Toward a National Collaboratory: Establishing the User/ Developer Partnership

该奖项授予国家科学院/国家研究委员会计算机科学与技术委员会（CSTB），以召集一个研究委员会，将技术开发人员和用户聚集在一起，制定支持国家合作实验室所需的具体研究议程。协作实验室，是一个完整的计算机和通信支持环境的术语，用于远程和现场科学调查。这包括对分布式数据库的访问、对仪器的远程控制，以及其他功能，以使科学家团队能够进行科学工作，而不是彼此或他们的科学仪器配置在一起。国家科学技术委员会将确定将从加强合作能力中显著受益的重大科学努力；它将通过一系列涉及开发人员和潜在用户的讲习班来评估这些项目的需要和要求。将编写一份报告，概述讲习班的调查结果及其对国家合作实验室研究议程的影响。估计该报告将于1992年初印发。

This award is to the National Academy of Science/National Research Council Computer Science and Technology Board (CSTB) to convene a study committee that brings together technology developers and users to develop the specific research agenda necessary to support a national collaboratory. Collaboratory, is the term for a complete computer and communications support environment for remote and in situ scientific investigation. This includes access to distributed data bases, remote control of instrumentation, and other features to enable scientific work by teams of scientists not collocated with each other or their scientific instruments. The CSTB will identify major scientific efforts that would significantly benefit from an enhanced collaboration ability; it will assess the needs and requirements of these projects through a series of workshops involving both developers and potential users. A report summarizing the workshop findings and their implications for a national collaboratory research agenda will be prepared. It is estimated that the report will be available early in 1992.