San Diego Supercomputer Center director urges academia to make cyberinfrastructure 'real'
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 13:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Comprising the "infrastructure" for the Information Age, cyberinfrastructure - the organized aggregate of information technologies, organizations, and human resources - is essential for future research advancement and discovery. In this month's EDUCAUSE Review, Dr. Fran Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, makes the case for investment in cyberinfrastructure as part of the "IT bill" for the Information Age.