Department of Homeland Security Data Sciences Workshop
	September 22-23, 2004 Hilton Alexandria Old Town Alexandria, VA

The DHS Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) program sponsored a workshop on data sciences, held at the Hilton Old Town Alexandria on September 22-23, 2004. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together approximately fifty DHS personnel and national experts in data sciences to identify fundamental data sciences technologies that our nation will need in 2010 and a specific path forward (i.e., short-term and long-term research goals) for development of those technologies. This was a follow-on to the more general ASC Requirements Workshop that was held in Arlington in October 2003. The ASC program supports the data sciences research and development needs of the Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and Assessment (TVTA) portfolio. Input was solicited, both in advance of and during the workshop, from all the portfolios on their anticipated data sciences priorities and perceived technology gaps. In general, the focus of the workshop was on data extraction in response to open-ended and/or complex queries. The ultimate goal is to be able to cope with “real-time, high-capacity, multi-format data integration and information extraction.” More specifically, the workshop sought to enable “true information synthesis, i.e., a capability to provide the end-user with all necessary and sufficient information, but no more than that, required for effective decision making.” Update: The Final Report for this Workshop is now available (PDF format). Click here for a version (1.76 MBytes) suitable for viewing on the web, or here for a print-quality version (11.7 MBytes) .   This site is maintained by the Krell Institute. Questions/Comments: webmaster@krellinst.org