CC-NIE PI Workshop Plenary Farnam Jahanian April 30, 2014 Image Credit: Exploratorium.
Pervasive Impact We are at the center of an ongoing societal transformation and will be for decades to come. Advances in computing, communication and information technologies: Underpin our economic prosperity and national security; Serve as a key driver of U.S. competitiveness and sustainable economic growth in an increasingly global market; Accelerate the pace of discovery and innovation in nearly all other fields of inquiry; Are crucial to achieving our major national and societal priorities.
CISE and National Priorities Image Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF Environment & Sustainability Image Credit: MicroStrain, Inc. Manufacturing and Automa@on Image Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF Health & Wellbeing Image Credit: ThinkStock Secure Cyberspace Universal Access Image Credit: Cisco, Inc. Transporta@on & Energy Image Credits: Texas A&M University Emergency Response & Disaster Resiliency Image Credit: Georgia Computes! Georgia Tech Educa@on and Workforce Development
A National Imperative http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrdreport-2010.pdf Recent technological and societal trends place the further advancement and application of networking and information technology squarely at the center of our Nation s ability to achieve essentially all of our priorities and to address essentially all of our challenges. Source: PCAST (2010). Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. A periodic congressionally-mandated review of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program.
Transforming life, business, and the global economy Top twelve economically disruptive technologies (by 2025) http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/ disruptive_technologies
Emerging Frontiers Data Explosion Smart Systems: Sensing, Analysis and Decision Expanding the Limits of Computa@on Secure Cyberspace Universal Connec@vity Augmen@ng Human Capabili@es
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Mobile Devices & Cellular Networks are Pervasive The number of mobile-connected devices will soon exceed the number of people on earth. vs Mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 66 percent from 2012 to 2017, reaching 11.2 exabytes per month by 2017.
Mobility and Data Growth Pervasiveness and Connectedness: Mobile devices have eclipsed traditional computers as points of entry for the Internet always-on always connected Mobile Data Services and Applications: Smartphones able to access data in a wide variety of forms from text messaging and web browsing to apps for everything and steaming services Contextual Computing: Apps that take advantage of a user s presence in time and space, combined w/ other relevant data, to deliver targeted and tailored content and services FUTURE: SMART EVERTHING and CONNECTED CHRISTOPHER SURDAK DATA CRUSH How the Informa.on Tidal Wave Is Driving New Business Opportuni.es
Smart Systems: Sensing, Reasoning, and Decision Environment Sensing Emergency Response Agent (Reasoning) Percepts (sensors) Actions (controllers) People- Centric Sensing Situation Awareness : Humans as sensors feed multimodal data streams Pervasive Compu@ng Social Informa@cs Smart Health Care Evaluate Intervene Public Sensing Personal Sensing Source: Sajal Das, Keith Marzullo Sense Iden.fy Assess Social Sensing Credit: Image courtesy of University of Florida
Networked Society Computing technologies and human societies co-evolve, transforming each other in the process We are increasingly becoming a networked society. Access to technology and information is enhancing our cognitive and physical capabilities. This trend will be accelerated by advances in: social informatics assistive technologies augmented reality robotics crowd sourcing learning technologies natural language understanding vision and perception artificial intelligence machine learning information retrieval
Social Media and Data Growth How could companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, that provide free service, be worth billions of dollars? Monetizing User Data Selling data to third parties: Targeted advertising; detailed profiling of customers behaviors, opinions, and preferences; predictive analysis OLD vs. NEW marketing: This level of intimacy is potentially intrusive but highly valuable OLD CRM systems vs. NEW customer engagement: Consumers expectations are changing, expecting much deeper engagement with companies and personalized service New business models enabled by online transactions and predictive data analysis: e.g., ebay, Amazon, Groupon, Bonobos, Target
From Hypothesis-driven to Data-driven Discovery The Economist, The data deluge and how to handle it: A 14- page special report (Feb 25, 2010). The Fourth Paradigm: Data- Intensive Scien:fic Discovery (2009, MicrosoD Corpora.on). http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/data/ http://www.economist.com/node/15579717 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/ collaboration/fourthparadigm/ Data are motivating a profound transformation in the culture and conduct of scientific research.
Conceptualizing Big Data for Science Science gathers data at an ever-increasing rate across all scales and complexities of natural phenomena Sloan Digital Sky Survey in 2000, collected more data in its 1 st few weeks than had been amassed in the entire history of astronomy Within a decade, over 140 terabytes of information collected The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope due in Chile in 2016 will amass double that quantity of data every week Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope. Credit: Fermilab Photo LSST
Cyber-enabled Ocean-observing Networks Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sensors providing real-time data about oceans around the globe
Major Research Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure
CIF: Comm & Informa@on Founda@ons NeTS EARS: Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum Secure and Trustworthy Compu@ng (SaTC) Networking & Communica@on R&D CPS: Cyber Physical Systems Infrastructure: CRI, GENI CC- NIE, CC*IIE, IRNC Cyber SEES Smart & Connected Health
Wireless and Cellular Networks, Mobile Devices and Pervasive Computing Mobile phones are the only digital system accessible to the majority of the planet. 6.8 billion mobile phone connections globally. 85% of new handsets will be able to access the mobile web: 1 in 5 has access to fast service, 3G or better. IM, MMS, SMS expected to exceed 10 trillion message by 2013. Growing ecosystem of tools and applications: Banking, commerce, healthcare, social networking: over 1M distinct active apps just in App Store. Mobile browsers can now display much of the content available to their desktop counterparts. Mobile payment systems are now common in the developing world. Image Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, NSF Sensitive and private data stored & entered on devices. Research Themes: Infrastructure scalability Spectrum management Security and privacy Energy consump@on Leveraging and advancing new networking technologies
Envisioning the Future of the Internet GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FOR NETWORKING INNOVATIONS (GENI) At- scale virtual laboratory enabling experimenta.on with deeply programmable slices of the network US IGNITE S.tching together islands of broadband and enabling development of gigabit applica.ons with high- impact public benefit NSFCLOUD Extending virtualiza.on beyond the network to resources in the cloud Software Defined Networking (SDN) We are witnessing changing traffic patterns, consumerization of IT, massive data Static architecture of conventional networks ill-suited to today s computing and storage needs SDN decouples network control from data and allows control plane to be directly programmable Enables dynamic, manageable, adaptable architecture, ideal for high-bandwidth, dynamic apps SDN technology will constitute a $3.7B market by 2016
CC-NIE: Campus Cyberinfrastructure Network Infrastructure and Engineering Program Enables science and engineering research and education across the U.S. Targets CI at campus level to support a range of data transfers supporting computational science and computer networks and systems research and to achieve higher levels of performance, reliability, and predictability for science applications and distributed research project Drives partnerships between researchers and campus IT
Discovery and innovation across disciplines demands advanced cyber infrastructure, and the demand has far exceeded our investments and available resources over the last decade.
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Transforma1ve Applica1on to enhance discovery & learning Provisioning to create, deploy, and operate advanced CI R&D to enhance technical and social effec@veness of future CI environments
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Supports the research, development, acquisition, and provisioning of state-of-the-art CI resources, tools, and services Enable petascale compu.ng; provide open- science community with state- of- the- art HPC assets ranging from loosely coupled clusters to large scale instruments; develop an integrated scien.fic HPC environment. Support scien.fic communi.es in the use, sharing and archiving of data by crea.ng building blocks to address community needs in data infrastructure. Invest in campus network improvements and re- engineering to support a range of ac.vi.es in modern computa.onal science. Support transi.on of cybersecurity research to prac.ce. Transform innova.ons in research and educa.on into sustained sodware resources that are an integral part of cyberinfrastructure.
In the era of digital science, CI needs are skyrocketing data capacity/management compu.ng resources exper.se sodware network capacity Academic research infrastructures face challenges and opportunities
Preparing the Next Generation CI- focused Cyber Scien1sts to develop, pilot and deliver new capabili.es Computational Scientists Data Scientists Computer Scientists Design Engineers System Administrators CI- enabled Domain Scien1sts To explore and exploit new capabili.es CI
The lack of diversity is a loss of opportunity for individuals and a loss of talent and creativity to the discipline. This directly impacts our economic prosperity.
We need your help! Nurture and Support a Culture of Engagement and Service Help shape the future direc.ons of the field, priori.es for the na.on, and formulate a research and educa.on agenda to address societal challenges. Embrace a Collabora@ve Culture Enabled by Founda@onal Research Advances in CISE are pushed by long- term investment in founda.onal research and cross- and inter- disciplinary research and pulled by expanding complexity, scope, and scale of global priori.es. Educate and Empower the Next Genera@on Lead a cyber- and technology- enabled transforma.on in educa.on and learning to develop the next genera.on IT workforce and contribute to universal, transparent, and affordable par.cipa.on in a knowledge- based society.
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