Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation

1. Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation Michael Foster May 11, 2007

2. Purpose of this Talk • Present the many NSF views of CDI • Ask what NSF should do • Ask how CISE should bring that about Multiple views of an elephant From http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1/?letter=B&spage=3

3. CDI Goals With CDI, at the end of five years, we expect to have: • enhanced ability to deal with research requiring petascale cyberinfrastructure, • a strengthened technical basis for a new generation of computational discovery in all areas of S&E, and • significant progress in educating computational discoverers

4. President’s Budget Request for FY08 • Submitted in February, must be acted upon by Congress • $51.98M requested in FY08 for CDI • Projected rise in $50M increments to $250M in FY12 • Funds requested by directorate: • CISE $20M • MPS $10M • ENG $10M • OCI $5.88M • EHR $5M • SBE $1.1M

5. CDI: The NSF-Wide View • Contributes to American Competitiveness • Computationally based discovery concepts and tools • Complex, data-rich, interacting systems • Five themes: • Knowledge Extraction • Visualization, data mining, statistics, heterogeneous data, multiple sources • Complex Interactions • Computational thinking, emergent behavior • Computational Experimentation • Simulation, dynamic modeling • Virtual Environments • Collaboration, exploration • Educating Students and Researchers • Add to basic education, use virtual environments

6. CISE View of CDI • CDI is computational thinking for scientists and engineers. • Complex interactions call for algorithmic processes to model the underlying phenomena • Contribute to all five themes • Expand scope of themes • Deepen computational thinking in all fields • Multidisciplinary projects connect CISE researchers with other fields • Other views are developing • CISE implementation committee formed

7. Other Views of CDI • ENG • Simulation (e.g. modeling the electric power grid, computational fluid dynamics) • Research to create virtual environments • MPS • Modeling, algorithms, software, simulation • Development of global computing GRID • SBE • Interdisciplinary collaboratories • Data extraction research • EHR • Interface of information technology and education • OCI • Virtual environments

8. CDI Implementation Efforts • CISE CDI Committee • Michael Foster, chair; Lenore Mullin and Sirin Tekinay, CCF; David Du and Anita LaSalle, CNS; Wayne Lutters and Frank Olken, IIS • Workshops • Algorithmic worldview workshops at Princeton and Caltech: December 2006 and March 2007 • Planned Computational Experimentation workshop at RPI: August 2007 • MPS committee on cyberinfrastructure is in discussion. • Lenore Mullin from CCF attends • MPS/ENG are teaming to advance their common interest in simulation and infrastructure. • Assistant directors continue to discuss • Division director round table scheduled for June 6

9. Other CDI Implementation Efforts • MPS committee on cyberinfrastructure is in discussion. • Lenore Mullin from CCF attends • MPS/ENG are teaming to advance their common interest in simulation and infrastructure. • Assistant directors continue to discuss • Division director round table scheduled for June 6

10. History • 2003-2006 Several threads in the community • Computational thinking • Computation as a lens • Science 2020 • March 2006 “Beyond Computational Science” • May 2006 CDI named, presented at AD retreat • May 2006-February 2007 CDI under discussion within NSF and with OMB for possible inclusion in budget request. Becomes more inclusive and generic. • February 2007 NSF budget request contains CDI • March 2007 search for epigrams, start of implementation • April 2007 CISE CDI implementation committee formed

11. Questions for email Discussion • How can we energize and expand our communities? • What areas should we emphasize during the first year of CDI? • How can we coordinate with related efforts in other agencies, governments, and organizations?