EFFECTIVE INFORMATION ACESS: Computer Science Research Fundamental to Creation of a National Information Infrastructure James D. Hollan Computer Science Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~hollan CONTACT INFORMATION Email: hollan@cs.unm.edu
Phone: 505 277-3112 WWW PAGE http://www.cs.unm.edu
http://www.cs.unm.edu/pad++ PROGRAM AREA Adaptive Human Interfaces, Virtual Environments, Usability and User-Centered Design KEYWORDS Multiscale graphical interfaces, adaptive systems, intelligent databases, networked communities, high performance computing, computer security, and visualization. PROJECT SUMMARY The NSF Interactive Systems Program has contributed par tial support for our recently awarded NSF Research Infra structure grant. The research theme is effective information access. It builds on the fact that as a department we are already addressing crucial NII research challenges. These include: Providing effective and natural interfaces for navigation of complex distributed information sources Maintaining the system security requisite to sharing information in a networked community Exploiting models of biological systems to assist in developing more robust and adaptive computing environments Mining complex data sources and exploiting parallel systems for information visualization Providing efficient access to parallel computa tion via scalable portable software We propose a high-performance architecture tailored to the needs of NII applications, that emphasizes security at the most fundamental level, and provides intuitive adaptive zooming graphical interfaces for users. We will use this architecture to develop an integrated NII application devel opment and evaluation environment. This will leverage Pad++ interface work (Bederson, Hollan), ccr approaches to computation and communication across administrative domains (Ackley), immunologically-based (Forrest) and statistically-based (Helman) approaches to computer secu rity, adaptive systems (Ackley, Forrest, Mitchell), intelli gent databases (Helman, Veroff), and SUNMOS/Puma technology (Maccabe) for high-performance computing. | |
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