• Attendee List
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Agenda:

Tuesday  March 7 -- CASC/SURA Dinner 6:30pm Reception & Dinner     Sheraton Four Points Hotel 1201 K Street, NW, 3rd floor   Guest: Daniel Atkins, incoming Director, NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure Wednesday, March 8 -- CASC Meeting 1201 New York Avenue, NW, 4th Floor 7:30am Breakfast 8:00am Jim Wilson, permanent staff, House Science Committee 9:00am Welcome, Agenda Review, Frank Williams, CASC Chair 9:30am  Vendor Community Presentations   Per Nyberg, Earth Sciences Business Manager, Cray      View Presentation George Jones, Engineer, Dell Dave Turek, Vice President, Deep Computing, IBM Michael Vildibill, Sun Microsystems  Stan Posey, SGI      View Presentation (No morning break scheduled; coffee will be served) 12 Noon  Lunch 12:30pm  Council on Competitiveness Software Industry Findings   Melyssa Fratkin, Policy Director 1:30pm CASC Business Meeting   See separate agenda 3:00pm  Cray Henry, Director, DOD HPC Modernization Program   View Presentation 3:30pm  William Harrod, HPCS Program Manager, DARPA Information Processing Technology Office 4:30pm Charles Holland, Director, DARPA Information Processing Technology Office 5:00pm Adjourn 6:30pm Dinner @ The Caucus Room Restaurant     401 Ninth St., NW (202) 393-1300    Guest: Dr. Dolores Etter, DOD Naval Research (invited) Thursday, March 9 1201 New York Avenue, NW, 4th Floor 8;00am  Breakfast 9:30am  Geoffrey Grant, “Science & Security” Staff Director, Research Business Models Subcommittee National Science and Technology Council View Presentation 10:30am Peter Lyster, NIGMS, National Institutes of Health 11:30am Brian Athey, University of Michigan, (PI, NIH, Biomedical Computing Institute) 12 Noon Lunch 12:30pm Washington Representatives Panel: Discussion of pending legislation on innovation & competitiveness, budget* View Presentation   Bob Boege, ASTRA, Moderator Egils Milbergs, Center for Accelerating Innovation Amy Burke, Texas Instruments 1:30pm  CASC Business Meeting 2:30pm Discussion of Ed Lazowska paper - CRA 3:00pm Adjourn * Legislation references 10,000 Teachers, 10 Million Minds Science and Math Scholarship Act -  H.R. 4434 Formation of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy – H.R. 4435 Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act – H.R. 4596 National Innovation Act – S.2109 Protecting America’s Competitive Edge (PACE) Acts – S. 2197, S. 2198, S. 2199 American Competitiveness Initiative (President Bush) ** GENI Event:   National Science Foundation's First Town Hall Meeting on GENI - Global Environment for Networking Innovations Coordinated by: Computing Research Association (CRA) Date: March 10, 2006 Time: 9:00am -4:30 pm Place:  Hyatt Arlington 1325 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is planning a new initiative, "Global Environment for Networking Investigations" (GENI), to explore new networking capabilities that will advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth. GENI's goal is to increase the quality and quantity of experimental research outcomes in networking and distributed systems, and to accelerate the transition of these outcomes into products and services that will enhance economic competitiveness and help to secure the nation's future. Ultimately, the research supported by GENI is expected to lead to next generation of network capabilities and services. Specifically, the GENI initiative envisions the creation of new networking and distributed system architectures that, for example: build in security and robustness; enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks; enable secure control and management of other critical infrastructures; include ease of operation and usability; and foster new classes of societal-level services and applications. The GENI initiative includes a research program and a global experimental facility designed to explore new architectures, distributed systems and networked applications at scale. CRA is organizing the First National Science Foundation's Town Hall Meeing, March 10, 2006, to gather broad community input that provides information about GENI to the research community and further informs and refines the design of the GENI facility plan. This meeting will provide CISE with the opportunity to engage the broader research community in the GENI initiative by: Describing the goals and rationale for GENI Explaining the details of the process for defining, funding, and building GENI Providing a detailed overview of the "strawman" GENI facility plan developed by the GENI planning committee (see www.geni.net for the current strawman plan); and Inviting the broader community to provide feedback on the GENI initiative including the plans for the GENI facility. The March 10th Town Hall meeting will include a morning of presentations and an afternoon of breakout sessions to discuss and provide feedback on such research topics as they relate to the GENI facility: Wireless and sensor networks; Optical networks; Distributed computing and applications; Protocols and new Internet architectures-(e.g. relationship of GENI to NeTS FIND focus area; Measurement, theory, analytical research, and performance; Real-time systems; Security; and/or Overall facility design and management Prior to the meeting, relevant materials will be provided to ensure that the discussions and feedback are productive. To find out more specific information and to register please go to www.cra.org and follow the link at the top of the webpage for the GENI Program.

Hotel:

Block of Hotel rooms held starting Monday night, March 6th through Thursday night, March 9th at CASC rate of $185 per night. Hotel direct # is 202 - 289-7600. Please register immediately as February 4th is cut off date.

Sheraton Four Points
1201 K Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone (202) 289-7600
$185/night
Cut-off date February 18, 2006

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