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 Photo Gallery: James Cook University Access Grid Inauguration
The second Access Grid node in Australia was installed at James Cook University (JCU) with support from Sydney VisLab.

The Queensland Minister of Innovation and Information Economy, the Honourable Paul Lucas launched the Access Grid node on April 29, 2002 at James Cook University via a shared session with Vislab-ATP, Sydney.
The event was featured in ANL’s AG Focus newsletter, Fall 2003.

The following images were taken by B. Pailthorpe at JCU.




The AG is used to save time and cost when meetings are scheduled between Townsville and Sydney (or any other cities in Australia): 1-hr meeting vs 1.5 days of travel.

JCU also pioneered the use of the AG in teaching: it is extensively used between the two campuses in Townsville and Cairns.

Acknowledgements

The first Australian Access Grid Node in Sydney VisLab was funded through an ARC linkage infrastructure grant in 2001.

The AccessGrid at JCU was funded by QPSF.