Support for the Second Engineering Conference

这笔赠款资助了第二次工程会议，这是为网络科学和工程基础设施的设计者和实验者计划举行的系列会议中的第二次会议。会议将举行两天，在会议开始前有一个“新来者”会议。会议将由邀请发言者参加的全体会议和工作组会议组成。第二次会议的具体目标是：1.以2007年秋季在明尼苏达大学举行的第一次工程会议上形成的社区意识为基础；2.使工作组为更积极的努力步伐做好准备；以及3.使未来的愿景与具体的工程挑战相协调。本次会议以及本系列的所有后续会议对网络科学和工程的基础设施设计至关重要。如果在未来发展这样的基础设施，将使新型的网络科学和工程研究成为可能。例如，不能在今天的试验台上进行的实验有望揭示对网络行为、性能、设计、安全和经济的新的科学见解和理解。此外，新产品将产生，也将为行业带来新的机遇。这些会议提供了一个场所，让业界、研究人员、学生、国际参与者和机构项目主管可以讨论未来的愿景以及如何最有效地管理此类努力所固有的风险。这笔赠款的资金将增加第二届会议的多样性--包括与会者和发言者--并在“新来者”会议期间教育新与会者。

This grant funds the Second Engineering Conference, the second conference in a projected series for designers and experimenters of a network science and engineering infrastructure. The conference will be held over two days with a "newcomers" session prior to the start of the conference. The conference will consist of a mix of plenary sessions with invited speakers and working group meetings. The particular goals of this second conference are: 1. To build on the sense of community that developed at the First Engineering Conference held at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 2007; 2. Prepare the Working Groups for a more aggressive pace of effort; and 3. Reconcile future visions with concrete engineering challenges.This conference and all subsequent conferences in this series are critical to the design of infrastructure for network science and engineering. If such an infrastructure is developed in the future, new kinds of network science and engineering research will be enabled. Experiments that cannot be carried out on today's testbeds promise to reveal new scientific insights and understanding of network behavior, performance, design, security, and economics, for example. In addition, new products will result as well as new opportunities for industry. These conferences provide a place where industry, researchers, students, international participants and agency program directors can discuss future visions and how to most effectively manage the risks inherent in such an endeavor. The funding from this grant will allow for increased diversity at the Second Conference -- both in attendees and speakers -- and to educate new attendees during a "newcomers" session.