Replied: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:11:21 -0500 Replied: "John B Rundle" Return-Path: rundle@cires.colorado.edu Return-Path: Delivered-To: fox@csit.fsu.edu Received: from terra.colorado.edu (terra.Colorado.EDU [128.138.136.4]) by mailer.csit.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55D9823A02 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:08:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from poincare (poincare.Colorado.EDU [128.138.136.22]) by terra.colorado.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1/ITS-5.0/standard) with SMTP id MAA24037; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:08:41 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <006401c0abe8$2fb30e40$16888a80@colorado.edu> Reply-To: "John B Rundle" From: "John B Rundle" To: "Geoffrey Fox" Cc: "Louise Kellogg" Subject: Louise Kellogg and I have been having a discussion about... Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:05:28 -0700 Organization: CIRES - University of Colorado MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0061_01C0ABAD.831A3A80" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0061_01C0ABAD.831A3A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable which is the best CiSE divsion to submit the ITR to. They assigned us = to IIS, but we=20 wonder if ACIR would be better. I have met Borchers (ACIR), but don't = know the head of=20 IIS. Can you help. Below is what I was able to discover. Louise and I = wonder if=20 IIS is to soft and squishy (i.e., social science kind of stuff), whereas = ACIR is the place where physical scientists go. Do you have any feel for which = is likely to be more supportive, or where the competition is likely to be easier?=20 > Some of the words: >=20 > IIS: The Division of Information and Intelligent Systems strives to = increase=20 the ability to use information for human ends by supporting research to = improve=20 the ability to generate, store, organize, locate, communicate, and store = knowledge using new technologies. This recognizes that high quality = content, its=20 accessibility, and its usability are important benefits provided by new=20 technology, and are complementary to bandwidth and disk space. = Fundamental=20 research foci include universal access, human language technology, = knowledge=20 modeling, scientific collaboratories, robotics, computer vision, data = mining,=20 database access technology, human-computer interaction, and embedded = intelligent=20 systems. IIS supports interdisciplinary and interagency activities such = as the=20 Digital Library and STIMULATE (Speech, Text, Image, and Multimedia = Advanced=20 Technology Effort) initiatives.=20 >=20 > ACIR: =20 > The Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research = (ACIR)=20 provides access to, and support of, high-end computing infrastructure = and=20 research for the national scientific community through the Partnerships = for=20 Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) program, and, through the = Advanced=20 Computational Research program.=20 >=20 _________________________________________ John Rundle Professor of Physics Director, Colorado Center for Chaos & Complexity University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 (303)-492-5642 (Tel) (303)-492-5070 (FAX) rundle@cires.colorado.edu _________________________________________ ------=_NextPart_000_0061_01C0ABAD.831A3A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
which is the best CiSE divsion to = submit the ITR=20 to.  They assigned us to IIS, but we
wonder if ACIR would be better.  I = have met=20 Borchers (ACIR), but don't know the head of
IIS.  Can you help.  Below is = what I was=20 able to discover.  Louise and I wonder if 
IIS is to soft and squishy (i.e., = social=20 science kind of stuff), whereas ACIR is
the place where physical scientists = go.  Do=20 you have any feel for which is likely
to be more supportive, or where the = competition is=20 likely to be easier? 
 
 
> Some of the words:
> =
>=20 IIS:   The Division of Information and Intelligent Systems = strives to=20 increase
the ability to use information for human ends by supporting = research to improve
the ability to generate, store, organize, = locate,=20 communicate, and store
knowledge using new technologies. This = recognizes=20 that high quality content, its
accessibility, and its usability are=20 important benefits provided by new
technology, and are complementary = to=20 bandwidth and disk space. Fundamental
research foci include = universal=20 access, human language technology, knowledge
modeling, scientific=20 collaboratories, robotics, computer vision, data mining,
database = access=20 technology, human-computer interaction, and embedded intelligent =
systems.=20 IIS supports interdisciplinary and interagency activities such as the=20
Digital Library and STIMULATE (Speech, Text, Image, and Multimedia = Advanced=20
Technology Effort) initiatives.
>
> ACIR:  =

> The Division of Advanced = Computational=20 Infrastructure and Research (ACIR)
provides access to, and support = of,=20 high-end computing infrastructure and
research for the national = scientific=20 community through the Partnerships for
Advanced Computational = Infrastructure=20 (PACI) program, and, through the Advanced
Computational Research = program.=20
>
 
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John Rundle
Professor of = Physics
Director,=20 Colorado Center for Chaos & Complexity
University of = Colorado
Boulder,=20 CO  80309
 
(303)-492-5642  = (Tel)
(303)-492-5070 =20 (FAX)
rundle@cires.colorado.edu
 
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