CISE and ToNC

1. Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

2. CISE and ToNC Michael Foster Division Director Computing and Communication Foundations

3. Outline • What CISE wants from ToNC • Context • Mission, organization & strategic objectives • CISE Organization • Divisions, Clusters, Programs • GENI Initiative • FY06 budgets • FY07 budgets • The Want Ads

4. What CISE wants from ToNC • You tell us, please • From this workshop we would like to learn • Some research areas • Priority of those areas • This workshop should also • Help form a community of ideas • Inform you about context and next steps

5. National Science Foundation

6. National Science Foundation • Basic scientific research & research fundamental to the engineering process; • Programs to strengthen scientific and engineering research potential; • Science and engineering education programs at all levels and in all fields of science and engineering; and, • A knowledge base for science and engineering appropriate for development of national and international policy

7. NSF Strategic Mission • People: • to develop a diverse, internationally competitive and globally-engaged workforce of scientists, engineers, and well-prepared citizens • Ideas: • to provide a deep and broad fundamental science and engineering knowledge base • Tools: • to provide widely accessible, state-of-the-art science and engineering infrastructure • Organization Excellence: • to develop an agile, innovative organization that fulfills its mission through leadership in state-of the-art business practices

8. CISE Mission • CISE has three goals: • to enable the United States to remain competitive 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; and • to contribute to universal, transparent, and affordable participation in an information-based society.

9. CISE provides 86%of all Federal support for computer science research

10. Crosscutting EmphasisAreas Current CISE Organization Office of the Assistant Director Computing and Information and Computer and Communication Intelligent Network Foundations Systems Systems (CCF) (IIS) (CNS)

11. CISE (and related) BudgetFY05 Actual ($M)

12. Funding Outlook • NSF funds available to support computing have nearly doubled in the past five years • However, proposals have almost tripled • From less than one per year per CS faculty member to more than one per year • Greatly expanded scope of research • President’s 2006 State of the Union is encouraging, but the chickens are not hatched.

13. Computing andCommunication Foundations Division (CCF) • Theoretical Foundations • Computer science theory; numerical computing; computational algebra and geometry; signal processing and communication • Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts • Software engineering; software tools for HPC; programming languages; compilers; computer architecture; graphics and visualization • Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation • Computational biology; quantum computing; nano-scale computing; biologically inspired computing

14. Why Foundations? - =

15. Foundations Everywhere Infrastructure Systems

16. Computer and Network Systems Division (CNS) • Computer Systems • Distributed systems; embedded and hybrid systems; next-generation software; parallel systems • Network Systems • Networking research broadly defined plus focus areas • Computing Research Infrastructure • Equipment and infrastructure to advance computing research • Education and Workforce • IT workforce; special projects; cross-directorate activities (e.g., REU sites, IGERT, ADVANCE)

17. Information and Intelligent Systems Division (IIS) • Systems in Context • Human computer interaction; educational technology; robotics; computer-supported cooperative work; digital government • Data, Inference & Understanding • Databases; artificial intelligence; text, image, speech, and video analysis; information retrieval; knowledge systems • Science & Engineering Informatics • Bioinformatics; geoinformatics; cognitive neuroscience; …

18. Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI)Goals Research and education using a shared facility that allows • Embedding within itself a broad range of experimental networks and distributed services • Interconnection among these experimental networks and with the Internet • Users and applications to “opt-in” • Observation, measurement, and recording of the resulting experimental outcomes

19. GENI Components • A research program • Go beyond packets and datagrams • Design in security, availability, variability • Deploy and validate new architectures • Develop new network architecture theory • A facility • Meeting the high-level goals of modularity, opt-in, connectedness, and measurability • Suitable for support through MREFC

20. GENI Facility Sensor Network Sensor Network backbone wavelength backbone wavelength backbone switch backbone switch Customizable Router Customizable Router Internet Internet Edge Site Edge Site Wireless Subnet Wireless Subnet

21. GENI Outreach • CISE has supported numerous community workshops in support of GENI. See www.geni.net • CISE is supporting on-going planning efforts, including needs assessment and requirements for the GENI Facility. • CISE will hold town meetings and continue to support future workshops to broaden community participation. See www.nsf.gov/cise/geni • CISE will work with industry, other US agencies, and international groups to broaden participation in GENI beyond NSF and the US government.

22. Geni Facility Planning • Planning website at www.geni.net • Planning Group: About 10 networking researchers • Working Groups • Backbone Network • Distributed Services • Wireless Subnets • NSF/CISE will probably sponsor further planning; watch our website.

23. Who Can Participate in GENI • Baseline GENI facility providers • Provide baseline GENI with appropriate capabilities and hooks • Network architects and distributed services: research teams • Deploy new networks and services on the baseline facility • Application providers: research teams • Build and deploy example applications • End users • Use applications for their benefit and in the process test

24. FY06 Budgets • Appropriation bill has passed • NSF current plan has not yet received Congressional approval • If approved • CISE up a little • Divisions up a lot • Details in President’s FY07 Budget Request • Conclusion: we’re waiting hopefully

25. Foundations of Connectivity • Part of President’s 2006 Budget Request to Congress (written in December 2004) • Partially justifies FY06 funding for Theoretical Foundations in CCF • Calls for algorithms, protocols, lower bounds due to massive numbers of mobile sensors, processors, devices • Applications include environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, homeland security • Full text available at http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2006/

26. Examining Networked Systems • Part of President’s 2006 Budget Request to Congress (written in December 2004) • Partially justifies FY06 funding for Networking Technology and Systems in CNS • Notes that network models are from 1970-1990 • Calls for architectures based on technology advances and new requirements • Method is systematic redesign of current network systems • Full text available at http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2006/

27. ToNC Proposals This Year • Are Welcome • Watch for TF Cluster announcement very soon • See Network Systems cluster announcement, due March 2. • Should address modern network issues: mobility, scalability, etc. • Dr. Sirin Tekinay will say more.

28. ToNC $ in 2006? • NSF spending plan awaits Congressional approval • $ on ToNC will depend on quality of ToNC proposals to both CCF and CNS • Some 2006 proposals may be funded in FY07

29. FY07 Budgets • The FY07 Request is public information • http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2007/ • CCF: “application of theory to the foundations of connectivity and interoperability in wired and wireless networks” • CNS: “expand our understanding of large, complex, heterogeneous networks” • IIS: “collaborations that can self-organize for optimal concerted action”

30. Future ToNC • Year 1: These planning workshops, some individual proposals. • Year 2: Identify and convince funding sources for larger proposals. • Coalesce with other initiatives • Gain visibility • Convince the US public that research is worth paying for • Don’t play zero-sum games • Years 3-n: Repeat year 2.

31. Summary • We’re here to hear what ToNC is, not to say what it is. • Individual proposals are welcome now • You must decide whether to push on to a larger effort • The GENI organization is an example

32. The Want Ads

33. Nuggets • Convince the US public that research is worth paying for • Succinct, interesting vignettes • Show a result, not an expense • Layman’s language • Graphics if possible • NSF Uses the best ones • Budget requests • Performance reports • Public relations

34. Help from the Community • Send your best ideas to NSF • Consistent with focus & goals of the program • We want high risk / high reward proposals • Suggest and encourage good panelists who can do justice to the proposals and our focus • Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist

35. Program Directors Sought • Emerging Models and Technologies • Numerical Computing and Optimization • Interdisciplinary capability • Across cluster, division, NSF, and globally

36. Contact Dr. Michael Foster Division Director, Computing and Communication Foundations National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Suite 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 703-292-8910 mfoster@nsf.gov