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In addition to regular job responsibilities, many ASET staff members participate in both professionally- and personally- oriented activities by serving on University and/or national committees, attending and presenting at University-based and national conferences, teaching seminars and/or by serving as community volunteers. Please note that the information below is based on the annual report submissions. Some participants/activities as well as dates, places and other information, may not be reflected on this list.
This year, ASET welcomed new staff members Monica Grubb (Directors' Office), Derek Morr (ET), Murali Ramsunder (GEaRS) and Phil Sorber (GEaRS). In addition, ASET welcomed South Hills Business School (SHBS) intern Corey Riddle. Corey, who reports to Jim Leous in ET, is working on developing social software which leverages ASET's enterprise infrastructure. Corey's background is the CIS program (Computer and Information Systems) at SHBS. He has taken the course work for both the programming track and the system administration track.
ASET said farewell to Tom Adams who, after thirty-seven years of service, retired on July 6, 2004.
This year, two ASET employees transitioned to different positions within the organization. In April, Jim Vuccolo became the manager of a newly created group within AIT, the Software Solutions Group. In June, Jerry Mihaly became the manager of the ITS Accounts Services Office. On a related note: In June, the UNIX Systems and Technical Solutions Group, also in AIT, managed by Phil Pishioneri, changed its name to Enabling Technologies.
In December 2003, twenty staff members, representing all ASET groups, participated in a three-hour HRDC professional development course, "The Essentials of Project Management," taught by Barbara Sherlock. The course provided some of the basics of project management, workflow challenges and potential solutions. It also provided a means by which staff from the different groups within ASET were able to work together to timeline and appropriate resources for mock projects. Information obtained from this seminar has been used, in a flexible way, to help plan ASET projects and intiatives.
"The Penn State Search Engine - Google Search Appliance," D'Angelo, J., Web Developer's Brown Bag lunch presentation, September 12, 2003, University Park, PA.
http://aset.its.psu.edu/~jcd/useful/search/example1/
"Affordable and Accessible VR systems for Undergraduate Architectural Design Education and Research at Penn State," Otto, G., presented at CONVR: Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, September 24-26, 2003, Blacksburg, VA.
"Wireless: New Standards, Opportunities and Challenges," Beyerle, D., ITS Forum, September 30, 2003, University Park, PA.
"VPN for Wireless Security at Penn State," Cropp, R., presentation for IST 402A class, November 2003, University Park, PA.
"The VR-desktop: An Accessible Approach to VR environments in Teaching and Research," Otto, G., Kalisperis, L. N., Gundrum, J., Muramoto, K., Burris, G., Masters, R., Slobounov, E., Heilman, J., and Agarwala, V., presented at Virtual Reality for Public Consumption Workshop, IEEE VR 2004, March 27, 2004, Chicago, IL.
"Projection-based workspaces for research and teaching," Otto, G., Gundrum, J., Burris, G., Masters, R., Slobounov, E., Heilman, J., and Agarwala, V., 2003. Presented by George Otto at CIC TechForum 2003: Making IT Happen, October 30-31, Madison, WI.
"Introduction to Python," Morr, D., Penn State Zope Users Group, March 4, 2004, University Park, PA.
http://bakunin.aset.psu.edu/~derek/python.pdf
"Video Cluster running Debian," Debian Weekly News, March 9th, 2004.
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2004/10/
"Friends of Penn State," Vuccolo, J., ITS the Event, March 16, 2004, University Park, PA.
"Leveraging the Penn State Access Account: How to use the Access Account to Tailor Your Web Servcies," Vuccolo, J., ITS the Event, March 16, 2004, University Park, PA.
"Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): A Signalling Protocol for Internet Conferencing, Telephony and Instant Messaging," Cropp, R., ITS the Event, March 16, 2004, University Park, PA.
"Shibboleth: Authenticate Locally, Share Globally," Shuey, R., and Earnest, M., ITS the Event, March 16, 2004, University Park, PA.
"A Support Model for Enabling Research Visualization Using VTK and Tcl/Tk," Masters, R., SuperComputing Science Consortium Visualization Workshop, March 22, 2004.
"OpenSG and VRPN for Cross Platform Collaborative VR Viewing of Architectural Models," Gundrum, J., SuperComputing Science Consortium Visualization Workshop, March 22, 2004.
"Integrated VR and Multimedia Linux Desktop Using Chromium and DMX," Burris, G., SuperComputing Science Consortium Visualization Workshop, March 22, 2004.
"Integrating Human Subject Measurements and VR Displays Using FreeVR," Slobounov, E., SuperComputing Science Consortium Visualization Workshop, March 22, 2004.
"Alternatives to Microsoft - Do We Have a Choice?" Williams, A., SIGUCCS CSMS, March 21 - 24, 2004, Santa Fe, NM.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/alw/MSalternatives.pdf
"LionShare Overview," Morr, D., Penn State Linux Users Group, March 29, 2004, University Park, PA.
"Shibboleth - Authenticate Locally, Act Globally A Penn State Case Study," Shuey, R., NERCOMP, March 2004
http://www.personal.psu.edu/prs4/presentations/NERCOMP.ppt
"Security and Privacy Technical Issues,", Shuey, R., presented at the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) Conference, May 3 -5, Arlington, VA.
Kevin Morooney, Jeff Mace and Karen Hackett presented core computing services and the Penn State Portal to staff at the Dickinson School of Law (DSL), May 25, 2004, Carlisle, PA.
"Shibboleth - A Penn State Case Study," Shuey, R., First Annual Conference on Technology and Standards, May 2004.
"LionShare Security Overview," Morr, D., Internet2 Member Meeting, spring 2004, Washington, DC.
"Shibboleth Uses at Penn State," Earnest, M., Internet2 Member Meeting, spring 2004
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/x/mxe20/PSU-shib-uses.pdf
"Introduction to Linux," Earnest, M., ITS Seminar, spring 2004, University Park, PA.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/mxe20/linux.pdf
"Virtual Time-to-Contact in a Postural Task," Haibach, P., Slovounov, S., Slobounova, E., and Newell, K., presented paper and poster session, NASPSPA 2004, June 10-12, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Writing Perl CGI Scripts for ITS/ASET Web Services," D'Angelo, J., Penn State Web 2004 Conference Tutorial, June 14, University Park, PA.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/j/c/jcd/useful/webcon/2004/
"Content Management Strategies," Leous, J., Ferrin, E, Halm, M., Porter, R., Richardson, D., Penn State Web 2004 Conference Tutorial, June 14, University Park, PA.
"Writing Perl CGI Scripts for ITS/ASET Web Services," D'Angelo, J., Penn State Web 2004 Conference, June 15, University Park, PA.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/j/c/jcd/useful/webcon/2004/
"A Taxonomy of Tags," Penn State Web 2004 Conference, June 15, University Park, PA.
"The Web in Motion," Leous, J., Kalbach, J., Vuccolo, J. and Aungst, S., Penn State Web 2004 Conference, June 15, University Park, PA.
"Authentication at Penn State: The Present State of Affairs and Furture Directions," Vuccolo, J. and Pishioneri, P., Penn State Web 2004 Conference, June 15, University Park, PA.
"Shibboleth Experiences with WebAssign," Earnest, M., Internet2 CAMP - Shibboleth Implementation Workshop, June 2004.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/x/mxe20/webassign.pdf
"Shibboleth Access to Licensed Content," Earnest, M. Internet2 CAMP - Shibboleth Implementation Workshop, June 2004
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/x/mxe20/licensed_content.pdf
"Shibboleth Origins - Requirement and Considerations," Earnest, M., Internet2 CAMP - Shibboleth Implementation Workshop, June 2004.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/x/mxe20/origins.pdf
"Virtual Time-to-Contact in a Postural Task (abstract),", Haibach, P., Slovounov, S., Slobounova, E., and Newell, K., NASPSPA, June 2004.
Numerous project and service updates were provided by members of ASET at the 2003 - 2004 Network of People (NWOFP) quarterly meetings.
Jeff Mace, twice per month, provided a quick Penn State Portal demonstration at OHR's New Employee Orientation sessions.
"Perceived effort in force production as reflected in motor-related cortical potentials," Slobounov, S., Hallett, M., Newell, K., (in press), Clinical Neurophysiology. (date not included in submission).
"Cortical Control and Human Postural Stability: An EEG Study," Slobounov, S., Hallett, M., (in review), Clinical Neurophysiology. (date not included in submission).
"Neural Detector for Postural Instability: fMRI Study," Slobounov, S, Wu, T., Hallett, M., Shibasaki, H., Slobounova, E., (in review), Neuroimage. (date not included with submission).
"Postural adjustments and brain responses to optical flow induced by virtual reality graphics," Slobounov, S., & Hallett, M., Slobounova, E., (in review), Clinical Neurophysiolology. (date not included with submission).
"The VR-Desktop: an Accessible Approach to VR Environments in Teaching and Research," International Journal of Architectural Computing, Issue 02, Volume 01, Otto, G., Kalisperis, L., Gundrum, J., Muramoto, K., Burris, G., Masters, R., Slobounov, E., Heilman, J., and Agarwala, V.
http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/html/jour/about.shtml. (date not included with submission).
"Diving Deeper into Designs," ArchitectureWeek
Muramoto, K., Otto, G., and Kalisperis, L. (date not included with submission)
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/1023/tools_1-1.html
"Rendering and Animation," Wagner, J., presentation to Classroom and Lab Computing Group (CLC). (date not included with submission).
http://et.aset.psu.edu/public/Annual2004/animation.pdf
Rich Cropp attended the Internet2 Security at Line Speed (SALSA) Workshop, August 2003, Chicago, IL.
Steve Kellogg, John Kalbach and Jonathan Siegle attended the IBM Storage Briefing in September, 2003.
Steve Kellogg attended the Common Solutions Group (CSG) Fall Meeting, September 24 - 26, 2003, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Bob Walters attended the Oracle Users Meeting, September 2003, OracleWorld in San Francisco, CA.
Renee Shuey attended the Internet2 Member Meeting, October 14 - 16, 2003.
Jeff D'Angelo attened LISA 2003, October 26 - 31, Sand Diego, CA.
Jim Leous, Mark Earnest, George Otto and Karen Hackett attended CIC TechForm: Making IT Happen, October 30 - 31, 2003, Madison WI.
Steve Kellogg, John Kalbach, Chris Hubing and Brett Rodgers attended the IBM Debriefing Meeting, November 4 - 5, 2003, Austin, TX.
Renee Shuey attended Educause, November 4 - 7, 2003, Anaheim, CA.
Rich Cropp attended the Cisco Security Operators and Research Workshop, November 2003, San Jose, CA.
Jeff Mace and Chris Hubing attended the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies - Middleware Conference, February 9 - 13, 2004, San Diego, CA.
Derek Morr attended the RSA Conference, February 23 - 27, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
Renee Shuey attended NERCOMP, March 2004.
Heather Lohr attended Perspectives: Women's Leadership Conference, April 9, 2004, University Park, PA.
Kevin Morooney, Steve Kellogg, Jonathan Sigle, Renee Shuey, Derek Morr and Mark Earnest attended the Internet2 Spring 2004 Meeting, April 2004, Washington, DC.
Kevin Morooney attended the Council on Competitiveness in High Performance Computing Meeting, April, 2004, Washington, DC.
Kevin Morooney and Steve Kellogg attended the Common Solutions Group Spring Meeting 2004, May 5 - 7, 2004, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Renee Shuey attended the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) Conference, May 3 - 5, 2004, Arlington, VA.
Renee Shuey attended the First Annual Conference on Technology and Standards, May 2004.
Bob Walters attended the DB2 International User Group North America Conference, May 2004, Orlando, FL.
Mark Earnest attened Internet2 CAMP Shibboleth Implementation Workshop and Internet2 Advanced CAMP Authority Architectures, June 2004.
Al Williams, appointed Board Member of SHARE, attended SHARE's Summer 2003 and Spring 2004 Conferences and its Board Meetings (September and October 2003; January and May 2004).
http://www.share.org/
Phil Sorber attended the Linux Clusters Institute Workshop (date not provided with submission).
Linux Clusters Institute workshops are intensive, hands-on sessions for computational scientist, engineers and cluster system administrators. A GEaRS systems administrator attended the workshop to learn more about issues related to the administration of Linux clusters in support of secure, reliable and high-performance computing; catch up the GEaRS group on any new developments in the field of high performance computing; and, make contacts for future collaborations.
Gavin Burris attended IEEE Infovis 2003, 9th Annual Symposium on Information Visualization, Seattle, WA (date not provided with submission).
Gavin Burris attended the Workshop on Parallel Visualization and Graphics, (covering some of the most prominent visualization shops in the world such as LLNL, LANL and their workflow) (date not provided with submission).
Of special note: Research and Classroom Support
Though many individual seminar/course teaching listings are included below, it should be noted that staff members in the GEaRS group have been working to aid faculty and students in their individual research as well as in the classroom environment. During 2003 - 2004, GEaRS provided teaching and computational support for the following courses: ABE 513, AERSP 302, ARCH 121, ARCH 131, ARCH 122, ARCH 132, ARCH 481, ARCH 497, ART 111, ART 230, CE 541, CHEM 497A, CHEM 408, CHEM 526, EMCH 461, EMCH 560, LARCH 497E, LARCH 600, ME 461, ME 463, ME 563, and MET 473.
Skip Knoble taught the Fortran 77/90/95: Windows Linux and AIX ITS Seminar, October, 15, 2003.
Jim Leous taught "UNIX System Security," ITS Seminar, fall 2003.
Jim Leous taught "Linux Overview," ITS Seminar, fall 2003.
Ray Masters taught Art 202, "Computer 3-Dimensional Modeling and Rendering," fall 2003.
Jack Gundrum taught the Using the IEL ITS Seminar, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Skip Knoble taught the Fortran 77/90/95: Windows Linux and UNIX ITS Seminar, March 24, 2004,
Heathr Lohr attended the "Taking Effective Meeting Minutes" HRDC seminar, March, 2004.
Deb Dixon attended the In Design ITS Seminar, spring 2004.
Jim Leous presented both "Handheld Deives" and "Shibboleth, Napster and ET" at the ITS New Employee Orientation sessions, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Jeff Mace presented "The Penn State Portal" at the ITS New Employee Orientation sessions, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Kevin Morooney presented "The Penn State Portal" at the ITS New Employee Orientation sessions, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Jim Vuccolo presented "Friends of Penn State" at the ITS New Employee Orientation sessions, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Mark Earnest taught the "Introduction to Linux" ITS Seminar, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
Bill Mountz presented "Handheld Deives" at the ITS New Employee Orientation, fall 2003 and spring 2004.
The course, "Architecture 231/232: Second Year Design Studio," taught by Loukas Kalisperis, was supported via Visualization staff consultation and the use of the ITS/SALA Immersive Environments Laboratory. (date not included with submission)
The course, "Architecture 481: Digital Design Media," taught by Loukas Kalisperis and Katsuhiko Muramoto, was supported via Visualization staff consultation and use of the ITS/SALA Immersive Environments Laboratory. (date not included with submission)
The course, "Arch 497: Virtual Reality for the Built Environment," taught jointly by John Messner, Loukas Kalisperis, and George Dickie, was supported bia Visualization staff consultation and the use of the ITS/SALA Immersive Environments Laboratory. (date not included with submission)
The course, "Meteorology 473," taught by George Young, conducted six class sessions for teaching VRML and JavaScript for project assignments for Web-based 3D visualization of meteorological data. (date not included with submission)
Jeff Nucciarone taught "Intro to High Performance Computing at Penn State," part of the GEaRS Seminars On Demand series. (date not included with submission).
Tracy Leitzel chaired the ITS Events Committee, 2003 - 2004.
Tracy Leitzel served on the Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day Planning Committee, 2003 - 2004.
Jim Leous continued to serve on the Committee to Replace Social Security Number as the Primary University Identifier Working Group. In addition, Leous serves on the Policy and Technical sub-committees.
Jim Leous continued to serve on eCommunications Cost Savings Committe, which will make recommendations to the University Cost Savings Committee on the use of of Information Technology to save on the cost of creation, distribution, and disposal of paper communications.
Jim Leous continued to serve on Penn State Computer Security Advisory Committee and is a member of the Penn State CERT team.
Al Williams served as an appointed Board Member of SHARE.
Karen Hackett served on the University's Commission for Women (CFW) as chair-elect, resuming chair duties for 2004-2005 as of July 1, 2004. She also served as the chair of the Commission's Development and Budget Committee and served as a member of the CFW Executive, Staff Issues and Development and History of Women at Penn State Book Project committees. In addition, she served on the Joint Commissions Committee (JCC) (chairs, co-chairs and chair-elects of all three OVPEE commissions.
Karen Hackett served on the ITS the Event planning committee.
Karen Hackett serves on the ITS Communicators team as an ASET Communications Liaison.
Karen Hackett was appointed in October 2003 to serve as the Provost's representative on the University Child Care Advisory Committee. Meetings begin in September, 2004.
Tracy Leitzel is working toward a Bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership. She completed two courses during the year: LIR 136, Race, Gender and Employment (fall 2003) and PL SC 001, Introduction to American Government (spring 2004).
Hannah Williams and Jason Holmes completed two German language courses, fall 2003 and spring 2004 respectively.
Heather Lohr completed the Community CPR/AED Course (Adult, Child and Infant), spring 2004.
Jim Leous continued to serve as the advisor for the Penn State Linux Users Group (LUG)
Jim Leous continued to serve as the Assistant Coach of the State College High School Hockey Team.
Al Williams served as a volunteer Alpine Ski Patroller at Tussey Mountain Ski Area
Mark Earnest served on the Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team both as a Field Team Leader and as a member of their Board of Directors.
Chris Hubing maintained the HUB Aquarium as an ongoing volunteer for the Marine Science Society.
Chris Hubing completed two courses, Ballroom Dancing and Marine Biology, fall 2003 and spring 2004 respectively.
Chris Hubing served as a United Way Football Volunteer on behalf of ITS.
Kevin Morooney served as the head coach of the State College High School Girls Soccer Team.
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