ACM SIGMM 2011 Networking of Multimedia Women Panel

1. ACM SIGMM 2011Networking of Multimedia WomenPanel Maria Zemankova Program Director Information Integration & Informatics Graphics & Visualization Division of Information & Intelligent Systems Directorate of Computer & Information Science & EngineeringNational Science Foundation USA mzemanko@nsf.gov

2. Multi-media, multi-modal, multi-cultural, multi-interest, multi-connected, multi-disciplinary , ... moving, changing world and MM women and NSF Transformative research involves ideas, discoveries, or tools that radically change our understanding of an important existing scientific or engineering concept or educational practice or leads to the creation of a new paradigm or field of science, engineering, or education. Such research challenges current understanding or provides pathways to new frontiers. Intellectual Merit criterion: To what extent does the proposed activity suggest and explore creative, original, or potentially transformative concepts? FAQ for Potentially Transformative Research http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/landing/nsb0732.jsp

3. Directorate for Biological Directorate for Mathematical Sciences & Physical Sciences Directorate for Computer & Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Information Science & Engineering Directorate for Education & Human Resources Office of International Science & Engineering Where is MM research supported at NSF? National Science Office of Inspector General Board Administrative Offices Office of the Director Everywhere!!! Office of Cyberinfrastructure Directorate for Engineering Directorate for Geosciences Office of Polar Programs Active Awards: (multi-media OR multimedia OR image OR video OR speech OR sound OR haptics) 3,000+ results CISE: IIS = 504, CNS = 241, CCF = 216

4. What is supported: example topics • Modeling, simulation, visualization of multimedia phenomena/object • Using multimedia phenomena/objects in research or engineering or education (e.g., Digital Sky, nanomaterials) • Understanding, organizing, searching, recommending, ... • Tagging, crowdsourcing, ... • Geospatial, temporal aspects of MM • Multi-modal interactive interaction • Computer graphics, digital photography • MM privacy, security, steganography • Compression • MM and wireless communications • MM and social networks (including cyber-bullying) • MM collections, testbeds, infrastructure • ...

5. Who gets supported: CISE gender diversity as self-reported; submissions: n =29,171 and awards: n = 7,425

6.  Algorithmic Foundations    Education and workforce Networking Technology and Systems Computer Systems Research  Communications and Information Foundations  Software and Hardware Foundations CISE Programs CCF Computing and Communications Foundations CNS Computer and Network Systems IIS Information and Intelligent Systems • Human-Centered Computing • Information Integration & Informatics • Robust Intelligence • IIS-wide: • Computer Graphics • & Visualization Core Programs Cross-Cutting Programs

7. CISE Core Programs • Program Solicitations • CCF: NSF 11-557 • CNS: NSF 11-555 • IIS: NSF 11-556 • Project Types: • Large: $1,200,001 to $3,000,000; up to 5 years duration collaborative team projects • Medium: $500,001 to $1,200,000; up to 4 years duration multi-investigator collaborative projects • Small: up to $500,000; up to 3 years duration one or two investigator projects • CISE-wide Submission Windows: • Medium: September 15 - 30, annually • Large: November 1 - 28, annually • Small: December 1 – 19, annually • PI Limit: • participate in no more than 2 “core” proposals/year Coordinated Solicitations

8. Expeditions in Computing NSF 10-564 GOALS: • 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 Project Types: • Large collaborative, interdisciplinary teams • Up to $10,000,000; up to 5 years duration Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: • participate in no more than 1 Expeditions proposal/year   • Deadlines: • Preliminary Proposal (required): • March 10, 2012 • September 10, 2013 • Full Proposal : • December 10, 2012 • May 10, 2014

9. Next Frontiers • We can do images, videos, motion, focus, panorama, galaxies, fMRI, speech, sounds, music, animation, eye-tracking, remote surgery, virtual worlds, ..., surveillance hummingbird, 3-D-printed dress, holographic map, magic mirror, invisibility cloak!!! (TIME, Nov. 28, 2011) • NEXT: • Think BIG and transformative (different) ideas: OR • What important problems (scientific,medical, societal, ...) include MM and how can you contribute? smell, taste, ???

10. Good Strategy (1): Collaboration • Steve Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: • Most innovations are result of collaborative effort hatched in academic labs or corporate R&D departments rather than in some isolated genius’s garage • How can you collaborate? • Look up existing projects in NSF Award Search • Contact the researchers • Contact program directors for suggestions • Talk to colleagues, also in other departments, universities, industry, countries

11. NSF Award Search

12. Find Relevant Projects, Researchers, Programs, Program Directors Specify program, program director, dates, … Find recent awards, funding rates, more … Type research topic keywords, e.g.: Multimedia AND retrieval Restrict to Active Awards

13. Finding relevant awards

14. Found an Interesting One! Get in touch Get in touch Publications resulting from this research will appear here – a great information source!

15. Good Strategy (2): Funding Opportunities • Look up Funding Opportunities • Consider inter-disciplinary, collaborative programs • High schools, academic & industry, international

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17. Finding Funding Opportunities Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary, international

18. Good Strategy (3): Strong Proposal • Make sure to address Program Solicitation, especially any special conditions, criteria • Make sure to consider seriously the NSF Merit Criteria: • Intellectual Merit • Potential for Transformativeness • How will you measure your progress and success • Broader Impacts: • New fundamental knowledge • Technology transfer • Societal impact • Integrating research and educational activities (beyond teaching courses) • Broadening participation in (computer) science

19. Outreach: We have a role to play in shaping the future – that will be a vital measure of our success

20. Current Funding Opportunities • CISE & other disciplines • NSF-wide programs • You and NSF

21. Interdisciplinary Programs: CISE+other disciplines • Research: • National Robotics Initiative (NRI) • Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) • Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) • Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Sciences (ICES) • Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) • Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) • Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) • Education & Workforce: • Cyberlearning: Transforming Education • Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) – FY12 solicitation forthcoming • Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science (RET)

22. Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW) Multiple NSF Directorates participating: CISE, SBE, ENG Vision: seek improvements in safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered,individualized, and evidence-based health and wellness services through innovations in computer and information science and engineering.  Scope: Smart Health and Wellbeing especially encourages the research community to pursue bold ideas that go beyond and/or combine traditional areas of computer and information science and engineering. Projects submitted to this program should be motivated by specific challenges in health and wellbeing.  The Smart Health and Wellbeing program aims to facilitate large-scale discoveries that yield long-term, transformative impact in how we treat illness and maintain our health. Proposal Deadlines: February 06, 2012: Type I: Exploratory Projects (EXP) $200,000 to $600,000 total budget, durations 2-3 years February 21, 2012: Type II: Integrative Projects (INT) $600,001 to $2,000,000 total budget, duration 4-5 years SHW Information: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503556 FY12 solicitation: NSF 12-512

23. Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW) Research Directions (CISE-focused): * Modeling, decision making, automated discovery, visualization, databases, summarization, data fusion, sensor networks, telemetry, robotics, vision, speech & language, security and privacy, … * new security and cryptographic solutions to protect patient privacy while providing legitimate anytime, anywhere access to health services will require * information retrieval, data mining, and decision support software systems to support personalized medicine * remote and networked sensors and actuators, mobile platforms, novel interactive displays, and computing and networking infrastructure that support continuous monitoring and real-time, customized  feedback on health and behavior * anonymized and aggregated data for community-wide health awareness and maintenance * better and more efficient delivery of health services enabled by virtual worlds, robotics, image, and natural language understanding * safe critical care provided by software-controlled and interoperable medical devices * healthcare systems and applications that are usable (to preclude or minimize failures due to human error) and that are useful (matching the mental model of users, from provider to patient, so people make appropriate decisions and choices)

24. NSF-Wide Programs: Research (1) Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) NSF 10-580 Supplements: Accepted Anytime Full Proposal: Accepted under relevant Program Solicitation due dates Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (CREATIV/INSPIRE)New!!! More information: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118674 If you have a potential collaboration across disciplines, contact Program Directors for relevant disciplines Innovation Corps Program (I‐Corps)New!!! Supplements for technology transfer to industry Based on network of experienced transferors Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) -- international collaboration New!!!

25. NSF-Wide Programs: Research (2) Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES)New!!! • NSF-wide • Multiple programs - multi-disciplinary focus is required in all • NSF 11-575: SEES Fellows • Within 4 years of PhD • Limited teaching responsibilities allowed – primary focus must be research • DUE DATE December 5, 2011 • NSF 11-590: Sustainable Energy Pathways • “Pathways” are end-to-end solutions • DUE DATE February 1, 2012 • NSF 11-531: Research Coordination Networks • NSF 11-574: Sustainability Research Networks • Support for collaboration between existing projects instead of new research projects • NSF 11-564: Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE

26. NSF Cross-Cutting Programs (3) Education & Workforce: • ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) • ADVANCE Portal: http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/ • Balancing the Scale: NSF's Career-Life Balance Initiative New!!! • More information: http://www.nsf.gov/career-life-balance/ • Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) • Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT) • Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • CISE accepts requests for REU Supplements for existing awards every Spring • see the CISE Web site for details Infrastructure: • Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century (CF21) • Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI^2) • Major Research Infrastructure (MRI)

27. Overwhelming? • Helpful hints: • Subscribe to NSF Updates by Email • Subscribe to CISE Updates by Email • Subscribe to receive special CISE announcements • Visit CISE Web site often • Use Award Search to find relevant programs • Talk to program directors

28. Subscribe to NSF’s mailing list http://www.nsf.gov Funding Opportunities Get NSF Updates by Email Upcoming Due Dates

29. CISE Updates and Announcements New information Get CISE Updates by Email Featured Programs Subscribe to receive special CISE announcements http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE

30. Subscribe to CISE Distribution List • http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/mail_lists.jsp CISE has implemented a mail distribution list to notify the Computer and Information Science and Engineering community of items we think may be of interest. The postings will be infrequent and brief and will typically point to further information on the CISE or NSF website. This may duplicate some of the items contained in NSF Custom News Service but will also contain items not always available there:: • Announcements • Vacancy notices • CISE webcasts of interest • Meeting notices, workshops • News items, etc. To subscribe: send a message to: join-cise-announce@lists.nsf.govwith no text in the subject or message body. If you no longer wish to be included on the distribution list, you can elect to be removed from the list at any time. Instructions for unsubscribing will be included at the end of each list message.

31. CISE Career Workshops • CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshops http://www.nsf.gov/cise/workshops/career/ • The goal of the workshop is to enable future CISE proposal submitters to prepare competitive CAREER proposals. The workshop intends to provide young faculty members skills in CAREER proposal writing, panel review experience, and opportunities to interact with NSF program directors and recent NSF awardees. • Upcoming 2012 Workshops: • Workshop 1: • Organizer: Dr. Paul Oh, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA • NSF Contact: Dr. Jie Yang and Dr. Tanya Korelsky • Date: March 30, 2012 • Place: Drexel University • Workshop 2: • Organizer: Dr. Sule Ozev, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ • NSF Contact: Dr. Mohamed Gouda • Date: May 18, 2012 • Place: Phoenix, AZ

32. Your Involvement • Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist • Find appropriate program director(s) by looking at relevant Program Solicitations or Award Abstracts • or Maria Zemankova [mzemanko@nsf.gov] • Send email message: • Subject: Reviewer Volunteer • Inside message body: • Full Name: • Affiliation(s): • Department(s): • Work mailing address: • Phone number: • Email address: • URL (Home page): • Research areas: up to 8 keywords • Program directors will share with colleagues, store for future use • When looking for reviewers, they will search their email for reviewers in needed research areas • You will be invited if your areas fit the need and you do not have a clear conflict of interest (e.g. submitted a proposal to that competition, or there are proposals from your institutions)

33. Your Involvement • Get to know your Program Directors • Review Program Solicitations or Award Abstracts • Send an email message to request a phone conversation or visit • Program Directors can: • advise on appropriate program(s) for your proposed research • provide general suggestions on writing a proposal • Program Directors cannot: • provide detailed comments on your proposal draft • discuss a pending proposal • Send your best ideas to NSF: consistent with program focus and goals • Work within your institutions to support collaborative, interdisciplinary research • Keep us informed of your accomplishments • Call our attention to things that need improvement • Suggest new research areas, activities, etc. • Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc. • Organize planning workshops for new research directions or activities • Consider participating in the Computing Community Consortium: http://www.cra.org/ccc • Plan to serve as a program director (“rotator”) or division director

34. NSF/CISE Highlights • NSF News • NSF Discoveries • Computing Discoveries Project Highlights: • Succinct, interesting vignettes • Show a result, a discovery • in layperson’s language • including graphics if possible • NSF shares Highlights publicly • NSF Budget requests • Performance reports • Public relations • Convince the US public that researchis worth paying for!!!

35. Thank you! Questions ? Maria Zemankova Program DirectorCISE/IIS mzemanko@nsf.gov703-292-7348