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Indiana University Hosts National Computing Workshop

Converge (08/04/08)

Members of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) and the EDUCAUSE Committee on Campus Cyberinfrastructure gathered last week at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) to discuss ways in which universities can work together to support their research initiatives. The IT leaders will draft recommendations for using IT resources more collaboratively, and IU CIO Brad Wheeler said in his opening address at the workshop that the strategy should encourage economic growth at the state level and advance national competitiveness. Individual universities have powerful computing systems, but a geographically distributed cyberinfrastructure would be a better way to support innovation. "The computer scientist Alan Kay once wrote that the best way to predict the future is to invent it," said Craig Stewart, IU associate dean for research technologies and CASC chairperson. "We are bringing some of the best computer scientists in the nation together in Indianapolis to do just that."

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