Tuesday, September 25, 2001

Science Foundation Awards $12-Million to Project for Sharing Science Resources Online By MICHAEL BLASENSTEIN The National Science Foundation has awarded $12-million to a consortium of universities and nonprofit education organizations to develop "middleware" that will allow scholars to share scientific instruments and data online, and to collaborate over the Internet. Some of the applications envisioned by administrators of the project, known as the NSF Middleware Initiative, are sharing of supercomputing systems, telescopes, modeling software, databases, and other scientific resources. The recipients are: Educause, an nonprofit association of colleges that are dedicated to furthering higher education through information technology The Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California's School of Engineering Internet2, a consortium of more than 180 U.S. universities working to develop the next generation of online technologies The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The center develops high-performance computing, networking, and information technologies. The Southeastern Universities Research Association, a consortium of 59 universities in the southern U.S. The University of California at San Diego The University of Chicago The University of Wisconsin at Madison Easy-to-print version E-mail this article

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