ACADEMIA
NSF director to speak at NCSA on Jan. 25
National Science Foundation director Arden Bement will kick off NCSA's 20th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series at 7 p.m. on Jan. 25 at the NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, Illinois. In a talk titled "Un-Common Sense: Recipe for a Cyber Planet" Bement will discuss the impact of cyberinfrastructure, which brings together distributed computers, applications, scientific tools, and geographically dispersed researchers.