The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). See the Computing Research Association‘s (CRA) bulletin post about CSGrad4US here.  February 2, 2021 Dear Colleagues: The computer and information science and engineering fields are experiencing booming undergraduate enrollments. Many of these undergraduate degree recipients have outstanding job opportunities in industry and at other organizations, and only a small fraction of these individuals considers pursuing related doctoral degree-granting programs. In order to increase the number of diverse, domestic graduate students in these areas and thereby bolster the U.S. population in the Nation’s computer and […]

A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,  Happy New Year!  2020 certainly brought its share of challenges, and our sympathies are with all of you most directly affected by them.  Along the way, 2020 also brought many exciting opportunities and successes for the CISE community.   AP CS Principles: For example, the College Board recently reported that the workforce—especially among young women, students of color, and first-generation students—setting them on a path to declaring a CS or STEM major in college. Specifically, the report found that AP CSP students are more likely to declare a major in STEM and more than THREE times as likely (an 11.7 percentage point increase) to declare a major in computer science than similar students who attended high school […]

Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to build on past successes and provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to come […]

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Full Proposal Window: January 25, 2021 DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI recognizes the importance of materials science and engineering to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to “deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.” MGI integrates materials discovery, development, property optimization, and systems design with a shared computational framework. Learn more here.  EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 25, 2021 The Established Program to Stimulate […]

The following announcement is from the National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.  Internet2 and the Internet Society are excited to bring you a celebratory virtual event to commemorate the 35th anniversary of NSFNET. In the United States, the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) program, established in 1985, was a pivotal program that laid the foundation of the global internet. NSFNET was the first nationwide physical network in the US for the support of research and higher education. It connected supercomputing centers, regional research and education networks, federal agency networks, and international research and education networks from 1985-1995. Join us on Tuesday, December 8, 2020, from 1 pm […]

The following blog was originally posted on the CRA Bulletin.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate just announced a new newsletter that will share “periodic updates about CISE and NSF broadly, including up-to-date information about [their] newest programs and activities.” The first newsletter released today highlights three recent major activities that the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its committees were heavily involved in. CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) led a year-long community effort to generate an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap. The resulting report, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US, led to the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes. This program is a joint government effort between the NSF, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and […]