Thanks to post from Rick Wagner -- From UIUC's edream timeline 1997 entry: The University of Illinois hosts Cyberfest'97 (March 10-15) to celebrate is contributions to the evolutions of and revolutions in computing. Events include Larry Smarr's keynote talk on "Why HAL was born in Urbana" and demonstrations of NCSA's Symera Distribution System (S3) and the Advanced Visualization Lab's Riverweb. The climax of the celebration is the CyberGala, which features "a one-of-a-kind 'virtual time-space performance' by NCSA Senior Research Programmer Robin Bargar and his team of artists and engineers. The work integrates images, sounds, and music from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey in a virtual space where musicians play and interact on an 18' x 24' screen" (Access). The CyberGala is hosted by film critic and native son Roger Ebert.
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Thanks to post from Rick Wagner -- From UIUC's edream timeline 1997 entry: The University of Illinois hosts Cyberfest'97 (March 10-15) to celebrate is contributions to the evolutions of and revolutions in computing. Events include Larry Smarr's keynote talk on "Why HAL was born in Urbana" and demonstrations of NCSA's Symera Distribution System (S3) and the Advanced Visualization Lab's Riverweb. The climax of the celebration is the CyberGala, which features "a one-of-a-kind 'virtual time-space performance' by NCSA Senior Research Programmer Robin Bargar and his team of artists and engineers. The work integrates images, sounds, and music from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey in a virtual space where musicians play and interact on an 18' x 24' screen" (Access). The CyberGala is hosted by film critic and native son Roger Ebert.