NMC Campus Observer

Computing the Future: The 3-D Net

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Mar 6, 2007 05:41pm

We have another special event coming to NMC Campus next week. On Friday, March 16, at 10 AM PST, Dr. Daniel Reed, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will visit to provide a live presentation on “Computing the Future: The 3-D Net” and you can hear him speak via our audio channel.

In this presentation, Dr. Reed will share his thoughts on:

Ten years – a geological epoch on the computing time scale. Looking back, a decade brought the web and consumer email, digital cameras and music, broadband networking, multifunction cell phones, WiFi, HDTV, telematics, multiplayer games, and electronic commerce. What will the coming decade of technology advances bring to education or research?

Join us at the Gonick Amphitheater– find your way there via this SLURL (note that people new to NMC Campus will need to join our NMC Campus group to enable teleportation here).

Dr. Daniel A. Reed has been serving as the Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since June 2004. As Vice Chancellor for IT, he is responsible for all central computing, networking and telecommunications for the campus. He also leads the formulation of vision, strategic plans and policies for University information technology. To facilitate this process, he chairs the IT Strategic Planning Committee, which he founded in 2005 at the request of Chancellor James Moeser. Reed, the key architect of many national computing initiatives, joined the University in January 2004 as the first Chancellor’s Eminent Professor. He is also director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a collaborative venture of UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, North Carolina State and the state. RENCI explores the interactions of computing technology with the sciences, arts and humanities. The institute also partners with business leaders to enhance the competitiveness of North Carolina industries.

Reed is a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the current chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA). He served on President Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), where he chaired the computational science subcommittee. Reed is a member of the Biomedical Informatics Expert Panel for the National Institutes of Health’s National Center and chairs the policy board for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Department of Energy’s high performance computing center for scientific research. For seven years, he served on the executive committee of the National Computational Science Alliance, a nationwide partnership to advance scientific discovery via high performance computing, and was principal investigator and chief architect for the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid project, an effort to build and deploy the world’s most comprehensive computing infrastructure for open scientific research.

Reed came to North Carolina in 2004 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he led the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois computer science department during a time when more than $100 million in public and private funds were invested in the campus to create an information technology quadrangle. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 as an assistant professor of computer science and headed the department from 1996 to 2001. In 2001, the University of Illinois named Reed a recipient of the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professorship in recognition of his distinguished scholarship. Reed’s research has focused on the design of very high-speed computers and on providing new computing capabilities for scholars in science, medicine, engineering and the humanities.

An Arkansas native, he received his doctorate in computer science in 1983 from Purdue University. He holds a master’s in computer science from Purdue and a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Missouri at Rolla.

Come early and make sure you get a good seat for this visionary session — for a taste of Dr Reed’s perspective on the future, visit his profile page at UNC for slides, audio, and video of his previous presentations.

Also note that we plan to provide the audio stream as well to UNC’s own island in Second Life. If you are with the University of North Carolina, please contact Kaydeekay Ariel in Second Life (Kathleen Kyzer) for information.

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