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National Science Foundation’s
Town Hall Meeting on
GENI—Global Environment for Networking Innovations
July 13-14, 2006
San Francisco, CA
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The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is planning a new initiative, “Global Environment for Networking Innovations” (GENI), to explore new networking capabilities that will advance science and stimulate innovation and economic growth. GENI’s goal is to increase the quality and quantity of experimental research outcomes in networking and distributed systems, and to accelerate the transition of these into products and services that will enhance economic competitiveness and help to secure the nation's future. Ultimately, the research enabled by GENI is expected to lead to a next-generation of network capabilities and services.
Specifically, the GENI initiative envisions the creation of new networking and distributed system architectures that, for example:
- Build in security and robustness;
- Enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including mobile, wireless and sensor networks;
- Enable secure control and management of other critical infrastructures;
- Include ease of operation and usability; and
- Foster new classes of societal-level services and applications.
The GENI initiative includes a research program and a global experimental facility designed to explore new architectures, distributed systems and networked applications at scale.
CRA organized the National Science Foundation Town Hall Meeting, July 13-14, 2006, to gather broad community input about GENI that will be used to further inform and refine the design of the GENI facility plan.
A webcast of the San Francisco GENI Town Hall Meeting is here. Please note that you will be asked to log in to view it. This information will not be used for purposes other than those related to GENI.
Questions? Contact CRA's Dana Neill, dneill [at] cra.org
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