CNI Spring 2024 Membership Meeting
March 25-26, 2024
Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter
#CNI24s
Opening Plenary
Computing Futures in a Changing World
Daniel A. Reed
Monday, Mar. 25, 1:00–2:15 pm PT
The computing ecosystem writ large is in extraordinary flux, with profound implications for research and discovery, economic competitiveness, and national security. From the geopolitics of semiconductor foundries, their exponentially rising costs, and the slowing of Moore’s Law through the rise of cloud hyperscalers and shifting loci of economic leverage to the profound and uncertain effects of deep learning and artificial intelligence, the future promises to be qualitatively different from the past. Overlaying these technical and economic issues are equally important questions of policy, law, and ethics, strategic research investment, and STEM workforce development. This talk will discuss these challenges, how we reached this point, some opportunities, and where we might go.
Daniel A. Reed is the Presidential Professor in Computational Science at the University of Utah, where he previously served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs (Provost). He has served in a variety of senior academic and industry roles, including as Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa and as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Technology Policy and Extreme Computing. Before joining Microsoft, he was the founding director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
Dr. Reed is currently chair of the U.S. National Science Board (NSB), which provides oversight for the U.S. National Science Foundation and a member of the Internet2 Board of Trustees. Dr. Reed has served as a member of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and the U.S. President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). He is the past chair of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA), which represents PhD-granting computer science departments in North America. As chair of CRA, he was one of the co-founders of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), responsible for envisioning new ideas on computing research.
Dr. Reed is a Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS. He received his B.S. from Missouri University of Science and Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University, all in computer science.
Closing Session: Community Conversation
Tuesday, Mar. 26, 3:00–3:30 pm PT
The overall meeting schedule has been adjusted to accommodate more breakouts and there will not be formal closing plenary. Instead, the meeting will close with something new: a lightly structured half-hour interactive session, which will allow meeting participants to share what most captivated or surprised them at the meeting and any big takeaways. This will leave attendees with a greater sense of synthesis and engagement of shared insights and collaborative purpose. Short reflections will be invited from all who wish to share them (or at least as many as there is time to accommodate). This session will not be recorded.