Appendix B
Workshop Programs and Participants
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY WORKSHOP
Program
Thursday, March 12, 1992 |
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8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction—Alastair Cameron and Bruce Schatz |
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• Background of the collaboratory concept—Need to leverage limited human, financial, and time resources and enable collaboration among scientists |
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• Workshop goals |
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• New ideas for collaboration and the technology that will facilitate collaboration |
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• Priorities and agenda for development of collaboratories |
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• Introductions and personal statements about perspectives on collaboration |
9:30 a.m. |
Current Issues and Trends in Molecular Biology—David Kingsbury |
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• Communities and problem domains |
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• Types of available knowledge: genes, maps, sequences, literature |
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• Types of available databases: formal, informal, collaborative, laboratory |
10:00 a.m. |
Molecular Biology and Computer Technology: Lessons Learned from Previous Projects |
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• GenBank/Bionet—Douglas Brutlag |
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• Genome Data Base—Robert Robbins |
10:45 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m. |
Current Molecular Biology Collaboratories |
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• Informal Community Systems—Bruce Schatz |
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• Archival Library Systems—Jim Ostell |
12:00 noon |
Working Lunch with Demonstrations of the Worm Community System and of the National Center for Biotechnology Information Portable Core Library |
1:30 p.m. |
Current Issues and Trends in Computer Technology: Information Infrastructure |
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• Hardware and Networks—Vint Cerf |
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• Software and Databases—Nat Goodman |
2:00 p.m. |
Impediments to Adoption of Collaboration Technology—Lee Sproull |
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• Perceived value of technology to the molecular biology community |
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• User readiness and acceptance of the technology |
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• Training for computational biologists |
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• Lack of institutional and information infrastructure |
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• Lack of critical mass of on-line materials |
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• Lack of financial and institutional support for large projects |
3:00 p.m. |
Brainstorming |
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• How might collaboration aid molecular biology and molecular biologists? |
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• What existing problems in molecular biology might collaboratories solve or ameliorate? |
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• Given sufficient funding, what would you want to build? |
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• Which communities are the most likely to be initial candidates for collaboratories? |
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• How will these collaboratories benefit the scientists who use them? |
5:00 p.m. |
Reception |
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
Friday, March 13, 1992 |
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9:00 a.m. |
Welcome and Statement of Purpose for Day Two—Bill Wulf Recap of Brainstorming Session—Alastair Cameron and Bruce Schatz |
9:30 a.m. |
How do we get there from here? |
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• What must be done to realize collaboratories in molecular biology in the near term? |
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• What specific proposals might be made? |
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• What tools do molecular biologists use that could be shared with scientists of other disciplines? |
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• How can the needs of molecular biologists be leveraged with the needs of other scientists to establish collaboratories? What other scientific communities might be targeted? |
10:45 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m. |
What are the unsolved problems? |
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• What will they keep us from achieving? |
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• What must be done in the long term to address these problems? |
12:30 p.m. |
Working Lunch |
1:30 p.m. |
Conclusions and Report Planning |
2:30 p.m. |
Summary and Adjourn |
Participants
Douglas Brutlag, Stanford University School of Medicine
Alastair Cameron, Harvard College
David J. Galas, Department of Energy
Nat Goodman, Whitehead Institute
Steven Hilgartner, Columbia University
Tim Hunkapiller, California Institute of Technology
David Kingsbury, George Washington University Medical Center
Jim Ostell, National Library of Medicine
Ross Overbeek, Argonne National Laboratory
Robert Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Laurence Rosenberg, National Science Foundation
Brace Schatz, University of Arizona
Cassandra Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Gio Wiederhold, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
John Wooley, National Science Foundation
OCEANOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Program
Thursday, April 23, 1992 |
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8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction—Vint Cerf and Tom Dickey |
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• Background of the collaboratory concept—Need to leverage limited human, financial, and time resources and enable collaboration among scientists |
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• Workshop goals |
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• New ideas for collaboration and the technology that will facilitate collaboration |
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• Priorities and agenda for development of collaboratories |
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• Introductions and personal statements about perspectives on collaboration |
9:00 a.m. |
Current Working Collaboratories |
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• Modeling Systems in Oceanography—Lew Rothstein |
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• Informal Community Systems in Molecular Biology—Bruce Schatz |
10:00 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 a.m. |
Oceanography and Computing: Needs and Desires of Oceanographic Modelers Discussion—Vint Cerf |
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• What are the needs of the modeling community with respect to the technology? |
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• What technology is desirable and why? |
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• How will the community be enabled through increased connectivity and/or additional computer resources? |
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• What are some possible pilot projects? |
12:15 p.m. |
Working Lunch with Demonstrations of Oceanographic Modeling Systems and Informal Community Systems |
1:15 p.m. |
Obtaining Access to Field Data: Lessons From Current Practice (10-minute presentations with discussion) |
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• Identifying the Needs—Tom Dickey |
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• Near-Real-Time Data Acquisition: The Atlas Moorings Pilot—Ants Leetmaa and Mike McPhaden |
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• High-Frequency Telemetry Solutions—Mel Briscoe |
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• Sierracom—Phil Walker |
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• Ship-to-Land Communication—Andy Maffei |
2:15 p.m. |
Break |
3:00 p.m. |
Day-to-Day Collaboration Among Oceanographers: Problems and Solutions (10-minute presentations with discussion) |
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• Multidisciplinary Collaboration—Peter Wiebe |
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• Omnet and SCIENCEnet—Bob Heinmiller |
4:00 p.m. |
Impediments to Collaboration—Discussion |
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• Access to data |
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• Cultural limitations |
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• Geographic and physical limitations |
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• Perceived value of technology to the oceanography community |
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• User readiness and acceptance of the technology |
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• Training/support for computational oceanography |
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• Lack of institutional and information infrastructure such as laboratories and equipment |
5:00 p.m. |
Reception |
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
Friday, April 24, 1992 |
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8:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. |
Statement of Purpose for Day Two and Recap of Thursday's Discussions—Vint Cerf |
9:00 a.m. |
Brainstorming |
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• How might collaboration aid oceanography? |
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• What existing problems in oceanography might collaboratories solve or ameliorate? |
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• Given sufficient funding, what would you want to build? |
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• Which communities are the most likely to be initial candidates for collaboratories? |
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• How will these collaboratories benefit the scientists who use them? |
10:30 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 a.m. |
How do we get there from here? |
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• What must be done to realize collaboratories in oceanography in the near term? |
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• What specific proposals might be made? |
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• What tools do oceanographers use that could be shared with scientists of other disciplines? |
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• How can the needs of oceanographers be leveraged with the needs of other scientists to establish collaboratories? What other scientific communities might be targeted? |
12:30 p.m. |
Working Lunch |
1:30 p.m. |
What are the unsolved problems? |
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• What will they keep us from achieving? |
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• What must be done in the long term to address these problems? |
2:30 p.m. |
Conclusions and Report Planning |
3:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
Participants
Jim Baker, Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc.
Melbourne Briscoe, Office of Naval Research
Vint Cerf, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Alan Davis, Florida State University
Tom Dickey, University of Southern California
David Evans, Office of Naval Research
Robert Heinmiller, Omnet Inc.
Ellen S. Kappel, Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc.
Gary Koob, Office of Naval Research
Richard Lambert, National Science Foundation
Ants Leetmaa, NOAA Climate Analysis Center
Andrew Maffei, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Mike McPhaden, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Rebecca G. Moser, Joint Oceanographic Institutions Inc.
Lew Rothstein, University of Rhode Island
Bruce Schatz, University of Arizona
Philip Walker, Sierracom
Peter Wiebe, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Stan Wilson, NOAA National Ocean Service
SPACE PHYSICS WORKSHOP
Program
Thursday, July 9, 1992 |
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8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction—Vint Cerf and C.T. Russell |
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• Background of the Collaboratory Concept—Need to leverage limited human, financial, and time resources and enable collaboration among scientists |
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• Workshop Goals |
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• New ideas for collaboration and the technology that will facilitate collaboration |
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• Priorities and agenda for development of collaboratories |
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• Introductions and Personal Statements About Perspectives on Collaboration |
9:00 a.m. |
Early Collaborations |
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• Space Physics Analysis Network: The Early Years—Jim Green |
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• Coordinated Data Analysis Workshops—Dan Baker |
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• Atmospheric Explorer/Dynamics Explorer Data System—Dave Winningham |
10:00 a.m. |
Break |
10:15 a.m. |
Recent Collaborative Efforts |
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• Cometary Studies on Giotto—Marcia Neugebauer |
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• Magnetospheric Studies on AMPTE—Steve Fuselier |
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• Remote Operation of Instrumentation—John Kelly |
12:00 noon |
Lunch |
1:00 p.m. |
Future Collaborative Efforts |
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• Geospace Environment Modeling Program—Tim Eastman |
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• Space Physics Data System—Dave Winningham |
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• International Solar-Terrestrial Program Mission—Dan Baker |
2:00 p.m. |
Access to Data |
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• Policy on the Access to Publicly Funded Data—Jim Willett |
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• State of the NSSDC Archives Master Directory—Jim Green |
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• Experiences of a Scientist—Bob McPherron |
3:00 p.m. |
Break |
3:15 p.m. |
Electronic Networks in Collaborative Studies |
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• Numerical simulations |
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• Theoretical studies |
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• Experimental studies |
4:15 p.m. |
Discussions of Impediments to Collaboration—All |
5:00 p.m. |
Reception |
6:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
Friday, July 10, 1992 |
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8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:30 a.m. |
Statement of Purpose for Day Two and Recap of Day One—Vint Cerf |
9:00 a.m. |
Brainstorming on Contents of Reportble''> |
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• How might collaboration aid space physics? |
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• What existing problems in space physics might collaboratories solve or ameliorate? |
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• Given sufficient funding, what would you want to build? |
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• Which communities are the most likely to be initial candidates for collaboratories? |
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• How will these collaboratories benefit the scientists who use them? |
10:30 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 a.m. |
How do we establish the needed infrastructure? |
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• What must be done to realize collaboratories in space physics in the near term? |
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• What specific proposals might be made? |
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• What tools do space physicists use that could be shared with scientists of other disciplines? |
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• How can the needs of space physicists be leveraged with the needs of other scientists to establish collaboratories? What other scientific communities might be targeted? |
12:00 noon |
Lunch |
1:00 p.m. |
What are the unsolved problems? |
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• What will they keep us from achieving? |
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• What must be done in the long term to address these problems? |
2:30 p.m. |
Conclusions and Report Planning |
3:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting |
Participants
Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan
Daniel Baker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Space Science Data Center
Joseph Bredekamp, NASA Headquarters
Vint Cerf, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Timothy Eastman, National Science Foundation
Steve Fuselier, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory
James Green, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Space Science Data Center
John D. Kelly, Stanford Research Institute International
William Kurth, University of Iowa
Barry M. Leiner, Universities Space Research Association
Janet G. Luhmann, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert L. McPherron, University of California, Los Angeles
Marcia Neugebauer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
C.T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
James Willett, NASA Headquarters
John D. Winningham, Southwest Research Institute