Organized by: X. Liu, P. Mohapatra, K. Kant Workshop on Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability (WICS) in conjunction with SECON 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah Monday June 27, 2011 Organized by: X. Liu, P. Mohapatra, K. Kant

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Vast Arid Lands K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Extreme Events K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/2018

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Species Extinction Rate K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/2018

Population Growth K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/2018

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Lots of opportunities for multidisciplinary research K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Sustainability Environment Economy Society National Academy of Sciences definition: Interactions between natural and social systems and how those interactions affect the challenge of …meeting the needs of present and future generations while … conserving the planet’s life support systems Sustainability Economy Environment Society After 4 decades of studying these issues, I’ve concluded that energy is the core of the environment problem, environment is the core of the energy problem, and resolving the energy-economy-environment dilemma is the core of the sustainable well-being -- John Holdren, OSTP (FY 2012) K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Role of Computing & Comms Mgmt & efficient use of critical resources Fuels, Energy, Water, materials, agricultural land, … Biodiversity and eco-system mgmt Species survival/migration, invasive species, forest cover, oceanic health & sea-life, … Societal well being Health & disease mgmt, water & energy availability & quality, agriculture & its impact, adaptation to climate change, … Disaster management Increasingly frequent fires, hurricanes, floods, … Securing Information Infrastructure under disasters Understanding Climate Change Comprehensive monitoring (land, sea, ice, air, …) Complex multi-level modeling & its acceleration K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Do we have what it takes? Do we have the technologies? Monitoring & data collection Wild & inaccessible areas, Oceanic health monitoring, Rapidly changing Arctic/Antarctic Large scale disaster scenarios Scalability Planet scale monitoring Exascale & beyond: data handling & computing (climate modeling) Complexity Multi-scale, partial data, varying granularity, varying precision, varying reliability. Can we develop/deploy them effectively? Inter-disciplinary engagement at research level Social, behavioral, economic, legal, … aspects must be integrated K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Workshop Goals Challenges Opportunities Identify some focus areas in sustainability ripe for exploitation by CS researchers Advances required to address these. Opportunities Many emerging opportunities (NSF SEES, DoE, USDA, …) How can the community take advantage of these? Enabling inter-disciplinary education/research Training next generation of CS graduates? Training domain science students in CS? Creating support infrastructure? K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Logistics Schedule Reimbursements Dinner, Red Iguana, bus K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018

Workshop Schedule Registration and breakfast 7:30am-8:30am Registration and breakfast 8:30am-9:00am Introduction by Workshop Chairs and NSF Officials 9:00am – 10:40am (Session I) Algorithmic Decision Theory and Sustainability, Fred Roberts, Rutgers University Smart Distribution Grid: Communications Perspective, Mani Venkata, Univ. of Washington 21st Century Energy Market Requirements for Information and Communications Technologies, Gerold Braun, UC Davis Sensor Networks in Sustainability, Jim Kurose, Univ. of Massachusetts 10:40am -11:00am Coffee break 11:00am-12:30pm First Breakout Session 12:30am – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm – 3:10pm (Session II) Addressing the Energy-Water Nexus in Sustainable Buildings and Communities, Mani Srivastava, UCLA Computational Sustainability, Carla Gomes, Cornell Sensing and Sensibility of Energy Use in Modern Buildings, Rajesh Gupta, UCSD IT For Sustainability: Challenges in Designing Smarter and Greener Systems, Prashant Shenoy, Univ. of Massachusetts 3:10pm – 3:20pm Coffee Break 3:20pm – 4:35pm (Session III) Sustainable Networks for Green Clouds,  Sujata Banerjee, HP labs Pervasive Computing for Sustainability, Mohan Kumar, University of Texas, Arlington Spatial Computing and Sustainability, Shashi Shekhar, Univ. of Minnesota 4:35pm – 5:30pm Second Breakout Session (w/ coffee) 5:30pm – 6:00pm Report and next step 6:00pm – 8:00pm Dinner K. Kant, WICS Introductory Remarks 11/15/201811/15/2018