The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).   Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Irene Qualters as Senior Science Advisor within the CISE Office of the Assistant Director (OAD) and the appointment of Dr. Manish Parashar as the Office Director for the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC), effective this week. Irene Qualters, Senior Science Advisor As Senior Science Advisor, Irene will contribute to strategic leadership and stewardship of new directions within the CISE directorate, particularly in alignment with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) […]

The following is an excerpt from a National Science Foundation (NSF) news release.  The NSF announced three new Expeditions in Computing awards, each providing $10 million in funding over five years to multi-investigator research teams pursuing large-scale, far-reaching and potentially transformative research in computer and information science and engineering. This year’s awards aim to enable game-changing advances in real-time decision making, quantum computing, and non-invasive biomedical imaging. They also aim to more rapidly bring to market practical applications of quantum computing and enable non-invasive and easy-to-use diagnostic imaging of the human body that could increase the quality of healthcare in remote areas. Below are descriptions of the three projects funded this […]

Contributions to this blog were provided by Gera Jochum, Communications Specialist, in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation and CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill from University of Wisconsin, Madison. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and VMware have come together to create a public/private partnership on edge data computing infrastructure. See the synopsis of the program below. The proliferation of mobile and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, and their pervasiveness across nearly every sphere of our society, continues to raise questions about the architectures that organize tomorrow’s compute infrastructure. At the heart of this trend is the data that will be generated as myriad devices and application […]

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).   Dear CISE Community,   Each year, the President transmits to Congress a budget request for the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, including a request for the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Today, the President officially submitted that request for fiscal year (FY) 2019, which begins October 1, 2018, and continues through September 30, 2019.  The President’s FY 2019 Budget Request proposes $7.472 billion for NSF, which is flat with respect to the FY 2017 budget.  Dr. France Córdova, the NSF Director, […]

The next WATCH talk, called Server-Side Verification of Client Behavior, from Michael Reiter at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is Thursday, February 15th, from 12PM -1PM. Michael Reiter is the Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. His research interests include all areas of computer and communications security, distributed computing, and networking. His professional responsibilities during his career so far have included Director of Secure Systems Research at Bell Labs; founding Technical Director of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University; program chair for the flagship computer security conferences of the IEEE, the ACM, and the Internet Society; and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, among others. Dr. […]

The AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellows at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have organized another webinar in their Data Science Seminar Series from Stan Ahalt on Tools for data, science, scientists and reasoning machines. The webinar will be tomorrow, Tuesday, February 6, 2018, from 2:00PM-3:00PM ET. Stan Ahalt is director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He leads a team of research scientists, software and network engineers, data science specialists and visualization experts who work closely with faculty research teams at UNC, Duke, NC State and with partners across the country. RENCI’s role is to provide enabling cyberinfrastructure to these research collaborations, which often means working on the challenges of […]