Q Projects aimed at simplifying human interaction 

 with digital information resources through develop- 

 ment of user friendly, graphical interfaces for 

 knowledge representation and manipulation. 



J Activities addressing vital issues of standards. 



-I Development of prototype libraries designed to fill 

 new roles in research and education. 



BRHR support will focus on; 



Q Basic research on scalable parallel systems, dis- 

 tributed computing environments, and tools. 



3 Research in fundamental areas of algorithms, 

 databases, visualization, architecture, perfor- 

 mance evaluation and modeling, and computer 

 resource management. 



3 Increased number of postdoctoral awards in high 

 performance computational science and engineer- 

 ing and computer science, and expansion of the 

 current program to include industry. 



Q Continued support for HPCC training and educa- 

 tion in the form of research experiences for under- 

 graduates, supplements to faculty research 

 awards, high school teacher and student training, 

 and equipment and infrastructure awards. 



Q Continued acquisition of infrastructure to improve 

 computer science, computer engineering, compu- 

 tational science and engineering, and Grand 

 Challenge research. 



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