Abilene
Project
Abilene, a project of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet
Development (UCAID) in partnership with Qwest Communications, Cisco
Systems, Nortel Networks and Indiana University, is an Internet2 backbone
network providing nationwide high-performance networking capabilities
for over 200 Internet2 universities.
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
AAAS
Research Competitiveness Service
A resource for researchers, research administrators, and research
policy makers. "We assist the development of quality research programs
in a variety of ways: reviewing programs; providing guidance to setting
strategic directions; helping build collaborations; reviewing policy;
and more."
Association
of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
"...an interdisciplinary/interprofessional organization for promotion
of scholarly and critical research into the social, cultural, political,
economic and aesthetic aspects of the Internet..."
CENIC
California research and education network.
Community
of Science
"updated daily and contains detailed information for more than 20,500
available research grants worldwide."
EDUCAUSE
"The mission of EDUCAUSE is to help shape and enable transformational
change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management
of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship,
research, and institutional management. "
EPSCoR
Foundation
Helping EPSCoR States Improve their Science and Technology Research
Infrastructure and Competitiveness
ESnet
- Energy Sciences Network
"The mission of the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Program is to
provide highly capable and reliable communications infrastructure
and leading-edge network services that support DOE's missions. The
program emphasizes advanced network and distributed computing capabilities
needed for forefront scientific research and other DOE programs, thus
enhancing national competitiveness and accelerating development of
future generations of communication and computing technologies. Participating
DOE programs and their partners actively contribute to program planning
and implementation, and collaborate on development of new technologies
that will drive upcoming generations of research capabilities."
Glossary
of Computer Terms
Glossary
of Networking Terms
Internet2
Led by over 200 US universities working with industry and government,
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications
and technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the
creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership
of academia, industry and government that helped foster today's Internet
in its infancy.
KanREN
Kansas research and education network.
KANSA
Kansas Association for Networked Supercomputing Applications
MOREnet
Missouri research and education network.
National
Lambda Rail
NCSA
Home of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the
National Computational Science Alliance.
NLANR
National Laboratory for Applied Network Research
National
Science Foundation
OneNet
Oklahoma's Telecommunications Network
The
Quilt
Organization of regional networks like the Great Plains Network.
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