Dan Reed Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Alliance and Principal Investigator for NEESgrid

	Q:	How will NEESgrid build communities of highly diverse technologists, engineers, and researchers?
	A:
	Q:	What is the ultimate driving goal of NEESgrid?
	A:
	Q:	What is the advantage of bringing together information technologists and earthquake engineers?
	A:

Tom Finholt Senior Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan School of Information's Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work

	Q:	Will NEESgrid make the science and tools of earthquake engineering relevant to people outside of the current community?
	A:
	Q:	How will the combination of the virtual laboratory and the grid affect the future of scientific research?
	A:

Carl Kesselman Director, University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute's Center for Grid Technology

	Q:	Why is NEESgrid so important for the future of earthquake engineering?
	A:
	Q:	How will NEESgrid impact the daily work of earthquake engineers and researchers?
	A:
	Q:	What will be the end result of the NEESgrid effort?
	A:

Ian Foster Associate Director, Argonne National Laboratory's Mathematics and Computer Science Division

	Q:	How can NEESgrid reduce the common logistical problems of earthquake engineering?
	A:
	Q:	How is the NEESgrid team making the system more usable?
	A:

Tom Prudhomme Deputy Project Director for NEESgrid, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

	Q:	What is NEESgrid?
	A:
	Q:	How is the NEESgrid team ensuring that the tools they create will be useful in solving real world problems?
	A:

Freider Seible Professor of Structural Engineering, University of California's JSOE School of Engineering

	Q:	What is the basic task of NEESgrid?
	A:
	Q:	How does NEESgrid provide the backbone for the NEES program?
	A:

Dan Abrams Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

	Q:	What will NEESgrid enable for the future of earthquake engineering?
	A: