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Internet2 IDEA Awards

Internet2 IDEA award winners represent applied advanced networking at its best, and hold the promise to increase the impact of next-generation networks around the world. New for 2008, are the Internet2 IDEA Award Wave of the Future! (press release)

Internet2 IDEA Award Winners Announced

The 2008 Internet2 IDEA Awards winners have been announced at the Spring 2008 Internet2 Member Meeting.

Read about previous award winners: 2006, 2007

For additional information, please send email to info@internet2.edu.

About the IDEA Awards

With nearly 4 million people from over 300 leading universities, companies, and government research laboratories, and the broader educational community, the Internet2 community represents some of the most innovative individuals, organizations and projects in the use of advanced networks.

The Internet2 IDEA Awards program recognizes and thereby encourages innovative advanced network applications that have had the most positive impact within the research and education community. IDEA Award candidates will have applied advanced networking to enable transformational advances in research, teaching and learning by researchers, faculty, and students.

Judging Panel

The Internet2 IDEA Award judges have been nominated by and drawn from the new Internet2 Advisory Councils, with the Applications, Middleware, and Services Council taking the lead in organizing this.

  • Jack Suess, UMBC, Chair
  • Shaun Abshere, WiscNet
  • Guy Almes, Texas A&M University
  • Jacqueline Brown, University of Washington
  • Dennis Elwell, Verizon
  • Wendy Huntoon, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  • Tom Knab, Case Western Reserve University
  • Bill Mitchell, MOREnet
  • Brian Voss, Louisiana State University
  • Alan Whitney, MIT Haystack Observatory

Judging Criteria

Judges apply the following criteria in selecting awardees:

  • Magnitude of the positive impact of the application for its (current) users
  • Technical merit of the application
  • Breadth of impact, as indicated by current user base and likelihood of broader adoption by its full natural community of potential users

Submissions take advantage of the unique capabilities of the Internet2 network infrastructure—that is they are notfully usable on the commercial Internet at the time of their implementation. 

Strong consideration was given to the demonstrable impact of the application on its current users, the extent of the current user population, and the potential for widespread adoption by and usefulness to others with similar needs who have access to advanced R&E networks around the world.

Areas of Impact

Submissions had a positive impact in one or more of the following areas:

  • Innovation in Research
  • Advances in Teaching & Learning
  • Scientific Discovery
  • Global Collaboration

Submissions

Entries may be submitted by an individual affiliated with an Internet2 member, a Sponsored Educational Group Participant, or a Sponsored Participant.

Timeline

12 November 2007 Submission criteria and application format posted

28 January 2008 Submissions close

22 April 2008 Awards Presented at Spring Internet2 Member Meeting