Ed Seidel CSIT Dave Warner CSIT Telemedicine July? ICASE is healthier! Need wireless expertise in research and infrastructure Need to decide where your Wireless Antennas will go IBM Laptops will have bluetooth by end of year SLAC has a new Java HEP expt data analysis system RPI May 25 ***************************** "Centers" are as important as "departments" in decision making What is view of Department Chairs? SCOREC Focus on "reliable" computation Campus 70 node SP 10 years old $1.5 to $2.5M per year No strong grants PDE Solution methods Adaptivity Load Balancing (Rensselaer Partition Method) Mesh Generation Trellis is a "framework" for multi-scale physics etc. IT appears on first foil. Nowhere else Smarr: what about Industry? SCOREC only supports "core technologies" -- applications funded separately Why don't application people use NSF Sites -- 60 use campus machines or DoD DoE Small funding level declining in size Networking/Communications Internet Infrastructure -- Kalyanaram Multimedia networking/compression Wireless (small) Syzmanski: Proactive Network Management (routing QoS) DARPA -- Time Series analysis to predict -- Simulation for setting network parameters Modestino: Director Center Image Processing Research -- Network delivery of digital video -- Wireless multimedia for vehicle highway -- No work with Akamai, Shell etc. CIEEM rapid budget increase to $8.9M Interconnect Research is about $3M CAIST is another center doing nearer term research 3D Wafer stacking (Industry leads) There are clean rooms central CAT Center for Automation Technologies -- $1M State -- MEMS -- robot planning etc. -- 65% industry; 33% State -- no center federal funding (PI funding of course) Generic Programming applied to libraries -- SGI -- Standard Template Library -- C++ not Java -- nothing much extra on software engineering HCI -- Distribution was old focus Collaboration is new focus Computer mediated communication -- people to people Environments for Collaborative Design -- spin off company Social / IT Development / Human Centered Application 18 CS Faculty Flaherty -- Futures of Scientific Computing +++++++++++ Simulation based X Nanoscale Discovery Multiscale Multiphysics high order methods Process/Product Optimization Any Need Anytime Anywhere Computation --> reliable flexible software Flaherty is a "computational scientist" -- framework software expertis Larry worried about dissemination of technology to NSF Need multi-disciplinary PhD students Networks Multimedia Pervasive Computing ++++++++++++++++ Networks -- Scalability/Heterogenity -- 4 faculty on networking now -- Need new faculty hires? -- Feldman asks what about impact of outside forcing functions Syzmanski Exponential Growth Computers Bandwidth Linear Growth Software Productivity, distance based latency So Software and Latency will always dominate No security expertise More Software engineering Need wireless Modestino -- RPI Opportinities in IT High quality Video Multimedia networks will build on Internet Smart Imaging Sensor Systems SubSurface Sensing and Images Claims there is wireless expertise Schowalter -- chair physics, applied physics, astronomy wide bandgap semiconductors molecular computing, DNA computing quantum computing Shur -- new Displays, DVD's --> 3 new faculty Kersting -- Thz logic (transfer information by waves not current) Very focussed demands for new faculty in specialized areas New devices imply new architecture and implied faculty Optical/RF buse nanoelectronics Thz logic 3D chips is hardware side Larry says too long term -- prefers manufacturing small devices Schowalter says no system work at RPI ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Undergraduate IT is for Booz Allen, Anderson Consulting KPMG etc. Jim Napolitano (HE experimentalist) leads it No faculty Very popular with undergraduates (120 freshman this fall) Undergraduate, Professional Masters approved. Working on a PhD. Claims no problem with graduate students (plenty of PhD) Incubator Since 1980 -- 130 tenant companies -- 1500 jobs, $180M company revenues Also RPI Technology Park -- 2300 employees of which Mapinfo has some 500 employees Also Venture Affliates -- Capital region companies not in Technology Park "gap" funding -- fund difference between basic research and commercial products Not afraid of Conflict of Interest -- managing conflict of interest .... 80 disclosures this year!! Most impressive presentation .... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Media Arts and Minds Entrertainment Education E-commerce Scalability/Seamless Access Dynamic Data Access Collaborative Environment User I/O (Speech, innovative GUI, pervasive) what do they want ! New building Wireless Infrastructure (Larry) +++++++++++++++++++++ Electronic Commerce ++++++++++++++++++++++ Enterprise Systems and Electronic Commerce Scaling of Web Infrastructure Dynamic Communities Standard B2B Issues Internet Databases Information Architecture Distributed Knowledge -- agents Intelligent User Interface etc. RPI Research Databases for manufacturing Data mining etc. No computer system research Currently in Management and Engineering Management studies things like "ínternet business strategies" How to change organizations ++++++++++++++++++++++++ CIS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CIS -- Campus Computing Services 1650 Laptops at $2500 each Small Library $3.2M per year 1600 print journals reduced from 2500 10 years ago in top 10 by Yahoo Residence Halls better networked than research facilities $12M a year budget for all including library, telecommunications ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Computer Science about 20 faculty EE/CE etc. about 35 faculty (declining) Arts -- hiring IT interested faculty Physics 14 full 2 untenured faculty 29 entering students Total annual funding $4.3M using untenured faculty Showalter thinks RPI could get more NSF etc. centers Need help in preparing proposals Why no DoD PET (Thompson) or NSF PACI involvement Re-invent Social Sciences -- focus on problems not methodologies RPI has new commitment to funded research ordered by new President who came from Bell Labs Physics teaches a Science of IT course Claim current organization wonderful Seem to think current IT undergraduate education relevant to research No life cycle process for centers Need Mentorship for young faculty to be able to become new leaders Hiring in CS/CE/EE etc. dominated by teaching requirements Claim low research budget in CS just "accounting" as really funded by center grants Want support for research grant writing Education should part of thrust ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Social Sciences: Kim Fortun Came from Complex Systems Conference "Department of Sciene and Technology Studies" Fortun's research is "IT and Environment" Center for Ethics and Complex Systems -- No "technical" people involved Very organized approach to research Not very knowledgeable about "physics view" of complexity Heard about Santa Fe work at conference "Informated" is neat adjective IST like schools do this type of research No computer science or physics involvement +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Biocomputing Curt Breneman Datamining Did not mention Computer Science Virtual Design of Pharmaceuticals (Santa Fe Institute) Store "descriptors" such as specifications of energy surfaces Complex System Simulations mentioned