Dan Atkins on CLEAR

Atkins Keynote Talk at Conference on Digital Government Research

A Keynote Address for the Sixth Annual National Conference
on Digital Government Research
May 15-18, 2005, Washington, D.C.
Conference Website

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Abstract
The NSF community and other US and non-US science and engineering research funding agencies have recognized that ever more powerful, ubiquitous, and integrated information and communication technology nows offers the potential to transform the conduct of scientific and engineering research and allied education. The platform for such transformation has been dubbed “cyberinfrastructure”(CI for short)  and is the basis for cyberinfrastructure-enabled science, or e-science1.  Cyberinfrastructure provides reliable services and knowledge on which to build specific instances of organizational forms called for example, collaboratories, grid communities, or community portals.

This talk will review the emergence and status of the “cyberinfrastructure movement” and draw parallels with the emergence of the field of digital government. It will suggest that there is complementary between these lines of endeavor, and that they stay in touch as pathfinders and fellow travelers into the broad application of advanced information technology to facilitate, or potentially revolutionize, complex and important human endeavor.

Cyberinfrastructure Two Years after the Blue Ribbon Panel Report

Text of a talk I gave at  NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences, Mar. 15-17, 2005, Airlie House Conference Center, Warrenton, VA.

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NSF Cyberinfrastructure Report

Final Report of the NSF Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure: Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure is available on the web.

Atkins New Zealand EDUCAUSE Paper

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE AND THE NEXT WAVE OF COLLABORATION

Click title above to download pdf of paper.

Dr. Bement mentioned this paper in his Internet2 talk. It is an invited paper to complement the keynote address for the  EDUCAUSE  Australasia meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, April 5-8, 2005.