1. Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute – briefing for CACR
Craig A. Stewart
Executive Director, PTI;
Associate Dean, Research Technologies, OVPIT;
Adjunct professor, School of Informatics & Computing
ORCID ID

2. We were writing proposals like it was 1999 (it was)
The Indiana Pervasive Computing RESearch Initiative (IPCRES) – first of several large grants from Lilly Endowment, Inc. to IU
“…a partnership between Indiana University and the Lilly Endowment to develop a world-class research and development capability in Indiana in some of the fundamental technologies that will drive the 21st century information economy, and an initiative focused on developing the growth of the information economy in Indiana.”
Led to the creation of the Pervasive Technology Labs and funding that helped build up the IU School of Informatics and Computing
What were we thinking/smoking with that name and the budget plans? And where can I get some more of that?

3. Evolution of PTL and PTI
$30M first round funding for PTL in Labs:
Community Grids Labs
Open Source Lab
Advanced Network Management Lab
KAPLab (Knowledge Acquisition and Projection)
Visualization and Interactive Spaces Lab
Scientific Visualization Lab
$15M second round funding in 2008 to transform PTL to IU PTI – the IU Pervasive Technology Institute. With this came realignment of PTI into three centers:
Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
Data to Insight Center
Digital Science Center
Lilly awards are now complete, and PTI is sustained by IU and federal funding.
Presidential commitment to sustain PTI remains

4. What is PTI today? Leadership: Craig Stewart, Executive Director
Beth Plale, Science Director
Afffiliated Centers:
Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research – Von Welch, Director
Data To Insight Center – Beth Plale, Director
Digital Science Center – Geoffrey Fox, Director
National Center for Genome Analysis Support – Bill Barnett, Director
Research Technologies Division of UITS – Craig Stewart
IU Subunits involved:
College of Arts and Sciences
Maurer School of Law
OVPIT
SOIC

5. PTI accomplishments as of end of Lilly
Cultivating innovation in science and scholarship. PTL+PTI together:
1,796 publications
73 Invention disclosures: 5 licensed; 2 patents
Fostering student engagement in research and translational scholarship.
202 students – 63 Ph.D. and postdocs; 68 MS; 21 undergraduates
Nurturing new jobs and new businesses in the state of Indiana
Helped attract Cigital (a market leader in cybersecurity) to Bloomington
ChalkLabs in Bloomington, a report-generating software developer
Bloominglabs in Bloomington, a ‘makerspace’ of rented space where developers gather to build projects
Precise Path Robotics in Indianapolis, manufactures robotic lawn mowers
Wisdom Tools in Bloomington, conducts educational research and instructional design
Achieving increased grant activity
Total of $172,141,076 over 15 years - $36,039,591 (PTL) + $136,101,485 (PTI)

6. Job creation in Indiana

7. Going forward Some potential areas of innovation:
Big Data and textual analysis
Cybersecurity
Polar research
Cloud computing and “long tail of science”
Sustainability
Riding two horses

8. Big Data and Text Analysis
HathiTrust is a consortium of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. The founding members are: University of Michigan, Indiana University, University of California, and University of Virginia. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain and, in the future, on limited terms to works in-copyright from the HathiTrust. The HTRC is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

9. A national collaboration of 4 supercomputing centers, led by IU
High performance systems for analysis:
Mason (large memory), Big Red II, Karst
Software support and gateways to lower barriers to access
Galaxy workflows, Assembly (Trinity), annotation and other downstream analyses
Research design and bioinformatics software consulting
Research data storage
Reference data from national repositories, project data storage, data archiving and publishing
Transport via Internet2 at 100 Gigabits/second
Globus online and other file transfer and file transformation tools
If the word cyberinfrastructure isn’t paved into your heads yet…

10. IU Polar Research – Forward Observer

11. Our situation – riding two horses
A key point for CACR is
more focus on
services to IU and
Indiana going forward
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12. What next? IUPTI is about inventing the future
IUPTI is an important vehicle for
Research, development, deployment activity that crosses particularly academic/non-academic boundaries
R, D&D that crosses interdisciplinary boundaries
Some reshaping of our message and our mission going forward
What do we want to do going forward?
What do we want to do / focus on and what do we do particularly well
Create a capability that researchers at IU wish to associate with
Become a partner of choice for construction awards
Create innovative new (service) capabilities
Translation of software to practice – quality delivery well enough usable that it can be used by domain scientists who are not computational science experts
More impact on state
A role for PTI in IU grant challenges?
Branding: IUPTI (Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute) – parallel with IUNI

13. We Are Living the Myth of Sisyphus
"The struggle itself...is enough to fill a [person’s] heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
–Albert Camus
Sisyphys ( ) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

14. Discussion?
One comment on one of the things I am most proud of in my role with PTI
Contact:
Or me:
And I will make for CACR staff the same offer I make for everyone in RT