George Mason University
CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series
Seminar Announcement
An Update on the Federal Computing, Information, and Communications
(CIC)
R&D Programs and the President's Information Technology Advisory
Committee's (PITAC) Interim Report
Sally Howe
National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications
ABSTRACT
The CIC programs coordinate more than $1 billion per year in federally
funded R&D in high end computing and computation; large scale
networking
(including the President's Next Generation Internet initiative); high
confidence systems; human centered systems; and education, training,
and
human resources. The program's outreach arm is the Federal Information
Services and Applications Council, one component of which is
FedStats.
In August 1998 the PITAC released an Interim Report whose principal
findings are that Federal information technology (IT) R&D is
inadequate and
is too heavily focused on short-term problems. The report recommends
four
Federal research priorities: software, scalable information
infrastructure,
high-end computing, and socio-economic and workforce impacts. The
report
also addresses modes of research support and management of Federal IT
research.
This seminar will review both the CIC programs and the Interim Report.
Friday, October 9, 1998
George W. Johnson Center, Assembly Room G
Seminar at 10:45 a.m.
Refreshments at 10:30 a.m.
For the 1998 Fall Seminar Schedule, go to
http:www.science.gmu.edu/statseminars