Touching the Future

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Touching the Future

• The mission of EOT-PACI is to ensure that all
  citizens may make productive use of emerging
  computing technologies to advance their ability
  to understand and solve problems in education,
  science, business, government, and society.

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Overview

• Introduction/ Organization
• Roles
• Strategic Directions
• Team Leaders

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Introduction

• Viewpoints on future directions
• PACI
• NSF
• Leadership team introductions
• Organization of EOT-PACI
• Team leaders
• Projects
• Touch the Future/Website

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Roles

• Leading Edge Site (LES)
• Leadership Team
• Team Leaders

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Strategic Directions

• Mission
• Goals
• Principles
• Plans
• Evaluation

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Touch the Future

• The mission of EOT-PACI is to ensure that all
  citizens may make productive use of emerging
  computing technologies to advance their ability
  to understand and solve problems in education,
  science, business, government, and society.

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Some 5 Year Goals

• National Impact of EOT-PACI programs
• Leverage EOT efforts across PACI
• Every AT/ET/PACS team involved in EOT
• Systematic evaluation, dissemination, scaling of
  programs
• UD/DA reflected in all technologies
• Five year plan for increasing diversity
• Assess diversity now!
• Create Strategic Partnerships beyond PACI

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Principles

• Cohesiveness
• Developing --gt dominant
• Effectiveness of national partnership
• New partners must be strategic
• Leveraging
• More than NSF investment
• Catalysis
• Inspire scaled EOT-PACI programs

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Plans

• Feedback from site visits
• The Expertise and Track Records of the EOT
  Leadership are Outstanding
• Roscoe Giles, Greg Moses, and Richard Tapia
• It is Both Logical and Desirable for the EOT
  Teams to Take Advantage of Existing Programs
• The Five Focus Areas Defined for EOT Provide Good
  Initial Coverage of Relevant and Related Areas
• Create and Adopt Evaluation Metrics

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Mo Plans

• FY00 Planning Process
• Five year goals as basis
• Alliance and NPACI developing strategic
  guidelines
• Take into account recommendations from NSF

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Mo Mo Plans

• Timeline
• Strategic Goals, Objectives, Metrics, Outcomes
  from team leaders by Feb 18
• Leadership team sets overall EOT-PACI strategic
  goals by Feb 25
• April Meeting to integrate partners scopes of
  work into EOT-PACI program plan for FY00
• Program plan due to NSF July 1

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Evaluation

• Metrics
• Alignment with strategic plans
• Project success
• National impact
• Graduation of projects
• transfer to other funding
• close projects

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Team Leader Discussions
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Five focus areas in EOT PACI

• Education
• Support a national level systemic impact on CSE
  education.
• K-12 Lisa Bievenue
• UnderGrad Kris Stewart
• Graduate/Training Geoffrey Fox, Frank
  Gilfeather
• Informal Science David Curtis

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Areas continued...

• Access and Inclusion
• Increase participation and success of women,
  minorities and people with disabilities in CSE
  and in PACI.
• W/M Cynthia Lanius, Ann Redelfs
• Universal Design/Disability Access Gregg
  Vanderheiden

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Areas

• Government and New Communities
• Broaden the application base of the nations HPCC
  infrastructure.
• Government Peter Bloniarz
• Humanities Social Science Applications Worthy
  Martin
• Learning Technologies
• Develop, apply, and assess computational tools
  that enhance learning.
• Geoffrey Fox, Greg Moses

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Areas...

• Evaluation
• Provide for ongoing, external evaluation of our
  education/outreach efforts.
• Julie Foertsch, Frank Rusch