A Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering
Category
Published on
Abstract
Today’s science has been radically changed by advances in cyberinfrastructure (CI) – faster machines, better networking, more collaboration, shared data, and the ability to study vastly more complex problems than previously feasible. This talk will present the Office of CyberInfrastructure (OCI) vision for how NSF is addressing both the needs and opportunities raised by these advances in science and CI in terms of innovation, integration, sustainability and people. The CI ecosystem is growing and changing, and NSF is addressing this through extended community interactions through a series of task forces and new programs to be able to sustain, advance, and experiment with cyberinfrastructure, broadly construed.
Bio
Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf is a program officer at the National Science Foundation, overseeing middleware, networking, and campus bridging programs with an emphasis on sustainable approaches to pragmatic software infrastructure. She also holds an appointment at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), where she is helping to develop a vision and implementation strategy to strengthen WHOI’s participation in cyberinfrastructure and ocean informatics programs. Prior to this, she was a Scientist at the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory for 7 years, and spent 3½ years as a researcher at the National eScience Center in Edinburgh, UK. She received MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, San Diego in Computer Science and Engineering.