February 16, 2012
Newseum, Washington DC
Newseum, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
Event Contact
CRA Staff
staff@cra.org
Event Type
2012 Events, Special Event, Workshop
Event Category
A complete archive of this event is available on the NITRD Website
The United States has a proud history of achievement and leadership in networking and information technology. The Federal Government has played an essential role in fostering the advances in this field that have transformed our world. The Federal investment in networking and information technology research and development is without question one of the best investments our nation has ever made.
While the Federal investment in Networking and Information Technology (NIT) Research and Development (R&D) dates from the birth of the field more than 60 years ago, the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, recognizing the unique importance NIT R&D to our nation, provided for multi-agency coordination of this investment.
This daylong, invitation-only symposium in Washington, DC, explores the accomplishments and prospects of this coordinated effort — now referred to as the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, and involving 15 Federal agencies as full partners.
Former Vice President Al Gore, who spearheaded the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, was a featured keynote speaker. Other elements of the program included modules on information technology and people, information technology in the physical world, information technology for the advancement of science, the building blocks of information technology, and the world of data; as well as a forward-looking panel that considers the roles of government, academia, industry, and the research community as a whole in finding and funding the next “Big Ideas.”
The symposium was organized by the Computing Community Consortium, in collaboration with the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD. (The CCC catalyzes and empowers the computing research community to pursue audacious, high-impact research. The NCO supports the planning, budget, and assessment activities for the Federal government’s NITRD program.)
February 16, 2012 (Thursday)
| 08:15 AM | Welcome Remarks & the IT Innovation Ecosystem
Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee George Strawn, Director, National Coordination Office for NITRD, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee |
| 08:45 AM | "A Day in the Life"
Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 09:00 AM | Information Technology and People
Moderator: Charles Romine, former NCO director (now at NIST) Human Language Technology: What Machines Do with Text and Speech As We May Think: The Legacy of Computing Research and the Power of Human Cognition Privacy, Information Technology, and Digital Media |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:10 AM | Information Technology in the Physical World
Moderator: Christopher Greer, former NCO director (now at NIST) Reinventing Mobility The Role of Sensors in Our Daily Lives |
| 10:50 AM | The Economic Impact of NITRD
Moderator: Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory The Economic Impact of Information Technology The Modeling and Simulation Behind Improving Everyday Life |
| 11:30 AM | Luncheon and Keynote
Keynote |
| 01:00 PM | Building Blocks of Information Technology
Moderator: Barbara Helland, Department of Energy NITRD and the Internet Software and Strategy Successes and Challenges of Computer Security Research |
| 02:00 PM | Information Technology for the Advancement of Science
Moderator: Karin Remington, National Institute of General Medical Sciences Chain Reactions: Information Technology and Biomedical Discovery High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering: The Tree and the Fruit More and Moore: Growing Computing Performance for Scientific Discovery |
| 03:00 PM | Featured Speaker
The Honorable Tom Davis, formerly U.S. House of Representatives (VA) |
| 03:15 PM | Break |
| 03:30 PM | Information Technology and the World of Data
Moderator: Cita Furlani, former NCO director (now at NIST) This Research Made Watson Possible Data to Insights to Actions: Enabling Evidence-based Healthcare Data-Intensive Discovery in Science: The Fourth Paradigm |
| 04:30 PM | Future "Big Ideas" Panel
Thomas Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (moderator) |
| 05:15 PM | Closing Remarks
Edward Lazowska, University of Washington & Computing Community Consortium |
| 05:30 PM | Reception & Agency Showcase
On the 8th floor of the Newseum’s Knight Conference Center, the NITRD agencies will present booths with flyers, posters, and/or demos highlighting NIT R&D research accomplishments and prospects. |
Welcome Remarks & the IT Innovation Ecosystem
George Strawn
Director, National Coordination Office for NITRD, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee
Farnam Jahanian
Assistant Director for CISE, NSF, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee
A Day in the Life
Information Technology and People
Kevin Knight
USC Information Sciences Institute
Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology
Information Technology in the Physical World
The Economic Impact of Networking & Information Technology Research & Development
Erik Brynjolfsson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building Blocks of Information Technology
Stefan Savage
University of California, San Diego
Information Technology for the Advancement of Science
David Keyes
Columbia University & KAUST
Katherine Yelick
University of California, Berkeley, & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Information Technology and the World of Data
Future “Big Ideas” Panel
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Closing Remarks
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Ed Lazowska |
Susan Graham |
We thank the members of the NITRD Symposium Organizing Committee:
Andrew Bernat
Executive Director, Computing Research Association
Vinton Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Erwin Gianchandani
Director, Computing Community Consortium, Computing Research Association
Susan Graham
Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Emerita, University of California, Berkeley (Co-Chair)
Eric Grimson
Chancellor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ed Lazowska
Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington (Co-Chair)
Paul Messina
Director of Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Paul Nielsen
Director and CEO, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
In addition, we acknowledge the significant contributions to the program by the following members of the NITRD Subcommittee:
Cita Furlani
Director, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Robert Gold
Director, Information Systems and Cyber Security, Department of Defense
Daniel Hitchcock
Associate Director, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy
Suzi Iacono
Senior Science Advisor, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation (Co-Chair)
Mark Luker
Associate Director, National Coordination Office
Virginia Moore
Program Manager, National Coordination Office
George Strawn
Director, National Coordination Office (Co-Chair)
Researchers Rebuild Their Effort to Rebuild the Internet
By Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 18, 2008
NITRD INFLUENTIAL DOCUMENTS
PCAST Reports (serving as the PITAC)
- Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology
(December 2010) - Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World
(August 2007)
2003-2005 PITAC Reports to the President – Archive
- Report to the President on Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness (June 2005)
- Report to the President on Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization(February 2005)
- Report to the President on Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology (June 2004)
- Media Advisory
- Cited Materials
- American Hospital Association letter (June 4, 2004)
- BlueCross BlueShield Association letter (May 26, 2004)
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society letter (May 17, 2004)
- Input from Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (April 13, 2004)
- Nursing Informatics Collaboration Task Force letter (April 1, 2004)
1999-2001 PITAC Reports to the President – Archive
- Report to the President on Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge
(February 9, 2001)- Transmittal Letter to the President
- Media Advisory
- Report to the President on Transforming Health Care Through Information Technology
(February 9, 2001)- Transmittal Letter to the President
- Media Advisory
- Report to the President on Using Information Technology to Transform the Way We Learn
(February 9, 2001)- Transmittal Letter to the President
- Media Advisory
- Report to the President on Developing Open Source Software for High End Computing
(September 11, 2000) - Report to the President on Transforming Access to Government
(August 31, 2000) - Resolving the Digital Divide: Information, Access and Opportunity
Conference Report
(February 2000)
- Talks given at the Conference (October 19,1999)
- Societal Transformations Across Diverse Communities
Irving Wladawsky-Berger - National Urban League: Towards Bridging the Digital Divide: Challenges and Solutions to Access for All
B. Keith Fulton - Challenges and Solutions to Access for All
Paula Y. Bagasao - Resolving for Digital Divide for Native Communities: Defining the Approach
James A. Casey
- Societal Transformations Across Diverse Communities
- PITAC Review of the Information Technology for the Twenty-First Century Initiative
(September 8, 1999) - Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future
On February 24, 1999, the PITAC released, “Information Technology Research: Investing in Our Future” on future directions for Federal support of research and development for information technology.
Workshop and Research Needs Reports
- FOSER – Future of Software Engineering Research
(December 2011) - High-Confidence Medical Devices: Cyber-Physical Systems for 21st Century Health Care
(February 2009) - Report of the Interagency Optical Network Testbeds Workshop 2 (ONT2)
(September 2005) - The NITRD Program: FY2004 Interagency Coordination Report
(September 2005) - Human-Computer Interaction and Information Management Research Needs
(October 2003) - Workshop on New Visions for Software Design and Productivity: Research and Applications
(February 2003) - New Visions for Large Scale Networks: Research and Applications
(March 2001) - High Confidence Software and Systems Research Needs
(January 2001)
Other Reports
- Networking and Information Technology Workforce Study: Final Report
(May 2009) - Superconducting Technology Assessment
(NSA, Office of Corporate Assessments)
(August 2005) - Grand Challenges: Science, Engineering, and Societal Advances, Requiring Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
(Third Printing – November 2006)
Federal Plans
- CSIA IWG Cybersecurity R&D Recommendations
(May 2010) - Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society
Report of the Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the Committee on Science of the National Science and Technology Council (January 2009) - Federal Plan for Advanced Networking Research and Development
(September 2008 ) - Federal Plan for Cyber Security and Information Assurance Research and Development
(April 2006) - Federal Plan for High-End Computing
(Second Printing – July 2004)
Strategic Plan
Supplements to the President’s Budget
- FY 2012 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2011) - FY 2012 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2011) - FY 2011 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2010) - FY 2010 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(May 2009) - FY 2009 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2008) - FY 2008 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(August 2007) - FY 2007 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2006) - FY 2006 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(February 2005) - FY 2005 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(December 2004) - FY 2004 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(October 2003) - FY 2003 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(July 2002) - FY 2002 Supplement to the President’s Budget
(July 2001) - FY 2001 Blue Book:
Information Technology: The 21st Century Revolution
(September 2000) - FY 2000 Blue Book:
High Performance Computing and Communications: Information Technology Frontiers for a New Millennium
(April 1999) - FY 1999 Blue Book:
Computing, Information, and Communications: Networked Computing for the 21st Century
(August 1998) - FY 1998 Blue Book:
Computing, Information, and Communications: Technologies for the 21st Century
(November 1997) - FY 1997 Blue Book:
High Performance Computing and Communications: Advancing the Frontiers of Information Technology
(November 1996) - FY 1996 Blue Book:
High Performance Computing and Communications: Foundations for America’s Information Future
(September 1995) - FY 1995 Blue Book:
High Performance Computing and Communications: Technology for the National Information Infrastructure
(May 1994) - FY 1994 Blue Book:
High Performance Computing and Communications: Toward a National Information Infrastructure
(June 1993) - FY 1993 Blue Book:
Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and Communications - FY 1992 Blue Book:
Grand Challenges: High Performance Computing and Communications
1998-2009 Congressional Testimony
- NITRD Act of 2009 Testimony – April 1, 2009 Chris Greer Testimony link to attached file
- Oversight of the NITRD Program Testimony – July 31, 2008 Chris Greer Testimony link to attached file
- Testimony on High-Performance Computing Research and Development before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness by Dr. Simon Szykman, Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development – July 19, 2006
- House Science Committee Hearing on “Supercomputing: Is the U.S. on the right Path?” – July 16, 2003
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Science Technology and Space of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation by Sherrilynne Fuller, Head, Division of Biomedical Informatics, Professor, Department of Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine – July 23, 2001
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Research of the House Committee on Science by Cita Furlani, Director, National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development – June 26, 2001
- Testimony before the Subcommittee on Research of the House Committee on Science by Eric Benhamou, Chairman of the Board, 3Com Corporation – June 26, 2001
- Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications by Raj Reddy, Co-chair President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Carnegie Mellon University – March 8, 2000
- Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation by Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA – March 1, 2000
- Testimony before to the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation by Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC – March 1, 2000
- Testimony before the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research, Wednesday, October 6, 1998
Laws
- HPC Act as Amended by NGI Research Act and America COMPETES Act
- America COMPETES Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-69) Section 7024
- Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-305)
- High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194)
