Call For Candidates for Director NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure

From  the Call:

Statement of Duties:  For the foreseeable future, cyberinfrastructure will play
an increasingly important role in catalyzing advances in science and
engineering.  In addition to making new approaches to discovery, learning and
innovation possible, cyberinfrastructure will increasingly provide enhanced
access to scientific methods and instrumentalities, thereby promising to
democratize the conduct of science and engineering research and education.

Research and education activities enabled by NSF-supported cyberinfrastructure
encompass the full range of science and engineering disciplines supported by
the agency.  NSF’s cyberinfrastructure projects are often multidisciplinary,
unique and complex, and operate at the state-of-the-art.  Projects are designed
to meet the specific requirements of the science and engineering research and
education community, and they leverage the private sector’s significant
investments in commodity cyberinfrastructure.  Both scientifically and
administratively NSF’s cyberinfrastructure projects represent significant
management challenges, operating at the cutting edge of science, engineering
and technology.

Details available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/s20050118/s20050118ipa.txt