Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:40 PM
To: CISE announcements
Subject: Overview of FY08 NSF/CISE Programs
October 2, 2007
Dear Colleague,
Greetings from the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) Directorate! CISE is committed to support not only basic, long-term
research, but also bold and potentially transformative research agendas. We
look forward to learning about your most creative, exciting, and visionary
ideas.
This letter is to share with the entire CISE community, for the first time in
one place, a list of all research-focused program announcements and
solicitations currently active or under development. By providing you with
this preview, we aim to give you a sense of the breadth of research areas we
fund and to help you better plan for proposal preparation for this and
coming years. We hope you find this information useful. Stay tuned for
future Dear Colleague Letters that will give an overview of CISE's
infrastructure and education programs.
We encourage you to read through the entire list: There are both brand new
opportunities and continuing opportunities that you may not be aware of.
The new ones are: CreativeIT, Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI),
Expeditions in Computing, Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics, and
Software for Real-World Systems. Please take some time to look at the
continuing ones, too, as you may discover topics covered by programs outside
your usual research purview.
We also strongly recommend that you carefully and selectively identify the
most appropriate funding opportunity for your proposed work. Experience has
shown that the most effective strategy for a PI is to focus on fewer
high-quality proposals, rather than submitting numerous proposals. As more
PIs submit multiple proposals, the burden on the merit review process
increases and the quality and timeliness of the merit review process
deteriorates as well. Since many of the funding opportunities described
below will be offered again in future fiscal years, you might also consider
beginning to formulate a proposal for a future year's competition.
The continued excellence in our field depends on your active participation in
our community. Here are some ways we seek your involvement: submit to the
new Computing Community Consortium your grand vision ideas not only to
excite our nation's young to consider computing careers but also to attract
more funding to our field; engage in NSF's merit review process as a panel
or ad-hoc reviewer; and finally, come to NSF on a rotational assignment as a
CISE Program Director, CISE Division Director, NSF Assistant Director, or
even NSF Director in the coming years.
Good luck in the FY 2008 competitions!
Sincerely,
Jeannette Wing
Assistant Director for CISE
Program Announcements and Solicitations
The list below reflects major research opportunities and previews the range
of program announcements and solicitations currently active or under
development that may be of interest to you. Please refer to the NSF website
for a complete list of activities. A synopsis of other funding
opportunities, including research infrastructure and education programs,
will be detailed in a subsequent Dear Colleague Letter.
I. SPECIAL EMPHASIS PROGRAMS WITH SPECIFIC DURATIONS
Advanced Learning Technologies (joint with NSF's Directorate for Education
and Human Resources) Scientific Foci: Research on computer science and
cognitive science challenges posed by human learning environments and
learning technology platforms. Projects must pursue both learning and
technology questions, and focus on science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics (STEM) education.
Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (joint with the National
Institutes of Health and other NSF directorates)
Scientific Foci: Interdisciplinary research in computational neuroscience,
providing a theoretical foundation and set of technological approaches that
enhance understanding of nervous system function and may also have a
significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released in January 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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CreativeIT **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Focus on research that improves our understanding of
creativity while producing simultaneous advances in computer science and
information technologies with digital arts, cognitive science, engineering
design, and physical and life science.
Proposal Deadline: September 21, 2007
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI ) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF's bold
five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering
research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational
thinking, where computational thinking is defined comprehensively to
encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools.
CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research proposals
within or across the following three thematic areas: From Data to Knowledge;
Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems; and Building
Virtual Organizations. PIs are encouraged to submit CDI proposals that are
truly distinctive from proposals submitted to other CISE programs.
Letter of Intent Deadline (mandatory): November 30, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 8, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: April 29, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks
Scientific Foci: This program supports research community efforts aimed at
broad digital data interoperability through the development of mechanisms
such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies.
Support is provided for community consensus-building activities and, based
on community consensus, for developing associated technical standards with
supporting implementation tools and resources.
Proposal Deadline: July 23, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
Scientific Foci: DataNet will create a set of exemplar national and global
data research infrastructure organizations that integrate library and
archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences,
and domain science expertise to: provide reliable digital preservation,
access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or
engineering data over a decades-long timeline; continuously anticipate and
adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations; engage
at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure
with research and development to drive the leading edge forward; and serve
as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access
network.
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 7, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: March 21, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (joint with Department of Homeland
Security) **NEW in FY 2008** Scientific Foci: CISE will establish a network
of projects focused on the creation of the mathematical and computational
sciences foundations required to transform data in ways that permit
visual-based understanding. This is a one-time solicitation with 5-7 awards
anticipated; no subsequent competitions are envisioned.
Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2007.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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High End Computing University Research Activity (with DARPA)
Scientific Foci: Research and education projects in languages, programming
models and programming environments for high-end computing.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a
proposal deadline winter of 2007-2008. Stay tuned for more information.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with Computer Sciences
Scientific Foci: Supports collaborative research in fundamental mathematics
and statistics, and computer science with a focus primarily on mathematical
and statistical challenges posed by large data sets, managing and modeling
uncertainty, and modeling complex nonlinear systems.
Proposal Deadline: Spring 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Software for Real-World Systems (SRS) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: SRS calls on researchers to discover, define, and apply
fundamental scientific principles, engineering methods, and educational
methods to the challenges of developing, analyzing, and maintaining software
for real-world systems of today and tomorrow.
Proposal Deadline: January 17, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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II. CORE PROGRAMS WITH RECURRING ANNUAL DEADLINES
Core program announcements have recurring annual deadlines and are critical
to the vitality and stability of the academic-based computing and
information research and education community. Core programs contribute in
several ways: 1. they target particular scientific fields or subfields
within computing and information; 2. they target subsets of the computing
and information community (e.g., new faculty, undergraduate students, etc.);
or 3. they target specific project modalities (e.g., team awards of larger
funding levels and longer durations.)
Computer Systems Research
Scientific Foci: Innovative research that has potential to augment our
fundamental understanding of these increasingly large and complex systems
and lead to major advances in systems software, service architectures and
abstractions, system modeling and simulation, virtualization, cross-system
integration, real-time and pervasive computing, storage and file systems,
networked sensing and control, flexible assured system composition, and
design for dependability and resiliency under uncertainty.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a
proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Cyber Trust
Scientific Foci: Research leading to computer-based systems and networks that
function as intended, especially in the face of cyber attack, that process,
store and communicate sensitive information according to specified policies,
and that reflect privacy concerns of citizens. Proposals may address any
aspect related to security, privacy, dependability, reliability and safety
of systems and networks.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a
proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)
Scientific Foci: Create a culture of innovation in engineering research and
education that links scientific discovery to technological innovation
through transformational engineered systems research in order to advance
technology and produce engineering graduates who will be creative innovators
in a global economy.
Letter of Intent Deadline (required): February 02, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline (required): May 03, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): December 10,
2007
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Emerging Models and Technologies
Scientific Foci: Frameworks and foundations for novel computing models that
will lead to better computing and communication systems, including, for
example: modeling and simulation of bio-systems; design of bio-inspired
computing models for solving complex problems; investigation of various
aspects of quantum-based approaches to processing information; and nanoscale
science and engineering approaches.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Program announcement to be released fall 2007;
proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
Expeditions in Computing **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: New research program to tap the great reservoir of
opportunities that fundamental research advances in computing and
information promise for the future. Investigators in the computer and
information science and engineering fields and beyond are encouraged to come
together within and/or across departments or institutions in the development
of compelling, transformational research agendas that promise disruptive
innovations in computing and information for many years to come. Three
five-year awards, each totaling $10 million, will be supported this year,
with three new awards to be made each year in subsequent years.
Letter of Intent Deadline (Mandatory): November 5, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: December 30, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Scientific Foci: A foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science
Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early
career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively
integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their
organizations.
Proposal Deadline: Midsummer 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts
Scientific Foci: Transformative research to advance at a fundamental level
the design, verification, evaluation, utilization, and understanding of
computing and communication systems. Projects may focus on processes, such
as design methods for hardware or software, especially programming models
for parallel computing; they may also focus on artifacts, such as new tools
for validation of a system design, new languages, or new techniques for
graphics, visualization, and animation.
Proposal Deadline: December 7, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Scientific Foci: Synergize university-industry partnerships by making project
funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of
industry-university linkages. Program targets high-risk/high-gain research
with a focus on fundamental topics, new approaches to solving generic
problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university
educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe
and industry.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant
deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC)
Scientific Foci: Develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and
government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the
National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry
center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and
evolution.
Letter of Intent Deadline: January 4, 2008
Proposal Deadline: March 28, 2008
Letter of Intent Deadline: June 27, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human-Centered Computing;
Information Integration and Informatics; and Robust Intelligence
Scientific Foci: The IIS Division has a single yearly solicitation that
funds core activities in all three programmatic areas covered by IIS:
Human-Centered Computing studies the roles of and relationships between
people and the computing and information technologies they develop and use,
focused both on the design of computational artifacts in support of human
activities and on the study of the impact these technologies have on
individuals, groups, and society at large.
Information Integration and Informatics focuses on processes and technologies
for creating, storing, querying, representing, organizing, integrating,
updating, analyzing, preserving, protecting, and interacting with digital
content at scales ranging from individuals to globally-distributed dynamic
networked repository systems.
Robust Intelligence encompasses computational understanding and modeling of
the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and
adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments. This programmatic
area includes research in robotics, speech, vision, natural language
processing, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
Each year, this solicitation also focuses on a number of cross-cutting
technical areas. The current solicitation includes two such areas:
Integrative Intelligence, targeting the challenges involved in creating more
broadly capable intelligent systems; and
Next-Generation Networked Information, seeking the development of information
systems that anticipate future distributed networking environments.
Proposal Deadlines (by project size): October 23, 2007 (Medium); November
19, 2007 (Large); and December 10, 2007 (Small).
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Networking Technology and Systems
Scientific Foci: Supports forward looking, basic and experimental, research
to increase our understanding of how complex, dynamic networks behave, how
they can be designed to deliver sustainable end-to-end performance and
services, and how they can be managed and controlled to rapidly adapt to
changes with a high degree of reliability and minimal service disruption.
Both evolutionary proposals which focus on radical approaches to address
challenges related to the current Internet and revolutionary, clean-slate
proposals, which seek to create a future Internet, are welcome.
Proposal Deadline: Winter 2007-2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Scientific Foci: Enable U.S. institutions to establish collaborative
relationships with international groups or institutions in order to engender
new knowledge and discoveries at the frontier and to promote the development
of a globally-engaged, U.S. scientific and engineering workforce.
Proposal Deadline: The next PIRE competition is being planned for 2009.
Please check the link below for updates.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites
Scientific Foci: Supports active research participation by undergraduate
students in all research areas funded by CISE. REU Sites engage a number of
undergraduate students in research and may be based in a single discipline
or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research
opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme.
Proposal Deadline: August 18, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Scientific Foci: Supports research by faculty members of predominantly
undergraduate institutions through the funding of (1) individual and
collaborative research projects, (2) the purchase of shared-use research
instrumentation, and (3) Research Opportunity Awards for work with
NSF-supported investigators at other institutions.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant
deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Science of Learning Centers (SLCs)
Scientific Foci: Offers awards for large-scale, long-term centers that create
the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the
long-term advancement of Science of Learning research. It supports research
that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to
create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and
explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper
understanding of learning.
Proposal Deadlines: February 4, 2008 and August 4, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Science and Technology Centers (STCs)
Scientific Foci: Enables innovative research and education projects of
national importance that require a center mode of support to achieve the
research, education, and knowledge-transfer goals shared by the partners.
Science and Technology Centers conduct world-class research in partnerships
among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial
organizations, and/or other public/private entities to create new and
meaningful knowledge of significant benefit to society.
Proposal Deadline: Deadlines TBD.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Scientific Foci: SGER proposals are for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk
research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally
supported by the NSF. While not a program, per se, the SGER is a mechanism
NSF uses to catalyze rapid and innovative advances by supporting preliminary
work on untested and novel ideas and/or ventures into emerging and
potentially transformative research ideas. SGER awards cannot exceed
$200,000 for a period of two years, however most are for smaller amounts
and/or for shorter durations. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged
to contact program directors in their disciplines to discuss the
opportunities for SGER awards.
Proposal Deadline: Please speak to a CISE program director.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005
Theoretical Foundations
Scientific Foci: Basic research on algorithms, complexity, and theory that
enables scientific advances in and reveals the potential limitations of
computation, communications, signal processing, numerical computing and
optimization, symbolic and algebraic computation, and the applications of
these insights to other areas of science and engineering.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a
proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm
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