Chris Nicholas <cgn@globexplorer.com>
Mr. John McLeod <mcleod@sdsc.bitnet>
Mr. Steven N. Goldstein <sgoldste@cise.cise.nsf.gov>
Thomas P Maxwell <maxwell@cbl.umd.edu><<October
8, 1999>>Did not work.
Dear Chris:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I and II).
(2) Many thanks also for your
strong interest in our Globally Collaborative
Environmental
Peace Gaming (in short, Global Peace Gaming).
(3) Pls visit Chapter 5: "Global
Peace Gaming" of my Draft of Proposed Book
"Electronic
Global University System and Services" which is to be
published
by Idea-Group Publishing Company, Harrisburg, PA (In negotiation).
This is available at;
<http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_I/Total/Chapter_1_total_txt.html>.
Pls also
visit Chapter 1: Personal Recollections on the Inceptions of
Peace
Gaming and Global University System (Warning: This is a very large
file (99
Kbytes) with all sections.)
Its Section 1.11 War and peace gamings describes how I conceived its idea.
According to John McLeod, the word Peace Game (or gaming)" was
coined by me -- see his SIMULATION, November, 1977.
I suggested him to change the name of his organization from
"Simulation Council, Inc. (SCi)" to the present one when I
created their Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC)
as Program Chairman (1970, Denver) and General Chairman (1971, Boston).
(4) The General Chairman of
the 1970 SCSC was David Miller of Denelcore in
Denver.
When he and John McLeod visited Tokyo to attend a simulation
conference,
David consulted me of his new venture to create a massive
parallel
digital computer Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP)" with
50 or
so central processing units -- more than the previous one, ILIAC-IV
with four
processors. The HEP was then designed by Max Gillinad, as
the first
commercial parallel processing machine.
Previously during I worked for Mobil Oil, I had a privilege of
using the largest hybrid computer exclusively for a half year (*)
-- two analog computers (each with 500 amplifiers) tied with a
Xerox's SIGMA (the first realtime digital processor) with 32 K
words memory. I had to simulate the retorting of shale oil
extraction out of Rocky Mountains with highly non-linear
simultaneous partial differential equations with three boundary conditions.
(*) NASA did not have $1.5 million to pay for its cost so
that it was just sitting at Beckman Laboratory in Richmond,
CA. This hybrid computer was however later used for lunar
landing of Astronaut Nil Armstrong at M.I.T. This hybrid
computer was designed by Max Gilliland.
John, David, and I and others started our computer experiences
with analog computer in 1950s and early 1960s which is a parallel
processor -- hence we are all with parallel and non-linear
thinkings. At that time, we looked down slow and sequential
processing of digital computer. They were good only for
accountants with arithmetics but not with differential equations
of engineering -- see more in the Chapter I mentioned above.
Because of my background, I of course replied affirmatively to David Miller.
(5) On the other hand, my
other previous experiences were time-sharing,
telecommunications
and networking with my post-doctoral study of Systems
Dynamics
at M.I.T.
When Dennis
Meadow, et al, at the M.I.T. published Limit of Growth," I
wonder
how they could know everything of the world, as if they were the
All Mighty
God. I then said why not to have Japan model be made by
Japanese,
as following the motto of Greyhound Bus: Leave the Driving to Us,"
i.e.,
the inception of distributed computer simulation system through a
data telecommunication
network in the same way of analog computer
configuration
-- see Figure 1 of Chapter 5 mentioned above.
Two decades later, Sun Microsystem got the same idea and now have
their motto Network is Computer."
I then coined in 1981 a word global neural computer network"
where game player, his desktop computer, database and submodel of
his expertise would correspond to a neuron, Internet router to the
synapsis, and telecom network to the nerve of a global brain.
Vice President Al Gore used this term in his speech later, since I
sent his staff (one of our listserve members at that time) at the
White House many of my materials through Sprint -- see below.
He then replied with the following words;
The Department of Defense is investing well over $1 billion
in the development and implementation of networked
distributed interactive simulation.
This technology, which allows dispersed learners to engage
in collaborative problem solving activities in real time, is
now ready for transfer to schools and workplaces outside of
the defense sector."
January 11, 1994
Speaking to communications industry leaders.
I asked Tom Maxwell of its validity, and received negative reply from him.
Dear Chris:
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Pls let me know Tom's new email address.
(6) Thanks to a travel grant
from the US National Science Foundation (NSF),
I could
attend and present of my concept of global peace gaming with
globally
distributed computer simulation at the first International
Conference
on Computer Communication (ICCC) in Washington, D.C. in
October,
1972.
Its first publication appeared in Nikkei Shimbun, November 4,
1973, "Japan-U.S. Online Energy Information via Satellite" which
is an equivalent of the Wall Street Journal (in Japanese) -- see
Section 2.2 Inception of global peace gaming of Chapter 1 of the
book draft mentioned above.
At that time, I was the director of System Division of
Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI). I received Y80 million
(almost US$8 Million now) from a Japanese philanthropic
foundation by the kind introduction of the Japanese Ministry
of International Trade (MITI). MRI then said to me that I
did a very good job, and kick me out to have the money by
themselves -- alas, they then could not perform the job, and
had to return it back to the foundation. What's a shame and
humiliation to the MRI!!
At this
conference, I saw a demo of ARPANET, the first packet-switching
data telecommunication
invented by Dr. Paul Baran at Rand Corporation in
early
1960s. (He is one of our listserve members and a strong supporter
of our
project with his generous financial contribution.)
I then
decided to work on its extension to overseas countries,
particularly
to Japan, because the network would be the most suitable
for our
global peace gaming.
See more on my saga of extending the US packet-switching data
telecom networks to overseas countries in the followings of the Chapter
1;
Section 3 Extension of U.S. packet-switching data
telecommunication to Japan,
Section 2.2 Inception of global peace gaming,
Section 2.3 E-mail as message exchange via computer, etc.
(7) As I mentioned in Section
3.5 of the Chapter 1, I then worked on the de-regulation
of the Japanese telecommunications
policy for the use of e-mail through the U.S. government,
since email would be the main communication
among game players.
I then
encountered with severe, fierce opposition from KDD (Kokusai
Denshin
Denwa, Japanese overseas telecom authority), since almost 60% of
KDD's
revenue at that time was from Telex. Lo behold, their financial
status
became red a decade later after I succeeded the de-regulation!!
Incidentally,
one of major shareholders of KDD is Mitsubishi's family company.
As Steve Goldstein of NSF mentioned in his web, he encountered
with life threatening when he advocated the extension of broadband
Internet-2 to overseas countries. More than a decade before his
experience, I also received such a word from the president of KDD
Engineering Service (KES) which designed an awkward narrowband
Internet satellite system for the University of the South Pacific
(USPNet) in Fiji which main contractor was Mitsubishi Corporation.
Incidentally, one of my sisters married to one of descendant
(Sakurai) families of Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi, --
alas, her husband passed away while still young.
I would
say that the biggest beneficiary of my de-regulation effort was
Mitsubishi
Corporation and Mitsui, Ito-Chu, etc., Japanese trading firms.
This is
because they had to have their own leased Telex lines all over
the world
with millions, millions dollars payments to KDD. About ten
years
ago, all of them ceased the use of telex in favor of email, thus
saving
huge money. They certainly owes me a lot of money -- but,
alas,
those Japanese never try to acknowledge my effort -- compared with
Sprint
which gave me the use of their X.25 oriented Telenet data telecom
free of
charge for over a year which use with many of my Latin American
colleagues
amounted almost $75,000/month commercial value!! THIS IS WHY
I LOVE
TO LIVE IN THE US, NOT IN JAPAN.
(8) Although I can tell you
more of my old stories of peace gaming, in reply
to your
inquiry, I would say that it might be very attractive to conduct
such a
peace gaming with the officials of the World Bank and IMF, and
key members
of riot groups who are now staging bloodshed fiasco in Washington, D.C.
For example,
you may set up in Capital Mall open field a large computer
screen
and PictureTel screen for each of poor countries with broadband
Internet
connection with the countries. Each country's platform will be
connected
to notable economists and decision-makers of the country.
Each of
computer screen will display economic outcomes in graphical form
with the
execution of their economic submodels which are connected with
other
countries through the global neural computer network and in the
fashion
of distributed computer simulation system. Then, let the global
model
to simulate world economic future with a scenario of, say,
forfeiting
debts of all poor countries as the riot organizer proposes.
This scheme is more advanced form than the peace gaming with FUGI
global model which we conducted during our 1986 "Global Lecture
Hall (GLH)" -- about which my previous listserve distributions mentioned.
All of
the participants, the officials of the World Bank, IMF,
participating
countries' decision-makers (however far away), and the
riot group
leaders can then gentlemanly discuss each of scenarios,
rationally
with critical thinking as basing on facts and figures" --
without
any bloodshed and fiasco!!
(9) Such was the dream of
mine when I conceived the peace gaming almost 25
to 30
years ago at Mitsubishi Research Institute, brain center of Mitsubishi
cartel.
I wonder
if your friend, Mr. Kamiyama of Mitsubishi would be interested
in this
venture with his company's return of my favor -- in multi-million dollars'
order!!
(10) Currently, I am very busy to
stage Global University System, since
education/learning
would be the fundamental to world peace, as fostering
global
citizenship of global village to cope with globalization of
global
economy -- which is one of the main targeted subjects of the rioters in
D.C.
During our 1998 GLH from Manaus, Amazona, Brazil in October, 1998,
we worked with Space Communications Corp.(SCC), one of Mitsubishi
family companies, to introduce Medical Information Network by
Communication Satellite for University Hospitals (MINCS-UH) which
connects about 30 university hospitals around Japan with two-way,
broadband (45 Mbps) digital satellite channels for medical
diagnosis with HDTV -- see
<http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/ohp/
-- for slide show>.
I then visited SCC last spring to learn their new venture of
DirecPC with Superbird-5 which can be uplinked from a Teleport in
Hawaii and can reach to Manila with broadband Internet downlink.
I was planning to visit SCC for its use for our Global University
System/Asia-Pacific Reion/Manila-Philippines operation -- see
"Draft of Travel Grant Application to the National Science
Foundation for the Manila Mini-Workshop -- 1 of 5: Travel Grant
Application / 2 of 5: Workshop Schedule / 3 of 5: Grant Nominees /
4 of 5: Philippine Counterparts / 5 of 5: GUS in the Philippines
Pilot Project Proposal - February 16-17, 2000" at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>
Pls feel free to contact me if you have any further questions.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:57:40
-0700
From: Chris Nicholas <cgn@globexplorer.com>
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: Greetings
Is it at all possible to bring together
one of your famous "Peace
Games" in the next few weeks? The
chance to reach a global
audience on how such games might
play out, particularly before
the presidential election, is tremendous.
I would bet that
several networks would readily
do an in-depth on Internet
sessions such as you have often
held.
If it is of any use, perhaps Mitsubishi
can help coordinate with
NASDA, JDA and Ministry of Home
Affairs as well, if you have a
list of people that you would like
to have "play."
sincerely,
Chris Nicholas
GlobeXplorer
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Subject: Are you available on April
13?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 12:07:17
+0900
From: Yoichi Kamiyama <yoichi.kamiyama@jp.mitsubishicorp.com>
To: Chris Nicholas <cnicholas@globexplorer.com>
Dear Chris,
I am going to Las Vegas in week
of April 9 to attend NAB (National Association
for Broadcaster), where I would
like to update my insight for IP broadcasting
business. Space Communications
Corp.(SCC) would launch Superbird-5 at the end
of August this year, and the SB-5
will be launched at 110E, which is exact
same orbital position with Japanese
broadcasting satellite that has more than
14 million subscriber now. This
means that we should have a big potential
market for IP broadcasting business.
My strategy is to be "broadband portal
service operator for IP broadcaster"
that enable us to be EC platform operator.
As such, I wonder if you are available
for dinner with me on April 13 so that
I can have your insight of IP broadcasting
market and other trend in the U.S.
If you are convenience, I will
fly for SFC in the afternoon from LAX to see
you and will get back to Japan
on April 14 from SFC instead of LAX.
Please let me know if you can see
me on April 13 by return so that I will
change flight schedule accordingly.
Best regards,
Y. Kamiyama
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Excerpt from
<http://www.earthday.net/events/onthemall.stm>
On the Mall in Washington
EarthFair 2000, April 22, 10 a.m.-5
p.m. EST
Leonardo DiCaprio to Host EarthFair 2000 on the Mall in Washington, D.C. April 22, 2000
In celebration of Earth Day, April
22, 2000, thousands of communities around
the world will host a wide variety
of events. In the United States, the
flagship event will be a huge gathering
on the Mall in Washington, D.C. During
a webcast on November 17, 1999,
Earth Day Network announced that one of the
nation's most popular celebrities,
actor Leonardo DiCaprio, will serve as
chairman for the Mall event.
A stage powered by renewable energy
will feature additional international
entertainment and top musical acts
from the U.S. Along with the entertainment,
Earth Day Network will host EarthFair
2000 on the Mall -- hundreds of exhibits
displaying all the elements of
a sustainable society. Sun, wind, earth, water,
and people will be powering exhibits,
modeling central components of a clean
energy future.
Each of the energy technology "pavilions"
will feature hands-on activities,
many involving children's activities,
and opportunities for direct action.
EarthFair 2000 will also recycle
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demonstrate other ways to have
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their home, at work, everyday.
There will be thousands of other
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Chicago, Beijing, Atlanta, Tel
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Find an event in your community
and get involved!
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:31:15
-0700
From: Chris Nicholas <cgn@globexplorer.com>
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Scenario USED for
peace gaming at 1986 GLH
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<<April 17, 2000>> Removed here by T. Utsumi,
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One other thing you might be interested
to know is that I have
been talking with Thomas Maxwell
for a long time about making a
modular version of his system for
deployment again our data
archive, such that people might
be able to populate the datasets
necessary for environmental simulation
rapidly for anywhere in
the world. We will also be
located at a T3 facility, capable of
multicast connectivity, and perhaps
we might figure out something
for content access by GLOSAS for
specific events or programs.
Chris Nicholas
GlobeXplorer
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GlobeXplorer, Inc.
cgn@globexplorer.com
Mr. John McLeod (Fax: 619-277-3930)
Founder
Society for Computer Simulation
International (SCSI)
8484 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
619-454-0966
mcleod@sdsc.bitnet
mcleod@Sds.Sdsc.Edu
Mr. Steven N. Goldstein
Program Director, Interagency &
International Networking Coordination
Div. of Networking and Communications
Research & Infrastructure
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22230
703-306-1950
sgoldste@cise.cise.nsf.gov
http://www.friends-partners.org/steve/
Thomas P Maxwell, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Spatial Systems Research
Distributed Modular Spatio-Temporal
Simulation
Institute for Ecological Economics
University of Maryland
Box 38, Solomons, Md. 20688
410-326-7388
FAX: 410-326-7354
maxwell@cbl.umd.edu<<October
8, 1999>>Did not work.
http://kabir.umd.edu/Tom/Maxwell.html
http://kabir.cbl.cees.edu/Tom/Maxwell.html
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