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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at SIAM General Meeting Atlanta: Panel on Computational Science Education Organized by Kris Stewart SDSU on May 14 99. Foils prepared May 16 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 and
Use of distance education to teach such new curricula

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1 Broadening Computational Science: Simulation and Internetics
2 Abstract of SIAM Presentation
3 Traditional Computational Science
4 Conventional Computational Science
5 Information Track of Computational Science
6 Beginnings of Internetics
7 Information Track of Computational Science
8 Detailed Course Contents
9 What is Internetics ?
10 Internetics and Computational Science
11 Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle
12 Proposed Internetics Core Curriculum
13 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: K-12
14 Sample 1999 Java Academy Certificate
15 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate
16 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives
17 Internetics and Physics I
18 Internetics and Physics II
19 PHY 300, Internetics and Communicating Science
20 Outside Interest in Courses
21 Courses at Jackson State
22 Why use Distance Education?
23 Traditional Model of Instruction
24 Better Model of Instruction
25 Architecture of Tango Distance Education

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 Broadening Computational Science: Simulation and Internetics

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Presentation at SIAM Meeting Atlanta May 14 99
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/siammay99
Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Abstract of SIAM Presentation

From Broadening Computational Science: Simulation and Internetics SIAM General Meeting Atlanta: Panel on Computational Science Education Organized by Kris Stewart SDSU -- May 14 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 and
Use of distance education to teach such new curricula
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Foil 3 Traditional Computational Science

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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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Foil 6 Beginnings of Internetics

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Spring 1995 --- first course ....
Spring, 1996 --- Undergraduate course offered from Syracuse University to Harbin Institute of Technology in China by Xiaoming Li and Fox
Material translated into Chinese by Harbin
Spring, 1998 --- A graduate course in Peking University by Prof. Xiaoming Li
Increasing set of courses and student interest at Syracuse University ......
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Foil 7 Information Track of Computational Science

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Grew at Syracuse into 4 Core Courses offered as a certificate now called Internetics
  • earlier version (1997) "Internet Applications Development" offered over summer to local industry added introduction to object oriented programming and subset of courses below
  • http://www.webwisdom.org
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
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
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; Latest W3C Initiatives; Distributed Computing using CORBA/Web; Java Grande; Advanced Security; Collaboration; Electronic Commerce; High performance Web Servers
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Foil 9 What is Internetics ?

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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 will be encouraged
The applied focus with many totally new and rapidly evolving technologies makes Internetics unique
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Foil 10 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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Foil 11 Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle

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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 driving
student interest and (Java) technologies
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Foil 12 Proposed Internetics Core Curriculum

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Developed at K-12, Undergraduate and Graduate level by Li and Fox and some of this material developed and offered at Syracuse and Peking.
Proposed collaboration to offer between universities in USA China and England fall 99 failed due to conflicts in semester timing and natural "size" of course
Illustrate at K-12 and Graduate level
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Foil 13 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: K-12

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K-12 is in practice Middle and High School Students
These 2 courses must be passed to obtain Certificate
  • Introduction to the Web (Not offered by NPAC)
  • Introduction to Programming using Java (assumes no programming experience)
Latter implemented as NPAC's Java Academy at http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring98/ while
the 1999 version was offered using TangoInteractive to students at Boston, Houston, Starkville and Syracuse http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/k12javaspring99/
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Foil 14 Sample 1999 Java Academy Certificate

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Graduate and Continuing Education have same curriculum with 4 core and 2 electives needed for certificate
Core Courses (total 4 courses)
(There will also be a "booster course" offered to students who have taken the Undergraduate certificate so they can "place out" of graduate core course)
  • Introduction to Internetics (Peking)
  • Basic Web Technologies including Java (roughly CPS 606)
  • Infrastructure including Networking (roughly CPS 640)
  • Basic Services including Security, Servers, JDBC and Web-Databases (roughly CPS 616)
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Foil 16 Internetics Certificate Curriculum: Graduate Electives

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Need to take 2 electives chosen from:
Computer Science Electives
  • Advanced Technologies e.g. VRML, advanced Java
  • Advanced Services Multimedia, Collaboration
  • Distributed Computing Technologies
  • Distributed Objects and Components
  • High Performance and parallelism from Compilers to Web Servers
Application Electives:
  • Education and Information Systems
  • Commerce
  • Computation and Visualization I and II e.g. Computational Science, including Datamining, distributed simulation, metacomputing
  • Computational Physics or Aerospace Engineering including advanced mathematical methods
  • (This has analogies in other Engineering fields, Chemistry etc.)
Roughly CPS714
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Foil 17 Internetics and Physics I

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Physics departments may disappear in many Universities as the number of majors is dropping at both undergraduate and graduate level.
How do we rescue physics with revised curricula?
Classical Computational Science appears not to be the 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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Foil 19 PHY 300, Internetics and Communicating Science

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Phy 300 is a special course exploring the new opportunities 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.
Students should be co-enrolled or have previously completed a calculus course, MAT 285 or MAT 295
Syracuse Fall 99 taught by G. Fox
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Course Web material gets 400,000 page hits every month -- 80% from .com clients
Courses have been given several times over the Web using synchronous or asynchronous technologies
CDROM's have been made available
  • Original Chinese translation of base CPS615/606
  • 1 and now 2 platter version of CPS615 -- includes 2 books, HPF,MPI standards etc.
  • Preparing CPS616 CDROM
Java Academy given over the Web this semester to four K-12 clusters
CPS606 CPS615 and CPS616 given to JSU (Jackson State University), Mississippi State, Clark Atlanta, DoD Lab at Vicksburg
  • CPS615 only available to Syracuse Students as offered to JSU
  • JSU now teaching 606 themselves
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Taught using Tango since fall 97 over Internet and defense high performance network DREN twice a week from Syracuse
  • Course material based on Syracuse Senior Undergraduate class CPS406(Web Technologies) and graduate classes CPS615/616(Base Computational science/Internetics)
  • Curricula, Homework, Grading, Facilities done by Syracuse
  • Students get JSU NOT Syracuse Credit
Jackson State major HBC University with many computer science graduates
Do not compete with base courses but offer addon courses with "leading edge" material (Web Technology, modern scientific computing) which give JSU (under)graduates skills that are important in their career
  • Job fair employers liked Java Programming!
Needs guaranteed 30 (audio) to 100 (video) kilobits per second bandwidth
  • Use a proxy server or mirror site
  • Actually get around one megabit/sec Syracuse to Jackson State
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New and rapidly changing Academic Curriculum suggest the use of distance education as it will allow a few experts to deliver instruction to more students and this
  • addresses shortage of trained faculty
  • cost of developing new curriculum QUICKLY requires many students (say around 5-10 times traditional class) to amortize cost
Distance Education is technically sound based on web curricula-- both synchronously and asynchronously -- today with very robust clear implementations available over next 2 years
Both delivery mechanism and identification of knowledge nuggets (such as Internetics or computational science) that are smaller than a traditional degree suggests different approaches to certification
  • Courses are given, graded etc. by multiple organizations -- University integrate degrees?
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Professors
Students
Common Shared Books and Such Resources
Done separately for each class at each university
Often
Low
Quality
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Professor at AVU
(AnyTown Virtual University)
with team of authoring specialists
Outside
Students
(dominant clientele)
Common Shared Books Web based Lecture Material
and Similar Resources
Institutions focussing on particular disciplines, teach a given class
to Students from Universities which provide beds and mentors
Possible local Students
INTERNET
Classes are
given by
AVU
to students
around
the state
(world)
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NPAC Web Server
JSU Web Server
Java Tango Server
.......
Share URL's
Audio Video
Conferencing Chat Rooms
White Boards etc.
Address at JSU of Curriculum Page
Teacher's View of Curriculum Page
Student's View of Curriculum Page
Participants at JSU
Teacher/Lecturer at NPAC
.......
Java Sockets
HTTP
Java Control Clients
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