1. Computing Research for Sustainability
Chapter 3 -  Programmatic and Institutional Opportunities to Enhance Computer Science Research for Sustainability
CT10A7001 Green IT and Sustainable Computing
Professor. Jari Porras
Jose Luis Mendez Fonseca

2. Agenda Sustainability & Computer Science
Greatest Achievements of Computer Science
Toward Universality
Education and Programmatic
Evaluation & Conclusions & Opinion

3. What is exactly sustainability?
(social, environmental, and economic

4. Sustainability & Computer Science
“unique and important contributions to sustainability. To name just a few such fundamentals, consider abstraction design, algorithms, operating systems and layering, real-time systems, machine learning, human computer interaction (HCI), and databases.”

5. VS Greatest Achievements of Computer Science
“Computer Science research on sustainability is best approached from the bottom up –particular to generalize. However history of computer science shows Universality as a key focus for Computer Science’s Greatest Achievements”
Seeking Universality from the start VS

6. Toward Universality
“Computer Science researchers and practitioners should experiment with, apply, and pilot solutions to specific problems; look for the successes and reapply and adapt them to other applications; and develop universality while seeking to increase applicability and impact.” ? !
Internet and web search engines, will be useful in solving sustainability challenges.

7. Education and Programmatic
Most relevant Principle presented in my opinion:
“Refine funding and programmatic options to reinforce and provide incentives for the necessary boundary crossing and integration in Computer Science research to address sustainability challenges. In particular, funding, promotion, and review and assessment (peer review) models should emphasize in-depth integration with data and deployments from the constituent domains. There should be strong incentives at all stages of research for focusing on solving real problems whose solution can make a substantial contribution to sustainability challenges, along with in-depth metrics and evaluative criteria to assess progress.”

8. Evaluation key factor : Scalability
Spatial scaling & Temporal scaling & Location scaling & Computational scaling
Conclusions
“The goal of this report has been to shine a spot-light on areas where information technology innovation and computer science research can help, and to urge the computer research community to bring its approaches and methodologies to bear on these pressing global challenges.
Opinion
Positive
Bottom up focus
Potential for CS in Green IT
Speed to innovate
Negative
Not a clear strategy to go green
Lack of commitment for sustainability
Next steps