May 28, 2009 Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City

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Some NSF funding opportunities

Terry Langendoendlangend@nsf.gov

(703) 292-5088Expert, Robust Intelligence Program, Division of Information & Intelligent

Systems, CISE

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Upcoming Funding Opportunities

• July– CAREER– Community-based Data Interoperability Networks

(INTEROP)

• August– Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)– CISE Core and Cross-cutting Medium proposals

• September– Social-Computation Systems (SoCS)

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CAREER

• Solicitationhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08557/nsf08557.htm

• Deadlines– July 21 (CISE)– July 22 (ENG)– July 23 (SBE)

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Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP)• INTEROP supports community efforts to provide for

broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies.

• Support is provided for Data Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for:– Consensus-building activities, e.g.

• community workshops• web resources such as community interaction sites• task groups

– Providing the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation tools and resources, e.g. 

• information sciences• software development• ontology and taxonomy design and implementation

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INTEROP (cont’d)

• Full proposal target date: July 23, 2009.

• Funding: $10M; Up to 10 awards of up to $250K per year for three to five years.– Cofunding from the Office of Cyberinfrastructure

(OCI) is available, provided that two Directorates agree to cofund a project.

• Solicitation:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07565/nsf07565.htm

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Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI)

• Deadline: August 5

• Funding: $18M

• Solicitation:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08570/nsf08570.htm

• Contacts: Tanya Korelsky (IIS), Anita La Salle (CNS), Chita Das (CCF)

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CISE Core Medium proposals

• Deadline: August 30• Funding level: between $500K & $1,200K• Solicitations:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09555/nsf09555.htm (CCF)

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09555/nsf09556.htm (CNS)

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09555/nsf09557.htm (IIS)

• Note: Core Large proposals are due Nov 28 and Core Small proposals are due Dec 17; same for CISE Cross-Cutting proposals.

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CISE Cross-cutting Medium proposals

• Deadline: August 30

• Funding level: between $500K & $1,200K

• Solicitation:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09558/nsf09558.htm

• Areas:– Data-intensive Computing– Network Science & Engineering– Trustworthy Computing

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Social-Computational Systems (SoCS)

• SoCS will provide funding for projects that make use of (exploit or explain) the combination of machine and human intelligence, particularly when networked together, and exploring the nature of “socially intelligent computing”.

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SoCS (cont’d)

• Full proposal deadline: Sept 21, 2009

• Funding: $15M; from 20 to 35 awards of up to $250K per year for three years.

• Solicitation:http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09559/nsf09559.htm

• Contacts: Amy Baylor & Anita La Salle (CISE), Vincent Brown & Frederick Kronz (SBE)