STEPS TOWARD LARGE-SCALE DATA INTEGRATION IN THE SCIENCES
Summary of a Workshop
Scott Weidman and Thomas Arrison, National Research Council, Rapporteurs
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP ON OVERCOMING POLICY AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO LONG-TERM DATA INTEGRATION
MICHAEL STONEBRAKER (Chair), Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
JOSEPHINE CHENG, IBM Fellow and Vice President,
IBM Almaden Research Center, Almaden, California
TIMOTHY FRAZIER, Senior Architect,
National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
CARL KESSELMAN, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
CLIFFORD LYNCH, Director,
Coalition for Networked Information, Washington, D.C.
RAGHU RAMAKRISHNAN, Chief Scientist,
Audience and Cloud Computing;
Fellow and Vice President,
Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, California
Principal Project Staff
SCOTT WEIDMAN, Study Director
THOMAS ARRISON, Study Director
BARBARA WRIGHT, Administrative Assistant
BETH COBB DOLAN, Financial Manager
Acknowledgments
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process.
We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Laura Haas, IBM Almaden Research Center,
Arie Shoshani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and
Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University.
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the report’s conclusions, nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Jeff Dozier of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Appointed by the National Research Council, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures
and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the rapporteurs and the institution.
We also thank National Research Council staff members Jon Eisenberg and Paul Uhlir for their constructive comments on an earlier draft of this report.