Concurrent Breakout Session II: Friday, January 13Discussion with Deborah Crawford, Directorate for Computer and

Information Science and Engineering (CISE), NSFFacilitator: Alan Greenberg, MAST Center Executive Director

Wide range of relevant computer/information systems expertise represented by attending directors

Center interests summarized and potential NSF interactions explored

Agreement on desirability of higher-level “TIE-type” program

Best mechanism: CISE-sponsored workshop to explore possibilities in more detail

• Include center directors and possibly selected industry sponsors as well as relevant NSF program directors

• Showcase center science and technology activities• Objective: create model program applicable to computer/information sciences as well as other

technology clusters represented within I/UCRC programDeborah Crawford will work with the following Center directors to arrange

the workshop: Bojan Cukic, Ram Mohan, Charles Petty, Jag Sarangapani Bruce Thompson, and Chris Wilkinson