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track record in attracting new technologies and stimulating collaborations, especially among

leading domain scientists at end sites.

Acknowledgments:

TransLight/StarLight receives major funding from National Science Foundation (NSF)

International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program, award SCI-0441094 to the

University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), for the period February 2005 -- January 2010; Tom

DeFanti is principal investigator and Maxine Brown is co-principal investigator. SURFnet bv is a

Key Institutional Partner of the TransLight/StarLight award, continuing an already long and

successful partnership between the UIC, StarLight in Chicago, and NetherLight/SURFnet in

Amsterdam.

TransLight/Pacific Wave receives major funding from NSF IRNC award SCI-0441119 to the

University of Southern California (USC) for the period March 2005 ­ February 2010; John

Silvester of USC is principal investigator and Ron Johnson, University of Washington, is co-

principal investigator.

Publications:

Tom DeFanti, Maxine Brown, Joe Mambretti, John Silvester, Ron Johnson, "TransLight, a Major

US Component of the GLIF," Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch (CTWatch) Quarterly,

Volume 1, Number 2, May 2005. <http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/articles/2005/05/trans-

light/>

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