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>> What I'm going to talk about is some of the things
that have been going at Purdue, and I'm going to highlight some
of the projects that relate to cyber activities.
But as you'll hear, this is really the faculty's
accomplishments that really have nothing to do with all of us.
We're all here to make it all happen.
So this is our building block slide.
This is what's happened last year.
This has been really a tremendous year for Purdue.
You can just see in the image all of the folks
that have really helped us accomplish the --
and you'll see the awards that we have.
Of course right there in the middle, you've got tomorrow
or Friday's Nobel Prize winner,
you've got the new Cyber Center Director, Dr. Patino,
so this is just an image of some of the things.
And I'll highlight some of those as we go through this.
To give you some background,
this is our award trend over three decades.
You can see that Purdue has changed quite a bit.
Over the last 10 years,
we've seen an absolutely amazing increase in the number of awards
that have come into Purdue.
If you go back three decades ago, you see we were down here
on $50 million and now we're up in around 440,
430, something like that.
So it's just an amazing increase.
Over the last 10 years, you can see also what's happened here.
We've gone from of the order of about 150 up to like I said,
about 360, so just an amazing accomplishment from the point
of view of the faculty.
This is valuable and important
but really isn't the most important.
The most important thing is this slide.
This is how we spend the money.
If you have money, you don't spend it.
We didn't accomplish anything,
so this is about hiring the students
and doing the scholarship and creating the new knowledge.
And you can see what's happened here.
This is a 10-year image of our expenditures.
We start up little less than $300K --
excuse me, $300 million, and here we are,
almost up to $600 million.
It turns out to be 576 based upon last year.
And this is really what its' all about.
The whole issue here is you go Garner Research support,
but unless you do the work, publish the papers,
graduate the students, we haven't accomplished anything.
And so that's why this is really the focus of where we're going.
By the way, because I always get this question, what's going
to happen to this pilot because of stimulus funding.
This plot will continue to increase.
We can almost guarantee it, because there's
so much spillover effect as you go forward
from the previous award that you have in the past.
We're predicting this is just going to continue to rise
on a very gradual basis, maybe a little slower
than it did in this last year.
But again, just a tremendous, tremendous accomplishment.
So let me highlight some of the cyber activities that are going
on here, and you're going to hear a lot about these.
From the program, you've got a lot
of very accomplished speakers coming,
some of which I'll talk about here.
They will fill you in on more details
as these 2 days transpire.
This is A HUBzero effort.
The HUBzero, I saw on your program, you're going to hear
from some of the folks that are dedicated to this activity.
This is really the hallmark of this kind
of virtual connectivity that we're all promoting.
Started off with NCN,
the Nanotechnology Computational Network down here at the bottom,
and now it's blown into a number
of other hubs that we're all using.
This is really a national resource, by the way,
even though we here at Purdue talk a lot about it,
this is a tremendous resource for everyone in the country
as well as in the world, and you're going
to hear a lot more about that later.
I wanted to highlight a very recent award
that we just received from the National Science Foundation
on the science of information.
This is Dr. Szpankowski's STC Science and Technology Center.
This is the first science and technology center
that Purdue has received.
In fact, we think it's the first science
and technology center that's come
out of computer science at NSF.
And you can see on the bottom here, the mission is trying
to understand the manipulation exchange of information
and integrating all the aspects of information,
trying to take information to the next level.
It's a 5-year award.
The interesting part about this,
Dr. Szpankowski's leading this effort,
but it really is a true partnership.
That is, it takes 9 institutions across this country
and almost equally it supports all these 9 institutions
to try to accomplish this.
Again, as you'll see through some of these slides,
partnerships tend to be the key in a lot of these activities.
This is a brand new network that we're just starting,
built off of the NanoHUB concepts but focused
in on the building
of photovoltaic devices computationally.
The same idea that the NCN idea promoted,
now it's being pushed off into the photovoltaic technology.
Mark Lundstrom is the person and Dr. Alam are the 2
that are leading this effort.
PRISM, I noted you're going to have a speaker later
on this particular topic, but I wanted to highlight this
because this is one of the truly cyber-connected activities
that Purdue started a number of years ago.
Jayathi Murphy is the lead on this particular project.
The issue here is, if you -- first of all, to start off,
it's the National Nuclear Security Administration is
supporting this, so why would they be interested in this?
We no longer can do any nuclear testing in this country
or in the world, you'd like to think.
And so how do you actually guarantee surety
of these devices that we have?
We have them, they're underground,
and we need to make sure
that they'll react the way we expect them to react.
So you have to computationally assure
that these devices will not have damage under all kinds
of very weird situations --
lightning strikes, things of this sort.
This group is trying to compute this.
And it's not computing to 50% accuracy, 80% accuracy.
It's 99.999, three 9s typically, accuracy.
So you can imagine the challenge that these folks have,
and you're going to hear a lot more
about that particular project.
I wanted to highlight 2 final projects here.
This one's called VACCINE.
Dr. Ebert is the PI on this particular grant.
It comes from the Homeland Security, and I've tried
to explain some of these grants to other folks,
and I did this once and for those of you
who might have been there, to an energy project,
I tried to explain Maureen McCann's energy project.
She happened to be in the crowd.
Didn't give me very good marks for my explanation.
So rather than try to do that,
I'll let Dr. Ebert explain this one to you.
>> The name of our team is we have the acronym VACCINE,
standing for Visual Analytics for Command Control
and Interoperability Environments.
And the mission of VACCINE is to create the next generation
of technology to allow the integration
of massive data sources into an environment and create visuals
where people can interact with them
and quickly understand the situation
and make their decisions
from very simple graphical representations.
The whole idea of this is there's more
and more data that's becoming available through the web,
through simulation, through sensors that are being placed
in environments, but in a crisis situation you need
to make a very quick decision.
And through your visual processing, your eyes are great
at giving you quick information and allowing you to pick
out the important features quickly.
So instead of looking at a table of numbers,
we create a graphic display, whether it's information
on a map or a building floor plan
or other simple visual representations so you can see
where your efforts should be placed
to solve the problem the most quickly.
>> The last example is our NEES activity.
Julio Ramirez is the PI on this particular award.
This came through just last year.
As you can see there, it's $105 million a year award
that came to Purdue.
Again, it's this partnership issue, though,
because we're partnering with physical facilities
around the country, 14 of these physical facilities
around the country, and we're making all this information
available to everyone in the country
and world for that matter.
And so as a final example I'll let Julio talk
about what NEES is about.
A $105 million national science foundation grant is putting
Purdue at the center of a hub
of universities conducting earthquake safety research.
Purdue will create the cyber infrastructure
that will connect all 14 members of the Network
for Earthquake Engineering Simulation.
>> Simply speaking, what we have to do is to make the sum greater
than the parts by becoming the headquarters
that manages these 15 sites.
Actually the money will flow through Purdue to these sites.
>> Earthquakes have killed nearly half a million people
in the last decade alone.
>> Where I want to be 5 years is
where this network can do the best to mitigate risk associated
with earthquakes, save lives, reduce economic loss.
Most important, I think I would like to see this network
as a collaborator, a place where people do research together,
where they educate, where they train,
where we actually impact practice.
>> Purdue will use its HUBzero technology
and the National Science Foundation's Terra Grid
to make it easier to share earthquake research data.
>> Though all these experiments produce a lot of data that comes
from sensor that they apply to buildings, for example,
and they shake a building on some big shake table.
So we collect the data, store it, make it available to others
who may not own such equipment,
so that others can actually take advantage
of that national infrastructure as well.
>> The project also focuses on education and outreach.
The NEES Academy will use cyber education tools
to devote interest in science, technology, engineering
and math among young students.
>> What we're doing in this operation is
to manage the resources of the nation, physical and human,
so that those new things that we see we understand them
and we do improvements so that they won't happen again.
>> I told you they could do a better job than I can.
With that, let me thank you for coming,
and I hope you have a very good meeting.
Thank you.