ITR/SI: Societal Scale Information Systems: Technologies, Design and Applications

摘要ITR/SI：社会规模信息系统：技术、设计和应用加州大学伯克利分校的James Demmel信息技术(IT)正在加速改变社会，但需要关键的研究来认识到IT在解决包括能源、灾难应对和教育在内的复杂社会问题的潜力。我们正在建立社会利益信息技术研究中心(CITRIS)，以赞助以IT为重点的协作研究，寻找解决影响个人和组织生活质量的重大社会问题的解决方案。CITRIS是一个多校区中心，包括加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学戴维斯分校、加州大学圣克鲁斯分校和加州大学默塞德分校，拥有许多行业合作伙伴。CITRIS的推动应用包括(1)提高能源生产和消费的效率，(2)拯救生命和财产，以及在灾难发生后建立应急IT基础设施等。这些应用的解决方案共享对高度分布式、可靠和安全的信息系统的需求，这些信息系统可以进化并适应其环境的根本变化，通过特别、灵活和容错的网络提供联网的信息服务和最新的传感器网络数据存储，以适应需要它们的人员和组织。我们称这样的系统为社会规模的信息系统。我们的研究和推广合作伙伴是加州大学默塞德分校，这是一个即将建设的新研究园区，其特殊使命是扩大代表不足的第一代大学毕业生、低收入家庭和农村学生的参与。

AbstractITR/SI: Societal Scale Information Systems: Technologies, design and applicationsJames Demmel, University of California, Berkeley0122599Information technology (IT) is transforming society at an accelerating pace, but critical research is needed to realize IT's potential for solving complex societal problems, including energy, disaster response and education. We are establishing the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) to sponsor collaborative, IT-focused research to find solutions to grand-challenge societal problems affecting the quality of life of individuals and organizations. CITRIS is a multi-campus center, including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced, with many industrial partners. CITRIS's driving applications include (1) boosting efficiency of energy production and consumption, and (2) saving lives and property and establishing emergency response IT infrastructure in the wake of disasters, among others. The solutions to these applications share a need for highly-distributed, reliable, and secure information systems that can evolve and adapt to radical changes in their environment, delivering networked information services and up-to-date sensor network data stores over ad-hoc, flexible and fault tolerant networks that adapt to the people and organizations that need them. We call such systems Societal-Scale Information Systems. Our research and outreach partner is UC Merced, a new research campus to be constructed, with a special mission to expand participation of underrepresented, first generation college-going, low income and rural students.