Engineering Advisory Committee
Cyberinfrastructure Subcommittee -Prologue
Dr. Francine Berman
Director, SDSC and NPACI
Professor and High Performance Computing Endowed Chair,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego
Engineering Advisory Committee
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EAC-CI Charge
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The EAC-CI will work with the Engineering
Directorate's Cyberinfrastructure Working
Group (CIWG) to help assess the opportunities
and challenges for the Engineering Directorate in
Cyberinfrastructure.
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The EAC-CI will provide advice on how the
Engineering Directorate can contribute to the
design, development, deployment, and use of
Cyberinfrastructure to promote discoveries and
innovations in engineering.
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Particular areas of discussion will include:
1.
What milestones should be used to measure
progress of CI, and what metrics should be used to
assess the impact of CI on Engineering research,
education, and innovation?
2.
What kinds of activities should ENG encourage to
build a Cyberinfrastructure community among
Engineers?
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Cyberinfrastructure is the
coordinated aggregate of
software, hardware and other
technologies, as well as human
expertise, required to support
current and future discoveries in
science and engineering.
EAC-CI Members
• Francine Berman
(SDSC and UCSD) (chair)
• James Bernard
(Iowa State University)
• Cherri Pancake
(Oregon State University)
• Lilian Wu
(IBM Corporation)
• Suvrajeet Sen
Program Director
(OR/DMII), Chair of the
Engineering CIWG, liaison
with EAC-CI
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• What’s
Expected:
The subcommittee will
present a preliminary
report at the November 89, 2005 ENG Advisory
Committee meeting.
It will complete its report
by December 31, 2005.
Key Questions for ENG CIWG and EAC-CI
1.
What types of tools and technologies are needed to enable Engineering
research and education?
2.
What is already being adequately provided by the Engineering
Directorate? By other Directorates? By other agencies and community
venues?
3.
Where are the "gaps"? What is currently needed in Cyberinfrastructure to
enable Engineering research and education?
4.
What kind of research, development, deployment is needed to address
the "gaps"? What might be done within the Engineering Directorate and
what might be done Foundation-wide?
5.
How could Cyberinfrastructure be used to move the discipline forward
to the next generation of technology-enabled research and education? What
new uses/tools/technologies should be encouraged to move ahead?
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Work Plan
• EAC-CI will meet regularly over the next 6 months
addressing the charge
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Work with ENG CIWG
Advice on CI
Formulate CI milestones and metrics of success
Formulate ideas for building ENG CI community
• Preliminary report will be described at next EAC
meeting
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