# Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
**ACTION:**
Change in notice of meeting.
**SUMMARY:**
The National Science Foundation published a Notice of Meeting in the *Federal Register* on March 10, 2006, FR Doc 06-2308, on page 12403. The revised schedule below includes a meeting the evening before the original start date. The purpose of the meeting has been expanded to include a brainstorming session on strategic directions.
*Name:* Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (1115).
*Date and Time:* April 23, 2006, 3 p.m.-7 p.m., April 24, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
*Place:* The Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel, 801 N. Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22203. National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., room 1235, Arlington, VA 22230.
*Type of Meeting:* Open.
*Contact Person:* Gwen Barber-Blount, Office of the Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1105, Arlington, VA 22230. Telephone: (703) 292-8900.
*Minutes:* May be obtained from the contact person listed above.
*Purpose of Meeting:*
• Retreat of the board to brainstorm strategy direction.
• To advise NSF on the impact of its policies, programs and activities on the CISE community.
• To provide advice to the Assistant Director/CISE on issues related to long-range planning, and to form ad hoc subcommittees to carry out needed studies and tasks.
*Agenda:* Report from the Assistant Director. Discussion of research initiatives, education, diversity, workforce issues in IT and long-range funding outlook.
Dated: April 5, 2006.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.