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

摘要ITR/SI：社会规模的信息系统：技术，设计和应用James Demmel，加州大学伯克利分校0122599信息技术（IT）正在加速改变社会，但需要进行关键性的研究，以实现IT解决复杂社会问题的潜力，包括能源，灾害响应和教育。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，为影响个人和组织生活质量的重大挑战社会问题找到解决方案。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，加州大学圣克鲁斯和加州大学默塞德，与许多工业合作伙伴。 CITRIS的驱动应用包括（1）提高能源生产和消费的效率，（2）拯救生命和财产，以及在灾害发生后建立应急IT基础设施等。这些应用的解决方案都需要高度分布式、可靠和安全的信息系统，这些系统可以发展和适应环境的根本变化，通过自组织、灵活和容错的网络提供网络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和组织。我们把这样的系统称为社会规模信息系统。我们的研究和推广合作伙伴是加州大学默塞德，一个新的研究校园建设，具有特殊的使命，以扩大代表性不足，第一代大学，低收入和农村学生的参与。

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.