A -- ISE INDUSTRY/ACADEMIA WORKSHOP In November 1997 the NASA Administrator, Dan Goldin, announced that NASA would be starting a new national initiative for the development of a revolutionary engineering and science life cycle design and analysis environment, called the Intelligent Synthesis Environment (ISE). Since this announcement, planning has been conducted involving representatives from all of the NASA Centers and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with consultation by other government agencies, industry and academia. Plans for the ISE Initiative are now maturing. The Initiative will address technologies for the development, integration, and application of tools and processes for the analysis, design, and simulation of the life-cycles of aerospace systems by geographically distributed workgroups of scientists and engineers. The development and integration of advanced techniques such as high-speed analyses, intelligent tools/agents, and 3-D immersion that operate in an electronically networked, open-architecture, computational frameworkis envisioned. At present, the Initiative is comprised of the following areas: (1) rapid synthesis and simulation tools, (2) cost and risk management technology, (3) life cycle integration and validation, (4) collaborative engineering environment and (5) revolutionize cultural change, training and education. The NASA Langley Research Center intends to host an industry/academia workshop for the ISE Initiative on October 28 and 29, 1999 at Pearl Young Theater. The Workshop will afford NASA the opportunity to brief industry and academia on the status of ISE Initiative plans. In addition to the briefing, participants will be given the opportunity to ask questions, raise issues and offer suggestions/advice for consideration by the NASA. U. S. Government agencies have already been briefed on ISE. Due to the broad potential interest in this briefing and the limited seating, NASA is limiting attendance to three (3) persons per company or company division. Further, the overall seating capacity is limited to the first200 persons responding and pre-registration is required to assure that you have a seat. The registration URL is:http://www.ise.nasa.gov. Please be prepared to submit the following information: name, company, business mailing address, telephone number, facsimile number, email address, and company URL, if available. All information associated with this briefing will be promptly posted on the web site. Questions of a technical nature can be directed to Dr. Jerrold M. Housner (757-864-1100) and general workshop administrative questions can be directed to Julie B. Fowler (757-864-1100). WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/LaRC/date.html#1-050-TBD. E-MAIL: Robert B. Gardner, R.B.GARDNER@larc.nasa.gov. Posted 10/06/99 (D-SN389235).

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