NSF funded a number of initiatives that may be called e-science under the KDI (Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence) initiative. I have been part of one of those grants looking primarily at collaborative processes around inter- and multi-disciplinary endeavors around the grid and with distributed groups (see http://www.dkrc.org/ for details but with the caveat that the site is under construction). We have two major publications as a group one that summarizes our original position Kanfer, A., Haythornthwaite, C., Bowker, G.C., Bruce, B.C., Burbules, N., Porac, J., & Wade, J. (2000). Modeling distributed knowledge processes in next generation multidisciplinary alliances. Information Systems Frontiers, 2(3/4), 317-331. and one that describes the challenges of both this kind of research and this kind of work (see http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn/hay_challenges.html for a draft, currently under review with Social Studies of Science). As Wes Shrum pointed out the Social Studies of Science conferences and journal are good places to start with this. And, as Denise Rall pointed out, some of us at the Oxford Internet Institutes recent conference were able to participate in a brain storming session around this topic led by Steve Woolgar. I'd add that the social studies of technology area is very relevant to this topic as well. /Caroline --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite (haythorn@uiuc.edu) www.lis.uiuc.edu/~haythorn Associate Professor phone: (217) 244-7453 Graduate School of Library and Information Science fax: (217) 244-3302 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:25:08 -0400 From: jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu Subject: [Air-l] e-science, the grid, and supercomputers Having recently been made aware that my university is moving in a very major way into the field of e-science by bringing online a new supercomputer and intending to hook that up to the national lambdarail project as part of the terascale grid computing network, I'm wondering if anyone on the list is working on any of these topics, as they all have to do with internet research in some way, and specifically scientific uses of the internet, well at least in our case. ----