{"id":958,"date":"2015-02-25T19:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amlight.net\/?p=958"},"modified":"2023-07-21T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T17:51:33","slug":"switchon-cooperation-between-researchers-from-brazil-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"SwitchOn: Cooperation between researchers from Brazil and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The SwitchOn workshop, with the participation of Brazilian and American researchers, took place in Miami, USA, in January 2015<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>January 8 and 9, 2015 saw the staging of the workshop <i>SwitchOn <\/i>&#8211; <i>Research Collaboration Education,<\/i> in Miami, USA. The activities took place at the Kovens Conference Center on the Biscayne Bay campus of Florida International University (FIU), North Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/ciara.fiu.edu\/projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CIARA\/FIU<\/a> (the FIU Center of Internet Augmented Research and Assessment), the event aimed to encourage collaboration between researchers from Brazil and the United States in research on Future Internet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-961 size-full alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/amlight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16049770187_9999673f99_z.jpg\" alt=\"16049770187_9999673f99_z\" width=\"700\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16049770187_9999673f99_z-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16049770187_9999673f99_z.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of two days of activities, researchers from several American and Brazilian universities and research centers had the opportunity to make presentations and exchange information on the development of their research projects.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, thematic breakout sessions were organized to enable discussion of issues of common interest to the research groups: &#8220;Future Networks Design&#8221;, &#8220;Clouds&#8221; and Cyberinfrastructure &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The event was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and by the suppliers of networking equipment, Brocade and Padtec, who also had an opportunity to deliver presentations on their R &amp; D projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansp.br\/index.php\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANSP<\/a> was represented by its coordinator, Prof. Dr. Luis Fernandez Lopez, from the School of Medicine at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), who offered an up to date overview of activities within the ANSP project.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>SwitchOn<\/i> workshop successfully fulfilled its goal, to create and make available an environment in which Brazilian and American researchers were able to outline and discuss their research projects, exchange experiences and initiate conversations for possible collaborations. A second workshop will be held in the latter half of 2015 in parallel with the 8th Biannual Meeting of ANSP in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"http:\/\/switchon.ampath.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<br \/>\n<\/a>For original ANSP article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansp.br\/index.php\/us\/news-social\/221-switchon-cooperation-between-researchers-from-brazil-and-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SwitchOn workshop, with the participation of Brazilian and American researchers, took place in Miami, USA, in January 2015\u00a0 January 8 and 9, 2015 saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amlight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}