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Schedule: Tue, Sept 7 - CI Information Fair | Tue, Sept 7 - Keynote | Wed, Sept 8 - Vision panels | Event access
"CI Days" was held at Talley Center on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7 and 8. During the day Tuesday was Campus CI Information Fair, and that night was a free, public keynote address on "Beyond the Web" in Stewart Theater by Dom Sagolla, co-creator of Twitter and founder of DollarApp. From 8 until 3 in Stewart Theater on September 8, we heard some of the top minds in the world wrestle with how CI can be used to reach technological, organizational and intellectual goals
(see the schedule).
What is cyberinfrastructure? It's computers -- it's software -- it's networks -- it's people -- it's everything computer-related that we use as an infrastructure for our everyday lives, study, and work.
N.C. State has developed a sophisticated campus cyberinfrastructure - you can learn more about it through OIT (the campus Office of Information Technologies) and ICSE. The campus, our neighboring institutions, and companies have ongoing research, development, and education that are keys to advancing our wants, our needs, and all of cyberinfrastructure.
To that end, the CI Days event was about helping the campus community use our CI to the fullest, and it was also a chance for the campus and surrounding community to glimpse the future and pose questions about it:
- What will Facebook look like 10 years from now? What changes are happening to it now?
- What roles are being played by the Internet in censorship and anti-censorship, like via Twitter and Haystack?
- If we don't have to remember information, what happens to education, psychology, and Alzheimer's?
- "Hello Beijing, Oslo, Johannesburg, and Rio; This is Raleigh!" What about life and work in a CI-connected world?
- The end of computing as we know it? Everything goes parallel.
- Cyberinfrastructure meets Physical Infrastructure? Power, Roads, Phones, Water.
- Making "New Stuff" with computers? From unwettable polymers to design to 3D Prototyping.
- Creating the information future with the new Hunt Library? "Ask the Librarian" turns into "Work with the Information Scientist."
- Cloud Computing? You're already in the Cloud!
- Is Biology a computational science?
To help get across the idea of cyberinfrastructure and its visionary possibilities and challenges, we collected ideas using Oscar-type categories about CI in the movies. All members of the NC State community were eligible. By entering one's preferences and additions for any or all of several categories by clicking on the category and editing the wiki, participants had a chance to win a DVD of the highest-rated movies (CI in the Movies).
An initial version of the archive of the panel webcast is viewable here. Some of the coverage can be found here:
In summary, CI Days brought together CI developers, users, and educators on campus and in the region toward advancing the necessary hardware, software, and people.
Sponsored by Internet2 through a grant from the National Science Foundation, the NC State Office of Information Technology, and NC State's Institute for Computational Science and Engineering:
The goal of ICSE: Building methods, tools, and a workforce to accelerate the application of advanced computing.