Monday, Nov. 25
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Gary Olson, University of Michigan (PowerPoint 137k)
10:00 Panel: Overview of Past, Present and Future: It has
been more than a decade since several defining workshops introduced the
concept of a "collaboratory" and made explicit the emerging
trend then to support distributed collaborative science and engineering
through communication and computing technology. Now is an appropriate
time to reflect on what progress we have made and what the next round
of challenges might be. This opening panel will begin this discussion.
Chair, Michael Pazzani, National Science
Foundation (PowerPoint 322k)
Peter Freeman, National Science Foundation
Spyros Konidaris, European Union (PowerPoint 826k)
Dan Atkins, University of Michigan (PowerPoint 7.3M)
Group Discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
1:30 Panel: Current Technical Developments: There is a rich
array of technologies to support geographically distributed work today.
Despite this, there are still technical challenges for supporting science
and engineering. This panel will describe current developments, highlighting
both progress and remaining challenges.
Chair, Jim French, National Science Foundation (PowerPoint 368k)
Dave Fulker, NCAR, on GRID developments (PowerPoint 250k)
James Hendler, University of Maryland,
Semantic web (PowerPoint 688k)
Fran Berman, NPACI (PowerPoint 16M)
Dan Reed, University of Illinois, NCSA (PowerPoint 30M)
Group Discussion
3:30 Break
4:00 Panel: Social Factors Important to Success: Over and
over one hears that it's not just the technology, that major social and
organizational factors influence the productive acceptance of emerging
knowledge work technologies. What are these factors, and why do they seem
to remain as such obstinate obstacles to effective progress? This panel
will reflect on past experience with distributed work and highlight issues
in need of further investigation.
Chair, Suzi Iacono, National Science Foundation (PowerPoint 1.0M)
Wes Shrum, Louisiana State University (PowerPoint 76k)
Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Research (PowerPoint 1.0M)
Gary Olson, University of Michigan (PowerPoint 5.5M)
Ed Hackett, University of Arizona (PowerPoint 145k)
Group Discussion
6:00 Adjourn
6:00 Cocktails and Appetizers
7:00 Dinner
Tuesday, Nov. 26
9:00 Panel: Representative Projects: The past decade has
seen a wide variety of projects in science and engineering that have revealed
both the promises and the perils of supporting geographically distributed
work. This panel will present a representative sample of such projects,
further helping to make concrete the issues discussed in the previous
panels.
Chair, Tim Killeen, National Center for
Atmospheric Research (PowerPoint 156k)
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory (PowerPoint 3.3M)
Doug van Houweling, Internet 2 (PowerPoint 4.7M)
Rick Luce, Los Alamos National Laboratory (PowerPoint 1.5M)
George Djorgovski, California Institute
of Technology (PowerPoint 1.7M)
Mike Marron, National Institute of
Health (PowerPoint 4.5M) (PDF 7.6M)
Group Discussion (PowerPoint - Killeen 1.7M)
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Panel: How to cultivate, judge prospects, and evaluate:
Participants at this workshop represent not only a wide range of disciplines
but also a diverse sample of funding agencies and policy groups. Where
do we go from here in the development of knowledge environments to support
distributed science and engineering? This panel will highlight the key
issues that should drive future research.
Chair, Dan Atkins, U of Michigan
Tom Finholt, University of Michigan (PowerPoint 2.7M)
Larry Smarr, University California, San
Diego (PowerPoint 11.3M)
Mary Ann Scott, Department of Energy (PowerPoint 609k)
Irene Greif, IBM Research
Group Discussion
Outcomes
2:30 Conclusion
Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan
Tim Killeen, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gary Olson, University of Michigan
3:00 Adjourn
