Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action

To realize the full benefits of the Internet of Things and Big Data and to build the foundation for future technologies that convert data to "insight", there is an urgent need for a targeted and coordinated government initiative similar to that which sparked the semiconductor revolution fifty years ago--a "National Computing and Insight Technologies Ecosystem" initiative (N-CITE). This new initiative will spur major advances in the science and technology of information systems and unleash broad opportunities for innovation.