e-Science at Caltech

Suggested Readings and Preparatory Materials

We encourage all participants to get familiar with these documents at some level, as they provide useful background for our discussions:

The NSF Cyber-Infrastructure Vision (March 2007)
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Report of Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (2003)
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Workshop on History & Theory of Infrastructure
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NITRD Interagency WG Report on Grand Challenges (November 2006)
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PITAC report "Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness" (2005)
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NITRD reports
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Other Documents

Many other interesting reports are available on the NSF OCI website

Microsoft Research’s “Science 2020” initiative

President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) reports