{"51587":{"#nid":"51587","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Developing Visions \u0026 Creating New Research Activities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(January 5, 2007)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Professor, Associate Dean and Division Chair \u003Ca title=\u0022Ellen Zegura\u0022 href=\u0022resolveuid\/da8a79cd354406fc278a480464a8746c\u0022\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/a\u003E is currently serving on two important groups \u2013 the interim Computing Community Consortium Council (CCC) and the Computing Research Association\u2019s (CRA) Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Advisory Board. As one of the appointed experts, Zegura provides scientific leadership and vision on issues related to computing research and future large-scale computing research projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CCC was established by a National Science Foundation (NSF) cooperative agreement with CRA to identify major research opportunities and establish \u201cgrand challenges\u201d for the field. The core leadership for the CCC comes from the CCC Council that Zegura is a part of, and is described as a group with the stature, diversity and longevity needed for the CCC to be effective.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We\u0027re pleased that NSF has charged our organization with establishing the CCC,\u0022 said Dan Reed, CRA Chair and director of the Renaissance Computing Institute in North Carolina. \u0022Computing research continues to fuel the innovations that drive economic productivity. We see the CCC as a mechanism that will enable continued innovation by enhancing our community\u0027s ability to envision and pursue long-term, audacious computing research goals.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECRA recently constituted a nominating committee to generate potential appointees to the more permanent CCC Council and Chair which will replace the interim council later this year. Under a three-year, $6M agreement, the Council is responsible not for doing the visioning, but for putting processes into place that stimulate and facilitate visioning by the computing research community.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the first tasks of the CCC will be to assume the role of community proxy organization for the NSF\u0027s GENI Project, providing broad scientific oversight to its potential construction and operation. GENI is an experimental and collaborative facility with NSF and the research community. As an appointed member of the GENI\u2019s Advisory Board, Ellen Zegura works toward enabling the research community to invent and demonstrate a global communications network and related services that will be qualitatively better than today\u0027s Internet.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on GENI, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.geni.net\/overview.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more info on the CCC Council, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cra.org\/ccc\/participants.html#interimccc\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Dean Ellen Zegura, as an appointed expert to two important NSF advisory groups, provides scientific leadership on issues related to the future of large-scale computing research.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:00","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}