Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

1. Directorate forComputer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) Program Overview John Cozzens Program DirectorCISE/CCF jcozzens@nsf.gov

2. The URLs to Remember • www.nsf.gov or • http://nsf.gov and • http://nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE

3. Presentation Outline • CISE Mission, Organization • CISE Funding Opportunities • CISE Core • CISE Cross-cuts • Additional CISE Programs • Research • Infrastructure • Education • Additional Programs for CISE Community • NSF-wide Programs • Navigating NSF Information • Concluding Remarks

4. 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 National Science Foundation National Science Office of Inspector General Board Administrative Offices Office of the Director CISE Office of Cyberinfrastructure Directorate for Engineering Directorate for Geosciences Office of Polar Programs

5. CISE Mission The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has three goals: • To enable the U.S. to uphold a position of world leadership in computing, communications, and information science and engineering • To promote understanding of the principles and uses of advanced computing, communications and information systems in service to society • To contribute to universal, transparent and affordable participation in an information-based society. To achieve these, CISE supports investigator initiated research in all areas of computer and information science and engineering, helps develop and maintain cutting-edge national computing and information infrastructure for research and education generally, and contributes to the education and training of the next generation of computer scientists and engineers.

6. Office of Assistant Director (AD) for CISE AD: Dr. Farnam Jahanian Deputy AD: Dr. Cynthia Dion-Schwarz IIS Information and Intelligent Systems Division Director: Howard Wactlar CCF Computing and Communications Foundations Division Director: Dr. Susanne Hambrusch CNS Computer and Network Systems Division Director: Dr. Keith Marzullo CISE Organization

7.  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

8. 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

9. Computer & Computing Foundations (CCF) http://www.nsf.gov/cise/ccf/about.jsp Algorithmic Foundations (AF) • Algorithms • Complexity and Cryptography • Quantum Computing • Computational Geometry • Computational Biology • Computational Game Theory & Economics • Symbolic and Algebraic Computation • Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) Communication and Information Theory Signal Processing Network Coding and Information Theory Sensor Networks Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) Compilers Computer Architecture High Performance Computing Programming Languages Software Engineering & Formal Methods Design Automation for Micro & Nano Systems Bio Computing Nano Computing

10. Computer and Network Systems (CNS) http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cns/about.jsp Computer Systems Research (CSR) Computer and software systems Hardware platforms Compute-intensive applications & hardware Distributed and Internet scale computing Massively parallel & data intensive computing Pervasive and ubiquitous computing Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) New generation of networks: bringing network closer to autonomy Resource discovery, naming, addressing, routing & congestion control Mobility of a massive number of network/mobile devices Network control and management Scalable, non-intrusive mechanisms, tools & methodologies for measurement Scalability, robustness & network extensibility NeTS Core vs.NetSE Cross-cutting NeTS Core: Network Technology and System Supports the exploration of innovative and possibly radical network architectures, protocols, and technologies – for wired and/or environment – that are responsive to the evolving requirements of large-scale, heterogeneous networks and applications NetSE Cross-Cutting: Network Science and Engineering Encourages all communities to engage in integrative thinking to advance, seed and sustain the transformation of networking research to enable the socio-technical networks of the future.

11. Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) http://www.nsf.gov/cise/iis/about.jsp Human Centered Computing (HCC) Understanding of new human-computer and human-human interactions, collaboration, and competition, developing systems that are aware of their social surroundings and of the conceptualizations, values, preferences, abilities, special needs, and diverse ranges of capability of the people that use them. Role of computing in how humans communicate, work, learn, and play, dramatically transcending traditional geographical and cultural boundaries. Systems that interact with people using various and possibly multiple modalities such as innovative computer graphics, and haptic, audio, and brain-machine interfaces. Information Integration & Informatics (III) Processes and technologies involved in creating, managing, visualizing, and understanding diverse digital content in circumstances ranging from individuals through groups, organizations, and societies, and from individual devices to globally-distributed systems Innovative information technology research that can transform all stages of the “knowledge life cycle” Advances that are driven by information-technology challenges. Multidisciplinary collaborations where fundamental III research is advanced Databases, information retrieval, multimedia information systems, Web search, social network & media, data mining, workflows, information provenance, preservation .

12. Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS), cont’d Robust Intelligence (RI) All aspects of the computational understanding and modeling of intelligence in complex, realistic contexts. Scope: artificial intelligence, computer vision, human language research, robotics, machine learning, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, and related areas. Some topics: computational approaches and architectures for analyzing, understanding, generating and summarizing speech, text and other communicative forms; computational models of meaning, intent, and realization; novel approaches to longstanding language processing ; computational approaches to language processing for underrepresented groups such as minority language groups and aging and disabled population groups; functional modeling, theory, and analysis of the computational, representational, and coding strategies of neurons and neural systems; neurally-grounded computational approaches to computer vision, robotics, communication, and reasoning, and systems that combine them and embody empirically derived neural strategies. Computer Graphics & Visualization (CGI): III Cross-cutting area Proposals are submitted to the most relevant III Core Program(s) Graphics: modeling, rendering, and display pipeline for computer graphics and closely related topics. Visualization: new visualization methods to facilitate the understanding of wide-ranging types and/or large volumes of information. NOTE: Computational geometry proposals not tightly coupled to computer graphics should be submitted to the Algorithmic Foundations (AF) core program in CCF.

13. CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2011 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13451&org=CNS&from=home NSF 10-575 Emerging areas that benefit from intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of CISE fields or sub-field. Areas change over time. * Topics -- Network Science and Engineering -- Smart Health and Wellbeing* -- Trustworthy Computing 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 “cross-cutting” proposals/year

14. Network Science and Engineering (NetSE) NeTSE supports research on: Internet-scale, topologically-aware models for accessing, processing and aggregating multiple high-volume information flows cognitive capabilities, context-awareness, and architectures that enable the discovery, invocation and composition of globally distributed, highly evolving services and information systems. the exploration of new applications that provide information based on both content and context, and the improvement of existing classes of applications, such as telemedicine, gaming, virtual worlds, augmented reality and telepresence network models that incorporate human values at multiple levels and scale and give coherence to the highly diverse ways users might create and access information in the future. NetSE also encourages research proposals focused on exploring "clean slate" approaches to innovations in network architecture and rethinking network functions, layers and abstractions in the context of a range of scientific, technical and social challenges and opportunities. NetSE emphasizes integrative activities focused on creating and synthesizing network components into theoretically grounded architectures that address fundamental policy and design trade-offs, support sound economic models, and promote societal benefits. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503325

15. Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW) Vision: The goal of the Smart Health and Wellbeing program is to seek improvements in safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-centered health and wellness services through innovations in computer and information science and engineering.  Doing so requires leveraging the scientific methods and knowledge bases of a broad range of computing and communication research perspectives.   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. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503556

16. Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW) Research Directions: * 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)

17. Trustworthy Computing (TC) http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503326&org=CISE Currently: over 500 ongoing projects, 700 PIs and Co-PIs TC supports all research approaches: * theoretical to experimental to human-centric * theories, models, cryptography, algorithms, methods, architectures, languages, tools, systems and evaluation frameworks Of particular interest are proposals that address: * foundations of trustworthy computing (e.g., "science of security" and privacy-preserving algorithms), privacy, and usability  TC welcomes projects that study: * tradeoffs among trustworthy computing properties, e.g., security and privacy, or usability and privacy * the tension between security and human values such as openness and transparency * methods to assess, reason and predict system trustworthiness * observable metrics, analytical methods, simulation, experimental deployment and, where possible, deployment on live test-beds for experimentation at scale

18. 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): • September 10, 2010 • March 10, 2012 • September 10, 2013 • Full Proposal : • May 10, 2011; • December 10, 2012 • May 10, 2014

19. Additional CISE Programs Research • Cyber-Physical Systems  (CPS) • NSF 11-516 • DUE DATES: March 21, 2011, January 17, 2012 • Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) • NSF 11-505 • DUE DATES (Full Proposal): November 2, 2011 Infrastructure • CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) • NSF 11-536 • DUE DATES: October 25, 2011, October 23, 2012 • Institutional Infrastructure (II): planning for or creation, enhancement or operation of computing research infrastructure for use by multiple investigators and collaborating institutions. • Community Infrastructure (CI): enable world-class research and education opportunities for broadly-based communities of researchers and educators that extend well beyond the awardee institutions.

20. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) • NSF 11-516 • Three CPS Themes: • Foundations – develop new scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models, and theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems • Methods and Tools – bridge the gaps between approaches to the cyber and physical elements of systems through innovations such as novel support for multiple views, new programming languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and formally verifying properties of complex integrations of cyber and physical resources • Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems – new hardware and software infrastructure and platforms and engineered systems motivated by grand challenge applications • Project Types: • Small – individual or small-team efforts that focus on one or more of the three defined CPS themes (up to $200,000/year for up to 3 years) • Medium – span one or more CPS themes and may include one or more PIs and a research team of students and/or post-docs (up to $500,000/year for up to 3 years) • Large – multi-investigator projects addressing a coherent set of research issues that cut across multiple themes or that explore a particular theme in great depth (up to $1,000,000/year for up to 5 years) • Due Dates: March 21, 2011, January 17, 2012 • Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 2

21. CISE Programs: Education & Workforce http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13396&org=CNS&from=home Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21), NSF 10-619 Collaboration with: EHR, OCI Goals: Increase the number and diversity of early postsecondary students who are engaged and have the background in computing necessary to successfully pursue degrees in computing-related and computationally-intensive fields of study. Increase the number and diversity of K-14 students and teachers who develop and practice computational competencies in a variety of contexts; and Proposal Types: Type I: activities that build the research base on the effective teaching and learning of computing Type II: activities that study implementation and the sustained impact of computing teaching and learning interventions for diverse student populations, where the interventions to be taken to scale have already proven effective in smaller-scale efficacy studies (like those supported in Type I projects) Planning: seek to build the new partnerships and collaborations needed to design and develop Type I or Type II projects; discuss plans with the program director prior to submission Due Dates: Type I and Type II proposals: April 27, 2011 Last Wednesday in April, Annually Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 2   Target Dates: Planning proposals: February 22, 2011 Last Tuesday in February, Annually July 28, 2011 Last Thursday in July, Annually

22. Additional Programs for CISE Community:Partnerships • Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2012 (EFRI-2012) • NSF 11-571 • DUE DATES: • Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date:  November 9, 2011 • Full Proposal Deadline Date:  March 30, 2012 • Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Science (ICES) • NSF 11-584 • DUE DATE: • Full Proposal: December 6, 2011 • Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) • NSF 10-600 • DUE Date: • Full Proposal: November 11, 2011

23. NSF-Wide Programs: Research Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program FY 2012 Program Solicitation: NSF 11-690 Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) NSF 10-580 Supplements: Full Proposal: Accepted Anytime Accepted under relevant Program Solicitation due dates Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC) NSF 10-595 DUE DATES: Letter of Intent: January 2, 2012 Full Proposal: March 6, 2012

24. NSF-wide Programs: Infrastructure Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) NSF 11-503 Due Date: January 26, 2012 Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DATANET) FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) FY 2012 Program Solicitation: TBA

25. NSF-Wide Programs: Education Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), NSF 09-598 Sites: A new activity for a group of students CISE Deadline: August 22, 2012 Supplements: 1 – 2 students/teachers involved in NSF-supported project Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) CISE Target Date: Spring for the following Summer NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) NSF 09-549 – to be revised for FY 2011? Support for graduate students to bring their research to K-12 and enrich their research $3M/5 years Deadlines: Mandatory Letter of Intent: April? Full Proposal: June? Very few CISE proposals!

26. EAGER and RAPID Proposals Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) – • supports quick-response research on natural or anthropogenic disasters and similar unanticipated events • Up to $200K and one year duration • project descriptions are expected to be brief (two to five pages) and include clear statements as to why the proposed research is of an urgent nature EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) – • supports high-risk, exploratory and potentially transformative research. • Up to $300K and two years duration. • project description is expected to be brief (five to eight pages) and include clear statements as to why this project is appropriate for EAGER funding • More details in Grant Proposal Guide (GPG 10-101) • Need to contact Program Director before submission

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36. NSF Funding Rate Statistics: Award Search => More Options => Funding Trends Summary Proposal and Award Information (Funding Rate) by State and Organization CISE Web Site: http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE FY 2009 CISE Funding Rate for Research Grants Advice: Don’t spend time on trying to analyze the numbers Don’t dwell on the numbers Don’t blame the numbers Best “game plan”: submit an excellent proposal addressing program’s goals

37. ARRA Impact in CISE? • Increased proposal funding rate: 28% (or 31%?) in 2009 • Supported new Research Infrastructure awards, including MRI and ARI awards • Supported more postdocs, graduate students and undergrads • Increased number of new PIs supported • Decreased level of future commitments for continuing grants, i.e., increasing the level of funds available for new awards in future years • Long-term impact for research community

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40. Thank you! Questions ? John Cozzens Program DirectorCISE/CCF jcozzens@nsf.gov703-292-8910