CyberEnabled Discovery and Innovation

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Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation

• Michael Foster
• May 11, 2007

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Purpose of this Talk

• Present the many NSF views of CDI
• Ask what NSF should do
• Ask how CISE should bring that about

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CDI Goals

• With CDI, at the end of five years, we expect to
  have
• enhanced ability to deal with research requiring
  petascale cyberinfrastructure,
• a strengthened technical basis for a new
  generation of computational discovery in all
  areas of SE, and
• significant progress in educating computational
  discoverers

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Presidents Budget Request for FY08

• Submitted in February, must be acted upon by
  Congress
• 51.98M requested in FY08 for CDI
• Projected rise in 50M increments to 250M in
  FY12
• Funds requested by directorate
• CISE 20M
• MPS 10M
• ENG 10M
• OCI 5.88M
• EHR 5M
• SBE 1.1M

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CDI The NSF-Wide View

• Contributes to American Competitiveness
• Computationally based discovery concepts and
  tools
• Complex, data-rich, interacting systems
• Five themes
• Knowledge Extraction
• Visualization, data mining, statistics,
  heterogeneous data, multiple sources
• Complex Interactions
• Computational thinking, emergent behavior
• Computational Experimentation
• Simulation, dynamic modeling
• Virtual Environments
• Collaboration, exploration
• Educating Students and Researchers
• Add to basic education, use virtual environments

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CISE View of CDI

• CDI is computational thinking for scientists and
  engineers.
• Complex interactions call for algorithmic
  processes to model the underlying phenomena
• Contribute to all five themes
• Expand scope of themes
• Deepen computational thinking in all fields
• Multidisciplinary projects connect CISE
  researchers with other fields
• Other views are developing
• CISE implementation committee formed

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Other Views of CDI

• ENG
• Simulation (e.g. modeling the electric power
  grid, computational fluid dynamics)
• Research to create virtual environments
• MPS
• Modeling, algorithms, software, simulation
• Development of global computing GRID
• SBE
• Interdisciplinary collaboratories
• Data extraction research
• EHR
• Interface of information technology and education
• OCI
• Virtual environments

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CDI Implementation Efforts

• CISE CDI Committee
• Michael Foster, chair Lenore Mullin and Sirin
  Tekinay, CCF David Du and Anita LaSalle, CNS
  Wayne Lutters and Frank Olken, IIS
• Workshops
• Algorithmic worldview workshops at Princeton and
  Caltech December 2006 and March 2007
• Planned Computational Experimentation workshop at
  RPI August 2007
• MPS committee on cyberinfrastructure is in
  discussion.
• Lenore Mullin from CCF attends
• MPS/ENG are teaming to advance their common
  interest in simulation and infrastructure.
• Assistant directors continue to discuss
• Division director round table scheduled for June
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Other CDI Implementation Efforts

• MPS committee on cyberinfrastructure is in
  discussion.
• Lenore Mullin from CCF attends
• MPS/ENG are teaming to advance their common
  interest in simulation and infrastructure.
• Assistant directors continue to discuss
• Division director round table scheduled for June 6

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History

• 2003-2006 Several threads in the community
• Computational thinking
• Computation as a lens
• Science 2020
• March 2006 Beyond Computational Science
• May 2006 CDI named, presented at AD retreat
• May 2006-February 2007 CDI under discussion
  within NSF and with OMB for possible inclusion in
  budget request. Becomes more inclusive and
  generic.
• February 2007 NSF budget request contains CDI
• March 2007 search for epigrams, start of
  implementation
• April 2007 CISE CDI implementation committee
  formed

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Questions for email Discussion

• How can we energize and expand our communities?
• What areas should we emphasize during the first
  year of CDI?
• How can we coordinate with related efforts in
  other agencies, governments, and organizations?