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Role of Information Sciences and Engineering in Sustainability (RISES)
A NSF/CCC Workshop on IT and the Sustainability Enterprise
Final Report Published
Updated May 10, 2011 - The workshop organizing committee has prepared a report -- Science, Engineering, and Education of Sustainability: The Role of Information Sciences and Engineering -- following on to this workshop. The report draws its ideas from the vision for basic research at the intersection of sustainability and IT that was articulated by the leading computer scientists, systems engineers, social scientists, and domain experts (including electrical and transportation engineers, environmental scientists, climate modeling experts, biologists, etc.). Click here for more details.
Overview
This workshop, Role of Information Sciences and Engineering in Sustainability (RISES), is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Computing Community Consortium. It is scheduled to be held at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill on February 3 and 4, 2011.
The goals of the workshop are to:
Explore and define fundamental research challenges and applications of the information sciences and engineering in sustainability, including energy and transportation;
Provide opportunities for relevant academic and industrial researchers (including computer and information scientists, systems engineers, social and behavioral scientists, etc.), practitioners (e.g., power systems engineers, electricity suppliers, etc.), and government officials to identify mutual interests, as they relate to both near- and long-term challenges and solutions; and
Identify a range of approaches for driving fundamental research, accelerating the translation of research outcomes into products and services affecting the "smart grid" and the broader sustainability enterprise, and incentives for widespread adoption/use of these products/services.
It is important to note that this workshop will not focus on:
Technologies where current research and/or development are well under way, e.g., power management in data centers.
Routine applications of IT to further sustainability.
Extensions of current IT practice that are broadly applicable, e.g., improving simulation techniques used in computer-aided design, or machine learning to detect trends in economics or behavior.
Routine support for eScience (but scientific studies of sustainability may present some unique problems of interest).
In summary, the aim of the workshop is to identify new research opportunities in the information sciences and engineering that address sustainability objectives. Many of these are likely to be interdisciplinary, requiring collaboration with researchers in the many areas of science and technology that will contribute to a sustainable world.
Structure
The workshop will have four half-day sessions. Each of the first three sessions will have two plenary talks followed by small-group breakout discussions to define particular research challenges, the needs of stakeholders in energy and sustainability, etc. Each of these sessions will culminate with short reports from the breakout groups. The workshop will conclude with a session in which the participants will synthesize the research opportunities defined in the earlier sessions and frame a call-to-action for the future.
Participants
The participants are being selected to represent a wide variety of interests and expertise -- i.e., to truly cover the sustainability landscape. It is anticipated that, in addition to interacting at the workshop with fellow participants coming from other disciplines and backgrounds, the participants will take the results of the workshop back to their communities to foster increased interest in innovative uses of computing and information science and engineering for sustainability.
More details about how you can participate will be made available soon. In the meantime, if you are interested in attending or have recommendations of possible attendees, please e-mail us.
Agenda
Thursday, February 3, 2011:
Registration + Continental Breakfast
7:00am - 8:15am
Registration and continental breakfast will be in the Hall of Battles (ballroom level).Opening remarks/welcome by organizers
8:15am - 8:45am
Regency C (ballroom level)Bob Sproull, Co-chair, Organizing Committee [slides]
Peter Arzberger, Acting Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, NSF
Session I
8:45am - 12:30pm
Regency C (ballroom level)| 8:45am - 9:20am → | Tim Killeen: "Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) Portfolio" [slides] |
| 9:20am - 9:55am → | Bill Rouse: "Enabling and Motivating Consumers to Manage Their Energy Consumption" [slides] |
| 9:55am - 10:30am → | Michael Meyer: "Transportation Systems and Information Technology: Pushing the Boundaries for Sustainable Outcomes" [slides] |
| 10:30am - 10:35am → | Charge to breakout groups |
| 10:35am - 10:45am → | Break/assemble in various rooms |
| 10:45am - 11:45am → | Breakout discussions (various rooms) |
| 11:45am - 11:55am → | Break/reassemble in general session room |
| 11:55am - 12:30pm → | Reports from breakout groups [ 1 - cyber-physical systems | 2 - modeling & simulation | 3 - computer & networked systems | 4 - systems engineering | 7 - human-centered computing | 8 - experimental research ] |
Lunch
12:20pm - 1:30pm
Served in the Hall of Battles (ballroom level).Session II
1:30pm - 5:15pm
Regency C (ballroom level)| 1:30pm - 2:15pm → | Government panel, moderated by Randy Bryant George Arnold, NIST Henry Kelly, DoE [slides] Eric Toone, ARPA-E [slides] |
| 2:15pm - 3:15pm → | Industry panel, moderated by Dave Waltz [slides] Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research [slides] Artie Kressner, Con Edison [slides] Steven Phillips, AT&T Labs-Research [slides] Eve Schooler, Intel Labs [slides] |
3:15pm - 3:20pm → | Charge to breakout groups |
| 3:20pm - 3:30pm → | Break/assemble in various rooms |
| 3:30pm - 4:30pm → | Breakout discussions (various rooms) |
| 4:30pm - 4:40pm → | Break/reassemble in general session room |
| 4:40pm - 5:15pm → | Reports from breakout groups [ A - transportation & logistics | D - buildings & homes | F - computing & education ] |
Break
5:15pm - 6:00pm
Reception
6:00pm - 7:30pm
Thornton (11th floor)Friday, February 4, 2010
Registration and Continental Breakfast
07:15am - 8:30am
Registration and continental breakfast will be in the Hall of Battles (ballroom level).Session III
8:30am - 12:20pm
Regency C (ballroom level)
| 8:30am - 9:05am → | Carla Gomes: "Computational Sustainability" [slides] |
| 9:05am - 9:40am → | Bill Tomlinson: "IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures" [slides] |
| 9:40am - 9:45am → | Charge to breakout groups |
| 9:45am - 9:55am → | Break/assemble in various rooms |
| 9:55am - 11:10am → | Breakout discussions (various rooms) |
| 11:10am - 11:20am → | Break/reassemble in general session room |
| 11:20am - 12:00pm → | Reports from breakout groups [ I - systems integration | II - transparency of models ] |
Lunch
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Served in the Hall of Battles (ballroom level).Session IV
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Regency C (ballroom level)| 1:30pm - 3:00pm → | Open discussion & synthesis |
