Making the case for Cyberenvironments

Opinion
May 15, 20061 min

Jim Myers from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications outlines a plan for Cyberenvironments that will make it easier for scientists and researchers to get a better handle on knowledge and data that currently can be difficult to access when stored in different databases divvied up among separate academic disciplines.

“Cyberenvironments — integrated, end-to-end software systems that will make cyberinfrastructure as accessible and usable as Web browsers made the Internet — mitigate that loss,” he says. Read more.Bob Brown, bbrown@nww.com