The following is a press release from the National Science Foundation about the newly announced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes. In 2018-2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and Past President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President of AAAI) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. The completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, was released in August 2019. One of the recommendations from the Roadmap was to create National AI Research Centers: multi-university centers with affiliated institutions that are focused on pivotal areas of […]

The following blog from Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Ph.D. from CMU HCII, was originally posted on Medium on August 23rd.  I recently submitted a NSF CAREER proposal — my first attempt [1]. In the process of putting my materials together, I was fortunate to be able to learn from successful proposals written by friends and colleagues [2]. I was also fortunate to get feedback from mentors [3]. Trends emerged, and I thought I’d distill and share here on the off-chance that someone might find it helpful [4]. Disclaimer: I submitted to the Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, and requested examples from others who I knew submitted to that […]

The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).  Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community: With this most out-of-the-ordinary summer coming to a close, we at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CISE directorate wanted to reach out to inform you about a few specific news items. CISE Dear Colleague Letter on CAREER/CRII:  In NSF Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) 20-092, CISE offered clarification on CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program as well as the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in CISE topic areas.  In a nutshell, we encourage […]

The following is an announcement of a joint solicitation between NSF/VMware on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and VMware employee Sujata Banerjee is involved with this program but was not involved with CCC’s decision to reblog it. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a webinar on Monday, August 31st from 1-2 PM EDT about the new The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure […]

By Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF  You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online meeting on Friday, September 18th from 1pm – 5pm EST. This event is intended for PIs working in CISE-relevant research areas planning on submitting an NRT proposal for the fiscal year 2021 competition. The NSF CISE Directorate would like to increase the number of NRT proposals that advance CISE research training focus of graduate students and CISE disciplines and support the aim of the NRT program. Since the NRT program is unique at NSF, the requirements of the program are often not fully understood by the submitting PIs. The workshop […]

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).  Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) seeks to provide members of the CISE research community with clarifying guidance about the directorate’s implementation of the NSF Faculty Early-Career Development (CAREER) and CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) programs. The intended audiences include both prospective early-career principal investigators (PIs) and relevant academic leadership. SUBMITTING PROPOSALS TO THE NSF CAREER PROGRAM Prospective CAREER awardees should submit proposals to the program early in […]