1. Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering: Current Technical Developments James French, Information and Intelligent Systems Division, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, NSF November 25, 2002

2. Panel Background and Goals There is a rich array of technologies to support geographically distributed work today. Despite this there are still technical challenges for supporting science and engineering. Panel is concerned with current developments Highlighting progress Discussing remaining challenges

3. People to people links People to information links People to facilities links (Derived from: Atkins, 1993 and Finholt and Olson, 1997) Integration through distributed, media-rich network connections Scientific Collaboratories

4. Knowledge Environments: From Present to Future Many models and initiatives on how to organize and schedule distributed scientific and engineering computing resources Collaboratories Supercomputer centers Digital libraries Grid Models Semantic Web

5. Panel Questions 1. What are the key enabling technologies and what is their status? 2. What are open questions and needs? 3. What are some visions for the architectural and functional requirements of these future environments? 4. How do we leverage commercial software and hardware developments for these purposes? 5. What must the scientific research community develop for itself that the commercial world will not provide? 6. What are the main issues involved with actually creating, managing and evolving forward advanced cyberinfrastructure? 7. How should we approach the issue of long-term sustainability?

6. Dave Fulker, NCAR James Hendler, Univ. of Maryland Fran Berman, UCSD, NPACI Dan Reed, UIUC, NCSA Panelists

7. Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering: Current Technical Developments