1. Knowledge Environments for Science and Engineering: Overview of Past, Present and Future Michael Pazzani, Information and Intelligent Systems Division, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, NSF November 25, 2002

2. Panel Background and Goals The concept of distributed environments for collaborative science and engineering using information, communication and computational technologies was introduced more than a decade ago Reflect on progress made and what the next round of challenges might be Look at the past, present and future

3. Knowledge Environments: Past 1989: W. Wulf (CISE AD) – a collaboratory is “… ‘a center without walls,’ in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location” 1993: NRC Report on National Collaboratories: Recommendations for federal funding of a collaboratory testbed program

4. 1990: 11 projects funded under a special initiative in CISE on collaboration technology From 1990 to 2002, many initiatives in federal agencies: Upper Atmospheric Research Collaboratory & Space Physics and Aeronmy Research Collaboratory (NSF/CISE and GEO) Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NSF/ENG) Great Lakes Regional Center for AIDS Research (NIH/NCI) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Collaboratory (DOE) Knowledge Environments: From Past to Present

5. 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

6. Knowledge Environments: Future Directions E-Science Program (UK): “E-Science …enabled by the Internet. … will require access to very large data collections, very large scale computing resources and high performance visualisation back to the individual user scientists.” Cyberinfrastructure: “”Revolutionizing science and engineering;” changing the “range of the possible;” affecting the “way that scientists … view research problems.”

7. Three 15-20 minute presentations with questions of clarification only One hour for discussion William Wulf, National Academy of Engineering Peter Freeman, National Science Foundation Spyros Konidaris, European Union Dan Atkins, University of Michigan How we will do this

8. Panelists