Slide title: Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation

Slide words: Complexity in Natural, Built and Social Systems

2009 Budget Request

Slide images: Photo showing an aerial view of a modern city (left); photo showing many brittle sea stars (Ophiothrix spiculata) (center); photo showing financial traders at computers (right); visualization of density, or gravity, currents (background)
Image credit: © 2008 JupiterImages Corporation (left and right); Genny Anderson, Santa Barbara City College (center) Background image credit: Mariano Cantero, Marcelo Garcia and S. Balachandar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/University of Florida; visualization by David Bock, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Design by Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation