Symposium on Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering

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Symposium on Knowledge Environments for Science
and Engineering

• National Science Foundation
• Nov. 25-26, 2002

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Advances in Computation, Storage, and
Communication Technologies

• Terascale computing and data management
• Advanced networking
• Distributed intelligence
• On-line instrumentation
• Larger collections of curated data
• Digital libraries of scientific information
• Collaboration technologies
• Etc.

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Series of Movements Over Last Decade

• Collaboratories
• B. Wulf in 1989
• Computational grids
• eScience
• Cyberinfrastructure

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Goals of Our Workshop

• Bring together the diverse communities working on
  these issues
• Mutual awareness
• Harmonizing understanding
• Instigating coordinated activities
• Articulate the technical and the
  social/organizational prerequisites for success

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Workshop Agenda

• Monday, November 25 (morning)
• 900 Welcome and Introductions
• 1000 Panel Overview of Past, Present and
  Future
• 1200 Lunch

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Workshop Agenda 2

• Monday, November 25 (afternoon)
• 100 Remarks by Rita Colwell, Director of NSF
• 130 Panel Current Technical Developments
• 330 Break
• 400 Panel Social Factors Important to Success
  
• 600 Adjourn
• 600 Drinks
• 700 Dinner

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Workshop Agenda 3

• Tuesday, November 26
• 900 Panel Representative Projects
• 1130 Lunch
• 1230 Panel How to cultivate, judge prospects,
  and evaluate outcomes
• 230 Conclusion
• 300 Adjourn

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Panels

• Presentations roughly 15 minutes each
• Discussion all participate
• Capture
• Organized note taking
• Audio recording

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Outcomes

• Advice to NSF and related agencies
• Report to NSF
• Web site
• www.scienceofcollaboratories.org/Workshops/Worksho
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• Publication(s)