Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard

Seminar Series

Wednesday, February 6, 2008; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330

Dr. Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center Professor High Performance Computing Endowed Chair, UC San Diego

Seminar Title
De-constructing Cyberinfrastructure

Abstract: 
Cyberinfrastructure, the integrated framework of enabling information and computational technologies, experts, and tools, has emerged as a foundation for applications in the Information Age. The vision of Cyberinfrastructure is powerful and important, yet designing, building, deploying, evaluating, and funding capable, useful, and usable Cyberinfrastructure is a an immense challenge. In this talk, San Diego Supercomputer Center Director Fran Berman discusses the challenges and opportunities of building and deploying Cyberinfrastructure as a continuous bootstrapping process that furthers both scientific progress and technology capability.

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