CIFellows Mentor, Michael Carbin is holding a lecture on “Programming Uncertain Computations” as a part of the NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will take place online on March 23 from 11am-12:30pm ET. Carbin was a 2020 CIFellows Mentor to Yi Ding at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talk Abstract: Computer systems must increasingly operate in the presence of uncertainty in their execution environment in that new applications and hardware platforms require our software systems to model and compute with objects that are inherently uncertain in that their behaviors are only given by noisy measurements. This reality presents many new questions about how to interpret, debug, validate, verify, and optimize these […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series: Programming Uncertain Computations by Michael Carbin
March 7th, 2023 / in CIFellows, NSF / by Maddy HunterDear Colleague Letter: Request for Information on Future Directions for the NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
March 2nd, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Margaret Martonosi (CISE), James L. Moore III (STEM Education (EDU)), Susan S. Margulies (Engineering (ENG)) Sean L. Jones (Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)), and Sylvia Butterfield (Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE)). The letter calls for input from the community on possible topics and future directions for cybersecurity and privacy research. You can read the original on the NSF website here. March 1, 2023 Dear Colleagues: OVERVIEW For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program has been NSF’s flagship cybersecurity and privacy research program, supporting approximately $1 […]
Applications Are Open for the 2023 Departmental BPC Plan Workshop: March 19 Deadline
February 27th, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterBy Roohia Meer, CERP Program Associate Applications are now open for the 2023 Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 30th– June 1st in collaboration with Morehouse College. In this workshop, departments will have the opportunity to learn more about BPC efforts from the National Science Foundation (NSF), how to create a Departmental BPC Plan, and how to best support faculty PIs submitting NSF proposals that require a BPC Plan. Consultants from BPCnet.org will be available to answer questions and provide real-time feedback about your department’s BPC Plan during the workshop. Please check out the workshop website for […]
Dear Colleague Letter: Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign)
February 22nd, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Simon Malcomber (Directorate for Biological Sciences), Susan S. Margulies (Directorate for Engineering) and Erwin Gianchandani (Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships). The letter calls for proposals and supplemental funding requests for bioinspired designs grounded in foundational and use-inspired research. You can read the original on the NSF website here. February 15, 2023 Dear Colleagues: As stated in the National Science Board’s Vision 2030 report, “[The U.S.] must do more to ensure that discoveries are translated into innovations.”1 Bioinspired design is a powerful means of addressing this imperative which also aligns with Strategic Goal 2 – […]
NSF Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members
February 20th, 2023 / in Announcements, NSF / by Maddy HunterLast week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) welcomed the eight newly appointed National Science Board (NSB) Members to NSF headquarters to identify issues critical to NSF’s future. NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and members of NSB meet to discuss their shared strategic vision five times a year. In last week’s meeting they discussed how they were going to use the historic 9.9 billion investment provided in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations set by Congress to achieve NSF’s three major priorities: strengthening established NSF, inspiring the “Missing Millions,” and accelerating technology and innovation. There is a particular focus on strengthening the research enterprise at speed and scale — in a time of […]
NITRD Publishes a Request for Information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
February 16th, 2023 / in NITRD, Security / by Maddy HunterOn behalf of Federal agencies and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Cyber Security and Information Assurance Interagency Working Group, the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD just published a request for information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. Pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Federal agencies must update the Federal cybersecurity research and development (R&D) strategic plan every four years. The NITRD NCO seeks public input for the 2023 update of the Federal cybersecurity R&D strategic plan. The updated plan will be used to guide and coordinate federally funded research in cybersecurity, including cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the […]
