End-User Issues Should Have a First Class Status
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The focus of the report Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure (Atkins et.al., 2003) is the construction of a layer of “enabling hardware, algorithms, software, communications, institutions, and personnel”. This cyberinfrastructure layer would lie above a hardware layer supporting computing, storage, and communications but below a layer of “software programs, services, instruments, data, information, knowledge, and social practices applicable to specific projects, disciplines, and communities.”
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