GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies Announces $11.5M in NSF Funding for 33 Academic and Industry Teams

Leading Academic and Industry Researchers to Create and Integrate Rapid
Prototypes
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, announced today an
$11.5M National Science Foundation grant for 33 academic/industrial research
teams to accelerate prototyping of a suite of infrastructure for the GENI
project with federation and shakedown experiments that will guide future GENI
system design. GENI is sponsored by the National Science Foundation to support
experimental research in network science and engineering.

GENI, a virtual laboratory at the frontier of network science and engineering
for exploring future internets at scale, creates major opportunities to
understand, innovate and transform global networks and their interactions with
society. Spiral development, with simultaneous development and testing, promotes
community feedback, debate, and engagement and guides subsequent development.
Spiral I provided design insights for the evolving suite of experimental tools.

"GENI is making significant progress," said Chip Elliott, GENI Project Director.
"Now we are ready to begin an intensive campaign of research experimentation,
which will enable us to refine and extend today`s prototypes, with a particular
focus on security, architecture, workflow tools, user interfaces, and thorough
instrumentation."

Companies and institutions engaged in this effort include AT&T Battelle; Brown
University; CA Labs (the research division of CA Inc.); Columbia University;
ETRI-Korea; IBM; Indiana University Global Research NOC; Jeffrey Hunker
Associates, LLC; KISTI-Korea; Radio Technology Systems, LLC; Rutgers University;
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris; University of California, San
Diego; University of Illinois, Chicago; and University of Tokyo.

The complete list of proposals funded in GENI Spiral 2 is as follows:

* Ilia Baldine, The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), and Jeff Chase,
Duke University
* Matt Bishop, University of California, Davis
* Prasad Calyam, The Ohio State University (Ohio Supercomputer Center/OARnet)
* Justin Cappos, University of Washington
* Rudra Dutta, North Carolina State University
* Sonia Fahmy, Purdue University
* Dave Farber, Consultant
* Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder
* Deniz Gurkan, University of Houston
* Xiaoyan Hong, The University of Alabama
* Ken Klingenstein, Internet2
* Jiang Li, Howard University
* Xiaolin (Andy) Li, Oklahoma State University
* Jason Liu, Florida International University
* Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University
* Rick McGeer, HP Labs
* Kara Nance, University of Alaska Fairbanks
* Beth Plale, Indiana University School of Informatics
* Seung-Jong Park, Louisiana State University
* Sean Peisert and S. Felix Wu, University of California, Davis
* Larry Peterson and Michael Freedman, Princeton University
* John Regehr and Robert Ricci, University of Utah
* StephenSchwab, SPARTA, dba Cobham Analytic Solutions
* Karen Sollins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* James Sterbenz, University of Kansas
* Martin Swany, University of Delaware
* Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University
* Von Welch, University of Illinois, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA)
* Jim Williams, Indiana University
* Michael Zink, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

About GENI and the GENI Project Office

GENI, a virtual laboratory for exploring future internets at scale, creates
major opportunities to understand, innovate, and transform global networks and
their interactions with society. Dynamic and adaptive, GENI opens up new areas
of research at the frontiers of network science and engineering, and increases
the opportunity for significant socio-economic impact. GENI will:

* support at-scale experimentation on shared, heterogeneous, highly instrumented
infrastructure;
* enable deep programmability throughout the network, promoting innovations in
network science, security, technologies, services and applications; and
* provide collaborative and exploratory environments for academia, industry and
the public to catalyze groundbreaking discoveries and innovation.

The GENI Project Office provides system engineering and project management
expertise to guide the planning and prototyping efforts of the Global
Environment for Network Innovations (GENI). GPO systems engineers engage in
system design, identify and track technical risks, capture and manage system
requirements, provide oversight and support to GENI working groups, and monitor
and coordinate prototyping subcontracts. The GPO leads periodic GENI Engineering
Conferences for collaboration in the developer community and issues
solicitations to fund prototype development that addresses technical risks. The
GPO also performs project management, contracting, technical liaison, and
meeting coordination in close coordination with the National Science Foundation.
See www.geni.net for more information.

About BBN Technologies

BBN Technologies is a legendary R&D organization that leverages its substantial
intellectual property portfolio to produce advanced, repeatable solutions such
as the Boomerang shooter detection system. With expertise spanning information
security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and
sensing and control systems, BBN scientists and engineers have amassed a
substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions. BBN now employs
over 700 people in seven locations in the US: Cambridge, Massachusetts
(headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; Columbia, Maryland; Middletown, Rhode
Island; San Diego, California; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; and O'Fallon,
Illinois. For more information, visit www.bbn.com.

BBN Technologies
Joyce Kuzmin, 617-873-8120
jkuzmin@bbn.com
or
Mark Gauthier, 978-325-7048
mgauthier@bbn.com

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