LIVE: The Laboratory for Visual Environments

我们请求美国国家科学基金会为LIVE：宾夕法尼亚大学视觉环境实验室提供10万美元的ILI支持。有了所需的NSF ILI支持和工程与应用科学学院的配套资金，我们将购买24个OpenGL Windows NT系统和网络基础设施，以支持计算机图形学、视觉和虚拟环境以及高速多计算机网络方面的本科生教学和项目。对这些概念的直接操作和编程是教与学复杂现象的理想环境。LIVE将升级老化的SGI设施，满足计算机和信息科学课程的需求，并加强宾夕法尼亚大学工程、美术和通信学院数字媒体技术新本科课程的计算机科学方面。

We are requesting $100,000 of NSF ILI support for LIVE: The Laboratory for Visual Environments at the University of Pennsylvania. With the requested NSF ILI support and School of Engineering and Applied Science matching funds, we would purchase 24 OpenGL Windows NT systems and networking infrastructure to support undergraduate teaching and projects in computer graphics, visual and virtual environments, and high speed multi-computer networking. Direct manipulation and programming of these concepts is the ideal setting for teaching and learning about complex phenomena. LIVE will upgrade an aging SGI facility, serve Computer and Information Science curriculum needs, and enhance the computer science aspects of a new undergraduate program in Digital Media Technology spanning the Engineering, Fine Arts, and Communications Schools at the University of Pennsylvania.