Welcome to the 1999 N.S.F. Information and Data Management Workshop:

The second NSF Information and Data Management Workshop will be held from 2:00 pm on Sunday March 7, 1999 to noon on Tuesday, March 9, 1999 at the Covel Commons conference center on the UCLA campus. A preliminary agenda with more detail is available. Note that the NSF will fund travel and attendance at the meeting, so you do not have to stretch your existing travel budget any further.

For those of you who have not attended a PI meeting, let us clarify the purpose of these meetings and the opportunity it gives us as researchers. Program officers find PI meetings which are organized from time to time extremely useful since these meetings give them an opportunity to review the progress of their funded projects in an interactive and collective fashion. The purpose of the meeting is:

• to convene members of the active research community in a milieu that does not always mimic traditional community lines. This permits us the chance to interact in a highly focussed and productive way.
• to enable funded researchers to both evaluate the efficacy of the program as it stands and, more importantly, to help influence future directions for funding.
• to permit other funding agencies and industry invitees to find out what active research is under way under the NSF program. This often leads to additional efforts from those agencies (e.g. ONR, DARPA, ARL) to fund our research, either independantly or through programs coordinated by the NSF.
• to enhance synergism and collaboration between the various disciplines and organizations

As you can see, the results of the meeting can have great impact on our future research, both indirectly through new liaisons and exposure, and directly through funding channels. It is an opportunity that most of us relish, despite our busy schedules during the semester when time for research, teaching, and family is never enough.

We will ask each of you to submit a one page report for each of your funded projects, following the same format of the IDM98 proceedings plus information for the NSF's GPRA Performance Plan Outcome Goals, which include (1) Discoveries at and across the frontier of science and engineering, and (2) Connections between discoveries and their use in service to society. We will post the instructions for creating a report soon .

Our goals are to get topics on the table, and get interaction going. What are the key directions and why? Which directions should be pursued and why? How can we, as a community, best respond dynamically to the changing world of computation?

We hope the meeting will be thought-provoking and challenging. This is a meeting where we are all co-PI's in a sense.

Let us hear your ideas,

This page is located at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99/welcome.html.

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