Electronic Notebook Demonstration to Vice President Gore
January 21, 1998
A Photo Essay
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Al Geist Shakes hands with Vice President Gore
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Hi my name is Al- that means we have one thing in common.
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Want to dance?- or shall we go look at the demonstration?
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Introduction to Electronic Notebooks
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This is my laptop. Keep your hands off!
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Remote experiments need electronic notebooks
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Spallation Neutron Source will involve researchers all around the world
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"Here is Volume 1 of SNS electronic notebook"
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The cover acts as access control barrier- requesting password
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We open the SNS notebook
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Show that last page contains data from Gore's remote instrument control
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Explain functions supplied by notebook- notarize, annotate, search...
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The Vice President studies the screen while Geist does shadow puppets
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"What if I press this button?" Geist's life flashes before his eyes
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"Now you keep your hands to yourself."
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The Vice President finds the sketchpad pen. While Geist describes importance
of being able to put quick sketches into an electronic notebook
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Gore tries out the sketchpad
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Al reaches for the pen before Gore has a chance to accidently kill the
demo with the pen
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Al demonstrates how it is easy to erase errors in a sketch
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"What are you implying?" replied Gore to my comment about being able to
fix his errors
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Gore signs his page in the notebook
You can see this page in the
SNS Electronic Notebook
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Upload signature into the SNS notebook
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Start print of copy of Gore's page for him to keep. The three Al's
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Explain the use of electronic notebooks in education and industry
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Page comes out on the printer. Gore asks if I had written all the software.
I reply it is a DOE project
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Vice President asks if he can keep the copy. Al Trivilpiece describes how
this remote technology is the wave of the future for science
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Trivilpiece directs Gore to his next meeting. Al smiles at a successful
demo. Gore thanks all the demonstrators