Papers and Presentations

Year 2007

Publications and White Papers (Most recent first)

• Bridging the Digital Divide, by Phil Charles of the South Africa Astronomy Observatory, SAAO Publication No. 2308 = Quest article 
• Network Weather Forecasting for Management and Analysis of Global Grid and Internet End-to-end  (MAGGIE) Performance, thesis of Fareena Saqib
• TULIP (Trilateration Utility for Locating IP hosts) - A delay based solution
• Quantifying the Digital Divide: A Scientific Overview of Network Connectivity and Grid Infrastructure in South Asian Countries, S. Khan, R. L. Cottrell, U Kalim, A. Ali, CHEP07. Also SLAC-PUB 12581. Poster
• ICFA SCIC 2007 Report
•  MAGGIE-NS: Annual Progress Report 2007

Talks (Most recent first)

• Internet Connectivity in Africa, presented by Les Cottrell at the Internet and Grids in Africa: An Asset fro African Scientists for the Benefit of African Society, 10-12 December 2007, Montpellier France.
• Internet View of the Digital Divide, Especially for Sub-Saharan Africa, presented by Les Cottrell at the IHY Africa Workshop 11-16 November 2007, Addis Ababab, Ethiopia.
• Quantifying the Digital Divide: Latin America, S. Asia, Africa, presented by Les Cottrell at the ICFA Workshop on Digital Divide Issues for Global e Science, Mexico City Oct 24-27, 2007
• Locating Hosts by TULIP, presented by by Les Cottrell at the Internet2 Fall members Meeting, San Diego October 8, 2007.
• TULIP (Trilateration Utility for Locating IP hosts), presented by Faran Javed
• Quantifying the Need for Improved Network Performance for S. Asia, Les Cottrell, Shahryar Khan, I2 Planning Meeting: Enhancing Research & Education Connectivity to and within S. Asia, Arlington VA, US April 26, 2007
• Lessons Learned Monitoring, Les Cottrell at the ESnet R&D Workshop at Arlington VA, US, April 23,2007.
• Quantitative Measurement of the Digital Divide, Les Cottrell, Shahryar Khan, presented at the April APS meeting, Jacksonville Florida April 15, 2007
• MAGGIE NIIT-SLAC On Going projects, presented by Adnan Iqbal
• Next Generation Network Monitoring, by Les Cottrell
• PingER project, perfSONAR, proposal of NIIT, SLAC and PERN for HEC, presented by Les Cottrell to Anwar Anjad head of PERN, Pakistan, Martch 16, 2007
• Visualilzing the Digital Divide from an Internet View and Some Challenges, prepared by Les Cottrell, Umar Kalim, Shahryar Khan and Akbar Mehdi for the COMSATS University, Islamabd, Pakistan
• Stanford University, SLAC, NIIT, The Digital Divide and Projects, given by Les Cottrell to the NIIT undergradates March 15, 2007.
• Next Generation Network Monitoring for Pakistan, A Proposal, presented by Les Cottrell and Arshad Ali  to Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, chairman of the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan
• The Digital Divide, by Les Cottrell, Shahryar Khan & Akbar Mehdi at the Qaid-e-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan, March 2007
• Stanford University, SLAC and NIIT, by Les Cottrell at the NIIT Convocation dinnet March 9, 2007
• Testing TCP in the WAN presented by Yee-Ting Li, Microsoft TCP Workshop, 5th-6th February 2007, Microsoft, Redmond, WA.

Photos

• NIIT 2007 Convocation
• APS April17, 2007
• Umar's visit to San Francisco and Muir Woods
• Umar's visit to Monterey and San Juan Bautista
• Softec 2007 Award

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