Collected Information for Year 2
of the
MSI Annual Report to NSF

See below for the "big picture" of what needs to be submitted.

Current Status

The Report as of 3/23/01 at 21:57 includes contributions from Arif and Ahmed.

I will be out of town next week (3/26-3/30), when the report is due.  So, Sunil has agreed to take over the final edits and submission to Fastlane.

Overall Outline of Submitted Material

There are four sections:

  1. Project Participants
  2. Activities and Findings
  3. Publications and Products
  4. Contributions

Sections 1 and 3 are rather routine, if tedious, data collection steps.  I'll be following up separately with specific questions concerning people and publications that I will then incorporate into the report.

Section 2 includes an overview and a few bullet points on the *activities* of each of the three project areas:

  • Multimedia Databases and Storage Management Systems
  • Networking
  • Security

The second part of Section 2 is a bulleted list of the *findings* of each of the three project areas.

Finally, Section 2 includes subsections on training and development opportunities and outreach activities.

Section 4 is a few paragraphs each on contributions relative to these five areas:

  • the principal discipline(s) of the project
  • other disciplines of science or engineering
  • the development of human resources
  • the physical, institutional, or information resources that form the infrastructure for research and education
  • other aspects of public welfare beyond science and engineering, such as commercial technology, the economy, cost-efficient environmental protection, or solutions to social problems.