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Demonstrators at the ICAC 2004 Kickoff

Overview | Video | Demonstrators

Accenture eDemocracy Services
The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) administers the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) on behalf of the United States Secretary of Defense. For the Congressionally mandated Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE), the FVAP has developed the UOCAVA Voting System (UVS), which was designed to enable military and overseas citizens to participate in the 2004 federal elections. Accenture will showcase the UVS web site where overseas citizens could have performed the following functions over the Internet:

American Foundation for the Blind/Devis A Smarter Way To Dial -- A Smarter Way to Surf
A common architectural approach for information delivery that supports user choice regardless of ability or disability: AFB and DevIS will demonstrate interfacing to current Medicare benefits and information using a telephone, or using VOIP, or a web browser. And, we will show how other Federal sites, such as the President's page for America's citizens with disabilities, may soon benefit.

Lets users take what they can use and leave the rest behind. Provides two, traditionally separate information delivery modalities for the price of one implemented with open source technology and utilizes open, non proprietary publication standards.

Audible Magic Corporation
With the current debate about copyright infringement over peer-to-peer file sharing, Audible Magic is able to utilize its technology to filter copyrighted content transferred over these networks. Demonstration of content filtering both at the user level, such as would be integrated into software such as Kazaa; and at the network level, such as could be installed at an ISP. The demo will show the ability to selectively block copyrighted files. The first demonstration will show a Gnutella P2P software application block copyrighted files in real time. The second demonstration will log into a live network and show how rules can be set up to block P2P traffic.

Bearing Point
The Bearing Point Secure Access and Identity Management Team will participate in the technology demonstration by illustrating the security smart cards provide when coupled with public key and biometric technologies. We will enroll subjects by capturing demographics, biometric (fingerprint), and photo, and issue them smart cards with this information encoded on the integrated circuit chip. The demonstration illustrates secure enrollment and subsequent logon to a Win2K network using a voice, iris, face, and/or fingerprint biometric. The fingerprint is stored on the smart card. These applications are based on commercial-off-the-shelf products and follow industry and Government standards.

Callipso On Demand Conference Calling
This highly visual and interactive demo will show new innovative applications of VoIP (voice over IP) technology. The product is a desktop application that "bridges" the Internet and the public telephone network to provide on-demand conference calls. Small to medium sized businesses and SOHOs use the product to create conference calls to any phone or cell phone user without reservations or operators. The demo will feature a laptop with monitor to show how users can "create" a conference call merely by selecting names and phone numbers of participants. The software sends a message to a VoIP server that then dials out to cell phones in the audience. The user can then "moderate" the call via the desktop. The application allows the moderator to mute, drop and dial out to additional participants as the call is conducted. After the call is completed, an immediate and complete history of the call is available, showing the date, time the length of the call and who participated.

CEA Model TechHome
CEA Model TechHome features a self-contained mockup of a bedroom, living room, study and kitchen, all packed full of the latest home networking technologies and related products. The Model TechHome demonstrates the full scope of home networking products and services such as Advancement and uses of Broadband, Wireless Technologies, Transferring of Video Throughout the Home (DRM), and Home Security Systems.

ComCARE Alliance
Lack of communications and IT interoperability, integration, and standards are major problems for emergency agencies seeking in handling everything from mass disasters to day-to-day incidents. The solution is to apply lessons learned from the commercial world. We need to treat safety as an overall enterprise, and use an open-architecture, and standards-based approach. The ComCARE Alliance, a six year old, 90 organization non-profit safety coalition advocates such open, IP and web-based technology solutions, and the human and institutional cooperation that must accompany them. We will demonstrate a model E-Safety Network, designed by our emergency response members and combining the technologies of more than 10 of our corporate members, that can seamlessly move information about any incident (e.g. hazmat , bio-terrorism, weather, car crashes) to and from any number of agencies. This model system is of particular interest to those seeking a rapidly deployable and relatively inexpensive basic communications system to meet the needs of the 80,000 US emergency response agencies.

Entertainment Software Association
Online Gaming
ESA will provide a demonstration and discuss the variety of ways consumers can access and play games over the internet using game consoles and PCs. ESA's presentation will show how gamers can play online games with their friends and other players around the world. ESA is the trade association representing the publishers of computer and video games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, and the Internet.

Factiva
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, will demonstrate Factiva.com, its awarding-winning global news and information service. This Web-based service provides mission-critical information to government professionals throughout the world. Factiva.com allows decision-makers to streamline monitoring and research by providing access to newswires, economic data, news articles including interactive charting, financials, and regulatory policies. Users can scan the front pages of the world's top newspapers and magazines as well as search and display information in multiple language interfaces. Free-text searching, indexing terms and advanced filtering techniques allow users to pinpoint accurate results. For more information, please visit www.Factiva.com.

Free World Dialup (FWD)
Free World Dialup will show end-to-end VoIP communications using various IP enabled devices. FWD will show the ability to use both e-mail and a separate numbering plan to direct the call and show this as a self-contained system. A web based control panel will allow the users to determine and configure many of the features they would like to use with this phone system. Examples include: presence with white pages, voicemail, call forwarding, call waiting, text messaging, etc.

GetNetWise
GetNetWise is more than a Web site -- it's a Web-wide partnership of companies and nonprofit groups commited to providing common resources to help Internet users with their experiences online. GetNetWise focuses on keeping kids safe online, protecting your computer from hackers and viruses, stopping unwanted e-mail and spam and keeping your personal information private.

Harcourt Incorporated
The Internet provides promise of universal access to instruction whereby students can progress at their own pace through individualized learning pathways. Harcourt Incorporated (leading developer of instructional solutions for K12 schools) will demonstrate eLearning programs and assessment tools designed for middle and high school students. These programs are widely used by students enrolled in Texas and California schools and with other pioneering online learning efforts throughout the United States.

Integic Corporation's Electronic Medical Records System for the Military health system
One of the great challenges and opportunities facing the nation is in the modernization of the healthcare system through the creation of an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) program. By providing healthcare providers with secure, universal and on-demand access to a patient's complete healthcare records, EMRs pave the way for the delivery of higher quality care at a lower cost. While a daunting technological challenge, the Military Health System (MHS) has made significant progress towards this goal through the rollout of the Composite Health Care System II, which was created by Integic Corporation to link together the sixty disparate databases serving the MHS' 8.5M dependents. Beyond the great promise that CHCS II offers the nation as a whole, members of the military benefit specifically as the enhanced portability of their healthcare records ensures that frontline medics can use the technology under war-time conditions to provide critical care.

Internet Security Systems-Maximizing Protection Against Hacker Attacks and Other Online Threats
ISS will demonstrate information security best practices in a "real world environment" through a demo of how new technologies provide defense in depth against hacker attacks & other online threats. The demo will include a live compromise using the recent MSRPC DCOM attack & reveal how ISS' Proventia appliances can fully protect a vulnerable host from damaging threats. The demo will show how ISS products are currently protecting more than 11,000 customers, including many leading world governments, all major agencies & departments of the U.S. Government & most state governments. The presentation will illustrate how Proventia is designed to protect organizations by identifying & blocking network attacks, intrusions, viruses, malicious code, unwanted traffic & spam. The demo will give an explanation of how the security intelligence acquired by ISS' world-renowned X-Force R&D team helps Proventia proactively protect organizations against the newest Internet attacks before they strike.

Microsoft
Powered by Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 , Media Center PCs are complete Windows XP PCs enhanced for home entertainment. These computers represent the evolution of home PCs into digital media hubs that bring together your entertainment choices and allow you to access them with one remote control. Media Center PCs come equipped with all the necessary hardware to deliver powerful computing and an enjoyable home entertainment experience. Media Center PCs are complete entertainment PCs because they include:

NetSmartzWorkshop
www.NetSmartz.org
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children (ages 5-17), parents, educators, and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet. The NetSmartz Workshop teaches children rules for online safety:

  • I will tell my parents, my guardian, or a trusted adult if anything makes me feel scared, uncomfortable, or confused.
  • I will ask my parents, my guardian, or a trusted adult before sharing my personal information.
  • I won't meet in person with anyone I have first "met" online.

    • The demo will show the 3 most important aspects of the workshop
  • NetSmartz Kids
  • NetSmartz Teens
  • NetSmartz Parents & Educators

    • Nimbus Site Accesibility Engine- Why aren't all Web sites taking 508 seriously?
    The Nimbus Site Accessibility Engine (NSAE), a part of the Nimbus Content Management System, is a powerful accessibility tool that dramatically reduces the costs involved in developing ADA-friendly Web sites. At the heart of the NSAE is a text processing engine that dynamically modifies Web content according to a series of business rules. These business rules ensure that Web pages, no matter how graphically stylized, are rendered in a text-only format. Furthermore, there's no duplication of efforts to have an ADA-compliant Web site that can also offer latest-technology functionality. Through hands-on examples using two of the most popular screen-reading software solutions, JAWS and IBM screen reader, we will show ICAC attendees how the right technology can make producing screen-reader friendly content easy. We will also show that it is possible to develop an ADA-friendly Web site for only 10-20% more (including training) than a site that is developed without regard to ADA directives.

    NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc.
    NTT DoCoMo is demonstrating some of the advanced wireless technology and services in Japan with working handsets which will simulate the service that is available in Japan. The services include i-Mode, mobile Internet service, and FOMA, world's first 3G service using W-CDMA technology. NTT DoCoMo's demonstration will show the rich content through the Internet and Java technology, available on i-Mode, and the services such as video conferencing and video clipping through FOMA's broadband connectivity. NTT DoCoMo will also be showing a video to show future applications by more enhanced wireless technology.

    NTT/VERIO
    Verio.com/ipv6
    Will show a demonstration of remote monitoring and robotic control using a global IPv6 network. A demonstration of NTT/VERIO's IPv6 Gateway Services will display the power and flexibility of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) with a hands-on exhibit. Globally addressable IPv6 web cameras, robotic toys and thermometers - deployed in London, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur - will be monitored and manipulated via a control center web portal, located on-site at the Tech Fair. By utilizing these remote monitoring and robotic control technologies via the NTT/VERIO Global IPv6 Backbone, attendees can assess the ability of the NTT/VERIO IPv6 Gateway Services to deliver end-to-end or peer-to-peer communication. Peer-to-peer applications are enabled by IPv6, offering almost limitless address space and eliminating the need for Network Address Translation (NAT). The concepts behind this prototypical example easily extend to real-life technology needs of individuals, government entities and businesses, such as remote monitoring and control of data centers, military applications and mobile devices.

    RSA Security
    This interactive demonstration will show how citizens can access web based information easily, register access to other resources, manage their own accounts, and gain access to other sites without having to log in again. RSA Security will also show how agencies can consolidate information onto a single web resource by requiring different levels of authentication to access different types of information.

    SAP Homeland Security Solution.
    The Homeland Security Demo will highlight SAP's solutions in the area of emergency preparedness and automated response. The demo is visual because it is interactive -- different hypothetical scenarios will be introduced and solutions will be illustrated within the demo. In addition, a demo ware will also be shown on SAP's mobile multimodal technology. This incorporates technologies by IBM and Motorola.

    TI "Whaddya Know?" Quiz
    http://education.ti.com
    Texas Instruments will demonstrate the power and versatility of our TI-Navigator wireless handheld system. Attendees can compete in a "current events" quiz that will give them hands-on experience with the unique features of TI-Navigator--real-time data input and analysis, wireless hub technology that transfers data instantly, and engaging design that makes learning fun. TI-Navigator is designed primarily for classroom education, providing instant teacher-student and student-student communication and collaboration. During the "current events" quiz, participants will experience the powerful communications experience that TI-Navigator's one-to-one computing offers.

    Tele-Works inbound and outbound communications
    The demonstration will identify common problems and themes of a local government enterprise and will illustrate how Tele-Works eVision technology is actually operating in over 200 clients in the field. The demonstration will show how government-to-citizen communication is not a one-size fits all proposition and how Tele-Works solutions provide affordable multi-channel inbound and outbound communication solutions in three inter-related verticle industries within government: Electronic and transactional government - to include interactive data exchange with related systems across all departments with a single solution and electronic payment engine. General information, citizen request for service and fulfillment applications, and Oubound broadcast notifications, emergency-based, business-based or subscription based as shown by the 'next-generation' Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) called BlacksburgAlert.

    TRUSTe/ Ironport
    TRUSTe is partnering with Ironport to certify companies to a set of email best practices. A company posts a bond and if the complaint rate is too high, the company will be debited. Ironport provides a list of certified companies to thousands of ISPs who then whitelist those companies and improve delivery rates. TRUSTe will demonstrate how the process works from certification to whitelisting. Currently thousands of small ISPs and corporate gateways use Bonded Sender as a white list, including Roadrunner.

    Tutor.com's Live Homework Help
    Each month thousands of children receive the one-to-on academic support they need from expert tutors via Live Homework Help and Live Homework Help en Espanol. This innovative Web-based program is offered at over 500 libraries and after-school organizations for local students and their families. Children in 4th through 12th grades and college students simply visit their library or after-school center's Web site, select their grade level and the subject they need help in (math, science, social studies or English), and they are automatically connected to an expert tutor via the Internet. Students connect with tutors for one-to-one help in an online classroom where they chat, share documents, co-browse the Web and work through problems on a shared whiteboard. Students report in post-session surveys that they are improving their grades, increasing their confidence in school and recommending the service to friends and families. Libraries, schools and after-school organizations across the country are looking for funding to expand and continue this valuable program in their communities.

    VeriSign
    VeriSign will demonstrate a technology tool that will be a cooperative effort between VeriSign and i-Safe for school age children to receive a digital id allowing them to participate in children safe chat rooms and give them a secure connection onto their schools server. The key to the system is the simplicity of the administrative policy for the schools that allows the technology to be authenticated.

    Verizon Airfone Air Ground Broadband Service
    www.verizon.com/airfone
    Verizon Airfone is the leader in Airborne Telecommunications with 20 years of experience and over 6,000 commercial and general aviation aircraft installed. Verizon Airfone will discuss its newest technology in development that will provide broadband* access at 35,000 feet. In addition, Verizon plans to enable wireless access to travelers carrying laptops and PDAs. *Pending a favorable decision from the FCC (WT Docket No. 03-103).

    Verizon Wireless Broadband Access Service
    Verizon Wireless will demonstrate its BroadbandAccess service - a fully mobile broadband service for consumers and business customers. BroadbandAccess uses new CDMA 2000 1xEV-DO "3G" technology, which is one of the fastest, fully mobile wireless Internet data solutions available. In addition to broadband access to the Internet, customers can use their laptops to download complex files and view e-mail attachments at typical speeds of 300-500 kbps, capable of reaching speeds up to 2 Mbps. And, they can do this anywhere, anytime, without being tethered to a wired network or a WiFi access point.

    Vertex
    www.vertexinc.com
    Vertex will explain how technology can be used to reduce the costs associated with the tax compliance process. Tech Fair attendees will be guided through the use of tax information databases from the perspective of retail merchants who must calculate and remit sales tax in compliance with state and local tax laws as well as tax agencies that receive the data and process the returns. The platform independent, internet based system will demonstrate tax processing capabilities in conjunction with an on-line purchase including identifying the taxing jurisdictions for all of the participants in the transaction, determining the effective tax rate for the sale and distributing the tax among the appropriate jurisdictions. The tax information web site can be customized to accommodate the individual information and service needs of the user for tax planning and compliance.

    Vision Alert Suite by Pyramid Vision: Protecting the Virginia Port Authority(VPA) with intelligent Video Surveillance
    www.pyramidvision.com
    The VisionAlert Suite from Pyramid Vision transforms security video tools into "smart" surveillance systems that enhance the awareness of security personnel and enable more effective threat response. VisionAlert is currently installed at sensitive commercial and government facilities. Recently, VisionAlert was installed at the Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News Marine Terminals. The demo uses two video monitors to show the product and provide an interactive experience. The first video monitor displays a continuous play presentation with embedded video clips. First, it briefly describes VisionAlert and its capabilities. Second, it shows actual video footage from the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) installation, including suspicious activities that generated alerts. Third, it shows how security personnel can monitor and respond to any VisionAlert system, individual camera or alert using a secure Internet connection. The second video monitor uses the Internet to access live camera footage, along with a demo of recent alerts from the VPA installation.

    Vonage SoftPhone
    Whether you're traveling across the globe or just into the next room, carrying on a conversation doesn't have to mean carrying extra equipment. Vonage lets you travel as light as you like. Download Vonage SoftPhone and you can turn PCs, laptops, or even PDAs into a full function telephone. Vonage SoftPhone is a screen-based interface that works just like your telephone keypad. You can make a call, receive a call, and pick up your voicemails too. With Vonage SoftPhone, you get the extras that you've come to expect, like Caller ID and Call Forwarding. The Vonage SoftPhone isn't a technology toy -it's a powerful communications platform. When you use SoftPhone, your call rides on the robust, high quality Vonage communications backbone. This means that your calls will sound like real phone calls, and you'll be able to dial any cellular or landline phone on Earth. With Vonage SoftPhone, you now have the freedom to make and receive voice calls on an astonishing array of devices.