ACM SIGMM 2011
Networking of Multimedia Women
Panel
Maria Zemankova
Program Director
Information Integration & Informatics
Graphics & Visualization
Division of Information & Intelligent Systems
Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering
National Science Foundation
USA
mzemanko@nsf.gov
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Multi-media, multi-modal, multi-cultural, multiinterest, multi-connected, multi-disciplinary , ...
moving, changing world
and MM women
and NSF
Transformative research involves ideas,
discoveries, or tools that radically change our
understanding of an important existing scientific
or engineering concept or educational practice or
leads to the creation of a new paradigm or field
of science, engineering, or education. Such
research challenges current understanding or
provides pathways to new frontiers.
Intellectual Merit criterion:
To what extent does the proposed activity
suggest and explore creative, original, or
potentially transformative concepts?
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/publications/landing/nsb0732.jsp
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FAQ for Potentially Transformative Research
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Where is MM research supported at NSF?
Office of
Inspector General
National Science
Board
Office of the Director
Administrative Offices
Directorate for Biological
Sciences
Directorate for Mathematical
& Physical Sciences
Directorate for Computer &
Information Science & Engineering
Directorate for Social, Behavioral
& Economic Sciences
Directorate for Education
& Human Resources
Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Engineering
Office of International Science
& Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences
Office of Polar Programs
Active Awards: (multi-media OR multimedia OR image OR video OR speech OR sound OR haptics)
3,000+ results
CISE: IIS = 504, CNS = 241, CCF = 216
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What is supported: example topics
• Modeling, simulation, visualization of multimedia
phenomena/object
• Using multimedia phenomena/objects in research or
engineering or education (e.g., Digital Sky, nanomaterials)
• Understanding, organizing, searching, recommending, ...
– Tagging, crowdsourcing, ...
– Geospatial, temporal aspects of MM
• Multi-modal interactive interaction
• Computer graphics, digital photography
• MM privacy, security, steganography
• Compression
• MM and wireless communications
• MM and social networks (including cyber-bullying)
• MM collections, testbeds, infrastructure
• ...
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Who gets supported:
CISE gender diversity
as self-reported; submissions: n =29,171 and awards: n = 7,425
Awards: PI Gender
Submissions: PI Gender
6%
6%
Male
17%
19%
Female
Unknown
77%
Fiscal Year
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Total
Submissions (count)
Male
Female Unknown
4483
953
238
4292
909
293
4310
973
326
4919
1095
432
4389
1063
496
22393
4993
1785
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75%
Male
1192
999
1264
1153
966
5574
Awards (count)
Female Unknown
312
64
228
66
327
96
274
120
252
112
1393
458
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CISE Programs
CNS
Computer and
Network
Systems
Core Programs
CCF
Computing and
Communications
Foundations
IIS
Information and
Intelligent
Systems
 Algorithmic
Foundations
 Communications
and Information
Foundations
 Computer Systems
Research
 Networking
Technology and
Systems
• Human-Centered
Computing
 Software and
Hardware
Foundations
 Education and
workforce
• Robust Intelligence
• Information
Integration &
Informatics
• IIS-wide:
Computer Graphics
& Visualization
Cross-Cutting Programs
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CISE Core Programs
• Program Solicitations
– CCF: NSF 11-557
– CNS: NSF 11-555
– IIS:
NSF 11-556
• Project Types:
Coordinated
Solicitations
– Large: $1,200,001 to $3,000,000; up to 5 years duration
collaborative team projects
– Medium:$500,001 to $1,200,000; up to 4 years duration
multi-investigator collaborative projects
– Small: up to $500,000; up to 3 years duration
one or two investigator projects
• CISE-wide Submission Windows:
– Medium:September 15 - 30, annually
– Large: November 1 - 28, annually
– Small: December 1 – 19, annually
• PI Limit:
– participate in no more than 2 “core” proposals/year
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Expeditions in Computing
NSF 10-564
GOALS:
• Catalyze far-reaching research explorations motivated by deep scientific questions
• Inspire current and future generations of Americans, especially those from underrepresented groups
• Stimulate significant research and education outcomes that promise scientific,
economic and/or other societal benefits
Project Types:
• Large collaborative, interdisciplinary teams
• Up to $10,000,000; up to 5 years duration
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI:
• participate in no more than 1 Expeditions proposal/year
Deadlines:
• Preliminary Proposal (required):
March 10, 2012
September 10, 2013
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Full Proposal :
December 10, 2012
May 10, 2014
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Next Frontiers
• We can do images, videos, motion,
focus, panorama, galaxies, fMRI,
speech, sounds, music, animation,
eye-tracking, remote surgery, virtual
worlds, ..., surveillance hummingbird,
3-D-printed dress, holographic map,
magic mirror, invisibility cloak!!!
(TIME, Nov. 28, 2011)
• NEXT:
– Think BIG and transformative
(different) ideas:
OR
– What important problems
(scientific,medical, societal, ...)
include MM and how can you
contribute?
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Good Strategy (1): Collaboration
• Steve Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From:
• Most innovations are result of collaborative effort hatched in academic
labs or corporate R&D departments rather than in some isolated
genius’s garage
• How can you collaborate?
• Look up existing projects in NSF Award Search
• Contact the researchers
• Contact program directors for suggestions
• Talk to colleagues, also in other departments, universities,
industry, countries
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NSF Award Search
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Find Relevant Projects, Researchers, Programs,
Program Directors
Specify program,
program director,
dates, …
Type research topic keywords, e.g.:
Multimedia AND retrieval
Find recent
awards,
funding rates,
more …
Restrict to Active Awards
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Finding relevant awards
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Found an Interesting One!
Get in touch
Get in touch
Publications resulting from this research will
appear here – a great information source!
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Good Strategy (2): Funding Opportunities
• Look up Funding Opportunities
• Consider inter-disciplinary, collaborative programs
• High schools, academic & industry, international
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Funding Opportunities
image
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Finding Funding Opportunities
Interdisciplinary
Interdisciplinary
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Interdisciplinary,
international
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Good Strategy (3): Strong Proposal
• Make sure to address Program Solicitation, especially any special
conditions, criteria
• Make sure to consider seriously the NSF Merit Criteria:
• Intellectual Merit
• Potential for Transformativeness
• How will you measure your progress and success
• Broader Impacts:
• New fundamental knowledge
• Technology transfer
• Societal impact
• Integrating research and educational activities (beyond teaching
courses)
• Broadening participation in (computer) science
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Outreach:
We have a
role to play
in shaping
the future –
that will be
a vital
measure of
our
success
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Current Funding Opportunities
• CISE & other disciplines
• NSF-wide programs
• You and NSF
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Interdisciplinary Programs:
CISE+other disciplines
• Research:
– National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
– Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
– Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
– Interface between Computer Science and Economics & Social Sciences
(ICES)
– Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB)
– Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)
– Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC)
• Education & Workforce:
– Cyberlearning: Transforming Education
– Computing Education for the 21st Century (CE21) – FY12 solicitation forthcoming
– Research Experience for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science
(RET)
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Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW)
SHW Information: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503556
FY12 solicitation: NSF 12-512
• Multiple NSF Directorates participating: CISE, SBE, ENG
• Vision: seek improvements in safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and patientcentered, individualized, and evidence-based health and wellness services through
innovations in computer and information science and engineering.
Scope:
Smart Health and Wellbeing especially encourages the research community to pursue
bold ideas that go beyond and/or combine traditional areas of computer and
information science and engineering.
Projects submitted to this program should be motivated by specific challenges in
health and wellbeing.
The Smart Health and Wellbeing program aims to facilitate large-scale discoveries
that yield long-term, transformative impact in how we treat illness and maintain our
health.
Proposal Deadlines:
February 06, 2012:
Type I: Exploratory Projects (EXP)
$200,000 to $600,000 total budget, durations 2-3 years
February 21, 2012:
Type II: Integrative Projects (INT)
$600,001 to $2,000,000 total budget, duration 4-5 years
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Smart Health & Wellbeing (SHW)
Research Directions (CISE-focused):
* Modeling, decision making, automated discovery, visualization, databases,
summarization, data fusion, sensor networks, telemetry, robotics, vision, speech &
language, security and privacy, …
* new security and cryptographic solutions to protect patient privacy while providing
legitimate anytime, anywhere access to health services will require
* information retrieval, data mining, and decision support software systems to
support personalized medicine
* remote and networked sensors and actuators, mobile platforms, novel interactive
displays, and computing and networking infrastructure that support continuous
monitoring and real-time, customized feedback on health and behavior
* anonymized and aggregated data for community-wide health awareness and
maintenance
* better and more efficient delivery of health services enabled by virtual worlds,
robotics, image, and natural language understanding
* safe critical care provided by software-controlled and interoperable medical
devices
* healthcare systems and applications that are usable (to preclude or minimize
failures due to human error) and that are useful (matching the mental model of
users, from provider to patient, so people make appropriate decisions and
choices)
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NSF-Wide Programs: Research (1)
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
NSF 10-580
Supplements: Accepted Anytime
Full Proposal: Accepted under relevant Program Solicitation due dates
Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education
(CREATIV/INSPIRE) New!!!
More information: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118674
If you have a potential collaboration across disciplines, contact Program Directors for relevant
disciplines
Innovation Corps Program (I‐Corps) New!!!
Supplements for technology transfer to industry
Based on network of experienced transferors
Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) -- international collaboration New!!!
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NSF-Wide Programs: Research (2)
Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES)
New!!!
• NSF-wide
• Multiple programs - multi-disciplinary focus is required in all
• NSF 11-575: SEES Fellows
– Within 4 years of PhD
– Limited teaching responsibilities allowed – primary focus must be research
– DUE DATE December 5, 2011
• NSF 11-590: Sustainable Energy Pathways
– “Pathways” are end-to-end solutions
– DUE DATE February 1, 2012
• NSF 11-531: Research Coordination Networks
• NSF 11-574: Sustainability Research Networks
– Support for collaboration between existing projects instead of new research projects
• NSF 11-564: Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE
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NSF Cross-Cutting Programs (3)
Education & Workforce:
• ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic
Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
– ADVANCE Portal: http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/
• Balancing the Scale: NSF's Career-Life Balance Initiative
New!!!
– More information: http://www.nsf.gov/career-life-balance/
• Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP)
• Integrative Graduate Education & Research Training (IGERT)
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
– CISE accepts requests for REU Supplements for existing awards every Spring
– see the CISE Web site for details
Infrastructure:
• Cyberinfrastructure Framework for the 21st Century (CF21)
• Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI^2)
• Major Research Infrastructure (MRI)
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Overwhelming?
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Helpful hints:
Subscribe to NSF Updates by Email
Subscribe to CISE Updates by Email
Subscribe to receive special CISE announcements
Visit CISE Web site often
Use Award Search to find relevant programs
Talk to program directors
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Subscribe to NSF’s mailing list
http://www.nsf.gov
Funding
Opportunities
Get NSF
Updates by Email
Upcoming
Due Dates
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CISE Updates and Announcements
New information
Get CISE
Updates by Email
Featured
Programs
Subscribe to
receive special
CISE
announcement
s
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=CISE
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Subscribe to CISE Distribution List
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/mail_lists.jsp
CISE has implemented a mail distribution list to notify the Computer and Information
Science and Engineering community of items we think may be of interest. The
postings will be infrequent and brief and will typically point to further information on
the CISE or NSF website. This may duplicate some of the items contained in NSF
Custom News Service but will also contain items not always available there::
• Announcements
• Vacancy notices
• CISE webcasts of interest
• Meeting notices, workshops
• News items, etc.
To subscribe: send a message to: join-cise-announce@lists.nsf.gov with no text in
the subject or message body.
If you no longer wish to be included on the distribution list, you can elect to be
removed from the list at any time. Instructions for unsubscribing will be included at
the end of each list message.
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CISE Career Workshops
•
CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshops
http://www.nsf.gov/cise/workshops/career/
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The goal of the workshop is to enable future CISE proposal submitters to
prepare competitive CAREER proposals. The workshop intends to provide
young faculty members skills in CAREER proposal writing, panel review
experience, and opportunities to interact with NSF program directors and recent
NSF awardees.
Upcoming 2012 Workshops:
Workshop 1:
– Organizer: Dr. Paul Oh, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
– NSF Contact: Dr. Jie Yang and Dr. Tanya Korelsky
– Date: March 30, 2012
– Place: Drexel University
Workshop 2:
– Organizer: Dr. Sule Ozev, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
– NSF Contact: Dr. Mohamed Gouda
– Date: May 18, 2012
– Place: Phoenix, AZ
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Your Involvement
•
Volunteer to be a reviewer and panelist
• Find appropriate program director(s) by looking at relevant Program
Solicitations or Award Abstracts
• or Maria Zemankova [mzemanko@nsf.gov]
• Send email message:
• Subject: Reviewer Volunteer
• Inside message body:
• Full Name:
• Affiliation(s):
• Department(s):
• Work mailing address:
• Phone number:
• Email address:
• URL (Home page):
• Research areas: up to 8 keywords
• Program directors will share with colleagues, store for future use
• When looking for reviewers, they will search their email for reviewers in
needed research areas
• You will be invited if your areas fit the need and you do not have a
clear conflict of interest (e.g. submitted a proposal to that
competition, or there are proposals from your institutions)
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Your Involvement
•
Get to know your Program Directors
• Review Program Solicitations or Award Abstracts
• Send an email message to request a phone conversation or visit
• Program Directors can:
• advise on appropriate program(s) for your proposed research
• provide general suggestions on writing a proposal
• Program Directors cannot:
• provide detailed comments on your proposal draft
• discuss a pending proposal
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Send your best ideas to NSF: consistent with program focus and goals
Work within your institutions to support collaborative, interdisciplinary research
Keep us informed of your accomplishments
Call our attention to things that need improvement
Suggest new research areas, activities, etc.
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Participate in NSF-funded events, workshops, etc.
Organize planning workshops for new research directions or activities
Consider participating in the Computing Community Consortium:
http://www.cra.org/ccc
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Plan to serve as a program director (“rotator”) or division director
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NSF/CISE Highlights
• NSF News
• NSF Discoveries
• Computing Discoveries
Project Highlights:
• Succinct, interesting vignettes
– Show a result, a discovery
– in layperson’s language
– including graphics if possible
• NSF shares Highlights publicly
– NSF Budget requests
– Performance reports
– Public relations
• Convince the US public that
research is worth paying for!!!
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Thank you!
Questions ?
Maria Zemankova
Program Director
CISE/IIS
mzemanko@nsf.gov
703-292-7348
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