Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) CI Team: Lynn Preston and Bob Norwood

1. Engineering Education and Centers (EEC) CI Team: Lynn Preston and Bob Norwood • Current EEC CI Funding Strategy FY02-03 • Partnerships for Cyberinfrastructure: From K to Industry • Research: Large Scale-Long Term Investments in Centers ($25M in CI) • Interdisciplinary from fundamentals to systems • Collaboration with industry • Enabling and system technology with proof-of-concept test beds • CI-enabled educational repositories and multimedia modules • New CI-related courses and degree programs • Education & Human Resources: Broad Based Across Education and Human Resource Spectrum (CI $30M) • Combined Research & Curriculum Development – Department Level Reform • Research Experiences for Undergraduates • Research Experiences for Teachers

2. Education and Community Building Functional Systems Engineering Physical Assets Research/Software Research/Physical Assets Domain-neutral Software Domain-specific Software Social, Industrial and Technological Dimensions EEC Education and HR Cyberinfrastructure Investments in FY02 and FY03 100.0% 90.0% 80.0% 70.0% % of EEC Education and HR CI Investment in Each Category 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0%

3. 30.0% 25.0% 20.0% 15.0% 10.0% 5.0% 0.0% Education and Community Building Functional Systems Engineering Physical Assets Research/Software Research/Physical Assets Domain-neutral Software Domain-specific Software Social, Industrial and Technological Dimensions EEC Centers Cyberinfrastructure Investments in FY02 and FY03 % of EEC Centers CI Investment in Each Category

4. EEC Cyberinfrastructure Investments • Architectures for modeling and simulations of multi-scale systems; • grid architectures for networks of physical sensors, and distributed • computation. (FSE) • Modeling, design and visualization of distributed sensor/hardware; • networks for environmental and atmospheric sensing; interface of • CI technology and human sensory perception. (P) • Large shared networks of web accessible image/data bases; simulation • and computation of molecular and nano-scale phenomena; web-accessible • repository for bioengineering courses and learning technology; user • interface technology (S & CB) • CI-related engineering curriculum development; educator and • undergraduate research experiences; development of tools and • techniques for CI engineering pedagogy (E )

5. USC ERC’s Immersive Media Vision • Goal: create seamless immersive environment for distributed, interactive real and virtual events • Reproduce audio, video, and other senses with fidelity approaching the limits of human perception • Relevant to any type of human interaction: entertainment, education, communications New World Symphony, Miami Beach 550-seat Bing Theater at USC

6. Behind the Scenes: • Network barriers include: low latency, synchronization, error management, routing control. • End to end media process control is vital - capture, network interface, transmission, rendering - control over the “quality of experience.” • immersive audio and hi-def video provide quality of experience that are unique to IMSC (and immersion in general) • Specific IMSC research issues include • Immersive audio capture, processing, and rendering - using “virtual-microphone” signal processing and 10.2 rendering developed at IMSC • Stream synchronization via GPS time stamps (within 10 microseconds) • Distributed Yima server clusters with scalable performance for recording and distributing (live or recorded) media - nodes provide streaming network-services • Latency and error management via an array of algorithms for routing control, error correction, and error concealment • Current Research and Testbed activities include: • Multiple musicians playing together at a distance with an audience at USC • USC music students playing with New World Symphony in Miami Beach • 2-way teleconference with low latency (<20ms) audio and video

7. USC ERC’s Immersive Media VisionRemote Master Class LA Philharmonic cellist at USC Teacher Student at New World Symphony in Miami Beach • Three hour session with MPEG2 video and 10.2 immersive audio • Teacher reports improved presence with immersive audio • Many psychophysical, perceptual and artistic tests to be done

8. adaptively targets multiple radar beams to sense tornadoes, other hazards sensors, models, detection algorithms interact to dynamically optimize data collection, use computing everywhere: sensors, in-network fusion, control points, storage, user access multiple, changing end-user needs met via policy-driven system optimization testbed: engages engineers, computer scientists, meteorologists, sociologists, end-users prototype for regional/national deployment Radar/Computation Grid Deployed in “Tornado Alley” for Severe Weather Detection and PredictionERC for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)Umass-Amherst, U. of Oklahoma, Colorado State 30 km coverage radius User Community: access, control • networked sensor package • low cost • low power • computation/storage • compact antenna

9. Learning Technology Research in the VaNTH ERC Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Texas, MIT/Harvard VaNTH research has synthesized learning science, learning technology, and learning domains in bioengineering, producing: • CAPE a Course development system allowing authors to create instruction from assessments, learning objectives, sequencing plans, and learning materials (slides, simulations, videos). • These can be stored in web-accessible repositories and delivered to students.

10. Future Center Topics for Cyberinfrastructure • Complex Dynamic – Self Correcting Networks • National/regional power grid management • Interactive traffic flow management • Trustworthy Highly Integrated H/W and S/W Networks • Necessary for distributed & collaborative engineering/research • Optimal integration of human interaction with networks • Distributed and adaptive, secure and nested specific networks • Web-enabled Medical Research, Diagnosis and Treatment • CI enabled massive data mining and remote service delivery • Domain-specific Networks and Simulations of Complex Systems • Efficient and timely engineering capability • Multi-disciplinary and collaborative research

11. Future Education Topics for Cyberinfrastructure • Future Education Topics • Shared repositories for domain-specific curriculum • development and learning technologies • Research Experiences for Teachers and Undergrads in CI • Immersive learning experiences using interactive • visualization learning technology • Remote access to learning materials for rural areas, the workforce