Information Technology for Research:
The Impact of National Directions in Cyberinfrastructure

April 4th, 2006

The Office of the Vice-President for Research, the Office of Information Technology and Internet2 co-sponsored a multi-campus day-long symposium on how the emerging influence cyberinfrastructure will affect research atb Rutgers. Close to 200 faculty and research staff attended the event from across the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses. The event showcased speakers from topics ranging from cyberinfrastructure across the disciplines, eResearch, Internet2 and NJEDGe resources to the latest collaborative environments. The symposium featured a remote panel discussion frm Washinghton DC with cyberinfrastructure representatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Presentations can be viewed from the links on the agenda page.

A special thanks to the participating vendors who loaned equipment and expertise to make the distributed nature of this event really work. Thank you... Lifesize, InSors, vBrick and Polycom.

What is Cyberinfrastructure?

Cyberinfrastructure is a collective term to describe the technologies that will promote the next generation of scientific discovery including virtual organizations and collaborations, data repositories, federated services, data-driven systems (observations/modelling), grid computing, and more. Cyberinfrastructure is an increasing priority within the initiatives of many funding agencies.

If you have questions about Internet2 and the opportunities it provides, please contact OIRT at oirt@rutgers.edu.