I. Executive Summary

II. Research Accomplishments

1. Introduction
   Intoductory Collage
   
   
2. Enabling Technologies

   	Networking
   	Networks and the Internet
   	Information-Wide-Area-Year (I-WAY)
   	High Performance Systems
   	Software for High Performance Computing
   	Security and Privacy, and Electronic Commerce
   	Visualization, Virtual Reality, and Human-Machine Interfaces
   	Digital Libraries

   
   
3. Applications
   

   	Weather Modeling
   	The Environment and Energy Management
   	Manufacturing - Design, Processes, and Products
   	Health Care and Biomedical Imaging
   	Education, Lifelong Learning, and Access to Information
   	Biomedicine, Biomechanics, and Molecular Biology
   	Advances in Membrane Simulations
   	Progress in Predicting Protein Folding
   	Computational Chemistry
   	Materials Sciences
   	Computational Physics

III. HPCC Research Centers and Facilities

IV. CIC R&D Program Organization

V. Future Directions

1. CIC R&D Directions
   Program Component Areas
   
   
2. Planned FY 1997 CIC R&D Activities by Program Component Area
   
   
3. Agency HPCC Budgets by Program Component Area

VI. CIC R&D Summary

1. CIC R&D Goals and Agencies
   
   
2. Evaluation Criteria for CIC R&D Programs
   
   
3. Committee on Computing, Information, and Communications
   
   
4. CIC R&D Subcommittee

VII. Glossary

VIII. Contacts