THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, December 14, 1995 TAG: 9512120094
SECTION: NORFOLK COMPASS PAGE: 16 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY DAWSON MILLS, CORRESPONDENT
LENGTH: Medium: 78 lines
In the near future, when you read an article about the newly evolving world order or state-of-the-art computing, the background material used by the journalists may have originated at Old Dominion University.
Two ODU professors have been awarded CASE Media Fellowships, affording them an opportunity to present ``think-tank'' style seminars to the media on current developments in their respective fields.
CASE, the Washington-based Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, sponsors the program to bring media representatives and academicians together. This year, 31 fellowships were awarded nationwide.
Dr. Regina Karp of Norfolk, director of ODU's graduate programs in international studies, submitted her winning proposal for a seminar on ``Interpreting U.S. Foreign Policy Choices: The Unique Role of the Media.''
``When I first started thinking about topics useful in my field,'' Karp said, ``I thought of transatlantic relationships, the end of the Cold War, the unique transformation that is taking place. There is a need to re-address familiarities that are no longer there. Issues include our relationship with Russia, geopolitical space, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the future of NATO and the role of the U.S. in European security, and ethnic conflict such as Bosnia. Who leads whom, especially in areas where U.S. national interest is not involved? Solutions to many of these problems are no longer obvious.''
Dr. David E. Keyes of Hampton, associate professor of computer science, won with a proposal to present a seminar on ``High Performance Computing and Communications.''
``The media is the primary information conduit to the public,'' Keyes observed, ``and there is a gap in communicating the fruits of computational performance developments to the public. We're up to `teraflops,' computers with trillions of floating point operations per second. The first single `teraflop' computer is being built for the Department of Energy by Intel. It will be the replacement for underground nuclear testing and will `model' the bomb.''
Karp's weeklong seminar will take place in the spring of 1996; exact dates have not been set. ODU colleagues Philip Gillette, Aaron Karp, Daniel Nelson and Simon Serfaty will participate in her program.
In addition to utilizing ODU's resources, Karp will be taking attendees to NATO'S SACLANT Headquarters and the Armed Forces Staff College, both in Norfolk. She hopes to include a tour of a Navy warship.
Several of Keyes' colleagues at ODU also will participate in his seminar, to be presented March 6-8, 1996. Keyes plans to take his attendees to NASA/Langley in Hampton, where he is a senior research associate at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering. He also directs a program for the institute on high performance computing and communications.
Both Karp and Keyes joined the faculty of ODU in 1993.
Karp, originally from Germany, came to Norfolk after seven years at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in Sweden. Starting as an associate professor, she was promoted to her present position July 1.
Keyes, who is from New England, was formerly a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University. He was the first of two faculty appointments at ODU to support a high performance computing and communications graduate program just started in conjunction with NASA/Langley, the College of William and Mary, and Virginia Tech. A third faculty appointment at ODU is pending.
The CASE organization will handle publicity for the seminars; at this time, Karp and Keyes aren't sure which media representatives may attend. They point out, however, that the letter announcing the competition made mention of USA Today and National Public Radio in addition to The New York Times and The Washington Post. ILLUSTRATION: Photo by DAWSON MILLS
Dr. Regina Karp and Dr. David E. Keyes, both professors at Old
Dominion University, will be presenting ``think-tank'' style
seminars to the media.
by CNB