Dear All, The IIC is in the process of preparing a three year plan for its activities, to be presented to HUSEC this October. As part of these preparations, I would like to hear from the Harvard community about what new efforts you would like to see the IIC undertake over the next few years. As I hope you know, the IIC's (Spring 2007) project portfolio is online at IIC's web site, at http://iic.harvard.edu/projects/ index.html. That list can serve as an example of the kinds of activities in which the IIC has already become engaged--but please do not take it as limiting. The IIC's mission is to foster closer collaboration amongst scientists, computer scientists, and technologists at Harvard who are working together to solve problems that inspire or require clever computational approaches. Any idea for collaborations that fit within that mission, and involves Harvard researchers from any or many of Harvard's schools, is fair game. When we solicited the first ideas for IIC projects (in 2006), we established a framework for summarizing a project idea in 2 or 3 pages, which is online now at: http://iic.harvard.edu/projects/ ideas.html. Please feel free to use that framework, or even submit just one page that describes what you have in mind. (Instructions for how to transmit your document are given at the close of this message.) I need to emphasize that this email is *not* at this point a new "call for proposals" from IIC--it is my request for help in framing the IIC's future. I will use the documents you submit in the plan being prepared for HUSEC, and will likely include some of them verbatim, with your permission, in its Appendix. If all goes well, we will issue an official new "Call for Ideas" this coming Academic Year, and you should feel free then to submit the same idea you'll submit now, or an updated version thereof. Please contact me directly with questions, and also please feel free to forward this email to anyone in the Harvard community who you think might be interested in IIC collaboration in the future. Thanks very much, Alyssa ________________________________________________________________________ Alyssa A. Goodman Professor of Astronomy, cfa-www.harvard.edu/~agoodman (617.495.9278) Director, Initiative in Innovative Computing, iic.harvard.edu (617.384.5926) Instructions for UPLOAD of short IDEA documents, via sftp: sftp server: fshare.iic.harvard.edu is the server username: iicideas password: Br1ll1an7 If you have any trouble with the sftp site, please email Patrick Ohiomoba, at ohiomoba(a)gmail.com. Note that while this upload site requires a username and password, your idea post will be available to anyone else with access via sftp. If for some reason this is too public for you, please email me directly. _______________________________________________ iic-seminars mailing list iic-seminars(a)calists.harvard.edu http://calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-seminars