Latanya Sweeney, Harvard University, will present “How Technology Will Dictate Our Civic Future,” as part the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series on February 10th, 2022 from 12pm – 1:15pm EDT.  Latanya Sweeney is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the a part of the faculty for the Department of Arts and Sciences. In addition, she is the Editor-in-Chief of Technology Science, director and founder of the Public Interest Tech Lab and of the Data Privacy Lab. Before coming to Harvard she was the Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out! Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences Full Proposal Deadline Date: September 15, 2021 NSF seeks to establish a Center fueled by open and freely available biological and other environmental data to catalyze novel scientific questions in environmental biology through the use of data-intensive approaches, team science and research networks, and training in the accession, management, analysis, visualization, and synthesis of large data sets. The Center will provide a vision for speeding discovery through the increased use of large, publicly accessible datasets to address biological research questions through collaborations […]

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 NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community: NSF CISE has opened TWO Division Director searches, for the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) and the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS). Applications are due Oct 6, 2021, and the positions will start roughly June 2022 to allow transitional lead time. Here are the link to the postings: CCF Division Director Search https://usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/606590400 IIS Division Director Search https://usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/606590200 Additional information: Through IR/D, you can continue to conduct research and advise students. The position […]

NSF’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is providing information on the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program solicitation NSF 19-582 via a webinar on August 6th, 2021 starting at 12:00 pm ET. The event page can be found by clicking here, which includes more information about the webinar and a list of clarifications for specifically REU Site proposals. The webinar will include a briefing on the CISE REU program and key solicitation requirements followed by a question-and-answer session. Prior to the webinar, you can submit questions to cise.reu@nsf.gov. Register in advance for this webinar, which will take place via Zoom here. After registering, a confirmation email will be sent […]

The computer and information science and engineering (CISE) fields can benefit greatly from collaborations with the social, behavioral, and economic science (SBE) fields. Systems that make our lives easier—such as autonomous vehicles, wearables, intelligent agents, electronic health records, and telepresence robots—are all socio-technical systems. As stated in a recent National Science Foundation (NSF) report on Harnessing the Computational and Social Sciences to Solve Critical Societal Problems from a May 2020 roundtable,  “Workplace relationships, media markets, health delivery systems, and criminal justice organizations are all increasingly characterized by a complex mixture of human actors and institutions on the one hand, and digital platforms and algorithms on the other hand. Efforts to […]

This month marks the 35th anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. CISE was founded on May 1, 1986, and it continues to support “investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computer and information science and engineering,” including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), which CISE funds through a cooperative agreement with the Computing Research Association.  Highlighted in their May newsletter, “One of CISE’s key early investments in information technology was the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). This initiative provided global, multilingual repositories of data, knowledge, sound, and images. Through the DLI, NSF supported a project that would ultimately result in the creation of Google.”    The National […]