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Directorate for
Computer and Information
Science and Engineering
(CISE)
Program Overview
John Cozzens
Program Director
CISE/CCF
[email protected]
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The URLs to Remember
• www.nsf.gov or
• http://nsf.gov
and
• http://nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=
CISE
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Presentation Outline
• CISE Mission, Organization
• CISE Funding Opportunities
– CISE Core
– CISE Cross-cuts
– Additional CISE Programs
• Research
• Infrastructure
• Education
– Additional Programs for CISE Community
– NSF-wide Programs
• Navigating NSF Information
• Concluding Remarks
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National Science Foundation
Office of
Inspector General
National Science
Board
Office of the Director
CISE
Directorate for Biological
Sciences
Directorate for Mathematical
& Physical Sciences
Directorate for Computer &
Information Science & Engineering
Directorate for Social, Behavioral
& Economic Sciences
Directorate for Education
& Human Resources
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Administrative Offices
Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Engineering
Office of International Science
& Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences
Office of Polar Programs
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CISE Mission
The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
has three goals:
1.To enable the U.S. to uphold a position of world leadership in computing,
communications, and information science and engineering
2.To promote understanding of the principles and uses of advanced computing,
communications and information systems in service to society
3.To contribute to universal, transparent and affordable participation in an
information-based society.
To achieve these, CISE supports investigator initiated research in all areas of
computer and information science and engineering, helps develop and maintain
cutting-edge national computing and information infrastructure for research and
education generally, and contributes to the education and training of the next
generation of computer scientists and engineers.
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CISE Organization
Office of Assistant Director (AD)
for CISE
AD:
Dr. Farnam Jahanian
Deputy AD:
Dr. Cynthia Dion-Schwarz
CCF
Computing and
Communications
Foundations
CNS
Computer and
Network
Systems
IIS
Information and
Intelligent
Systems
Division Director:
Dr. Susanne Hambrusch
Division Director:
Dr. Keith Marzullo
Division Director:
Howard Wactlar
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CISE Programs
CNS
Computer and
Network
Systems
Core Programs
CCF
Computing and
Communications
Foundations
IIS
Information and
Intelligent
Systems
 Algorithmic
Foundations
 Communications
and Information
Foundations
 Computer Systems
Research
 Networking
Technology and
Systems
• Human-Centered
Computing
 Software and
Hardware
Foundations
 Education and
workforce
• Robust Intelligence
• Information
Integration &
Informatics
• IIS-wide:
Computer Graphics
& Visualization
Cross-Cutting Programs
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CISE Core Programs
• Program Solicitations
– CCF: NSF 11-557
– CNS: NSF 11-555
– IIS:
NSF 11-556
• Project Types:
Coordinated
Solicitations
– Large: $1,200,001 to $3,000,000; up to 5 years duration
collaborative team projects
– Medium:$500,001 to $1,200,000; up to 4 years duration
multi-investigator collaborative projects
– Small: up to $500,000; up to 3 years duration
one or two investigator projects
• CISE-wide Submission Windows:
– Medium:September 15 - 30, annually
– Large: November 1 - 28, annually
– Small: December 1 – 19, annually
• PI Limit:
– participate in no more than 2 “core” proposals/year
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Computer & Computing Foundations (CCF)
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/ccf/about.jsp
Algorithmic Foundations (AF)
Algorithms
Complexity and Cryptography
Quantum Computing
Computational Geometry
Computational Biology
Computational Game Theory & Economics
Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
Communications and Information Foundations (CIF)
Communication and Information Theory
Signal Processing
Network Coding and Information Theory
Sensor Networks
Wireless Communication and Signal
Processing
Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF)
Compilers
Computer Architecture
High Performance Computing
Programming Languages
Software Engineering & Formal Methods
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Design Automation for Micro & Nano
Systems
Bio Computing
Nano Computing
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Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cns/about.jsp
Computer Systems Research (CSR)
Computer and software systems
Hardware platforms
Compute-intensive applications &
hardware
Distributed and Internet scale computing
Massively parallel & data intensive
computing
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS)
New generation of networks: bringing
Network control and management
network closer to autonomy
Scalable, non-intrusive mechanisms,
Resource discovery, naming, addressing,
tools & methodologies for
routing & congestion control
measurement
Mobility of a massive number of
Scalability, robustness & network
network/mobile devices
extensibility
NeTS Core vs. NetSE Cross-cutting
NeTS Core: Network Technology and System
Supports the exploration of innovative and possibly radical network architectures, protocols, and technologies –
for wired and/or environment – that are responsive to the evolving requirements of large-scale, heterogeneous
networks and applications
NetSE Cross-Cutting: Network Science and Engineering
Encourages all communities to engage in integrative thinking to advance, seed and sustain the transformation of
networking research to enable the socio-technical networks of the future.
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Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/iis/about.jsp
Human Centered Computing (HCC)
Understanding of new human-computer and human-human interactions, collaboration, and
competition, developing systems that are aware of their social surroundings and of the
conceptualizations, values, preferences, abilities, special needs, and diverse ranges of
capability of the people that use them.
Role of computing in how humans communicate, work, learn, and play, dramatically
transcending traditional geographical and cultural boundaries.
Systems that interact with people using various and possibly multiple modalities such as
innovative computer graphics, and haptic, audio, and brain-machine interfaces.
Information Integration & Informatics (III)
Processes and technologies involved in creating, managing, visualizing, and understanding
diverse digital content in circumstances ranging from individuals through groups,
organizations, and societies, and from individual devices to globally-distributed systems
Innovative information technology research that can transform all stages of the “knowledge
life cycle”
Advances that are driven by information-technology challenges.
Multidisciplinary collaborations where fundamental III research is advanced
Databases, information retrieval, multimedia information systems, Web search, social
network & media, data mining, workflows, information provenance, preservation .
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Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS), cont’d
Robust Intelligence (RI)
All aspects of the computational understanding and modeling of intelligence in complex,
realistic contexts.
Scope: artificial intelligence, computer vision, human language research, robotics, machine
learning, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and related areas.
Some topics: computational approaches and architectures for analyzing, understanding,
generating and summarizing speech, text and other communicative forms; computational
models of meaning, intent, and realization; novel approaches to longstanding language
processing ; computational approaches to language processing for underrepresented groups
such as minority language groups and aging and disabled population groups; functional
modeling, theory, and analysis of the computational, representational, and coding strategies
of neurons and neural systems; neurally-grounded computational approaches to computer
vision, robotics, communication, and reasoning, and systems that combine them and embody
empirically derived neural strategies.
Computer Graphics & Visualization (CGI): III Cross-cutting area
Proposals are submitted to the most relevant III Core Program(s)
Graphics: modeling, rendering, and display pipeline for computer graphics and closely related
topics.
Visualization: new visualization methods to facilitate the understanding of wide-ranging types
and/or large volumes of information.
NOTE: Computational geometry proposals not tightly coupled to computer graphics should be
submitted to the Algorithmic Foundations (AF) core program in CCF.
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CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2011
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13451&org=CNS&from=home
NSF 10-575
Emerging areas that benefit from intellectual contributions of researchers
with expertise in a number of CISE fields or sub-field. Areas change over time.
* Topics
-- Network Science and Engineering
-- Smart Health and Wellbeing*
-- Trustworthy Computing
Project Types:
Large: $1,200,001 to $3,000,000; up to 5 years duration
collaborative team projects
Medium: $500,001 to $1,200,000; up to 4 years duration
multi-investigator collaborative projects
Small: up to $500,000; up to 3 years duration
one or two investigator projects
CISE-wide Submission Windows:
Medium: September 15 - 30, annually
Large:
November 1 - 28, annually
Small:
December 1 – 19, annually
PI Limit: participate in no more than 2 “cross-cutting” proposals/year
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Network Science and Engineering (NetSE)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503325
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NeTSE supports research on:
– Internet-scale, topologically-aware models for accessing, processing and
aggregating multiple high-volume information flows
– cognitive capabilities, context-awareness, and architectures that enable the
discovery, invocation and composition of globally distributed, highly evolving
services and information systems.
– the exploration of new applications that provide information based on both
content and context, and the improvement of existing classes of applications,
such as telemedicine, gaming, virtual worlds, augmented reality and
telepresence
– network models that incorporate human values at multiple levels and scale
and give coherence to the highly diverse ways users might create and access
information in the future.
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NetSE also encourages research proposals focused on exploring "clean slate"
approaches to innovations in network architecture and rethinking network
functions, layers and abstractions in the context of a range of scientific, technical
and social challenges and opportunities.
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NetSE emphasizes integrative activities focused on creating and synthesizing
network components into theoretically grounded architectures that address
fundamental policy and design trade-offs, support sound economic models, and
promote societal benefits.
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Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503556
Vision:
The goal of the Smart Health and Wellbeing program is to seek improvements in
safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered health and wellness services
through innovations in computer and information science and engineering.
Doing so requires leveraging the scientific methods and knowledge bases of a broad
range of computing and communication research perspectives.
Scope:
Smart Health and Wellbeing especially encourages the research community to
pursue bold ideas that go beyond and/or combine traditional areas of computer and
information science and engineering.
Projects submitted to this program should be motivated by specific challenges in
health and wellbeing.
The Smart Health and Wellbeing program aims to facilitate large-scale discoveries
that yield long-term, transformative impact in how we treat illness and maintain our
health.
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Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW)
Research Directions:
* new security and cryptographic solutions to protect patient privacy while
providing legitimate anytime, anywhere access to health services will require
* information retrieval, data mining, and decision support software systems to
support personalized medicine
* remote and networked sensors and actuators, mobile platforms, novel interactive
displays, and computing and networking infrastructure that support continuous
monitoring and real-time, customized feedback on health and behavior
* anonymized and aggregated data for community-wide health awareness and
maintenance
* better and more efficient delivery of health services enabled by virtual worlds,
robotics, image, and natural language understanding
* safe critical care provided by software-controlled and interoperable medical
devices
* healthcare systems and applications that are usable (to preclude or minimize
failures due to human error) and that are useful (matching the mental model of
users, from provider to patient, so people make appropriate decisions and
choices)
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Trustworthy Computing (TC)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503326&org=CISE
Currently: over 500 ongoing projects, 700 PIs and Co-PIs
TC supports all research approaches:
* theoretical to experimental to human-centric
* theories, models, cryptography, algorithms, methods, architectures, languages,
tools, systems and evaluation frameworks
Of particular interest are proposals that address:
* foundations of trustworthy computing (e.g., "science of security" and privacypreserving algorithms), privacy, and usability
TC welcomes projects that study:
* tradeoffs among trustworthy computing properties, e.g., security and privacy, or
usability and privacy
* the tension between security and human values such as openness and
transparency
* methods to assess, reason and predict system trustworthiness
* observable metrics, analytical methods, simulation, experimental deployment and,
where possible, deployment on live test-beds for experimentation at scale
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Expeditions in Computing
NSF 10-564
GOALS:
• Catalyze far-reaching research explorations motivated by deep scientific questions
• Inspire current and future generations of Americans, especially those from underrepresented groups
• Stimulate significant research and education outcomes that promise scientific,
economic and/or other societal benefits
Project Types:
• Large collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
• Up to $10,000,000; up to 5 years duration
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI:
• participate in no more than 1 Expeditions proposal/year
Deadlines:
• Preliminary Proposal (required):
September 10, 2010
March 10, 2012
September 10, 2013
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Full Proposal :
May 10, 2011;
December 10, 2012
May 10, 2014
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Additional CISE Programs
Research
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
NSF 11-516
DUE DATES: March 21, 2011, January 17, 2012
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
NSF 11-505
DUE DATES (Full Proposal): November 2, 2011
Infrastructure
CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)
NSF 11-536
DUE DATES: October 25, 2011, October 23, 2012
• Institutional Infrastructure (II): planning for or creation, enhancement or
operation of computing research infrastructure for use by multiple investigators
and collaborating institutions.
• Community Infrastructure (CI): enable world-class research and education
opportunities for broadly-based communities of researchers and educators that
extend well beyond the awardee institutions.
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
NSF 11-516
Three CPS Themes:
Foundations – develop new scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models,
and theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems
Methods and Tools – bridge the gaps between approaches to the cyber and physical
elements of systems through innovations such as novel support for multiple views,
new programming languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and formally
verifying properties of complex integrations of cyber and physical resources
Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems – new hardware and software
infrastructure and platforms and engineered systems motivated by grand challenge
applications
Project Types:
Small – individual or small-team efforts that focus on one or more of the three defined CPS
themes (up to $200,000/year for up to 3 years)
Medium – span one or more CPS themes and may include one or more PIs and a research
team of students and/or post-docs (up to $500,000/year for up to 3 years)
Large – multi-investigator projects addressing a coherent set of research issues that cut across
multiple themes or that explore a particular theme in great depth (up to $1,000,000/year for up
to 5 years)
Due Dates: March 21, 2011, January 17, 2012
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 2
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CISE Programs: Education & Workforce
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13396&org=CNS&from=home
Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21), NSF 10-619
Collaboration with: EHR, OCI
Goals:
1. Increase the number and diversity of early postsecondary students who are engaged and have
the background in computing necessary to successfully pursue degrees in computing-related
and computationally-intensive fields of study.
2. Increase the number and diversity of K-14 students and teachers who develop and practice
computational competencies in a variety of contexts; and
Proposal Types:
Type I:
Type II:
activities that build the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing
activities that study implementation and the sustained impact of computing teaching and learning
interventions for diverse student populations, where the interventions to be taken to scale have already
proven effective in smaller-scale efficacy studies (like those supported in Type I projects)
Planning: seek to build the new partnerships and collaborations needed to design and develop Type I or Type
II projects; discuss plans with the program director prior to submission
Due Dates:
Target Dates:
Type I and Type II proposals:
April 27, 2011
Planning proposals:
February 22, 2011
Last Wednesday in April, Annually
Last Tuesday in February, Annually
July 28, 2011
Last Thursday in July, Annually
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 2
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Additional Programs for CISE Community:
Partnerships
Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2012 (EFRI-2012)
NSF 11-571
DUE DATES:
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: November 9, 2011
Full Proposal Deadline Date: March 30, 2012
Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Science
(ICES)
NSF 11-584
DUE DATE:
Full Proposal:
December 6, 2011
Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)
NSF 10-600
DUE Date:
Full Proposal:
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NSF-Wide Programs: Research
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
FY 2012 Program Solicitation: NSF 11-690
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
NSF 10-580
Supplements:
Accepted Anytime
Full Proposal:
Accepted under relevant Program Solicitation due dates
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
(I/UCRC)
NSF 10-595
DUE DATES:
Letter of Intent: January 2, 2012
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NSF-wide Programs: Infrastructure
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
NSF 11-503
Due Date: January 26, 2012
Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)
FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network
Partners (DATANET)
FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA
Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2)
FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA
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NSF-Wide Programs: Education
Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)
Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT)
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) , NSF 09-598
Sites: A new activity for a group of students
CISE Deadline: August 22, 2012
Supplements: 1 – 2 students/teachers involved in NSF-supported project
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
Research Experience for Teachers (RET)
CISE Target Date: Spring for the following Summer
NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
NSF 09-549 – to be revised for FY 2011?
Support for graduate students to bring their research to K-12 and enrich their
research
$3M/5 years
Very few CISE
Deadlines:
proposals!
Mandatory Letter of Intent: April?
Full Proposal: June?
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EAGER and RAPID Proposals
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Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) –
– supports quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters
and similar unanticipated events
– Up to $200K and one year duration
– project descriptions are expected to be brief (two to five pages) and
include clear statements as to why the proposed research is of an urgent
nature
EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) –
– supports high-risk, exploratory and potentially transformative research.
– Up to $300K and two years duration.
– project description is expected to be brief (five to eight pages) and
include clear statements as to why this project is appropriate for EAGER
funding
• More details in Grant Proposal Guide (GPG 10-101)
• Need to contact Program Director before submission
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Overwhelming?
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Helpful hints:
Subscribe to NSF Updates by Email
Subscribe to CISE Updates by Email
Subscribe to receive special CISE announcements
Visit CISE Web site often
Use Award Search to find relevant programs
Talk to program directors
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Subscribe to NSF’s mailing list
http://www.nsf.gov
Funding
Opportunities
Get NSF
Updates by Email
Upcoming
Due Dates
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CISE Updates and Announcements
New information
Get CISE
Updates by Email
Featured
Programs
Subscribe to
receive special
CISE
announcement
s
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE
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Subscribe to CISE Distribution List
CISE has implemented a mail distribution list to notify the Computer and
Information Science and Engineering community of items we think may be of
interest. The postings will be infrequent and brief and will typically point to
further information on our website. This may duplicate some of the items
contained in NSF Custom News Service but will also contain items not
always available there:
Announcements, vacancy notices, CISE webcasts of interest, meeting
notices and news items.
To subscribe: send a message to: [email protected] with no
text in the subject or message body.
If you no longer wish to be included on the distribution list, you can elect to
be removed from the list at any time. Instructions for unsubscribing will be
included at the end of each list message.
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/mail_lists.jsp
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Award Search
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Find Relevant Projects, Researchers,
Programs, Program Directors
Specify program,
program director,
dates, …
Find recent
awards,
funding rates,
more …
Type research topic keywords, e.g.:
Multimedia AND retrieval
Restrict to Active Awards
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Finding relevant awards
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Found an Interesting One!
Publications resulting from this research will
appear here – a great information source!
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More Options
Lots of statistics
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NSF Funding Rate Statistics:
Award Search
=> More Options
=> Funding Trends
Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State
and Organization
CISE Web Site:
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?
org=CISE
FY 2009 CISE Funding Rate for Research Grants
Advice:
Don’t spend time on trying to
analyze the numbers
Don’t dwell on the numbers
Don’t blame the numbers
Best “game plan”: submit an
excellent proposal addressing
program’s goals
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ARRA Impact in CISE?
• Increased proposal funding rate: 28% (or 31%?) in 2009
• Supported new Research Infrastructure awards, including
MRI and ARI awards
• Supported more postdocs, graduate students and
undergrads
• Increased number of new PIs supported
• Decreased level of future commitments for continuing
grants, i.e., increasing the level of funds available for new
awards in future years
• Long-term impact for research community
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Your Involvement
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Send your best ideas to NSF: consistent with program focus and goals
Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist
Get to know your Program Directors
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Keep us informed of your accomplishments
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Work within your institutions to support collaborative, interdisciplinary research
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Call our attention to things that need improvement
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Suggest transition strategies from basic research to prototyping and
production
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Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc.
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Organize research directions planning workshops
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Consider participating in the Computing Community Consortium:
http://www.cra.org/ccc
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Plan to serve as a program officer (“rotator”) or division director
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NSF/CISE Highlights
• NSF News
• NSF Discoveries
Project Highlights:
• Succinct, interesting vignettes
– Show a result, a discovery
– in layperson’s language
– including graphics if possible
• NSF shares Highlights publicly
– Budget requests
– Performance reports
– Public relations
• Convince the US public that research is worth
paying for!!!
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Thank you!
Questions ?
John Cozzens
Program Director
CISE/CCF
[email protected]
703-292-8910
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