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On October 27-28, 1999, Caltech's
Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR)
hosted a symposium. The event featured:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Rita Colwell
Director, National Science Foundation
"Information Technologies and the New Sociology of Science"
Other leaders in computational science and engineering were invited to
speak on topics relevant to information technology in the year 2000 and beyond, including
these confirmed speakers:
Tom DeFanti
Director, Electronic Visualization
Laboratory and Professor of
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Paul
Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of
Aeronautics and Professor
of Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology
Mark Ellisman
Professor of Neurosciences
and Bioengineering Director,
Center for Research on Biological Structure
Director, National Center for
Microscopy and Imaging Research
University of California, San Diego
Sid Karin
Director, National Partnership for
Advanced Computational Infrastructure
and Director, San Diego Supercomputer
Center and Professor of Computer
Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Ken Kennedy
Ann and John Doerr Professor
in Computational Engineering
Director, Center for Research on
Parallel Computation
Rice University |
Steve Koonin
Vice President, Provost, and
Professor of Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Greg
McRae
Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul
Messina
CACR Director and Assistant
Vice-President for Scientific Computing
California Institute of Technology
(on leave for temporary appointment
at Department of Energy)
Andy van Dam
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., University
Professor of Technology and Education
Professor of Computer Science
Brown University
Gil Weigand
Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Research Development and Simulation,
Defense Programs
Department of Energy
Paul
R. Woodward
Professor of Astronomy
Director, Laboratory for
Computational Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota |
About the Event
The requirements of computational science have traditionally driven many aspects, both
hardware and software, of information technology. With the advent of systems developed for
computational science from commodity hardware and software components and the increasing
role of networks and visualization, computational science now depends increasingly on
trends stimulated by other areas of information technology.
As the new millennium approaches, the Caltech CACR organized a symposium to bring
together key figures in the information technology arena. The objective of the symposium
was to explore this interplay between computational science and information technology and
its implications at the turn of the century.
Click here for the agenda.
Click here for the talks that were presented.
Symposium Organizers
 | Paul Messina, CACR Director and Assistant Vice-President for Scientific
Computing
California Institute of Technology |
| James C. T. Pool, Executive Director, Center for Advanced Computing
Research
California Institute of Technology |
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