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CASCI
Center for Advancing the Study of CyberInfrastructure
About
The Center for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure (CASCI) at
RIT is a new, fundamentally "virtual", research center within the
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The Center is
motivated by the opportunities of computing disciplines to advance
modern science and engineering research, the so-called
cyberinfrastructure initiative. The new center serves as an umbrella
organization encompassing several independent specialty laboratories
and recruits faculty across the Institute to participate in
multidisciplinary efforts.
The center's primary mission is to enhance education and research
afforded by emerging cyberinfrastructure through research, education
and service. The research activities of the new center focus on the
framework supporting science and engineering research and directly
support domain-specific informatics. This research serves a fundamental
role for the faculty and students in the Ph.D. program in the Golisano
College. The result is a center that addresses a most critical singular
goal: "To join the [computing] community with scientific and
engineering disciplines to build a high-performance, networked system
of distributed computing, storage, visualization capabilities, and
sensors on an unprecedented scale with national, and ultimately global,
presence."
Mission
The mission of the CASCI is multifold, including:
- Encourage innovation, scholarship, and entrepreneurship in
domain-specific informatics
- Enhance the Institute's computing environment for research in
science and engineering
- Manage, protect, and maintain shared computing infrastructure
and resources
- Provide service to the RIT research community in all areas of
Cyberinfrastructure
Goals
The primary objective of the CASCI is to create faculty/students and
industry/government ventures to study and implement furture
Cyberinfrastructure technologies for solving computing problems in
focused domains where we do renowned local expertise in the Institute.
Key specific goals are:
- Ensure that the center's community (stakeholders) benefit from
its activities by promplty disseminatin intellectual production in the
appropriate form and by building innovative laboratories with critical
mass of faculty, students and resources bridging disciplines so as to
have greater impact within the college, RIT, and externally.
- Provide faculty satisfaction, motivation (support), and venture
opportunities by acting as a catalyst for the study and application of
Cyberinfrastructure technologies to foster faculty participation in
collaborative research and to develop multi-college research
collaboration and strong partnerships and to provide multidisciplinary
education including exploring entirely new and emerging areas of
expertise.