Publications and Presentations

2008

"Web-TNG in Context", University of Mary Washington Faculty Academcy 2008, Fredericksburg, VA. May 14, 2008.

2005

"Application Strategy Council Lecture Object Update," Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

"Lion Share Update: P2P Working Group," Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

"Bridging the Gap Workshop Report," Fall 2005 Internet2 Member Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2003

"User Experience with The High Performance Internet Infrastructure," Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting, Indianopolis, IN.

"User Experience with The High Performance Internet Infrastructure," CNI 2003 Spring Meeting, Washington, DC.

2001

"NLANR, Advanced Applications Clearinghouse & Web100," CENIC 2001, San Diego, CA. May 9-10, 2001

"Support and Development of Advanced Application Environments," Chinese-American Networking Symposium, Rockville, MD. March 13, 2001

2000

"The DAST Clearinghouse: a resource for GridForum," Presentation at Gridforum 5, Marlboro, MA. October 18,2000.

"The Klearinghouse:.a network based model for user support," The Workshop on Internet-Scale Software Technologies (TWIST 2000), Unv of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA. July 14, 2000.

"High Performance Networks and Advanced Applications," JISC Academic Service Providers to Education and Research, London, UK. June 19, 2000.

1998

SURA Applications Update The Internet2 Fall Meeting, Sept 28, 1998. San Francisco, CA.

Internet2 Applications: an overview The Bell Atlantice Executive Conference, Sept 23-24, 1998, Orlando FL

Update on Applications Activities - focus on SURA The GigaPoP Operators Workshop II, June 24-27 1998, MCNC, Research Triangle Park, NC

The Future of Internet-Enabled Universities The Nortel University Data Forum, 27-29 May 1998, Research Triangle Park, NC

Advanced Networked Applications The 10th Annual AAAS & EPSCoR Annual Meeting, 22-24 May 1998, Rio Grande, PR

Bell South Internet Seminar Bell South Regional Staff Meeting. 4 May, 1998, Atlanta, GA

Is an Opportunity a Problem? Keynote Presentation, Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists 1998 International Conference: 25-27 March 1998, Bristol, UK

Internet Overview: Where are we? Where are we going? The USAID Population and Health Materials Working Group (PHMWG) Second Internet Meeting, Johns Hopkins University MD, January 21, 1998

Collaborative Partnerships at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Consortium, The Triple Helix of University -- Industry -- Government: "Future Location of Research" Conference, Rye Town, NY. Jan 7-9, 1998

1996
"An Integrated System for Distributed Information Services," D-Lib Magazine, Dec 1996 (http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december96/dipps/12brett.html)

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval: the Next Generation, III Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Oct 16-18, 1996

Digital Publishing on the Internet, Seminar on Continuing Education, III Regional Congress on Health Sciences Information, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Oct 16-18, 1996

Lofty Visions, Lessons Learned: The Cleveland FreeNet and the Boulder Community Network, EDUCOM'96 Post-Conference Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Oct 11-12 1996.

Community Networking -- an overview, "Projects, Policy, and the New Regulatory Framework," the 5th Annual Rural Telecommunications Forum. Durango, CO. Sept 25-27 1996

The Staff Perspective, Electronic Media in Public Libraries -- from Experiment to Concept, Bertelsmann Foundation. GŸtersloh, Germany. 7-8 May 1996

Developing Library Offerings, Electronic Media in Public Libraries -- from Experiment to Concept, Bertelsmann Foundation. GŸtersloh, Germany. 7-8 May 1996

Colorado Briefing, Spring 1996 Meeting if the Task Force, Coalition for Networked Information. Washington DC. March 24, 1996 (also found at: http://aclin.org/~ghb/cni.html)

a Change in perspective, Keynote Address, "Becoming and Agent of Change," DRA User's Conference, . St. Louis, MO. March 4, 1996

1995
Resource Discovery: WorldWide Web Issues? Dept. of Information and Library Management, University of North Umbria @ Newcastle. Newcastle, UK. Dec 14, 1995.

Training Users of the Electronic Library. Netskills Workshop. Newcastle, UK Dec 14, 1995.

Multimedia -- The New Paradigm : Revolution in Training and Communication. Multimedia and the Internet, ITVA / ISPI. Chapel Hill, NC Nov 8, 1995.

Entertainment for the 21st Century: Digital Technology, Media Arts, and the Information Highway, Future Arts III, North Carolina Film and Video Conference and FilmFest. Wilmington, NC. October 27-29, 1995 .

Ed Lunch @ BBN, a job interview presentation. BBN, Cambridge, MA. Oct. 16, 1995

Non-Traditional Tools for Traditional Processes, CLA 1995, Snowmass Village, CO.

Notes from the Kudzu Patch: an update on NIDR tools, UNC/CNI/CAUSE Regional Meeting, Greensboro, NC Sept 13, 1995.

"Driver's Education for the InfoBahn," Center for Research and Development in Law-Related Education (CRADLE) @ Wake Forest, University -- Winston-Salem, NC July 27, 1995.

"Universal Access," A Discussion of Critical Policy Areas: Reaction to Policy Principles developed by the Southern Growth Policies Board, Making Connectitions - a Teleconference on State Telecommunications Regulations. Raleigh, NC. July 10, 1995

The Information Engine and Knowledge Based Networks, IDG World Expo Information Superhighway Summitt. Birmingham, UK. June 1995

The InfoBahn -- Overview and Demonstration, Keynote address to the Association of Small Computer Users in Education, 1995 ASCUE Summer Conference, North Myrtle Beach, SC. June 1995.

The New Me presented with Lenore Sarasan at The Coalition on Reinventing Information Science, Technology and Library Education (Kellog CRISTAL-ED) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.April 1995

Driver s Ed. 101: a Gentle Introduction to the InfoBahn, 1995 Ohio Conference on Teaching and Learning, Columbus, OH. February 1995.

The Information Superhighway and Its Impact on Related Licensing, Licensing in the 90 s: a Midpoint Analysis, Licensing Executive Society 1995 Winter Meeting. Phoenix, AZ. February 1995.

Policy Issues, Internet Services Today and Tomorrow, ComNet 95. Washington DC January 1995.

1994
An Update: Tools for Navigation and Information Retrieval on the Internet, Seminar #28 Adavanced Technologies Group, Apple Computer. Cupertino, CA December 1994.

"Exploiting Networks for Visualization and Collaboration: No Network Roadblocks?," Rhyne, T.M., Brett, G., Brutzman, D. and Cox, D.J., Computer Graphics, Vol. 28, Number Annual Conference Series, pp. 481-482,1994. ACM Citation

Technology Update - Technology Task Force for Regional Education Laboratories. St. Petersburg, FL Dec. 1994

Information Technology Overview, Planning Workshop for the Agricultural Network Information Center. Washington DC Dec 1994

"Untitled," Closing Keynote, Network Services Conference 1994. London, UK Nov 1994

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Tools, Network Services Conference 1994. London, UK. Nov 1994.

How Museums Can Utilize Internet and the Information Highway, Science Section of the North Carolina Museums Council Conference. Raleigh, NC November 1994.

From the High Sea's to the Info Bahn, Closing Keynote Address, TelEd 94: the Third International Conference on Telecommunications in Education. Albuquerque, NM November 1994.

Driver s Ed 101 on the Information Highway, The North Carolina Information Highway: Prototype for the Region, Refe rence and Technical Services Section of the South Eastern Libary Association Meeting. Charlotte, NC. October 1994.

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Tools: The Next Generation, Joint US - Israel Workshop on HPCC / GII, Jerusalem, Israel. October 1994

The Global SchoolHouse NIDR Tools TENet National Workshop for Technology in Education, Austin, TX. September, 1994.

Electronic Networking: Sailing the Internet & Commercial Networks, Democracy & Technology Institute, Center for Research and Development in Law-Related Education, Wake Forest University. Winston Salem, NC August 1994.

Commercial Services on the Infobahn, Issues in building the Virtual Library Section, User Support and Training Track -- INET'94/JENC5 -- Internet Society Annual Conference and Joint European Networking Conference. Prague, CZ. June 1994.

Coordination of Networked Information, NORDUnet'94 Conference. Umea, SW. June 1994.

Overblick Over State of the Art Inom Virtuella Bibliotek, Forskningsbibliotek Work-Shop, Natverksbaserade Informationstjanster I Nordiska. Umea, SW. May 1994.

WAIS, Gopher, Mosaic, WWW and Library Automation, Implications of New Networked Information Retrieval Tools for Library Automation Strategies, Information and Online Library Services Conference. New York, NY. May 1994.

New Network Tools: What are they? What do they do? What do they mean for information companies? Public Policy and Government Relations Council, Information Industry Association. Washington DC. February 1994.

The Global SchoolHouse Project, VA Quest Conference, Richmond, VA. January 1994.

1993
Internet and Beyond: Building Public Data Infrastructures, The 1993 International Conference on Information Sciences, Orlando, FL. December 1993.

Traveling the Information Highways: Staff Development with help of Networked Information Retrieval Tools, TelEd 93, Dallas, TX. November 1993.

CNIDR and K-12 Networking, The Role of Digital Libraries in K-12 Education, Second International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Crystal City, VA. October 1993.

The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. October 1993.

Networked Information Retrieval Tools - a report of the state of the art, User Services Conference, Warsaw, Poland. October 1993.

Collaborative Tools on the Internet, The 39th IEEE North Carolina Symposium, RTP, NC. September 1993

Libraries and Networking, North Carolina Information Highway Workshop, Research Triangle Park, NC. September 1993.

Reality-Base Blue-Skies in Networking, Keynote address, 1993 CARL Users Group Meeting, Snowmass, CO. September 1993.

NIDR Tools: Fact or Fiction, Guest Lecture for Information and Library Sciences Graduate Seminar on Information Technologies, University of California -- Berkeley, Berkelely, CA. August 1993.

Networked Information Retrieval Tools in the Academic Environment: Towards a Cybernetic Library, Electronic Networking:Research, Applications, and Policy, Summer 1993.

Navigating the Networks: Network Tools and the Navigators, Pre-conference workshop for the Coalition of Networked Information and the Association of College and Research Libraries at the 1993 American Libraries Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. June 1993.

The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, Governors Workshop on State Participation in the National Research and Education Network, Research Triangle Park, NC. June 1993

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Tools, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. May 1993.

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Tools: History, Overview, and Future Directions, Information Networking: Using the Network Conference, Meckler and the United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking, London, UK. May 1993.

Networked Information Services - New Tools Offer New Chances, Co-presented with Peter Stone at Information Networking: Using the Network Conference, Meckler and the United Kin gdom Office for Library and Information Networking, London, UK. May 1993.

Hypermedia: a personal odyssey, NERComP Hypermedia Conference, Mount Holyoke, MA. March 1993.

Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval Tools, National Net 93, Washington D.C. March 1993.

The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, Making Your NSFNET Connection Count, a MERIT Network Inc. workshop, San Francisco, CA. March 1993.

The Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval, Technology Transfer Managers Workshop, SEMATECH, Austin, TX. March 1993.

Electronic Collection Development Strategies for Patron Access, pre-conference workshop for Computers in Libraries 1993, Washington D.C. February, 1993.

1992
Navigating the Networks: Network Tools and the Navigators, Pre-conference workshop for the Coalition of Networked Information at the 1992 National Meeting of CAUSE, Dallas, TX. December 1992.

Navigating the Networks: Network Tools and the Navigators, Pre-conference workshop for the Coalition of Networked Information at the 1992 National Meeting of EDUCOM, Baltimore, MD. October, 1992.

Getting the most out of Electronic Networking: Internet -- What's there of interest to Librarians Resources and Technical Services Section of the North Carolina Library Association Fall Conference, Durham, NC. October, 1992.

WAIS and the Cybernetic Library, Navigating the Internet: and you think Columbus had it rough, presentation at the Libraries and Information Technologies Association Annual Me eting. Denver, CO. September, 1992.

The WAIS Clearinghouse, Electronic Library Discussion Group of the Association of College Research Libraries, American Library Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. June 1992

Networked Information Retrieval, The Library and Information Technology Association Technical Interest Group, American Library Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. June 1992

Networked Information Retrieval Tools and Services, Advanced Computing and Networking Conference, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany. June 1992.

Wide Area Information Servers & the National WAIS Clearinghouse, Making Your NSFNET Connection Count , a MERIT Network, Inc. workshop Las Vegas, NV. June, 1992.

Accessing Information on the Internet, Electronic Networking: Research, Applications, and Policy, 2(1) Spring 1992 pp 7-9.

Networked Information Retrieval Tools & Services Global Communications Seminar, Commission of the European Community. Brussels, Belgium. May 1992.

The Wide Area Information Servers, Z39.50 and X.500 Joint European Networking Conference, Innsbruck, Austria. May 1992

Exploring Network Communities, Listening to Uses: Case Studies in Building Electronic Communities, The Faxon Institute for Advanced Studies in Scholarly and Scientific Communications, Reston, VA. May 1992.

WAIS and Networked Information, Keynote address to Annual Technology Conference of the North Carolina Mathematics and Science Education Network, Durham, NC. May 1992

Networked Information Retrieval Tools at the Center for Communications - MCNC, Telecommunications in Mathematics and Science Education Workshop sponsored by the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering and Technology (FCCSET), Crystal City, VA. April 1992.

Electronic Journals the Ethereal Library, Page to Patron The Third Annual North Carolina Serials Conference, Durham, NC. April 1992.

WAIS and the Z39.50 Protocol, SR/Z39.50 : An Open Standard for Information Retrieval, United Kingdom Office for Library Networking. University of Bath, Bath, England. April 1992.

The Wide Area Information Server, National Net 92, Washington D.C. March 1992

The Cybernetic Library, the Coalition for Networked Information Task Force Spring Meeting, Washington D.C. March 1992.

WAIS and Networked Information Resources NREN: Light at the End of the Tunnel, OHIOnet Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH. March 1992

Networked Information Resources SURANET User s Group Meeting, Atlanta, GA. March 1992.

Guides to the Internet nfais newsletter Vol. 34, No. 3 March 1992 25-28.

1991
Navigating the Internet: a Beginning. Technology in Higher Education: Current Reflections. Institute for Academic Technologies Monograph Series. Research Triangle Park, NC. November 1991.

Herding Cats and Networked Resources: the Coalition for Networked Information Working Group on Directories and Networked Resource Services. In Twenty Years of Managing Change . Proceedings of National CAUSE'91, Anaheim, CA, December, 1991.

Navigating the Internet: a Beginning. Presentation. Institute for Academic Technologies Seminar on Networking. Research Triangle Park, NC. November 1991.

Kudzu: the WAIS project in North Carolina. Project presentation, The Coalition for Networked Information Fall Task Force Meeting. Alexandria, VA. November 1991.

Navigating the Internet. Presentation. Institute for Academic Technologies Workshop on Networking. Research Triangle Park, NC. November 1991.

Working with Internet Resources. presentation to the NorthWestNet Annual Meeting. Pasco, WA. October, 1991.

Networked Information Resources and Services: Priorities for Progress and Strategies for Action. Panelist, EDUCOM'91, San Diego, CA, October, 1991.

The Kudzu Project: a report on the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) Coalition. Panelist, UNC CAUSE Fall 1991. Greenville, NC October 1991.

Workstations in the Digital Library an Introduction for Librarians. Satellite Broadcast sponsored by the University of North Carolina - Charlotte. Sept. 1991

High Performance Networking in North Carolina Turning the Corner: Information Futures in the Academic Workplace. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC Sept. 1991.

Report on the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services published electronically on the CNIDIR-L electronic newsletter (listserv). Simultaneously electronically published on CompuServe, PACS-L listserv, and other electronic newsletters. July 1991.

Overview of Telecommunications Using Technology to Teach Mathematics and Science: A Technology Conference for Teachers Grades K-12, Durham, NC. May 1991.

Contributor, Research and Education Networking Spring 1991.

1990
Access to Information about Information Technology Resources EDUCOM'90, Atlanta, GA. October 1990.

Online Resources: Getting There from Here EDUCOM Review . Volume 25, No. 3, Fall 1990.

Computing, Intellectual Property and Education -- What are the Limits? Where are the Problems? EDUCOM Session. The National Educational Computing Conference, Nashville, TN. June 1990.

Online Resources Into the 1990s MacAdemia 90, Rochester, NY. May 1990.

Online Resources Into the 1990s SHARE 74, Anaheim, CA. March 1990.

1989
Online Resources The 20th Annual Seminar on Academic Computing General Director's Meeting, Snowmass, CO. August 1989.

User Services in Distributed Environments Panelist, The 20th Annual Seminar on Academic Computing General Director's Meeting, Snowmass, CO. August 1989.

1987 - 1980
Pre-Writing: Two Brainstorming Products The National Educational Computing Conference, Philadelphia, PA. June 1987.

Shareware in an Academic Environment Workshop, The Eighth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Columbia, SC. April 1987.

The OUTREACH Program: A Faculty Development Project of The University of North Carolina Educational Computing Service The Eighth International Conference on Computers and the Humanities, Columbia, SC. April 1987.

Desktop Publishing North Carolina Community College Institutional Information Processing System Users Group Winter Conference, February 1987.

Managing Those Micros Microcomputer Users Group for Librarians in North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. August 1986.

Telecommunications: the World at Your Doorstep North Carolina Association of Educational Data Systems Annual Conference, Raleigh, NC. April 1986.

Excel: Business Software for the Macintosh. Atlantic Coast Business and Marketing Education Conference, Raleigh, NC. March 1986.

The Electronic Newsletter. First North Carolina Assessment of Educational Computing Conference, Fayetteville, NC. February 1986.

Alternative Media: Categorical problems for the Art Librarian Presenter and Panel Member of Investigation: Documentation, Multiple Media Art for the Visual Resources Curators of the Southeastern College Arts Conference, Chattanooga, TN. October 1983.

Used Equipment: Buyers Beware. Popular Computing , July 1983.

Electronic Bulletin Boards: A New Medium for Professional Communication. The Sixth International Conference on Computers in the Humanities, Raleigh, NC. June 1983.

Brett, George; Balch, David; and Kesler, Charles. Low Cost Computer Graphics. Multi-media presentation to the Independent Television Producers Association, Durham, NC. September 1982.

Brett, George; Balch, David; and Punte, Carroll. Computers in Media Production. Multi-media presentation to the Southeastern Regional Biomedical Photographers Association, Charleston, SC. November 1981.

"Rubber Stamps: the Bureaucratic Art Multi-media presentation to the Popular Culture Association of the South, Chattanooga, TN. October 1980.

Mail Art: an Overview Contemporary Art Southeast , Fall 1980.

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