Title: Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate see www'cise'nsf'gov National Science F
1Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Directorate see (www.cise.nsf.gov) National
Science Foundation
2Road Map
- Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) Overview - Proposal and Funding Statistics
- Various Funding Opportunities
- Engagement and Community Involvement
3National Science Foundation
National Science
Office of Inspector General
Board
Administrative Offices
Office of the Director
Office Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences
Office of Polar Programs
4FY 2007 Proposal StatisticsNSF and CISE
5CDI
ITR
6CISE Budget and Budget Outlook
NSF provides 87 of all Federal support for basic
research in computer science
- FY 2008 Budget 535M, 8M increase over FY 2007
- FY 2009 Budget Request 639M, a 19 increase
over FY 2008 - American Competitiveness Initiative calls for NSF
funding to double over next 10 years - America Competes Act authorizes additional NSF
funding, setting pace for doubling of the NSF
Research and Related Activities account over the
next 7 years - Obama Effect??
7 CISE Organizational Chartand Core Research
Programs
Office of the Assistant Director for CISE
CCF Computing and Communications Foundations
CNS Computer and Network Systems
IIS Information and Intelligent Systems
CORE PROGRAMS
8More on CISE Core Programs
- Annually, 3 CISE divisions issue coordinated
Solicitation for Small, Medium and Large
proposals - Issued in Summer for Fall submissions
- Most awards and funding come through this process
- Despite variety of other programs in which CISE
participates - Review and decision happens in core programs also
- Intentionally broad (less specified) to allow for
creativity.
9Elements of NSF Strategic Plan
- Discovery
- Learning
- Infrastructure
10CISE Contributions (1)
- Discovery Advance the Frontiers of Computing
- Core CISE programs
- Cross NSF Programs that serve specific goals or
communities - CISE participates - CAREER (for new faculty) deadline in July, may
be submitted to any core CISE research program - Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) (for
faculty at undergraduate institutions) - may be
submitted to any CISE core research program - Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with
Industry (GOALI) may be submitted to any CISE
core research program
11- Discovery Advance the Frontiers of Computing
- Multidisciplinary program solicitations issued by
CISE - Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
began in FY08 - Collaborative Research for Computational
Neuroscience (CRCNS) - Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT)
- Center-like programs (funding of several
M/year/project for 5-10 years) - Science and Technology Centers
- Expeditions in Computing
12Discovery Expeditions(Large Centers)
New in FY08
- Pursue ambitious, fundamental research that
promises to define the future of computing - Investigators collaborate across disciplinary and
institutional boundaries Catalyze far-reaching
research explorations motivated by deep
scientific questions - Inspire current and future generations of
Americans, especially those from
under-represented groups - Stimulate significant research and education
outcomes that promise scientific, economic and/or
other societal benefits - Full Proposal Deadline January 10, 2009
- Expect 3-4 awards in FY09
- FY07-08 Awards
- Understand, Cope with, and Benefit From
Intractability - Computational Sustainability Computational
Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy,
and Society - Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020
- Molecular Programming
13Discovery Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
(CDI)
New in FY 2008
- Involves all NSF Directorates
- Create revolutionary science and engineering
research outcomes made possible by innovations
and advances in computational thinking.
- Seek ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary
research proposals within or across the following
thematic areas - From Data to Knowledge
- Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and
Social Systems - Building Virtual Organizations
http//www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/
14CISE and Engineering collaboration - Cyber
Physical Systems
- Conjoining of and coordination between
computational and physical resources.
Anticipating improvements in adaptability,
autonomy, efficiency, functionality, reliability,
safety, and usability. Systems that respond more
quickly, are more precise, work in dangerous or
inaccessible environments, provide large-scale,
distributed coordination, are highly efficient,
augment human capabilities, and enhance societal
wellbeing - Joint call for proposals
- Solicitation NSF 08-641
- Due February 27, 2009
- Awards up to 1M/year for 5 years
New in FY 2009
15Discovery CISE Cross-cutting research programs
New in FY09
- New solicitation that covers areas that cut
across the CISE divisions and that could benefit
from intellectual contributions of researchers
with expertise in a number of fields or
sub-fields - Invites small (lt500K), medium (lt1.2M) and large
(lt3M) projects - Eligibility no more than 2 proposals per senior
personnel - Focus Areas
- Data-Intensive Computing
- Network Research and Engineering
- Trustworthy Computing
16Advance Data-Intensive Computing
- Rethinking how we store, retrieve, explore,
analyze, and communicate enormous digital
datasets - Computation is data-intensive
- Demands a fundamentally different set of
principles, e.g., based on parallelism - Requires real-time responsiveness and high
degrees of fault-tolerance - Questions
- How can we best program data-intensive computing
platforms to exploit massive parallelism - What new programming abstractions can exploit
these capabilities? - How can new designs support appropriate power
consumption, human maintainability, and economic
feasibility? - How must this computing paradigm evolve to best
support new data-intensive applications?
17Advance Network Science and Engineering (NetSE)
- Considers computer networks as complex, global
socio-technical infrastructure - Encourages researchers to reason about the
dynamics and behavior of current and future
large-scale networks and the interdependence
among the physical, informational and
communications technologies - Promotes research in radical design in network
architectures by building on the predecessor FIND
Program - Seeks to improve or enable existing or new
classes of applications, such as multi-player
games, virtual worlds, augmented reality and
tele-presence.
18Advance Trustworthy Computing
- Builds on its predecessor program Cyber Trust
- Supports research and education activities that
explore novel frameworks, theories, and
approaches toward realizing a trustworthy
computing future - Seeks new knowledge about scientific foundations
of trustworthiness reliability, security,
privacy and usability -- to inform trustworthy
technologies - Encourages researchers to explore the integration
of hardware, networking protocols, systems
software and applications through new security
architectures. - Seeks to explore trade-offs between security and
privacy - Encourages proposals in the area of usability
19NSF Strategy - CISE Contributions (2)
- Learning Build a highly competent and
diversified computing workforce for the 21st
century - CISE-specific
- CISE PATHways (CPATH) to Revitalized Education in
Computing - Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- NSF-wide programs
- Research Experiences for Undergrads (REU) Sites
and Supplements - Integrative Graduate Education Training (IGERT)
- Graduate Research Fellowships
- Scholarships for Service
20NSF Strategy - CISE Contributions (3)
- Research Infrastructure Support development and
acquisition of research instruments that enable
high-quality computing research - CISE-specific
- Computing Research Infrastructure (Core program)
- NSF-wide program
- Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
21Other new CISE Initiatives and Partnerships(see
www.cise.nsf.gov)
- Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate
Computing Education (CPATH) - Cluster Exploratory (CluE)
- CreativeIT
- Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics
(FODAVA) - High-End Computing University Research Activity
(HECURA) - Mathematical Sciences Innovations at the
Interface with Computer Sciences (MSPA-MCS) - Multicore Chip Design and Architecture (MCDA)
- NSF-NRI Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow
Supplements to NSF Centers in Nanoelectronics
(NSF 09-016) - Software for Real-World Systems (SRS)
22Back to Basics
- CISE is about advancing the computing frontier
- Supporting outstanding ideas submitted by
creative people in a broad range of academic
institutions and organizations. - Focus on high-risk projects with high-impact
potential. - Impact may be far in the future and/or
long-lasting. - Impact leads to new knowledge, maybe across
multiple domains and sectors. - Impact can create new economies and change
societal behavior - not difficult to find
examples.
23Special Emphasis Programs
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25Get Involved
- Send your best ideas to NSF
- Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist
- Get to know your Program Directors - visit us in
Arlington VA - Keep us informed of your accomplishments
- Work within your institutions to support
collaborative, interdisciplinary research
- Call our attention to things that need
improvement - Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc.
- Consider serving as a Program Director
(rotator) or Division Director - Consider participating in the Computing Community
Consortium www.cra.org/ccc
26Thank You