Participant Support for the 2016 NSF CyberBridges Workshop

计算已经成为全球人类社会无处不在的一部分，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性变革。在计算和数据启用的科学和工程领域出现了新一代教员，对他们来说，计算是他们工作中无缝和不可或缺的一部分。教师在学科社区内工作方式的转变，包括新形式的数字学术，以及跨学科和多学科的协作努力，在他们在各自领域产生影响以及获得机构和学科认可的道路上，带来了当代的挑战。为了应对支持跨学科网络基础设施(CI)研究和教育的挑战，现在迫切需要CI社区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。该讲习班的具体目标是：1)确定构成跨学科传播与信息研究和教育挑战的根本原因的优先问题领域；2)制定一套可在个人、组织和/或国家层面实施以改善这些问题的初步战略、方法和可能的解决方案。因此，它与NSF在促进科学进步方面的使命是一致的。这些目标将通过从前四次CyberBridge研讨会中收集智慧并开展有针对性的讨论和解决问题的会议来实现。该讲习班的长期目标是提高传播界对阻碍进展并影响职业生涯早期和中期跨学科传播学教师的挑战的认识，并促进在社区一级采用战略来缓解这些挑战。更广泛的影响预计将是巨大的。私人投资机构为招募来自不同背景的与会者制定了详细的计划，包括来自代表人数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的模型。从长远来看，创建的路线图可能有助于科学进步，拥有更有积极性和更有准备的科学队伍。

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.