Association Speakers
Speakers
before the Presidential Advisory Committee
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American
Library Association (ALA)
Carol Henderson
Executive Director, Washington Office
Contact number: (202) 628-8410
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The American Library Association, founded in 1876,
is the oldest and largest national library association in the
world. Its concern spans all types of libraries: state, public,
school and academic libraries; special libraries serving persons
in government, commerce and industry, the arts, the armed services,
hospitals, prisons, and other institutions. With a membership
of libraries, librarians, library trustees, and other interested
persons from every state and many countries of the world, the
association is the chief advocate for the people of the United
States in their search for the highest quality of library and
information services. The Association maintains a close working
relationship with more than 70 other library associations in
the United States, Canada, and other countries, and it works
closely with many other organizations concerned with education,
research, cultural development, recreation, and public service.
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Southeastern
University Research Association (SURA)
Doug Gale
Assistant Vice President, Information Systems and Services,
The George Washington University
Contact number: (202) 994-6005
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The Southeastern Universities Research Association
(SURA) is a consortium of forty-one universities in 13 southeastern
states and the District of Columbia established in 1980 as a
nonstock, nonprofit corporation. Generally, the organization's
purpose is to serve as an entity through which colleges, universities,
and other organizations may cooperate with one another and with
government and other organizations in acquiring, developing,
and using laboratories, machines, and other research facilities
and in furthering knowledge in the physical, biological, and
other natural sciences and engineering.
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Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
Bonnie Neas
Director, Information Technology Services,
North Dakota State University
Contact number: (701) 231-8640
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EPSCoR's basic premise is that academic research
activity underpins a state's overall Research and Development
(R&D) competitiveness. Its goal, therefore, is to bring
participant states' science and engineering research endeavors
at academic institutions to nationally competitive levels. This
improvement is designed to increase these states' science and
engineering research capability and hence their overall R&D
competitiveness.
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Adopting a pro-active role, the NSF has cooperated
with state leaders in government, higher education, and business
to establish productive long-term partnerships. In each state
the NSF's role is catalytic in nature and is designed to stimulate
local action that will result in lasting improvements to the
state's research infrastructure and increased national R&D
competitiveness. Significant local investment in graduate research
and training is a characteristic of the NSF/state partnership.
Over EPSCoR's history, the NSF has invested over $145 million,
while the states have provided about $300 million in support
of increased R&D competitiveness.
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Computer
Systems Policy Project (CSPP)
Ken Kay
Executive Director
Contact number: (202) 393-1010
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Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) member
companies include: Apple, Compaq, Data General, Digital Equipment,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NCR, Silicon Graphics, Stratus Computer,
Sun Microsystems, Tandem, and Unisys. CSPP CEOs develop and
advocate public policy positions on trade and technology issues.
Viewing both as interrelated, CSPP has offered thoughtful public
policy proposals on market access, antidumping, and export control
policy. CSPP has also made recommendations to the government
on critical technology initiatives such as the National Information
Infrastructure, federal R&D support, and federal laboratory
research. CSPP continues to work on these and other issues that
will help their industry, and others, meet the challenges of
a leadership role in a global marketplace.
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RCI,
Ltd.
Richard (Dick) Sherman
President
Contact number: (612) 858-8830
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RCI, Ltd. is a member-based international consortium
of leading-edge users and progressive vendors of high performance
computing for commercial and technical applications. Over the
years, RCI has received worldwide recognition for its significant
contributions to the growth of HPC and advanced information
technology. With activities that span the globe, no other HPC
consortium offers both users and vendors the immediate and long-range
strategic benefits of membership in RCI. Each year, RCI sponsors
several membership-based forums in the U.S. and Europe, with
future forums planned for Japan, Asia/the Pacific Rim. RCI forums
provide an opportunity for members to keep abreast of the issues
most critical to their success as users or vendors of high performance
computing solutions. Via presentations, panel sessions, round
tables and informal discussions, members who attend RCI symposia/
conferences get top management's perspective on the current
trends and emerging issues in HPC technology and learn how to
employ the newest developments in HPC to their organizations'
competitive advantage.
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Coalition
of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC)
Sue Fratkin
Washington Liaison
Contact number: (202) 265-5410
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The Coalition of Academic Supercomputing Centers
(CASC), established in 1989, represents the high performance
computing and communications infrastructure. CASC members are
committed to using high performance computing and communications
technology to increase national competitiveness, improve workforce
training, advance economic development, enhance education, and
build the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
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1. Society
for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
John Guckenheimer
President
Professor of Mathematics and Director for Center of Applied
Mathematics,
Cornell University
Contact number: (607) 255-4336
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Inspired by the vision that applied mathematics
should play an important role in advancing science and technology
in industry, a small group of professionals from academe and
industry met in Philadelphia in 1951 to start an organization
whose members would meet periodically to exchange ideas about
the uses of mathematics in industry. This meeting led quickly
to the organization of the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM). The goals of SIAM were to: Advance the application
of mathematics to science and industry; Promote mathematical
research that could lead to effective new methods and techniques
for science and industry; Provide media for the exchange of
information and ideas among mathematicians, engineers, and scientists.
These goals haven't changed; they are more valid today than
ever before.
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SIAM fosters the development of the methodologies
needed in these application areas. It is fitting that the acronym
SIAM also represents the society's slogan -- Science and Industry
Advance with Mathematics. Just as applied mathematics has grown,
so has SIAM Membership -- from a few hundred in the early 1950s
to more than 9,000 today. SIAM members are applied and computational
mathematicians, computer scientists, numerical analysts, engineers,
statisticians, and mathematics educators. They work in industrial
and service organizations, universities, colleges, and government
agencies and laboratories all over the world. In addition, SIAM
has over 300 institutional members -- colleges, universities,
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