Visit by Vice President Al Gore to
Materials MicroCharacterization Collaboratory

Jan. 21, 1998

During a visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory Vice President Al Gore had an opportunity to explore the latest developments in on-line collaborative environments. Using the MMC as a example Michael Wright (ORNL) demonstrated on-line links to HFIR beam lines and then connected to the LIVE MMC Multi-Site WWW Site. Following a short discussion on remote collaboration with Wright, V.P. Gore, Larry Allard (ORNL) and Edgar Voelkl (ORNL) conducted a real-time interactive session on a remote microscope at ORNL. There they controlled the microscope, recorded images and transferred the data into an Electronic Notebook. Al Geist (ORNL) then demonstrated the Electronic Notebook, which now contained the image which VP Gore had just recorded. Using a writing tablet, the Vice President signed the notebook and received a printed copy to take back to Washington with him.




Michael Wright demonstrates MMC links to HFIR and the MMC Collaboratory to Vice President Gore



Screen Capture of MMC Multi-Member Site with Live Images from ANL, NIST, UIUC, ORNL, and LBNL recorded during V.P. Gore's Visit



Larry Allard introduces Vice President to MMC Members and explains Remote Microscopy at ORNL



Vice President Gore operates the HF-2000 Transmission Electron Microscope at ORNL with Edgar Voelkl (off screen) at the HF-2000
Additional information about V.P. Gore's visit to ORNL can be optained at the following URL http://www.ornl.gov/sns/sns.htm