Yearly Archives: 2010

RENCI and Duke demonstrate network futures at GEC7 conference

Research teams from across the U.S. convened at Duke University March 16 – 18 for the Seventh GENI Engineering Conference (GEC7), organized by the GENI Project Office (GPO) and hosted by Duke and RENCI. Ilya Baldin, RENCI’s director of network research and infrastructure, and Jeff Chase, a professor of computer science at Duke, co-chaired the […]

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I-CHASS HASTAC 2010

Title: I-CHASS HASTAC 2010Location: An all-virtual conferenceLink out: Click hereDescription: HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. This years’ event will focus on grand challenges and global innovations in the form of technologies, research, teaching, and inquiry that can be leveraged across personal, physical, geographical, institutional, disciplinary, and organizational boundaries. Start Date: 2010-04-15End Date: […]

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RENCI at UNC Asheville Open House

Title: RENCI at UNC Asheville Open HouseLocation: Grove Arcade, Suite 116, Asheville, NCDescription: A public drop-in open house featuring technology demonstrations and refreshments.Start Time: 3:30 p.m.Date: 2010-04-02End Time: 5 p.m.

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New decision support tool to help Asheville with downtown redevelopment

As the city of Asheville considers how to redevelop sites in its busy and historic downtown, researchers at RENCI at UNC Asheville are assisting them with a tool that models design alternatives in an interactive, three-dimensional environment.

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Home-grown: a recipe for economic and physical health?

No store-bought tomatoes can compare with sweet, juicy, still-warm-from-the-sun heirloom varieties found at midsummer farmers’ markets. Foodie pleasures aside, can consuming locally grown fruits and vegetables and locally raised meat lead to better health and help to combat obesity? Does buying food grown neaby help the local economy by keeping family farms viable as North […]

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Modeling Haywood Street & the Civic Center/ Basilica Plaza

Title: Modeling Haywood Street & the Civic Center/ Basilica Plaza Location: Asheville Design Center Description: Jim Fox and Jeff Hicks will present their recent work in 3D computer modeling to help visualize urban design alternatives for downtown Asheville. As a work in progress, RENCI at UNC Asheville is refining a model of Haywood Street in […]

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TR-10-01 RCRTool: Design Document; Version 0.1

Allan Porterfield, Rob Fowler, Min Yeol Lim. RCRTool: Design Document; Version 0.1, Technical Report TR-10-01, RENCI, North Carolina, February 2010.

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RENCI People Interview with Paul Jones

Jones is a founding board member of the American Open Technology Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Chapel Hill Public Library, and a board member of the Linux Documentation Project. But he is most pleased to have been admitted into the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists and to have been selected in April 2003 as Best Geek in the Research Triangle by the Independent Weekly.

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RENCI at ECU website documents NC coastal storms

Nothing communicates the effects of a natural disaster quite like personal stories: the recounting of an 80-year-old man and his dog who survived Hurricane Hazel by hiding in a freezer; the image of a lone sailor perched atop the wreckage of his ship in the aftermath of the San Ciriaco Hurricane (1899).

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Anatomy of a Virtual Organization

Over the past three years, RENCI has evolved into a statewide organization that spans six North Carolina campuses and affiliated institutes and 27 facilities in seven regions across the state.

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