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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at NCSA Alliance EAC Meeting on September 21 99. Foils prepared October 3 99
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http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/compscisc98/ and
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/internetics/, "Internetics: Technologies, Applications and Academic Fields" Invited Chapter in Book :Feynman and Computation", edited by A.J.G. Hey, Perseus Books (1999)
We will discuss a broad definition of computational science to be the interdisciplinary area between computer science and all application areas.
We suggest traditionally that simulation has been focus of computational science but that today there is more student interest in information based applications and that these benefit from an interdisciplinary approach similar to simulation areas.
We discuss implications for physics education as an example of new Science Curricula for the Information Age

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1 The Unrealized Scientific Challenge: Retraining Scientists for the Information Age
2 Abstract of Internetics Presentation
3 Traditional Computational Science
4 Conventional Computational Science
5 Information Track of Computational Science
6 Information Track of Computational Science
7 Detailed Course Contents
8 What is Internetics ?
9 Internetics and Computational Science
10 Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle
11 Sample 1999 Java Academy Certificate
12 Impact of IT Worker Shortage on Physics and Engineering education
13 Internetics and Physics I
14 Internetics and Physics II
15 Internetics and Communicating Science

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Foil 1 The Unrealized Scientific Challenge: Retraining Scientists for the Information Age

From The unrealized Scientific Challenges: Retraining Scientists for the Information Age NCSA Alliance EAC Meeting -- September 21 99. *
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Access Center Washington DC
NCSA Alliance Executive Committee
21 September 99
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/ncsaeacinterneticssep99
Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Abstract of Internetics Presentation

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http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/compscisc98/ and
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/internetics/, "Internetics: Technologies, Applications and Academic Fields" Invited Chapter in Book :Feynman and Computation", edited by A.J.G. Hey, Perseus Books (1999)
We will discuss a broad definition of computational science to be the interdisciplinary area between computer science and all application areas.
We suggest traditionally that simulation has been focus of computational science but that today there is more student interest in information based applications and that these benefit from an interdisciplinary approach similar to simulation areas.
We discuss implications for physics education as an example of new Science Curricula for the Information Age
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At Syracuse built around a two course sequence and associated application, computer science and math courses
CPS615: Introduction to Computational Science
  • Technology and its projection, Computer Architecture, Application Motivation, Performance Analysis, Programming Models, MPI, (F90, HPF), (Java for Science)
  • and practical algorithms such as: particle dynamics, PDE's with CFD as example, Random numbers, Monte Carlo
CPS713: Case Studies in Computational Science
  • Detailed studies of 3 areas such as Numerical Relativity, Optimization, Computer Graphics, Condensed Matter, Experimental Physics Data analysis
These form 2 course certificate in simulation track of computational science
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1995
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Syracuse is not ranked so high but at least it is a sample of the real world and I realized that at such schools computational science was not the answer and that for instance best Undergraduates went into School of Communication
So I developed an alternative "information track" with four core courses
CPS406(undergraduate)/606(graduate) Introduction to Web Technologies
CPS616 Core Web and Distributed Object Technologies
CPS640 Internet Infrastructure
CPS714 Advanced Topics and Case Studies in Internetics
They had Silly catalog titles for sundry political reasons
There was the K-12 Java Academy in same vision
Java Academy CPS406, CPS606, CPS616, CPS640 all offered as full semester distance education courses
Graduate
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CPS406/606: CGI, Java, Introduction to CORBA/RMI/JDBC
CPS616: More on CORBA/RMI/JDBC; Database discussion as necessary; Advanced Java (Servlets, Javabeans, Enterprise Javabeans, Frameworks); Security; Introduction to XML; JavaScript and Dynamic HTML; in the past VRML and Perl
CPS640: Network and Internet Service Architecture; Quality of Service; Multimedia Servers; Compression technology
CPS714: Whatever is important this semester done as a projects course; XML (for scientific information and to build PSE's); Distributed Computing using CORBA/Web; Java Grande; Advanced Security; How to build a Portal; Collaboration; Electronic Commerce; High performance Web Servers; Latest W3C Initiatives
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Emerging field centered on technologies services and applications enabling and enabled by world wide communication and computing grids
The contents come from Computer Communication and Information science fields but with an applied flavor so forms critical knowledge needed by many application fields such as scientific computing, telemedicine, electronic commerce, digital journalism and education
Students with an interdisciplinary background are natural participants
The applied focus with many totally new and rapidly evolving technologies makes Internetics unique
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Foil 9 Internetics and Computational Science

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Computational Science is Interdisciplinary field in between Computer Science and "large scale Scientific and Engineering simulation-based" applications
  • Academic fields: Aerospace engineering, physics etc.
Internetics is Interdisciplinary field between CS and Both Simulation and Information-based applications
  • Bioinformatics, Public Communication ...
  • As information applications dominate commercial world, internetics has an information flavor (analysis of physics data is an "information" application; QCD Monte Carlo is a simulation application)
Enrollment in Classic Computational Science at Syracuse has dropped from 50 to 10; enrollment in Internetics has risen from 6 to 100 (95-98)
Current Internetics Curriculum starts with High School Java Academy;undergraduate and graduate programs, through the four course continuing education certificate
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The two forms of Large Scale Computing Scale Computer for Scale Users in Proportion Power User to number of computers
Parallel Distributed Information Systems Computers Computational Grids
<--------------- Internetics Technologies --------------->
1% market
99% of market
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Foil 11 Sample 1999 Java Academy Certificate

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Starkville,
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So depending on the source, one finds a shortage of 100,000 to 300,000 workers in Information Technology today -- this is forecast to grow with 1 million more jobs created by industry by year 2004
So physics and "physical technology" aspects of engineering (e.g. mechanical and aerospace engineering) could compete with this trend and try to attract good students from this field
Further Information Technology is playing an increasing role in both experimental and theoretical science
  • Distributed collaborative environment to gather sensor data is as useful as optimal coding of Quantum Chromodynamics simulation
Note IT job opportunities are in applications -- perhaps more so than in "basic systems"
Having a Physics Ph.D., I will discuss this field as an example
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Physics departments are facing problems in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
How do we re-invigorate physics with revised curricula?
Classical Computational Science appears not to be a complete answer but Internetics offers some interesting attractive academic programs combining computing and the "technical sciences"
  • IT minor with a basic physics/engineering education
  • Engineering/physics/math methods minor within an IT education
Physics is in many ways a BETTER educational background than computer science to today's major computer science challenge -- designing and building distributed systems
  • We can quite easily train people to program in Java but it is not so easy to design what should be programmed and how it fits together
  • Physics trains students to look at systems from a fundamental point of view and to analyze quantitatively
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A combination of Physics and a minor in Internetics is an interesting background for many areas such as:
  • Systems Engineer designing global information systems
  • Experimental physicist designing new data analysis systems
  • K-12 science teacher
Further comparing "books" with the Web, we see that the Web offers opportunities for "technical people" as well as those with good "communication skills" (of a traditional kind)
  • Java applets combined with numerical algorithms or physics experimental instrument connected to Web may sometimes be more effective than streams of beautiful English words and nifty drawings
This implies a "Computational Science/Internetics" minor including base information technology and optional elective in "science communication" prepared by physics/engineering
  • At Syracuse, attractive as Newhouse School of Communications gets excellent students
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Proposed new Syracuse course Phy 300 aims to teach principles of ways presented by the Internet for communicating science and quantitative ideas to laymen as well as to technically trained people.
The course is designed for students with interests bridging science and communications: prospective science, journalism, and education majors.
It offers an introduction to the tools required to communicate using the internet, as well as case studies of successful and unsuccessful approaches to communicating science with this new medium. Includes concepts of information and scientific visualization
Students should be co-enrolled or have previously completed a calculus course, MAT 285 or MAT 295
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