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Information Technology Frontiers for a New Millenium
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The Federal Information Technology Research and Development (IT R&D) Programs
conduct long-term research and development activities to assure continuing
U.S. leadership in computing, information, and communications and to enable
Federal departments and agencies to fulfill their missions successfully
in the 21st century. This report summarizes the FY 2000 goals, objectives,
and accomplishments of the IT R&D programs by Program Component Area (PCA),
and presents an overview of some of the FY 2001 plans in each PCA.
The PCAs are:
- HECC: High End
Computing and Computation, including
HEC I&A High
End Computing Infrastructure and Applications
HEC R&D High End Computing Research and Development
- HCI&IM:
Human Computer Interface and Information Management
- LSN: Large Scale
Networking, including the Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI)
and Scalable Information Infrastructure (SII) activities
- SDP: Software Design
and Productivity
- HCSS: High Confidence
Software and Systems
- SEW: Social, Economic,
and Workforce Development Implications of IT and IT Workforce Development
The report also contains special sections
on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), the
Federal Information Services Applications Council (FISAC), DOE's Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), the Digital Libraries Initiative
(DLI) Phase Two, and the National Computational Science Alliance's (Alliance's)
Access Grid.
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