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ITEC-Ohio
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Maryland-College Park
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
North Carolina A&T State University

This award goes to several teams who worked together under the leadership
of the ITEC-Ohio Megaconference Team. We first honor Bob Dixon and Arif Khan for their outstanding work in pushing the boundaries of the use of H.323 and creatively involved hundreds of H.323 sites throughout the world. This team recently won a national innovation award for their work on the Megaconference. This is the third year for Bob and Arif and the first year that ADEC has been involved.

We are honoring four teams who worked together with The Ohio State Group in
innovative production of the ADEC Megaconference Segment. These include:

The Unversity of Nebraska-Lincoln team - Dan Cotton, Jim Randall, Jim Smith
and Cliff Ritz. They hosted the ADEC Segment and did some highly innovative engineering work allowing higher quality video and audio connections combining studio and polycom set-ups. The configuration designed by Smith and Randall can be found on the ADEC website under NSF. Cliff Ritz worked with the I2 connection and experimenting with the satellite link. Dan Cotton served as singing host.

The University of Maryland-College Park - Valorie McAlpin and Brad Paleg were responsible for the infrastructure set-up and use for the segment produced on learning effectiveness.

The University of Maryland-Eastern Shore - Carolyn Brooks and Kat Harting Travers were responsible for the infrastructure set-up and presentation on HBCUs and the role of Maryland-Eastern Shore.

The University of North Carolina A&T - Dan Godfrey and Morrell Pridgeon were responsible for innovative combination of audio and video conferencing into the H.323 program and their presentation on involvement of the 1890 institutions in the ADEC NSF program.