Karen Adams, with Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Dennis Gannon, Douglas Pearson, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. With Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Douglas Pearson, and James Williams, she published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Doug Pearson, Dennis Gannon, Donald McMullen, Michael McRobbie, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, she published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Debby Allmayer, with Laurie Antolovic', Gerry Bernbom, Beth Hoff, and Norma Holland, presented "A Consolidation of Information Technology Organizations at Indiana University," a Pre-Conference Seminar at CAUSE'98, December 8, 1998, Seattle, Washington. With Christopher Peebles, Laurie Antolovic', Norma Holland, and Phyllis Davidson, she published "Modeling and Managing the Cost and Quality of Information Technology Services: A Case Study," in Information Technology: Assessing its Impact and Planning for the Future, edited by Richard Katz and Julia Rudy, Josey Bass New Directions for Institutional Research (at press).

Laurie Antolovic', with Debby Allmayer, Gerry Bernbom, Beth Hoff, and Norma Holland, presented "A Consolidation of Information Technology Organizations at Indiana University," a Pre-Conference Seminar at CAUSE'98, December 8, 1998, Seattle, Washington. With co-authors Christopher Peebles, Debby Allmayer, Norma Holland, and Phyllis Davidson, she published "Modeling and Managing the Cost and Quality of Information Technology Services: A Case Study," in Information Technology: Assessing its Impact and Planning for the Future, edited by Richard Katz and Julia Rudy, Josey Bass New Directions for Institutional Research (at press).

Gerry Bernbom, with Debby Allmayer, Laurie Antolovic', Beth Hoff, and Norma Holland, presented "A Consolidation of Information Technology Organizations at Indiana University," a Pre-Conference Seminar for CAUSE'98, December 8, 1998, Seattle, Washington. With colleagues from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Coalition for Networked Information, and with federal funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, he developed and led a workshop, "Working Together: A Workshop for Archivists, Records Managers and Information Technologists," December 16-17, 1998, Washington, DC. Bernbom published "Institution-Wide Information Strategies Project: A CNI Initiative," Information Technology and Libraries, Volume 17, Number 2, June 1998. At the April 14-15 Coalition for Networked Information Task Force Meeting, with colleagues from California State University and Villanova University, Bernbom presented "Institution-Wide Information Strategies for Information Access;" with colleagues from Indiana University and the University of California at Davis he presented a project briefing "Institution-Wide Information Strategies for Information Technology Support."

Don K. Berry, with David Hart, Eric Wernert, Craig Stewart, John Palmer, Will Fischer, S. Turner, Tin Tan Wee, M. Sakharkar, and Zhang Lou Xin, wrote "Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Phylogenetic Data," presented by Craig Stewart at CASCON 98, November 30 - December 3, Toronto, Canada.

Jonathan Bolte, with Dawn E. Hewitt, presented a workshop titled: "Knowledge Bases: How to build a virtual helpdesk (and why, and how much)" at ACM SIGUCCS, October 25-28, 1998, IU-Bloomington.

Choong-Geun Chung published "Programs for Statistics and Data Analysis," with co-authors Alex F. Burr, Bruce A. Craig, Tak-Shing Harry So, Terry J. Deveau, and Donald L. Shirer, in Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1999, pp.17-21.

Dennis Cromwell was appointed UITS Director, University Information Systems, IUB.

Jennifer Foutty was appointed UITS Director, HR and Student Information Systems, University Information Systems.

Nat Francis and Gary Riggen received the IBM Best Practices Award for Insite. With Sandy Thompson, Laurie Sullivan, and Michael Riley, Francis received the NACUBO Best Practices Award for use of technology in the Tax Relief Act of 1997.

Douglas Grover, with R. David Vernon and Craig Stewart, published "Changing (Almost) Everything and Keeping (Almost) Everyone Happy," in CAUSE/Effect 21:39-46.

David Hart, with Eric Wernert, Craig Stewart, John Palmer, Will Fischer, S. Turner, Don K. Berry, Tin Tan Wee, M. Sakharkar, and Zhang Lou Xin, wrote "Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Phylogenetic Data," presented by Craig Stewart at CASCON 98, November 30 - December 3, Toronto, Canada.

Dawn E. Hewitt presented "What's so great about Indiana University's Knowledge Base?" at SIGUCCS, October 25-28, 1998, IUB. With Jonathan Bolte, she also presented a workshop titled: "Knowledge Bases: How to build a virtual helpdesk (and why, and how much)."

Bonnie Hites chaired the ACM SIGUCCS 1998 Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, October 25-28, 1998.

Elizabeth Hoff, with Debby Allmayer, Laurie Antolovic', Gerry Bernbom, and Norma Holland, presented "A Consolidation of Information Technology Organizations at Indiana University," a Pre-Conference Seminar at CAUSE'98, December 8, 1998, Seattle, Washington.

Norma Holland was named UITS Associate Vice President, University Information Systems. With Debby Allmayer, Laurie Antolovic', Gerry Bernbom, and Beth Hoff, she presented "A Consolidation of Information Technology Organizations at Indiana University," a Pre-Conference Seminar at CAUSE'98, December 8, 1998, Seattle, Washington. She served as a member of the EDUCAUSE Nomination and Election Committee and has been named Conference Chair for EDUCAUSE '01 to be held in Indianapolis. With Christopher Peebles, Debby Allmayer, Laurie Antolovic', and Phyllis Davidson, she published "Modeling and Managing the Cost and Quality of Information Technology Services: A Case Study," in Information Technology: Assessing its Impact and Planning for the Future, edited by Richard Katz and Julia Rudy, Josey Bass New Directions for Institutional Research (at press).

Jan Holloway served as Program Chair for the 1998 ACM SIGUCCS Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, October 25-28, 1998. Holloway is a member of the Program Committee for ACM SIGUCCS '99 in Denver, CO.

John N. Huffman and UITS colleagues Donald McMullen and Eric Wernert, with colleagues from the IU Department of Computer Science, Argonne National Lab, the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada (IMI/NRC), the Advanced Computing Laboratory of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Center for Research on Computation and its Applications (CERCA), Montreal, won the High Performance Computing Challenge in the category, Best Industrial Collaboration, at Supercomputing 98, Orlando, Florida.

Dave Jent, with Mary White and Mike Connaughton, published "Optical Fiber Helps Construct a Campus for the 21st Century," ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 34- 37.

Diane Jung served as Competitions Chair for the 1998 ACM SIGUCCS Conference at Indiana University, Bloomington, October 25-28, 1998. She also presented "Coalescing the Campus Cultures of Two Education Technology Programs."

Mike MacKenzie and Dennis McWhirter published a paper and presented a workshop titled "The Tool Belt: Many Tools, One Interface," at ACM SIGUCCS '98, Bloomington, Indiana, October 25-28, 1998.

Donald F. McMullen and UITS colleagues Eric Wernert and John N. Huffman, with colleagues from the IU Department of Computer Science, Argonne National Lab, the Industrial Materials Institute of the National Research Council of Canada (IMI/NRC), the Advanced Computing Laboratory of Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Center for Research on Computation and its Applications (CERCA), Montreal, won the High Performance Computing Challenge in the category, Best Industrial Collaboration, at Supercomputing 98, Orlando, Florida. McMullen, et al published "The iGrid Project: Enabling International Research and Education Collaborations through High Performance Networking," Proceedings of the IEEE Internet Workshop 1999, February 17-20, 1999, Osaka, Japan. McMullen, with Michael McRobbie, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Douglas Pearson, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. McMullen presented "TransPAC and Quality of Service (QoS)," Global Grid Workshop, 12th International Conference on Supercomputing, July 12-17, 1998, Melbourne, Australia. With Michael McRobbie, Karen Adams, Doug Pearson, and Jim Williams, McMullen published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Doug Pearson, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Michael McRobbie, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, McMullen published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN),"Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. McMullen was a Workshop Organizer for "The Global Supercomputing," July 12-17, 1998, Melbourne, Australia and is Co-Chair, Multimedia and Immersive VR Working Group, Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (February 1999- ).

Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Douglas Pearson, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. McRobbie, Karen Adams, Donald McMullen, Douglas Pearson, and James Williams published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Douglas Pearson, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Donald McMullen, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and Jim Williams, McRobbie published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Dennis McWhirter and Mike MacKenzie published a paper and presented a workshop titled "The Tool Belt: Many Tools, One Interface," at ACM SIGUCCS '98, Bloomington, Indiana, October 25-28, 1998. McWhirter is a board member-at-large for the International User Group AUGment (Answer User Group), for Apriori and AutoAnswer contact tracking software.

Karen Miller, with Rita Pavolka, presented a paper titled "Introducing Student Technology at IU (STIU) to Incoming Students," at ACM SIGUCCS '98, October 25-28, Bloomington, Indiana.

L. John Old presented a paper he co-authored with Uta Elisabeth Priss, titled "Information Access through Conceptual Structures and Geographic Information Systems" at ASIS'98, October 1998, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Mary Papakhian presented a paper titled "Comparing UNIX Job Management Systems from a User's Perspective" at the SHARE and GUIDE Technical Conference, Washington, DC, August 16-21, 1998. She published "A Comparison of Job Management Systems from the User's Perspective" in IEEE Computational Science and Engineering, April-June, 1998.

Rita Pavolka, with Karen Miller, presented "Introducing Student Technology at IU (STIU) to Incoming Students," at ACM SIGUCCS 1998, October 25-28, Bloomington, Indiana.

Douglas Pearson, with Michael McRobbie, Donald F. McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Allen Robel, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. With Michael McRobbie, Karen Adams, Donald McMullen, and Jim Williams, Pearson published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Donald McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis

Gannon, Michael McRobbie, Allen Robel, Steve Wallace, and Jim Williams, Pearson published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Christopher Peebles was an invited participant in the First China-US Quality Conference, sponsored by the China Association for Quality Control and the China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing, November 3-6, 1998. With David Ayersman, Steve Hiller, and Joan Lippincott, he presented "Quality Improvement and Value Enhancement of Information Technology in a Large Research University," and "Assessing Networked Teaching and Learning," at CAUSE '98. Peebles was appointed to the EduCAUSE Research Committee. He was an invited participant in the Chinese-American Networking Symposium, sponsored by the University of Maryland and the Chinese Association for Science and Technology, College Park, MD, January 10-14, 1999. His paper was titled "Indiana University: From Intranet to TransPAC." With Laurie Antolovic', Norma Holland, Debby Allmayer, and Phyllis Davidson, he published "Modeling and Managing the Cost and Quality of Information Technology Services: A Case Study," in Information Technology: Assessing its Impact and Planning for the Future, edited by Richard Katz and Julia Rudy, Josey Bass New Directions for Institutional Research (at press).

Christopher Planeaux published "Review of Metaphysics," in the Journal of the Philosophy Education Society, September1998. He also published "Mnemosyne," in Bibliotheca Classica Batava, December 1998.

Chris Reising and Gary Weideman won the CAUSE Best Practices Award for Grade Context Reporting in Transcripts, Student Grade Reports, CAUSE'98, October 1998, Seattle, Washington.

Gary Riggen and Nat Francis received the IBM Best Practices Award for Insite.

Michael Riley, with Nat Francis, Sandy Thompson, and Laurie Sullivan, received the NACUBO Best Practices Award for use of technology in the Tax Relief Act of 1997.

Allen Robel, with Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Douglas Pearson, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. With Michael McRobbie, Karen Adams, Donald McMullen, Douglas Pearson, and Jim Williams, Robel published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Douglas Pearson, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Donald McMullen, Michael McRobbie, Steven Wallace, and James Williams, Robel published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Charles Rondot presented "IT News: Messengers for the New Millennium," at ACM SIGUCCS '98, IU Bloomington, October 25-28, 1998.

Vincent Sheehan was appointed UITS Director, University Information Systems, IUPUI.

Tak-Shing Harry So, with Alex F. Burr, Choong-Geun Chung, Bruce A. Craig, Terry J. Deveau, and Donald L. Shirer, published "Programs for Statistics and Data Analysis," in Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan/Feb 1999, pp.17-21.

Cathrine Spiaggia presented "You Can Do It! Usability Activites for Web-based Information Systems," ACM SIGUCCS 1998, October 25-28,1998, Bloomington, Indiana. She also led a Birds-of-a-Feather session demonstrating the UITS Usability Lab.

Craig Stewart, with Douglas Grover and R. David Vernon, published "Changing (Almost) Everything and Keeping (Almost) Everyone Happy," in CAUSE/Effect 21:39-46. Stewart also presented "Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Phylogenetic Data," at CASCON 98, November 30 - December 3, Toronto, Canada. Co-authors included David Hart, John Palmer, Will Fischer, S. Turner, Don K. Berry, Eric Wernert, Tin Tan Wee, M. Sakharkar, and Zhang Lou Xin.

Laurie Sullivan, Nat Francis, Sandy Thompson, and Michael Riley received the NACUBO Best Practices Award for use of technology in the Tax Relief Act of 1997.

Brent Sweeny was an invited presenter to the Internet2 Routing Working Group, Joint Techs meeting, November 1998, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With Rick Wood he provided network operations and engineering for the Internet2 member Meeting in San Francisco, September 1998.

Sandy Thompson, Nat Francis, Michael Riley, and Laurie Sullivan received the NACUBO Best Practices Award for use of technology in the Tax Relief Act of 1997.

R. David Vernon, with Craig Stewart and Douglas Grover, published "Changing (Almost) Everything and Keeping (Almost) Everyone Happy," in CAUSE/Effect 21:39-46.

Brian D. Voss reports that the UITS Knowledge Base was named a "Cool Site" by Netscape and recognized by Windows Magazine as one of the top technical support sites on the Web. The KB received top honors at the Southwest Ohio Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. As "Distinguished Technical Communication" and "Best of Show," the KB is the US entry in the STC International Competition. In April 1998, the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), through its Institution-Wide Information Strategies (IWIS) project, recognized UITS as a "Best Practices" site for the Leveraged Support Model. Voss presented a session on the Leveraged Support Model at the CNI meeting, Washington, DC, April 1998. With Jill Schunk of IUB Purchasing, Voss presented a talk on Institutional Software Licensing and Standards, EduCAUSE'98, in Seattle, Washington. With colleagues from UC-Davis, he provided a pre-conference, half-day workshop on Supporting Distributed Support Providers.

Steven Wallace, with Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Douglas D. Pearson, Allen Robel, and James Williams, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. With Douglas Pearson, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Donald McMullen, Michael McRobbie, Allen Robel, and Jim Williams, Wallace published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Alan Walsh was a session presenter at the Sybase/Powersoft User Conference, August 10-13, 1998, Los Angeles, CA and at the Swiss PowerBuilder User Group, November 19, 1998, Zurich, Switzerland. He published Part 1 of an article for PowerTimes (http://www.powertimes.com), in the January-February 1999 issue. Part 2 will be published in the March-April 1999 issue.

Barry Walsh was appointed UITS Director, Fiscal and Procurement Information Systems, University Information Systems.

Marsha Waren served as Publicity Chair for ACM SIGUCCS '98, Indiana University - Bloomington, 25-28 October 1998.

Gary Weideman and Chris Reising won the CAUSE Best Practices Award for Grade Context Reporting in Transcripts, Student Grade Reports.

Eric Wernert demonstrated networked applications (Analysis of Phylogenetic Data, Collaborative Constrained Navigation) in the iGrid booth at Supercomputing '98, November 6-13, Orlando, Florida. Wernert and UITS colleagues Donald F. McMullen and John N. Huffman, with colleagues from the IU Department of Computer Science, Argonne National Lab, and the Center for Research on Computation and its Applications (CERCA), Montreal, won the High Performance Computing Challenge in the category, Best Industrial Collaboration, at Supercomputing '98. Wernert presented "Image-Based Rendering with Occlusions via Cubist Images" at the IEEE Visualization '98 Conference, October 18-23, Research Triangle Park, NC. With Andrew J. Hanson, he published "Image-Based Rendering via Cubist Images," computer animation in Video Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '98, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998. Wernert produced a cover image for IEEE Visualization '98, October 1998. Wernert gave a presentation on the IU VR/VE initiative as part of the "Technology Showcase" at ACM SIGUCCS '98, October 25-28, Bloomington, Indiana. With David Hart, John Palmer, Will Fischer, S. Turner, Don K. Berry, Tin Tan Wee, M. Sakharkar, and Zhang Lou Xin, and Craig Stewart, he wrote "Maximum Likelihood Analysis of Phylogenetic Data," presented by Craig Stewart at CASCON 98, November 30 - December 3, Toronto, Canada.

James Williams, with Michael McRobbie, Donald McMullen, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Douglas Pearson, Allen Robel, and Steven Wallace, published "Global High Performance Networking: Connecting the vNBS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network for Research and Education Applications," Proceedings of HPDC-7, The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, July 28-31, 1998, Chicago, IL. With Michael McRobbie, Karen Adams, Donald McMullen, and Douglas Pearson, Williams published "A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of INET 98 annual conference (1998). With Douglas Pearson, Karen Adams, Dennis Gannon, Donald McMullen, Michael McRobbie, Allen Robel, and Steve Wallace, Williams published "TransPAC: A High Performance Network Connection for Research and Education between the vBNS and the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN)," Proceedings of The International Workshop on Asia-Pacific Area Advanced Research Information Sharing Technology, Internet Workshop '98 (IWS'98), 3-4 March 1998, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Rick Wood, with Brent Sweeny, provided network operations and engineering for the Internet2 member Meeting in San Francisco, September 1998.

Sue Workman presented three papers at ACM SIGUCCS '98, Bloomington, Indiana, October 25-28, 1998, titled, "Taking the Pulse of Your Customers," "From Post-it Notes to Productivity," and "Managing Staff Development Not a Job for Cookie Cutters."

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