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February 24, 1998
A Portrait of
President Unveils
NIDR Fellow Lancaster Gets Double-Lung Transplant
Nutrition Month
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
'HOV' Lanes for 'Superhighway' NIH Joins Next Generation Internet, Internet2 Development Efforts By Carla Garnett
Almost 30 years old and already the Internet is, well, sluggish sometimes,
especially while performing high-speed, high-capacity applications. Try juggling a
few large-file sites in the heart of the day, then imagine how long it would take to
crunch very large amounts of data for a research project or conduct a virtual
reality experiment on the Internet. Add in the ever-increasing popularity of the
so-called information superhighway and you easily could find yourself sitting in the
mother of all traffic jams. Or worse, maybe you have an interesting new concept
with 'Net application, but, anticipating the tie-ups, do not even attempt developing
the potentially valuable task. That's what was happening a little more than 2 years
ago when some of the country's top universities and science and technology
companies teamed up with the government to begin developing two powerful
alternatives to the Internet -- the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and Internet2.
Dr. James F. Battey, the scientific director at the National Institute on Deafness
and Other Communication Disorders for the past 3 years, has been picked by
NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus to succeed Dr. James Snow as director of
NIDCD. Battey has served as acting director of the institute since Snow's
retirement last year. |