1. 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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5. Vast Arid Lands
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6. Extreme Events
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8. Species Extinction Rate
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9. Population Growth
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12. Lots of opportunities for multidisciplinary research
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13. 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)
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14. 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
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15. 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
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16. 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?
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17. Logistics Schedule Reimbursements Dinner, Red Iguana, bus
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18. 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
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