<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Matthew Realff , NSF Program Director
of Service Enterprise Engineering, </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">is helping to organize a workshop on
"Open Standards" with NIST on the<br>
12-13th of March 2006 in Washington DC. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The workshop will have discussions around
the creation of open standards and<br>
their role in manufacturing and ehealth. One one of the expected
outcomes<br>
from the workshop will be definitions of testbeds that will be helpful
for<br>
the academic community to test algorithms on and in particular the<br>
representation of data for health systems optimization.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This is an initiative across NSF divisions
and involves two other PO's, Stephen Nash and Abhi Deshmuk,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Matthew's is looking to establish "moonshot"
problems that can be used to make the case for the participation of OR
in the development of the next generation of cyberinfrastructure. We
could think of these as being advanced testbeds. There will be significant
investments made in this infrastructure, and the physicists, geologists
etc are way ahead inside of NSF in terms of articulating their needs for
what this infrastructure needs to be. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you have any thoughts about how we
could develop at least the outlines of these types of moonshot problems,
this would be a very helpful contribution.</font><font size=3 face="sans-serif">
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Matthew's email address is </font><font size=1 face="sans-serif"><b>mrealff@nsf.gov</b></font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font>
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Robin Lougee-Heimer<br>
IBM TJ Watson Research Center<br>
1101 Kitchawan Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598<br>
ph: 914-945-3032 fax: 914-945-3434 <br>
robinlh@us.ibm.com<br>
http://www.coin-or.org<br>
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