Acknowledgments

The many elements of Alive on the Grid were created by Annika Westergren, Jonas Westling, Joseph Tremonti, Dan Sandin, Jim Robertsson, Tim Portlock, Dave Pape, Jonas Nimrodsson, Dan Neveu, Sol Moren, Keith Miller, Todd Margolis, Brenda Lopez Silva, Josephine Lipuma, Frederik Lindegren, Ya Lu Lin, Damin Keenan, Marcus Johansson, Kalle Jalkanen, Alex Hill, Petra Gemeinboeck, Margaret Dolinsky, Ed Dambik, Beth Cerny, Drew Browning, Geoffrey Baum, Annette Barbier, and Josephine Anstey. Special thanks go to Horst Hoertner, Gerfried Stocker, and Christopher Lindinger of the Ars Electronica Center, for making the event possible. Thanks also go to the staffs of the Indiana University Advanced Visualization Laboratory, the University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research, the Interactive Institute's Tools for Creativity Studio, the SARA Supercomputing Center, and the C3 Center for Culture and Communication Foundation, for taking part in the show.

The virtual reality and advanced networking research, collaborations, and outreach programs at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago are made possible by major funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), awards EIA-9802090, EIA-9871058, EIA-0115809, ANI-9980480, ANI-9730202, ANI-0123399 and ANI-0129527, as well as the NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) cooperative agreement ACI-9619019 to the National Computational Science Alliance. EVL also receives funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Science Grid program and the DOE ASCI VIEWS program. In addition, EVL receives funding from the State of Illinois, Microsoft Research, General Motors Research, and Pacific Interface on behalf of NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratory in Japan.

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