National Challenges will help to extend the benefits of HPCC technology to applications with broad impact on American society.
Predictor: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA) Task Group: High-Performance Computing and Communications Information Technology Subcommittee
Prediction, in context:In a final draft of their Dec. 1, 1993, recommendations for the National Information Infrastructure, members of the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology subcommittee write the following: ”Recognizing the close relationship between HPCC (High-Performance Computing and Communications) and NII (National Information Inrastructure), the president’s science adviser, Dr. Jack Gibbons, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), have instructed the High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology (HPCCIT) subcommittee to establish a new program component within the HPCC program to support the Administration’s initiative to build a National Information Infrastructure. This component, Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications (IITA), describes a research and development program to create the technology base underlying a universally accessible National Information Infrastructure (NII) and to use this technology to develop and demonstrate prototype ‘National Challenge’ applications. These National Challenges will help to extend the benefits of HPCC technology to applications with broad impact on American society.” [Later in the document they define “National Challenges” as “information-intensive applications that have broad and direct impact on the nation’s well-being and competitiveness.”]
Date of prediction: December 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications - Report of the IITA Task Group: High-Performance Computing Communications and Information Technology Subcommittee
Title, headline, chapter name: 1.1 Relationship Between HPCC and NII
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/us/iita.txt
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Kohlhagen, Kelly C.