# Presentation: 146989

## Computer and Information Science and Engineering DirectorateNational Science Foundation

## Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Overview

Proposal and Funding Statistics

Highlights & Community Involvement

Concluding Remarks

- Proposal and Funding Statistics
- Highlights & Community Involvement
- Concluding Remarks

- Road Map

## National Science Foundation

**Administrative Offices**

**Directorate for Engineering**

**Office of the Director**

**National Science**

**Board**

**Office Cyberinfrastructure**

**Office of**
**Inspector General**

**Directorate for Geosciences**

**Office of Polar Programs**

## Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate Overview

## CISE Budget and Budget Outlook

- 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

**NSF provides 87% of all Federal support for basic research in computer science **

**CCF**
**Computing and**
**Communications**
**Foundations**

**CNS**
**Computer and**
**Network**
**Systems**

**IIS**
**Information and**
**Intelligent**
**Systems**

**Office of the**
**Assistant Director**
**for CISE**

- CISE Organizational Chartand Core Research Programs

- CORE PROGRAMS

## CISE Contributions to NSF’s Strategic Goals (1)

- Discovery: Advance the Frontiers of Computing
- Core CISE programs
- Programs that serve specific goals or communities
- 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

**Notes:**
CI: Atkins report; cybersecurity: congressional mandate
I’ll touch upon all of these, especially CI and organizational; computing research 
CI:  research and support for shared facilities
BP:  our EWF theme
Organizational effectiveness:  to serve the computing community

## CISE Contributions to NSF’s Strategic Goals 

- Discovery: Advance the Frontiers of Computing
- Multidisciplinary program solicitations
- 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
- Engineering Research Centers
- Expeditions in Computing

**Notes:**
CI: Atkins report; cybersecurity: congressional mandate
I’ll touch upon all of these, especially CI and organizational; computing research 
CI:  research and support for shared facilities
BP:  our EWF theme
Organizational effectiveness:  to serve the computing community

## 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

Preliminary Proposal Due Date (required): September 10, 2008

Full Proposal Deadline: January 10, 2009

- 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
**Preliminary Proposal Due Date *****(required):*** September 10, 2008
**Full Proposal Deadline:** January 10, 2009

- Expeditions

- Pursue ambitious, fundamental research that promises to define the future of computing
- Investigators collaborate across disciplinary and institutional boundaries

- New in FY08

## Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) 

- Create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking.

- New in FY 2008

- 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

- Bold Five-Year Initiative

- See http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/

## CISE Contributions to NSF’s Strategic Goals 

- Discovery: Advance the Frontiers of Computing
- 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

- New in FY09

**Notes:**
CI: Atkins report; cybersecurity: congressional mandate
I’ll touch upon all of these, especially CI and organizational; computing research 
CI:  research and support for shared facilities
BP:  our EWF theme
Organizational effectiveness:  to serve the computing community

## 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?

## 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.

## 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

## CISE Contributions to NSF’s Strategic Goals (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

**Notes:**
CI: Atkins report; cybersecurity: congressional mandate
I’ll touch upon all of these, especially CI and organizational; computing research 
CI:  research and support for shared facilities
BP:  our EWF theme
Organizational effectiveness:  to serve the computing community

## CISE Contributions to NSF’s Strategic Goals (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)

**Notes:**
CI: Atkins report; cybersecurity: congressional mandate
I’ll touch upon all of these, especially CI and organizational; computing research 
CI:  research and support for shared facilities
BP:  our EWF theme
Organizational effectiveness:  to serve the computing community

## Back to Basics

- CISE is about advancing the computing frontier
- Supporting good ideas submitted by creative people in broad range of academic institutions and organizations.
- It’s about “high risk” long term impact.
- Impact may be far in the future.
- Impact is long-lasting (it’s about new knowledge).
- Impact can create new economies and change societal behavior.

## Proposal and Funding Statistics

- Proposal and Funding Statistics

## 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%) |

## ITR

- CDI

## Community Involvement Highlights Concluding Remarks

- Community Involvement Highlights Concluding Remarks

## Special Emphasis Programs

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## Subscribe to CISE Distribution List

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## Call our attention to things that need improvement
Suggest transition strategies from basic research to prototyping and production
Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc.
Plan to serve as a program officer (“rotator”) or division director

- Suggest transition strategies from basic research to prototyping and production
- Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc.
- Plan to serve as a program officer (“rotator”) or division director

- Get Involved

- Keep us informed of your accomplishments
- Work within your institutions to support collaborative, interdisciplinary research

- 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

- Consider participating in the Computing Community Consortium:
-                                  www.cra.org/ccc

## Highlights

- Succinct, interesting vignettes
- Show a result, a discovery
- Use layperson’s language
- Use graphics if possible
- NSF shares Highlights publicly
- Budget requests
- Performance reports
- Public relations
- Convince the US public that research
-      is worth paying for

## Concluding Remarks

- CISE-funded research and education outcomes *essential* to national competitiveness
- Focus on grand vision, big ideas
- We seek potentially transformative research
- Fundamental questions in computing
- Potential for significant, enduring impact
- Plausible, but high risk projects
- Multi-disciplinary, NSF-wide investments such as CDI

- “To keep America competitive into the future, we must trust in the skill of our scientists and engineers and empower them to pursue the breakthroughs of tomorrow.”
-  – President Bush, January 28, 2008