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The Computing Community Consortium: Stimulating Bigger Thinking

The Computing Community Consortium: Stimulating Bigger Thinking. Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Chair, Computing Community Consortium GEC, October 2008 http://www.cra.org/ccc/. Today …. Origins Structure Activities

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The Computing Community Consortium: Stimulating Bigger Thinking

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  1. The Computing Community Consortium:Stimulating Bigger Thinking Ed Lazowska Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering University of Washington Chair, Computing Community Consortium GEC, October 2008 http://www.cra.org/ccc/

  2. Today … • Origins • Structure • Activities • CCC, GENI, and NetSE

  3. Computing has changed the world • Advances in computing change the way we live, work, learn, and communicate • Advances in computing drive advances in nearly all other fields • Advances in computing power our economy • Not just through the growth of the IT industry – through productivity growth across the entire economy

  4. Research has built the foundation • Timesharing • Computer graphics • Networking (LANs and the Internet) • Personal workstation computing • Windows and the graphical user interface • RISC architectures • Modern integrated circuit design • RAID storage • Parallel computing

  5. Much of the impact is recent • Entertainment technology • Data mining • Portable communication • The World Wide Web • Speech recognition • Broadband last mile

  6. The future is full of opportunity • Creating the future of networking • Driving advances in all fields of science and engineering • Wreckless driving • Personalized education • Predictive, preventive, personalized medicine • Quantum computing • Empowerment for the developing world • Personalized health monitoring => quality of life • Harnessing parallelism: many-core and DISC • Neurobotics • Synthetic biology • The algorithmic lens: Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation

  7. We must work together to establish, articulate, and pursue visions for the field • The challenges that will shape the intellectual future of the field • The challenges that will catalyze research investment and public support • The challenges that will attract the best and brightest minds of a new generation

  8. To this end, NSF asked CRA to create the Computing Community Consortium • To catalyze the computing research community to consider such questions • To envision long-range, more audacious research challenges • To build momentum around such visions • To state them in compelling ways • To move them towards funded initiatives • To ensure “science oversight” of large-scale initiatives • A “cooperative agreement” with NSF • Close coordination

  9. The structure • CCC is all of us! • This process must succeed, and it can’t succeed without broad community engagement • There is a CCC Council to guide the effort • The Council stimulates and facilitates – it doesn’t “own” • Inaugural Council appointed through an open process led by Randy Bryant • The Council is led by a Chair • Ed Lazowska, University of Washington • Susan Graham, UC Berkeley, serves as Vice Chair • 50% effort – not titular • The CCC is staffed by CRA • Andy Bernat serves as Executive Director

  10. Those involved in shaping CRA’s response to NSF’s original challenge • Inaugural CCC Council • Andy Bernat • Randy Bryant • Susan Graham • Anita Jones • Greg Andrews • Bill Feiereisen • Susan Graham (v ch) • Anita Jones • Dave Kaeli • Dick Karp • Ken Kennedy • Ed Lazowska • Peter Lee • Dick Karp • John King • Ed Lazowska (ch) • Peter Lee • Andrew McCallum • Beth Mynatt • Dan Reed • Wim Sweldens • Jeff Vitter • Fred Schneider • Bob Sproull • Karen Sutherland • David Tennenhouse • Dave Waltz

  11. Activities to date • Definition and execution of a bootstrapping procedure for the CCC (late 2006 and early 2007) • Not straightforward, because community ownership was essential • Five plenary talks at the Federated Computing Research Conference (June 2007) to introduce CCC to the computing research community • CCC overview – Ed Lazowska • The algorithmic lens – Christos Papadimitriou • The future of computer architecture – Bob Colwell • Data-Intensive Scalable Computing – Randy Bryant • Exploring radical network designs – Scott Shenker

  12. Countless additional talks at universities, conferences, and workshops

  13. Articles in CRN, CACM, …

  14. Definition and execution of an ongoing RFP process to support visioning by the computing research community • Quarterly deadlines, but a rolling process • Five efforts launched thus far: • Big Data Computing Study Group • Cyber-Physical Systems • Visions for Theoretical Computer Science • From Internet to Robotics: The Next Transformative Technology • Network Science and Engineering

  15. One more about to launch • Global Resources for Online Education • Two others highly likely to launch • Free and Open Source Software • Information and Communication Technologies for Development • Several others in gestation

  16. Computing research blog

  17. Computing research “Highlight of the Week”

  18. “Computer Science Outside the Box” • November 10th in Washington DC; CCC, CRA, and NSF CISE • Topics: • Go Outside Your Box (stimulating trans-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research) • The World Needs Us (tackling societal grand challenges) • Breaking the Cycle (the cycle of research incrementalism) • Serving the Community • “Advances in Computing Research: Reflections and Perspectives” • (probably) March 25th in Washington DC • A 20-year retrospective and look forward

  19. The desired outcomes • Broad community engagement in establishing more audacious and inspiring research visions for our field • Some may require significant research infrastructure (e.g., NetSE); some will be new programs (e.g., CDI) • Better public appreciation of the potential of the field • Attraction of a new generation of students • Greater impact!

  20. CCC, GENI, and NetSE • There is a long history that we won’t discuss here • NSF asked CCC to charter a “Council” to establish “broad research community ownership” of the GENI -> NetSE effort • NetSE Council, chaired by Ellen Zegura • From the CCC perspective, this is one of our “community visioning” activities • All of these activities depend upon the engagement of the research community

  21. Objectives of NetSE • Define a broad research agenda encompassing network science and engineering • Identify supporting experimental research infrastructure needs • Recognize that there may be research involved in the creation of research infrastructure • Admit the possibility of multiple experimental platforms and/or potential for integration of existing/new experimental platforms

  22. Research plan (synthesized from the output of these workshops) is slated for delivery by the end of December

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