The authors would like to sincerely thank all those who have given so much to make this report possible. Thanks first to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for funding the meeting and Luther Williams, former Assistant Director for EHR (Education & Human Resources), for believing in the event and making it happen. We thank Rice University and the George R. Brown School of Engineering for hosting the event.

Individuals at Rice that we must thank who helped make the meeting a success include: Malcolm Gillis, President, Jordan Konisky, Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, and Program Director for Rice's NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Sidney Burrus, Dean of George R. Brown School of Engineering and Kathleen Matthews, Dean of Wiess School of Natural Sciences. We thank Priscilla Huston for contributing her time and talent to chronicling the meeting, and Theresa Chatman and Linda Neyra who worked tirelessly for months to make the meeting run smoothly.

We thank all those who attended the meeting and gave valuable input, in particular, Shirley Malcom for her insightful dinner keynote presentation. We appointed a reading committee that consisted of Baine Alexander, David Burgess, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Roscoe Giles, Manuel Gomez, George Langford, Shirley Malcom, Cora Marrett, Juan Meza, Terry Millar, David Sanchez, and Luther Williams, and we thank those who gave us so many helpful comments.

Thanks to those who support Rice's Center for Excellence and Equity in Education through which Richard and Cynthia work: Ken Kennedy and HiPerSoft, NSF's Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the RGK Foundation.