Edinburgh Data-Intensive Research - e-Science Envoy

Special Issue: Selected Papers from the 2004 U.K. e-Science All Hands Meeting

Jo.Newman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:25:30 +0000

Widening Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services

Jo.Newman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:12:46 +0000

Fostering e-Infrastructures: from user-designer relations to community engagement

Jo.Newman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:53:10 +0000

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Education and Training Task Force Report

Jo.Newman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:28:36 +0000

Strategies and Policies to Support and Advance Education in e-Science

Jo.Newman — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:37:12 +0000

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Data-intensive e-Science exploiting the Data Bonanza

Malcolm.Atkinson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:55:50 +0000

Speaker(s):

Malcolm.Atkinson

Presentation Type:

invited

The 10-years of the e-Science programme and many earlier years of e-Science have shown the critical importance of digital communication in data-intensive research and in collaboration to bring sufficient expertise to bear on challenges. A review of the 10 years of the e-Science programme shows that the significant positive outcomes are often years after the initial work, even though that led to major breakthroughs and achievements. As the long-tail of researchers are joining in in the use of the new methods and as the wealth of data is growing very rapidly due to many mutually reinforcing positive feedback loops, the need for high-quality networks is ever more pressing. The future JANET6 will be a key element of future data-intensive research just as its predecessors have been key to the many reported successes. The talk concludes with new example applications and some of the challenges for JANET thrown up by our experience of initiating them.

Date and time:

Tuesday, 27 September, 2011 - 14:20

Location:

JANET Strategic Briefing Day, Woburn House, 20 Tavistock square, London WC1H 9HQ

Projects:

e-Science Envoy

Research topics:

Efficient distributed systems

Data-intensive computing

Collaborative environments

Ten Steps on the Path of e-Science

Malcolm.Atkinson — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:50:30 +0000

Speaker(s):

Malcolm.Atkinson

Presentation Type:

invited

At the start of the e-Science programme we thought scale was the predominant challenge.
Within a year we realised that there were many more aspects to the challenge of empowering researchers by applying distributed computation.
We now understand that e-Science is a continuous process, progress being achieved by walking paths together discovering critical issues and inventing solutions collaboratively.

These many intertwining paths slowly reveal the intellectual and technical landscape.
In ten years we've expanded that landscape and survey a new horizon.
I will show how this landscape was revealed and offer my view of the new horizon.

Date and time:

Thursday, 16 June, 2011 - 14:00

Location:

Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University

Projects:

e-Science Envoy

Research topics:

Data-intensive computing

UK e-Science: a Jewel or a Thousand Flowers

Chee.Sun.Liew — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:08:18 +0000

Speaker(s):

Malcolm.Atkinson

Presentation Type:

invited

The global digital revolution provides a fertile and turbulent ecological environment in which e-Science is a small but vital element. There is a deep history of e-Science, but coining the term and injecting leadership and modest funds had a huge impact. A veritable explosion of activity has led to a global burst of new e-Science species. Our challenge is to understand what will enable them to thrive and yield maximum benefit as the digital revolution continues to be driven by commerce and media.

The video of the presentation is available at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=142158

Date and time:

Monday, 11 October, 2010 - 13:10

Location:

Berkeley, California, United States

Web site:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/escience2010/default.aspx

Projects:

e-Science Envoy

UK e-Science

Jano.van.Hemert — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:14:06 +0000

Speaker(s):

Malcolm.Atkinson

Presentation Type:

invited

Date and time:

Monday, 5 April, 2010 - 10:00

Location:

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Projects:

e-Science Envoy

e-Science Core Programme Senior Research Fellow

Jano.van.Hemert — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:53:45 +0000

The investment in e-Science has delivered a huge impetus to UK research programmes but it has the potential to do much more. This potential will be realised in the UK only if we sustain the development of collaborative and cooperative research behaviour. Indeed we wish to extend it to far more participants, so that all researchers, designers and decision makers have the power of advanced e-Infrastructure at their finger tips. This requires continued collaboration to build that e-Infrastructure. It requires continued R&D to stimulate and test ideas about how best to exploit e-Infrastructure and it needs a commitment to sustain the provision of e-Infrastructure so that users can commit to it. As the e-Science Envoy, this post will encourage the continued development of e-Science within the UK. As a researcher, the Fellow will tackle strategic design issues concerning long-lived e-Infrastructure, which must undergo incremental change while delivering a stable and continuous service and concerning the reliable handling of information over long periods and across multiple heterogeneous administrative domains.

This work will require pro-active engagement with the communities, organisations and government bodies that are commissioning, planning, devloping, operating and using advanced e-Infrastructure. This engagement must reach all relevant sectors of the UK and must be international, as, just like telephones and the Internet, e-Infrastructure must be international, because those who will work together using it are spread across many nations.

EP/D079829/1

Acronym:

e-Science Envoy

Web site:

http://wikis.nesc.ac.uk/escienvoy/Main_Page

Value:

£1,134,684

Dates:

1 April 2006 to 31 March 2011

Project members:

Malcolm.Atkinson

Projects:

e-Science Envoy

Project Status:

Finished