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NITRD Symposium


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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

CCC

Overview

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.)

Agenda

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
Kevin Knight, USC Information Sciences Institute

As We May Think: The Legacy of Computing Research and the Power of Human Cognition
Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology

Privacy, Information Technology, and Digital Media
Helen Nissenbaum, New York University

10:00 AM Break
10:10 AM Information Technology in the Physical World

Moderator: Christopher Greer, former NCO director (now at NIST)

Reinventing Mobility
Sebastian Thrun, Google and Stanford University

The Role of Sensors in Our Daily Lives
Shwetak Patel, University of Washington

10:50 AM The Economic Impact of NITRD

Moderator: Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory

The Economic Impact of Information Technology
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Modeling and Simulation Behind Improving Everyday Life
Tom Lange, Procter & Gamble

11:30 AM Luncheon and Keynote

Keynote
The Honorable Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States.

01:00 PM Building Blocks of Information Technology

Moderator: Barbara Helland, Department of Energy

NITRD and the Internet
Vint Cerf, Google

Software and Strategy
William Scherlis, Carnegie Mellon University

Successes and Challenges of Computer Security Research
Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego

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
Russ Altman, Stanford University

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering: The Tree and the Fruit
David Keyes, Columbia University & KAUST

More and Moore: Growing Computing Performance for Scientific Discovery
Katherine Yelick, University of California, Berkeley, & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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
Eric Brown, IBM

Data to Insights to Actions: Enabling Evidence-based Healthcare
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research

Data-Intensive Discovery in Science: The Fourth Paradigm
Alexander Szalay, Johns Hopkins University

04:30 PM Future "Big Ideas" Panel

Thomas Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (moderator)
Peter Lee, Microsoft Research
Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stefan Savage, University of California, San Diego
Charles Vest, National Academy of Engineering

05:15 PM Closing Remarks

Edward Lazowska, University of Washington & Computing Community Consortium
Susan Graham, University of California, Berkeley, & 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.

Speakers

Welcome Remarks & the IT Innovation Ecosystem

Welcome remarks

George Strawn
Director, National Coordination Office for NITRD, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee


 

IT Innovation Ecosystem

Farnam Jahanian
Assistant Director for CISE, NSF, & Co-Chair, NITRD Subcommittee


 

A Day in the Life

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“A Day in the Life“

Jeannette Wing
Carnegie Mellon University


Information Technology and People

Human Language Technology: What Machines Do with Text and Speech

Kevin Knight
USC Information Sciences Institute

 

As We May Think: The Legacy of Computing Research and the Power of Human Cognition

Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology


Information Technology in the Physical World

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Reinventing Mobility

Sebastian Thrun
Google and Stanford University

 

The Role of Sensors in Our Daily Lives

Shwetak Patel
University of Washington


The Economic Impact of Networking & Information Technology Research & Development

The Economic Impact of Information Technology

Erik Brynjolfsson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

The Modeling and Simulation Behind Improving Everyday Life

Tom Lange
Procter & Gamble


 

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Building Blocks of Information Technology

NITRD and the Internet

Vint Cerf
Google

 

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Software and Strategy

William Scherlis
Carnegie Mellon University

 

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Successes and Challenges of Computer Security Research

Stefan Savage
University of California, San Diego


Information Technology for the Advancement of Science

Chain Reactions: Information Technology and Biomedical Discovery

Russ Altman
Stanford University

 

High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering: The Tree and the Fruit

David Keyes
Columbia University & KAUST

 

More and Moore: Growing Computing Performance for Scientific Discovery

Katherine Yelick
University of California, Berkeley, & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


 

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Information Technology and the World of Data

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This Research Made Watson Possible

Eric Brown
IBM

 

Data to Insights to Actions: Enabling Evidence-based Healthcare

Eric Horvitz
Microsoft Research

 

Data-Intensive Discovery in Science: The Fourth Paradigm

Alexander Szalay
Johns Hopkins University

 


 

Future “Big Ideas” Panel

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Charles Vest
National Academy of Engineering

Peter Lee
Microsoft Research

Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology

Thomas Kalil
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (moderator)

Stefan Savage
University of California, San Diego


Closing Remarks

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Ed Lazowska
University of Washington &
Computing Community Consortium

Susan Graham
University of California, Berkeley, & Computing Community Consortium

Participants

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)

Resources

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)

    • Executive Summary
    • Full Report
  • Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World
    (August 2007)

    • PCAST NITRD Findings and Recommendations

2003-2005 PITAC Reports to the President – Archive

  • Report to the President on Computational Science: Ensuring America’s Competitiveness (June 2005)
    • Press Release
  • Report to the President on Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization(February 2005)
    • Media Advisory
  • 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)

    • Transmittal Letter
  • Report to the President on Transforming Access to Government
    (August 31, 2000)

    • Transmittal Letter
    • Media Advisory
  • Resolving the Digital Divide:  Information, Access and Opportunity
    Conference Report pdf file (February 2000)

    • Transmittal Letter
    • Summary of Recommendations
  • 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
  • PITAC Review of the Information Technology for the Twenty-First Century Initiative
    (September 8, 1999)

    • Transmittal Letter
    • Transmittal Letter to Members of Congress
      • Distribution list
  • 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

  • Five-Year Strategic Plan for FY 2002-FY 2006

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
    • Ken Kennedy
    • Neal Lane
    • Joseph Bordogna
    • Edward D. Lazowska
    • Joe Thompson

Laws

  • HPC Act as Amended by NGI Research Act and America COMPETES Act
    • Full text
  • America COMPETES Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-69) Section 7024
    • Full text
  • Next Generation Internet Research Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-305)
    • Bill Summary
    • Full text
  • High Performance Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194)
    • Bill Summary
    • Full text

 

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