T. and DeVita, J.=A0 (1982).=A0 GLOSAS Project (GLObal Systems Analysis a=
nd Simulation).=A0 In S. Schoemaker (Editor), <I>Computer Networks and Simulat=
ion II</I> (pp. 279-326).=A0 Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.=20
</FONT></SPAN><LI><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Utsum=
i, T., Mikes, P. O., Rossman, P.=A0 (1986).=A0 Peace Games with Open Modeling Ne=
twork.=A0 In S. Schoemaker (Editor), <I>Computer Network and Simulation III</I=
>, pp. 267-298,=A0 Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publisher B.V., (North-Holland)=
.<BR>
</FONT></SPAN></OL><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"V=
erdana"><a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/C=
hapter_V/Schoemaker-III/SCHOEMKR-III_total.htm">http://www.friends-partners.=
org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_V/Schoemaker-III/SCHOEMKR-III_total.ht=
m</a> <BR>
</FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE=3D"Verda=
na"><BR>
Have a very pleasant holiday season and happy and healthy New Year!!<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak<BR>
<BR>
<HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">*********=
*************************************************************<BR>
* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA  =
; &nb=
sp;*<BR>
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *<BR>
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *=
<BR>
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of &nb=
sp; *<BR>
* Global University System (GUS) =
&nbs=
p; &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* Tel/Fax: 718-939-0928; (day time only--prefer email) &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 &=
nbsp; *<BR>
* <a href=3D"http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/">http://www.friends-part=
ners.org/GLOSAS/</a> &=
nbsp;  =
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