{"113051":{"#nid":"113051","#data":{"type":"news","title":"National Modeling and Simulation Coalition Holds Inaugural Congress","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NMSC) held its Inaugural Congress on Feb. 6 in Washington D.C. signaling the first nationwide meeting of the organization, which spans the entire modeling and simulation industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe NMSC focused on establishing, for the first time, a national agenda for maintaining the growth of modeling and simulation technology and its incorporation into all areas of the national economy, welfare, and security.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERichard Fujimoto, chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering and interim director of the Institute for Data and High Performance Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a member of the interim Board of Directors and interim chair of the Education and Professional Development Standing Committee, one of five standing committees of the National Modeling and Simulation Coalition. He chaired the inaugural meeting for this committee at the Feb. 6 event.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cA critical issue that the committee is starting to address is how to increase the number of people trained and educated in modeling and simulation in order to meet the high workforce demand,\u201d Fujimoto said. \u201cWe are developing a national agenda that will focus in part on this issue.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe committee\u2019s work will span the entire education pipeline, including K-12, higher education, technical education and continuing education.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWithin the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, the approach is to develop education programs in computing for students \u2013 who are studying engineering, the sciences and other areas - that build up their computing capability, said Fujimoto.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe really must be focused on developing workforce needs,\u201d the CSE chair said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the event in Washington, D.C., Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer for the United States, gave the keynote address after a ceremonial ribbon cutting for the NMSC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event featured several hundred key leaders from industry, government, and academia. Also attending from Georgia Tech was Margaret Loper, a chief scientist in the Georgia Tech Research Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParticipants set the stage for the initial organizational and committee sessions and to define a detailed action plan in four key areas: Education and Professional Development, Technology Research and Development, Industrial Development, and Business Practice. The outcome of the inaugural meeting included a national action plan to broaden the use of modeling and simulation across these four key areas. This action plan will provide a road map for the modeling and simulation community and in expanding the depth and breadth of the technology and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Richard Fujimoto on Interim Board of Directors"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe National Modeling and Simulation Coalition held its Inaugural Congress on Feb. 6 in Washington D.C. Richard Fujimoto (\u003Cem\u003ECompSci \u0026amp; Eng\u003C\/em\u003E) is on the interim Board of Directors and interim chair of the Education and Professional Development Committee. \u003Cem\u003ESource: GT IDH\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The National Modeling and Simulation Coalition held its Inaugural Congress on Feb. 6 in Washington D.C. Richard Fujimoto (Computational Science \u0026 Engineering) is on the interim Board of Directors"}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2012-02-28 14:34:51","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:44","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"113131":{"id":"113131","type":"image","title":"Richard Fujimoto","body":null,"created":"1449178226","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:26","changed":"1475894731","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:31","alt":"Richard Fujimoto","file":{"fid":"194173","name":"fujimoto-headshot-web-04.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":99581,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg?itok=5rRG06jv"}}},"media_ids":["113131"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.idh.gatech.edu\/","title":"Institute for Data and HPC"}],"groups":[{"id":"1304","name":"High Performance Computing (HPC)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"14787","name":"computer modeling"},{"id":"579","name":"modeling and simulation"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJosh Preston\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-3845\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpreston@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}