Transcript Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate see (www.cise.nsf.gov) National Science Foundation Road Map • Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Overview • Proposal and Funding.

Computer and Information
Science and Engineering
Directorate
see (www.cise.nsf.gov)
National Science Foundation
Road Map
• Computer and Information Science
and Engineering (CISE) Overview
• Proposal and Funding Statistics
• Various Funding Opportunities
• Engagement and Community
Involvement
National Science Foundation
Office of
Inspector General
National Science
Board
Office of the Director
Administrative Offices
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
Office Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Engineering
Office of International Science
& Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences
Office of Polar Programs
FY 2007 Proposal Statistics
NSF and CISE
Statistic
NSF
CISE
No. of Proposal
Actions
44,593
5,745
No. of Reviews
280,000
24,182
No. of Awards
11,484
1,633
Funding Rate
(Research Only)
26%
(22%)
28%
(24%)
NSF and CISE Funding Rate Trends
40%
Funding Rate
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
ITR
CDI
5%
0%
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Fiscal Year
NSF
CISE
CISE 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??
CISE Organizational Chart
and Core Research Programs
Office of the
Assistant Director
for CISE
CCF
CORE PROGRAMS
Computing and
Communications
Foundations
CNS
IIS
Computer and
Network
Systems
Information and
Intelligent
Systems
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Algorithmic Foundations

Computer Systems
Research
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Communications and
Information Foundations
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Networking Technology
and Systems
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Software and Hardware
Foundations

Human-Centered
Computing
Information Integration
and Informatics
Robust Intelligence
More 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.
Elements of NSF Strategic
Plan
• Discovery
• Learning
• Infrastructure
CISE 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
• Discovery: Advance the Frontiers of
Computing
– Multidisciplinary program solicitations issued by CISE
• Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) –
began in FY’08
• 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
Discovery: Expeditions
(Large Centers)
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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
Discovery: Cyber-Enabled Discovery
and Innovation (CDI)
• 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/
CISE 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
Discovery: CISE Cross-cutting research
programs
• 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 (<$500K), medium (<$1.2M) and large (<$3M)
projects
• Eligibility – no more than 2 proposals per senior personnel
• Focus Areas
– Data-Intensive Computing
– Network Research and Engineering
– Trustworthy Computing
Advance: 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?
Advance:
Network Science and Engineering
(NetSE)
• Considers computer networks as complex, global sociotechnical 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.
Advance:
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
NSF 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
NSF 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)
Other 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)
Back 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.
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