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.
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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.







