I3C is a multi-disciplinary initiative for research, education, and training spanning the core areas (Applications, System Software, and Architecture) of interest to CISE.

• Spawn innovative, inter-disciplinary research projects through cross fertilization of ideas in the core computing areas (Applications, System Software and Architecture).
  
  
• Address fundamental issues in 3 critical application areas : (Computational Science, Digital Immortality, Bioinformatics)
  
  
• Propose Innovative, Efficient, Practical and Scalable system software tools (Scheduling and I/O) for clusters.
  
  
• Investigate fundamental architectural issues in 3 key areas : QoS Provisioning, Power estimation/optimization, Wireless access ; for designing personalized, more efficient & cost effective systems.
  
  
• Enhance undergraduate and graduate student training and outreach activities.