From Concept to Confluence: Framing our Cyberinfrastructure
SBE/CISE Shared Cyberinfrastructure Workshop
Closing Dinner Remarks by Dr. Arden Bement, Director of NSF
Airlie Center, Warrenton, Virginia, March 16, 2005
Go to text of talk
(The following is excerpted from a recent email forwarded to me by unknown author. I do know that the essence of the message is correct.)
The above are remarks NSF Director Arden Bement gave before a recent workshop on the social and behavioral aspects of cyberinfrastructure. (The report from this Arlie House Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and the Social Sciences is cited in an earlier item on this site.) These are a prelude to the plan he briefly laid out yesterday before the National Science Board.
The major point in his presentation before the NSB yesterday was to formal propose or announce that he will set up a new office of cyberinfrastructure within the Office of the Director - so he is moving the division of shared cyberinfrastructure out of CISE and into the "front office". As Mel suggests and as was confirmed to me by those I spoke to at NSF yesterday, this is similar but not identical to the "old days" at NSF before the CISE directorate existed - it was called the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing. This new office of cyberinfrastructure will apparently be much more than just support for
leading edge machines - Arden also talked about the software, modeling and the other pieces that go into his vision for a 21st century cyberinfrastructure.
In his remarks Arden talks about an NSF group called the Cyberinfrastructure Initial Implementation Working Group. Its purpose is to define NSF's role in developing the cyberinfrastructure enterprise. The group has representation from all of NSF's research directorates, plus the Offices of Polar Programs and International Science and Engineering. The group has nearly completed a report that analyzes NSF's current CI-related portfolio, looks for commonalities, gaps and new opportunities. It also is supposed to include a strategy for internal (within NSF) and external collaborations. Finally, the working group is supposed to have developed a charter for the formation of a CI Management Panel, which will carry out the long-term planning and management of NSF's cyberinfrastructure investments. The working group's report is supposed to be released in about two weeks - for the purpose of receiving comments from the relevant external community.
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