The Kick-Off Workshop happened this week, Monday-Tuesday at the Argonne TCS Conference Center. Thanks to all who attended, presented, and gave us feedback about the workshop. Thanks to the IBM participants, whose presentations were highlights of the workshop, and thanks also to IBM for co-sponsoring Monday’s reception.

We are in discussion with IBM about having them email out encrypted PDFs of the IBM confidential presentations to workshop attendees. The slides from the project presentations are now hyperlinked to the agenda on the workshop website, http://http://press.mcs.anl.gov/esp10/agenda . Other presentations without confidential information will be linked in as well.

One discussion point at the workshop was how to manage collaboration with project members at our own institutions, given that the AECI (nondisclosure) agreements are between IBM and the institution. Most likely this will be managed using a “working-group” structure. I’ll report when that’s been worked out (probably including an email to project investigators).