9-28-98

                        NEWS ADVISORY:
    TEST OF INTERNET 2 TO TRANSMIT SURGERY TO SAN FRANCISCO

	The popularity of the current Internet has clogged its 
arteries and slowed its speed below that which is required for 
most research.  But Internet 2 is supposed to solve that.  The 
Ohio State University, a partner in the federal Internet 2 
project, will demonstrate one of the potential uses of Internet 2 
Tuesday (9/29) by transmitting real-time video and audio of a 
surgical operation from an operating room in Ohio State’s Medical 
Center to an Internet 2 conference in San Francisco.

	Reporters will be able to watch part of the procedure from a 
computer workstation in Room 439 of Baker Systems Engineering 
Building, 1971 Neil Ave., at 10 a.m. Tuesday.  Jim Davis, 
associate provost and director of University Technology Services, 
will be available to explain the technology.  A member of the 
surgical team will also be available to answer questions from the 
operating room.

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Contact:  Karen Patterson, University Technology Services, 
	  (614) 688-4270; 
	  David Crawford, Medical Center Communications, 
	  (614) 293-5646; or 
	  Earle Holland, University Communications, 
	  (614) 292-8384.