These readings are intended as pre-workshop preparation to get creative juices flowing and provide helpful background on the questions and issues to be addressed. Important note: for many of the papers, you must be logged in as a participant in order to see links to a PDF.
NSF Reports
- National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure (aka the Atkins report, 2004). pdf
- For those unfamiliar with the recent push for cyberinfrastructure at the NSF, this is essential reading.
- Reports from discipline-specific, focused workshops:
- All reports available from the Office of Cyberinfrastructure website: http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=OCI
- Biological Sciences. July 2003.
- Chemistry. October 2004.
- Humanities and Social Sciences. 2004.
- Computational Physics. 2002.
- Atmospheric Sciences. June 2004.
- Engineering Research and Education. June 2003.
- Environmental Research and Education. November 2002
- Integrated Solid Earth Sciences. June 2003.
- Social Sciences
- Cyberlearning. 2005.
- Geoscience Educationl. April 2004.
- Mathematical and Physical Sciences. April 2004.
- Materials Research. June 2004.
- Multiscale Mathematics. September 2004.
- Operations. August 2004.
- Cyberinfrastructure Software. October 2004.
- Information Technology. 2002.
- Polar Science. April 2003.
- Large-Scale Simulation. June 2003.
- Humanities. September. 2005.
- Ocean Sciences. May 2003.
Other relevant literature
- Paul N. Edwards. The World in a Machine: Computer Models, Data Networks, and Global Atmospheric Politics. (MIT Press, expected publication 2007). Excerpts from draft of Chapter 1. (Log in for pdf.)
- Ian Foster. “A two-way street to science's future.” Nature. 440. pp 419. 23 March 2006. (Log in for pdf.)
- Ian Foster. “Service-Oriented Science.” Science. 308. pp 814-817. 6 May 2005. (Log in for pdf.)
- Erik van der Vleuten. “Infrastructures and Societal Change: A View from the Large Technical Systems Field.” (2004). (Log in for pdf.)