Ian Foster

MidWest Grid Workshop

The MidWest Grid Workshop will be held at the University of Illinois in Chicago on March 24 and 25. From the Web page

The aim of the workshop is to give the students a basic foundation in distributed computing, and valuable hands-on training in computing techniques. The workshop introduces essential skills that will be needed by students in the natural and applied sciences, engineering, and computer science to conduct and support scientific analysis in the emerging grid computing environment.

Participants will work with some of the world's leading experts in grid computing, through a blend of lectures, discussions and hands-on computing exercises on large-scale grid hardware and software resources.

New Computation Institute Website

Thanks to Beth Cerny Patino (architect and implementor) and Mike Papka (CI senior fellow, and chair of the CI infrastructure committee) we have a new Computation Institute web site. There is much more to be done, but this is a big step forward. We'll be adding more information in the near future on our fellows and staff; their current activities and future plans; and our perspectives on computation and its current and future role in science and society (among other things).