A Summary of Three Years of Contributions Scholarly Contributions Teaching  Contributions Societal Contributions Future Contributions   from 06/01/1999 to 05/30/2002 given to the University of Aizu by Carl Vilbrandt,  Associate Professor

Clustered parallel computing for rendering, Monte Carlo simulation/VAR calculations, etc.Research optimal stand-alone configurations.Test distributed processing across aDSL or slower connections (to support distributed “Compufarms” across multiple Aizu villages.)Build upon work done b Pelligrini, Vilbrandt, D’Silva.Leverage CSFB relationship with Sun Microsystems to receive loaner equipment after successful proof-of-concept.

Get permision setup of Parallel Virtural Machine PVM useing the universities network systems as a computational resource for colabration.  Test the parallel HyperFun polginizer based on PVM on the network and design HyperFun simulations and research based on this computational resource.

Implement Linux base operating system and administration tools to simplify computer setup and on-going maintenance of PCs to be distributed into local Japanese schools.Localize into Japanese and provide for remote support as needed.Test train pilot school users in Shiokawa. Colabration with the new Open Source instute to bring two French students to Takeda Research Facility in Shiokawa.

Continue development of F-REP and Hyperfun languages, providing open-source and documentation to French visitors for  European development work.Package system for immediate use with PCs being deployed into local Japanese schools.Incorporate local Aizu cultural history into gaming environments including “walk-thru” integration.

Leverage $1.2 million investment by Takeda Research Facility in MRI to capture data and use F-REP modeling language for 3D imaging of brain and stroke symptom tracking.Publish data to web for use worldwide in diagnosing strokes and other medical problems concerning the brain.

Continue PC/Unix data wiping, preparation and distribution of equipment donated by CSFB.Use equipment to enable the Aizu Digital Valley Association in the Takeda Research Facility, local Town Hall, Nurses College, University of Aizu Arts Lab and (as ABUL work is completed) in local primary schools and community centers.Solicit additional donated PCs from other Tokyo firms to expand distributions as wipe/prep/dist process is formalized and scalable.

Wire Takeda Research Facility with 100MB LAN and implement aDSL or other broadband alternative, hooking up if  possible to River Fiber.Multiplex multiple aDSL as needed.Provide connectivity to bunk rooms, labs, and MRI  room.Recover RAID5 file servers and mass storage/backup.Map dynamic IP to domain names for FTP, mail and web  hosting.Install air-conditioning as needed.Add additional power circuits and provide limited UPS.Implement sustainable  technologies as fundable.Expand bunk and lab facilities to develop in a controlled fashion the 55-acre Oguni Pasture ADVA  land, creating a demonstration site to model rural development initiatives and provide more research/incubation capacity.Work with local community to rezone as test building site to simplify building permit restrictions, allow for more creative development of concepts and implementation of “best practices” not yet recognized in Japan.Compufarm to fund major build of IHC building by sale of Minneapolis and moving of furnishings to Aizu.

Donate Mendocino/Sonoma County river recovery educational CD-ROMs and set-up teaching station at local Pump Station Education Center.In order to be able to access included updated web content, gain access to Construction Ministry 1GB fiber at pump station and provide IP connectivity to Tokyo.Test River Fiber multiplexing concepts for proof-of-concept trialing of managed storage, calculation server and DR/BCP replication.

Research current educational uses of PCs in local school districts and propose alternative methods to be tested with donated equipment in August pilot. Research connectivity issues and alternatives.Proceed with major fall rollout with CSFB volunteers and between five and ten additional primary schools.Coordinate with Ministry of Education, Prefectural Boards of Education, Fukushima Education Center, local community Board of Education, and local schools.Avoid “locked  room syndrome” by providing alternative methods to passively screen content, protect equipment and in general create a  more open environment to safely maximize student/PC/web interaction.Research concept of Mobile Computing Lab to be built into bus or van, enable temporary setups in remote villages and training from keyboard/mouse to advanced programming.

Provide Aizu University students with summer internships and potential future employment at CSFB. Pre-screen candidates from Arts Lab, DreamCraft Circle, Network Lab; assist them with resume writing, work-environment orientation, etc.Match talents to jobs, arrange Tokyo housing and payment stream from CSFB.

Incorporate sustainability concepts through networked cooperation with national and local Aizu organic farming and permaculture initiatives to balance  economic growth with protection of the local environment and culture. Recognize themes from The Lexus & The Olive  Tree and proactively educate local leadership to prepare responses at the community government level.  Incorporate housing concepts (earth, fired ceramic, kura) with energy (solar, fuel cell, wind) and communications (fiber, wireless) to demonstrate sustainability concepts and reduce operating costs.  Organic food demand in Japan is up %400 percent. The following are some links to sites:

• People in action  http://peopleinaction.info/japan/
• Permculture Center Japan  http://members.tripod.co.jp/PCCJ/
• Organic Consumers Assocaitaion http://OrganicConsumers.org/eventlink.htm
• World Institute for Sustainability Education, the Cloud Forest Institute (Mendocino County; Ecuador)

Design a sustainable Digital Arts Institute research facility "pod" in Shiokawa.  Build model “pod” to include Data Center, Call Center, Education Center, Lab and Housing wings. Current methods of construction are not sustainable 90% of all energy is use to heat and cool modern fero-cement builds.  Using the Super Block Adobe design a research center that used thick passive walls made of earth as a heat sink to reduce the heating and cooling costs by 80%.to 90%  Set an example and goals for the GGPL agreement. Goal is to model small community technology infrastructure facility to be locally maintained and provide sustainable jobs, stop depopulation trends that are gutting local villages.

• Kitakata kura buildings http://www.city.kitakata.fukushima.jp/main_j.html
• Nader Khalili, world renowned Earth Architecture http://www.Calearth.org
• Sheltered and Underground Housing http://www.undergroundhomes.com/
•  Ferro-concrete earth-sheltered  http://paisite.com/turner/ferroexamples.htm
• Cast earth using gypsum   http://www.castearth.com/

Using Computer Aid Design CAD and 3D printers we can use three dimensional printing to create as cast in place shell structure of  for a casting a building. They are called future direct manufacturing process is being studied by many different enmities in Japan that are environmentally minded.  We hope to create the first 3D printed structure.

• http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/t/tdp/www/
• http://home.att.net/~castleisland/3dp_int.htm

Design busness models under the Greater Good Public Licence (GGPL) agreement, in colabration with George Defarmous and Carl Sunburg base on bio organismisc systems that have developed micro code/busness law that are autonomoic system that feature decentlized control, are limited, selfregulating, selfreparing and evolve.  The Internet and the Linux project are examples of these autonotmic systems. The outcome will be the book Organis

Greater Good Public Licence (GGPL)

Hyper Fuction Consortum (HFC)

We are close to completing the creation of a Non Profit Orgnization (NPO) for the Hyper Fun research

Aizu Digital Valley Assocation (ADVA)

Work with ADVA to get NPO status in order to facilitate funding and promotional activities.Follow with Compufarm NPO and potential CS Group expanded support.Create website for entities and establish funding stream for US-based hosting.

Internet Sites:

Digital Ethics and Philosophy and put into digital designs of hardware and software.

• http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.htmlJapanese  Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs from material objects--such as chairs, sandwiches, and gasoline--in that it can be copied and changed much more easily. These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe software users should be able to make use of them.

• http://www.GGPL.org  We acknowledge the work done by the originators and supporters of  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The Natural Step (TNS), and the Free Software Foundation (http://www.gnu.org).  It is our hope to bring together these three positive elements for the greater good of a sustainable future at the threshold of global technological and communication development.

• http://www.GNUBook.org  With out implementation of GGPL it would be meanless.  The first primary goal of the GNUbook design is that in design expresses and gives meaning to the GGPL agreement. The second goal is to address the digital divide is designed to be a computer that can be used by anyone in any country. The computer  should be able to be taken apart and put together correctly by a child in less than a minute. We feel that everyone should be able to have a computer, and it should not be a throw away plastic design or throw away design of anykind, but a standard design case that can be reused for years.

• http://www.HyperFun.org Digital data by its virtual material nature wants to be free, but it also wants to be worthless because we have applied paper based social structures/laws (copyright & patents ) and informational data structures, whose structures are closed or lack precise definite or have a high level procedural structure (non mathematical) in such a way that important high most current digital data is dependent on the hardware, operating system, applications and various cross patented processes that are not free to be used and often ( within three years ) become not available.  HyperFun offers a technical solution to the digital structures and the development use of HyperFun language under the GGPL agreement is part offers the social structure to the very difficult problem of the migration of digital data to the future.

• Human Rights History  Ethics and Philosophy and expressed in a digital technological frame work.
• United Nations Universal Human Rights

• Enviromental History  Ethics and Philosophy expressed in a sustainable digital  technological frame work.

• BSE
• http://www.OurStolenFuture.org

Books Published or Journals on the internet:

http://cal05.u-aizu.ac.jp/~cwv/organis/  This paper examines the latest of paradigms - the Virtual Network(ed) Organisation - and whether geographically dispersed knowledge workers can virtually collaborate for a project under no central planning. Co-ordination, management and the role of knowledge arise as the central areas of focus.

Books in paper form:  They can be ordered from Amazon.Com and are hyperlinked to reviews, ordering, etc.Book summaries are taken directly off  of Amazon.Com:

•  The Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization -- Thomas L. Friedman One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about  Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of  the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations. No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler --

• The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (Japan in the Modern World) -- Gavan McCormack, Norma Field A critical examination of the dilemmas facing contemporary Japan, beginning with an introduction to recent events in Japan, specifically with the Kobe earthquake as a symbol of Japan's difficulties in 1995. The volume's three main sections address the political economy, questions of identity, and memory in Japan, specifically of WWII, while a final section summarizes the state of the country at century's end.

• The Weight of the Yen : How Denial Imperils America's Future and Ruins an Alliance -- R. Taggart  Murphy.  In the mid 1980s, the land in Tokyo and its surrounding area was thought to be worth more than the combined value of all real estate in the United States. Ten years later, with a banking system $400 billion in debt, the picture is entirely different. R. Taggart Murphy, an investment banker who lives in Japan, delves into the reasons for this backward fall in The Weight of the Yen. He details the Japanese political and economic systems and then nudges the finger of blame toward the country's civil service system--especially the Ministry of Finance--and to the mishandling of the U.S.-Japanese alliance.

• Eco-Efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development -- Livio D. Desimone, Frank Popoff  The term "eco-efficiency" describes business activities that create economic value while reducing ecological impact and resource use. This book outlines the principles of eco-efficiency and presents case studies of their application from a number of international companies, including 3M and the Dow Chemical Company. It also discusses the value of partnerships--with other companies, business associations, communities, regulators, and environmental and other nongovernmental groups. In the conclusion, the authors argue that business must become more eco-efficient and that governments need to change the conditions under which business operates, including tax and regulatory regimes, to make them more conducive to eco-efficiency.

• The Death of the Banker : The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor -- Ron Chernow   The Death of the Banker is a collection of three essays designed to explain the history and gradual decline of the big financial dynasties. Author Ron Chernow has written extensively on economics and the world of finance, and The Death of the Banker, though briefer than his earlier books, meets his established standards of excellence. The first section of Chernow's book is an expanded version of a speech he gave in Toronto on the subject of banking dynasties, while the other two are explorations of the histories of J. Pierpont Morgan and the Warburg family; all three amplify a theme ever-present in Chernow's work on the subject: banking dynasties occurred when governments and businesses required go-betweens to contact investors; as the world has changed--and with it the nature of investing--bankers have lost the power that came with controlling the channels of access. The Death of the Banker is certain to interest anyone with a mind for business, but even laypeople will find Ron Chernow's explanations of the world of high finance fascinating and informative.

• The Ministry : How Japan's Most Powerful Institution Endangers World Marketsby Peter Hartcher The Ministry is Peter Hartcher's fascinating look into Japan's most powerful, but least known institution, the Ministry of Finance. It's an institution that's firmly embedded in Japan's cultural fabric and can trace its origins back 1200 years. It's been compared to the IRS, the SEC, the Federal Reserve, and U.S. Treasury all rolled into one. And it's largely responsible for the economic mess that Japan finds itself in today.Hartcher's account is the story of a ministry who arranges marriages for its key personnel, a place where employees rarely go home, and where staff members routinely die of exhaustion caused by overwork. Hartcher shows that even though the Ministry's nationalistic policies have helped to create phenomenally low unemployment, its resistance to open markets and increasing incompetence is a dangerous liability, not only to its own economy, but the global economy as well. Anyone who's interested in how Japan really works will find this an indispensable read.

• The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril In The Age of Networked Intelligenceby Don Tapscott. I have never considered myself an information "technocrat", but I realize that technology, or more accurately, the effective use of technology is critical to success in business. Books written on technology usually intimidate me with technical details that might as well be written in a foreign language. So, when Don Tapscott's book,  The Digital Economy, was recommended to me, I purchased the book thinking it would not hold my interest for more than two chapters. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised by a book that grabbed my attention and would not let go. With a balance of case studies, statistical information, and his own model of the new digital economy, Mr. Tapscott wrote a book that describes the opportunities and pitfalls of the new networked economy. For business leaders grappling with the globally  networked economy, this book helps put it all in perspective.As a sequel to his earlier bestseller, Paradigm Shift, Mr. Tapscott takes a strategic look at the technological advances society is making, focusing on how they change the way we interact, communicate, conduct business transactions, learn and play. Mr. Tapscott explains that  we are on the brink of a revolution as networked intelligence, coupled with human intelligence, create new economic and societal possibilities. Like the agricultural and  industrial age before it, the digital revolution will change the rules of business and the structures that support human interactions. Speed of innovation and flexibility on a grand scale will become critical to success in a digital economy. Product life cycles will be measured in weeks or days, and disintermediation will be a continuing trend that could lead to systemic unemployment. Through this revolutionary period, there will be a blurring of the line between producers and consumers. Tapscott coins the term "prosumers" to describe how we will interact with technology. With the requirements for success changing, the current best business practices such as Total Quality Management (TQM) and Business Process Reengineering (BPR) will not be enough to ensure survival in the future. Theses efforts focus on improving  current business processes rather than inventing new processes, markets, and products. Tapscott urges his readers to focus on ways to add value in a new and rapidly  changing economy. Because the digital economy makes information inexpensive, Tapscott speaks of the movement from an economy based on mass production to an economy based on mass customization. Already, Levi's will "build" you a customized pair of jeans. Those who success in this new digital economy must be willing to challenge their own thinking, make their own products obsolete, and continuously look for ways to add value to those they serve. Mr. Tapscott took great care to provide a balanced view of the networked revolution. As digital interchange allows people separated by great distances to share creative ideas, it also increases the risk of individuals becoming isolated. At the same time, we risk losing our privacy as personal information can be extracted from multiple sources. Tapscott speaks of the swift punishment corporations and individuals who do not "keep up with technology" can expect and of the societal risk we all encounter when we consider the possibility of a bipolar society based on technology "haves" and "have nots". Reminding us of our responsibility to each other and to society as a whole, Tapscott challenges us to make the most of the possibilities while remaining cognizant of all the risks.