Participant Support for the 2016 NSF CyberBridges Workshop

计算已经成为全球人类社会的一个普遍组成部分，并推动了国家设计和生产商品、提供服务和开展业务的方式的根本转变。 新一代的计算和数据支持的科学和工程教师已经出现，对他们来说，计算是他们工作中无缝和不可分割的一部分。 教师在学科社区内工作方式的转变，包括新形式的数字奖学金以及跨学科和多学科的协作努力，给他们在各自领域产生影响以及赢得机构和学科认可的道路上带来了当代挑战。为了应对支持跨学科网络基础设施（CI）研究和教育的挑战，CI社区现在迫切需要认识到这些挑战的根本原因以及克服这些挑战的潜在解决方案。 本次研讨会的具体目标是1）确定构成跨学科CI研究和教育挑战的根本原因的优先问题领域，以及2）设计一套初步的战略，方法和潜在的解决方案，可以在个人，组织和/或国家层面实施，以改善这些问题。 因此，它与NSF促进科学进步的使命是一致的。这些目标将通过收集前四次网络桥梁研讨会的智慧和进行重点讨论和解决问题的会议来实现。本次研讨会的长期目标是提高CI社区对阻碍进步和影响早期和中期职业跨学科CI教师的挑战的认识，并促进在社区层面采取战略以减轻这些挑战。 预计更广泛的影响将是重大的。 PI制定了详细的计划，招募来自不同背景的与会者，包括CI用户和CI贡献者，以及来自代表性不足的群体的与会者。 这可能有助于为网络基础设施研究人员和教育工作者创造一个职业道路模型。 从长远来看，创建的路线图可能有助于科学的进步，更好地激励和准备科学工作者。

Computing has become a pervasive part of the global human society and has powered a radical transformation in the ways in which the nation designs and produces goods, delivers services, and conducts business. A new generation of faculty in computational- and data-enabled science and engineering have emerged for whom computing is a seamless and integral part of their work. The shift in the way in which faculty work within disciplinary communities that includes new forms of digital scholarship as well as interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaborative efforts has created contemporary challenges on their path to make an impact in their fields as well as earning institutional and disciplinary recognition. To meet the challenges of supporting interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure (CI) research and education, it is now urgent for the CI community to recognize the fundamental causes for these challenges and the potential solutions to overcome these challenges. The specific objectives of this workshop are to 1) identify priority problem areas that constitute the fundamental causes of the challenges in interdisciplinary CI research and education, and 2) devise an initial set of strategies, approaches, and potential solutions that could be implemented at a personal, organizational, and/or national level to ameliorate these problems. Thus, it is aligned with NSF's mission in promoting progress in science.These objectives will be achieved by harvesting wisdom from the prior four CyberBridges workshops and conducting focused discussion and problem-solving sessions. The long-term goal of this workshop is to raise the awareness in the CI community of the challenges that impede progress and affect early and mid career interdisciplinary CI faculty, and to promote the adoption of strategies at community level to mitigate these challenges. The broader impact is expected to be significant. The PIs has elaborate plans for recruitment of attendees from diverse backgrounds, both CI-users and CI-contributors, and including those from underrepresented groups. This may help create a model for career pathways for cyberinfratstructure researchers and educators. In the long term, the roadmap created may contribute to advancement of science with better-motivated and prepared scientific workforce.