Computer

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Computer Information Science and Engineering at
NSF

• Michael Pazzani
• Division Director,
• CISE/Information and Intelligent System
• NSF

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Overview

• NSF and CISE Organization and Programs
• NSF Initiatives The other half of the budget
• NSF and Homeland Security
• Learning more about NSF/CISE
• My proposal wasnt funded, now what?
• My proposal was funded, now what?
• Personal Advice Not Official NSF policy
• How you can help NSF

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NSF Mission

• To promote the progress of science
• to advance the national health, prosperity, and
  welfare
• and to secure the national defense.

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NSF Organization
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CISE Directorate 2004

• Computing Communications Foundations
  (CCF)Kamal Abdali
• Computer Networks Systems (CNS)Greg Andrews
• Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
  Michael Pazzani
• Shared CyberInfrastructure (SCI) Mari Maedi,
  Acting Division Director

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Information and Intelligent Systems2004 135M
in 2003 (100M in 2002)

• Information and Data Management
• Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
• Digital Society and Technologies
• Human Computer Interaction
• Universal Access
• Human Language and Communication
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Special Projects (Digital Libraries)
• Science and Engineering Informatics
• Bioinformatics
• Geoinformatics, Earth Science Informatics,
  Materials, .
• Digital Government
• Computational Neuroscience

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Types of proposals/awards

• IIS Regular Proposal Deadlines 250-600K 3 yr?
• Mid December Deadline
• REU RET supplements?(10-30K 1 year)
• Mid March Target Date.
• CAREER Program ? (400-500K, 5 year) late July
• Information Technology Research (ITR)
• Look for changes in 2004
• Mid January-gtFeb Deadline
• One sized proposal
• Focused (Information Integration,
  Cybersecurity, Science of Design)

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NSF Initiatives and Cross-disciplinary programs

• Information Technology Research (ITR)
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research
  Traineeship (IGERT)
• Sensors
• CAREER
• CyberSecurity/ CyberTrust
• Human and Social Dynamics
• Science of Learning Centers
• Cyberinfrastructure Coming Soon

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IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program

• A comprehensive interdisciplinary theme,
  appropriate for doctoral-level research, that
  serves as the foundation for traineeship
  activities
• Integration of the interdisciplinary research
  with innovative graduate education and training
  mechanisms, curricula enhancement, and other
  educational features that foster strong
  interactions among participating students and
  faculty
• Integrated instruction in ethics and the
  responsible conduct of research
• Institutional strategy and operational plan for
  recruitment, mentoring, and retention of U.S.
  graduate students, including efforts aimed at
  members of groups underrepresented in science and
  engineering
• 30K graduate fellowships
• Information Management is a important component
  of nearly every science. This community should
  get more involved.

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Science of Learning Centers

• 3 to 5 Center awards and 20 Catalyst awards a
  year
• The neural basis of learning in humans and other
  species
• Machine learning, learning algorithms, knowledge
  representation, robotics, adaptive systems, and
  computational simulation of cognitive systems
• Visualization and representation of complex
  phenomena and multidimensional data
• Analogical reasoning, mathematical reasoning,
  causal analysis, general and domain-specific
  aspects of mathematical and scientific
  problem-solving, creativity, and intelligence
• Learning of disciplinary content including
  assessment, structure of disciplinary knowledge,
  pedagogical content knowledge, learning in formal
  and informal educational settings, and equitable
  access to learning
• Learning technologies, including intelligent
  tutoring systems, visualization tools,
  computer-supported collaborative environments,
  digital libraries, and real-time assessment
  tools

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Coming Soon- Cyberinfrastructure Information
Infrastructure enables scientific discovery
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Cyberinfrastructure

• provide an integrated high end system of
  hardware, software, and services that ...
• enables scientists and engineers to work on
  advanced research and education problems that
  would not otherwise be solvable

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National Security Homeland Security

• NSF Mission To promote the progress of science
  to advance the national health, prosperity, and
  welfare and to secure the national defense.
• When initiated or supported pursuant to requests
  made by any other Federal department or agency,
  activities shall be financed from funds
  transferred to the Foundation
• Why NSF?
• Peer-review system identifies highly meritorious
  projects.
• Established relationship with top researchers on
  a broad range of topics identifies match between
  agency needs and researchers capabilities.
• Types of Support
• Foundational research in areas such cryptography,
  network security, machine translation, speech
  analysis, robotics, information fusion, image
  analysis, data mining, collaborative systems,
  social network analysis, bioinformatics, critical
  infrastructure protection, political science with
  application to a broad range of problems
  including National Security Homeland Security.
• Supplements funded by other agencies to existing
  NSF investigators to perform unclassified
  research with short-term application of interest
  to the agency.

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FY03 National Security Supplemental funding at
the National Science Foundation

• CIA/NSA/ITIC (20M)
• Knowledge Discovery Dissemination
• Management of Knowledge Intensive Dynamic Systems
• Machine Translation
• Speech Analysis
• Information Extraction
• Disease Informatics
• Detection Of Deception
• Social Network Analysis
• Research on why individuals join by terrorist
  groups
• DARPA (1M) Augmented Cognition
• DHS Information Integration, Biometrics
• NIMA (lt1M) Image and Motion Analysis

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Criterion 1 Intellectual Merit

• How important is the proposed activity to
  advancing knowledge and understanding within its
  own field or across different fields?
• How well qualified is the proposer (individual or
  team) to conduct the project?
• To what extent does the proposed activity suggest
  and explore creative and original concepts?
• How well conceived and organized is the proposed
  activity? (Management plan)
• Is there sufficient access to resources?
• Advice on multidisciplinary research
• If its worth doing, its worth doing well
• Involve experts from each area

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Criterion 2 Broader Impacts

• How well does the activity advance discovery and
  understanding while promoting teaching, training,
  and learning?
• How well does the activity broaden the
  participation of underrepresented groups ?
• To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure
  for research and education?
• Will the results be disseminated broadly to
  enhance scientific and technological
  understanding?
• What may be the benefits of the proposed activity
  to society?

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Learning More about NSF

• Visit the CISE web site Oct 1.
• www.cise.nsf.gov
• Subscribe to the CISE newsletter
• To subscribe send a message to
  join-cise-announce_at_lists.nsf.gov with no text in
  the subject or message body

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My proposal was funded, now what

• Congratulations, its a competitive world.
• Do innovative and foundational research and
  report it (acknowledge NSF)
• Conferences and Journals in your field
• Conferences and journals outside your immediate
  field for multi-disciplinary research
• General CS/Science outlets CACM, Science
• Put it on the web Summaries and Papers (if
  permitted)
• Home page
• Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
• Popular Press (tech related, Wired) or General
  (Local news or national). NSF can help with a
  press release.
• Tell Program Director and DD about it Send PPT.
• Solve the whole problem, not just the easy part
• Why would someone want to use this?
• Usability, Security, Privacy, Efficiency,
  Reliability, Formal Limitations and Assumptions

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My proposal wasnt accepted. Should I resubmit?
YES, but

• Rated Highly Competitive but not funded ?
  Update proposal (6 months to a year have passed),
  address concerns and resubmit.
• The reviewers didnt get it
• Was the proposal clear? Especially abstract
  how it is a significant advantage over state of
  art broadly defined.
• Was it sent to the right program? We almost
  always fix within IIS, sometimes with CISE and
  rarely across NSF.
• Too preliminary Do some initial work and
  resubmit.
• Constructive Criticism in reviews. Fix, update,
  make sure its clear
• Multidisciplinary but the other discipline didnt
  like it. Are you dabbling or doing
  multidisciplinary work? If the other discipline
  is more of an inspiration than an application,
  keep it out of the title and abstract or mention
  several in the abstract
• Didnt address broader impacts ? Mention outreach
  programs at university and/or help dept, school
  create some. Will your software and DATA be
  available to others, etc
• Multi-investigator Integrate research topics
  rather than append them. Be critical of each
  other.

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How you can help NSF

• Submit High Quality Proposals
• Innovative, but achievable
• Well-written Address broader impacts
• Participate in Reviewing/Panels
• Keep an open mind to alternative approaches
• Give Constructive Reviews
• Host a panel or two on the left coast (or
  airport hub in midwest)
• Keep Program Manager informed of findings
• Nuggets
• CISE Newsletter
• Joint Press Releases
• PowerPoint of Conference Presentations
• Participate in NSF Workshops
• Rotate in as a Program Manager (IPA) or Division
  Director
• Data management for shared cyberinfrastructure
• Data and Application Security

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