National Workshop on Future Sensing Systems to be held August 26-28, 2002

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A National Workshop on Future Sensing SystemsSummary and ObjectivesRecent technological advancements in material science, micro fabrication of MEMS, andbioengineered systems, have made the dream of inexpensive, powerful, ubiquitous sensing areadily achievable reality. With ubiquitous sensing comes extreme amounts of data, when the enduser actually wants information (decisions and answers). Integration of distributed computingand extremely dispersed networking with new sensor technologies and wireless communicationsinnovations, has the potential to overcome barriers of time, scale, materials and environment.Sensor informatics has not been seen as fundamental to the sensor community to date, althoughall experts polled for this document agreed it is central to real-time usability.We propose a National Workshop on future Sensing Systems - a vehicle to start researchers onthe road to integrating the possibilities being developed by the many interests working in thecommon space. The workshop will focus on exposing future abilities of various disciplinesworking on new sensor science to other researchers possibly doing similar or complimentarywork in their local space. Integration of industrial research and application development willprovide that pull and an avenue to large-scale, inexpensive production. An example is the currentavailability of rugged, highly accurate, MEMS accelerometers due to their application asautomotive air-bag triggers. It is hoped, for instance, that the medical researchers will becomeaware of advanced imaging technologies developed by DARPA to image non-metallic structuralpieces, and can become an improvement on existing bio-imaging techniques. We hope to pushthe community to (1) move from merely providing data to providing information and answers; (2)build road maps for long-term research; (3) build broad partnerships; and (4) address educationalneeds.These opportunities and problems are common to many agencies of Government, as well asindustry and academia, and is to be sponsored by Sensors Technology, NSF Division of Civil andMechanical Systems, with co-sponsorship from Dynamic Systems and Control (CMS), DARPA,NIH, DOE, NIST, NASA, AFOSR, ONR, ARO, ARL, and NRL. We are expecting over 100attendees, with 70 of them university researchers for whom all expenses will be covered by thisproposal. The hard deliverable to NSF will be a workshop report which will serve as the leadingedge for future of sensor-oriented research at the Civil and Mechanical Systems Division, NSF.The report will be written by the co-PIs (Glaser and Pister) with extensive guidance and inputfrom the steering committee and participants. The report will be presented to NSF by 15 January,2003.