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... A major step toward realizing that potential can come from combining the interests of the scientific community at large with those of the computer science and engineering community to create integrated, tool-oriented computing and communications systems to support scientific collaboration. Such systems can be called "collaboratories." Collaboration among colleagues is a challenge for the scientific community that takes many forms, most notably the sharing of data and/or special instruments, joint authoring of papers, and cooperative research.
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... These and other human considerations shape and constrain the collaborations that do take place; in some instances they also inform the design of incentives to promote collaboration To gain insights into the motivations for collaboration among and within different fields of science, the obstacles to effective collaboration, and the potential benefits of computer-based tools for collaboration, the committee held workshops addressing these issues in the contexts of molecular biology, oceanography, and space physics, three fields that vary greatly in their use of computing and communications technology and in the applicability of the collaboratory concept. Despite these variations, all three fields share a common dependence on the collection and analysis of large amounts of data.
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... Initiate multiple and complementary activities to develop the human resources needed to carry out the coliaboratory program, including, but not limited to: A summer fellowship program to pro vine hands-on training for scientists and technologists in the use and development of collaboratory technologies in the conduct of science. Regularly scheduled national symposia for testbed principal investigators, research staff anal graduate students, providing opportunities to share information, findings, and conclusions regarding the technical aspects of building, operating, and using collaboratories.
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... The research and education components, taken together as a program, constitute a strategic effort to improve the inflation infrastructure supporting the conduct of computationally intensive science in the United States. NOTE Several successful collaborations among natural scientists and their computer science counterparts offer powerful evidence of the potential of such work: the Heuristic DENDRAL and CONGEN projects; the Stanford SUMEXAIM project; and the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine.
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