Worldview wins IDEA award

IU’s Worldview has received an Internet2 Driving Exemplary Applications award along with four other nominees.

Worldview is a “real-time network monitoring and visualization tool” developed by IU’s Global Research Network Operations Center, according to an IU press release.

“Network visualization can be difficult even for experts,” said Brad Wheeler, IU vice president for information technology and chief information officer, in the release. “With Worldview, even the most non-technical people can immediately grasp what’s going on in a network by using common maps, colors, real-time data feeds and touch-based navigation to explore and see results. The future for this kind of mashup-based tool is extremely bright, and IU is pleased to share it with others. We are grateful for the IDEA award from our colleagues at Internet2.”

Applicants were nominated by a member of Internet2, and they were judged on “innovation in advanced network applications for research, teaching, learning and collaboration, the depth of each project’s positive impact on primary users, its technical merit and its likelihood to be broadly adopted by its community of potential users,” according to the release.

“This year’s winning applications have two things in common: all have applied advanced networking technology to enable transformational progress in research, teaching and learning and all promise to increase the impact of next-generation networks around the world,” said Tom Knab, chief information officer of the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and chair of the IDEA award judging committee, in the release. “The winning submissions were selected from an exceptionally strong nominations pool and represent a cross-section of the wide-ranging innovation that is occurring within the Internet2 member community.”

The winners will present a short demonstration of their project at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting on Tuesday.

— Lindsey Erdody