National
Science
Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov
Maria Zemankova, Ph.D.
mzemanko@nsf.gov
Program Director
Information & Knowledge Management
Information & Intelligent Systems Division
Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis
703-292-8930
NSF IN A NUTSHELL
• Independent Agency
• Supports basic
research & education
• Uses grant
mechanism
• Low overhead;
effective use of IT
• Discipline-based
structure
• Cross-disciplinary
mechanisms
• Use of Rotators/IPAs
• National Science
Board
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Director
Deputy Director
(OD)
National Science
Board
(NSB)
Inspector General
(OIG)
Biological
Sciences
(BIO)
Staff Offices
Computer &
Information
Science & Eng
(CISE)
Social, Behavioral
& Economic
Sciences
(SBE)
Engineering
(ENG)
Education
& Human
Resources
(EHR)
Geosciences
(GEO)
Budget, Finance
& Award
Management
(BFA)
Mathematical
& Physical
Sciences
(MPS)
Information
Resource
Management
(IRM)
OTHER NSF OFFICES
• EPSCoR
• Integrative Affairs
• Legislative & Public
Affairs (OLPA)
• International S&E
• General Counsel
• Polar Programs
• Equal Opportunity
• SBIR/STTR
• Overseas (Paris/Tokyo)
• New: Office of
Cyber Infrastructure
NSF PROPOSAL
SUBMISSION ELIGIBILITY*
• U.S. Universities and Colleges
• U.S. Nonprofit, Nonacademic Organizations
• U.S. For-Profit Organizations
• State/Local Educational Organizations
• Unaffiliated U.S. Scientists, Engineers,
Educators, & Citizens
• NSF Rarely Supports Foreign Organizations or
Other Federal Agencies
* Program Solicitations may establish more restrictive eligibility
NSF STRATEGIC
INVESTMENT GOALS
•
People - Developing “a diverse, internationally competitive
and globally engaged workforce of scientists, engineers,
and well-prepared citizens.”
•
Ideas - Enabling “discoveries across the frontier of science
and engineering, connected to learning, innovation, and
service to society.”
•
Tools - Providing “broadly accessible, state-of-the-art
shared research and education tools.”
=> Nuggets!
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•
Organizational Excellence – Operating an agile,
innovative organization with leadership and sound business
practices
APPROPRIATIONS FOR NFS
FY 1998 - 2007
7
7.9%
Flat
6
Billions of Dollars
?
9.4%
5
4
3
2
1
0
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
NSF PROPOSAL STATISTICS
(FY 2005)
•
41,751 proposal actions
•
~254,000 reviews
•
~58,000 reviewers
•
9,784 awards
•
23.0% funding rate
NSF-9
COMPARISON OF
NSF BUDGET, STAFF, AND
COMPETITIVE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
250%
Percentage Change
200%
150%
100%
50%
0%
-50%
1983
1985
1987
1989
1991
1993
1995
1997
1999
2001
2003
20,000
100%
18,000
90%
16,000
80%
14,000
70%
12,000
60%
10,000
50%
8,000
40%
6,000
30%
4,000
20%
2,000
10%
0
1995
1996
1997
11,635 12,026
1998
1999
11,693
12,172
2000
Proposals - Prior PI
11,203
Proposals - New PI
7,446
8,013
7,910
7,526
7,951
8,561
Funding Rate - Prior PI
36%
34%
36%
36%
36%
Funding Rate - New PI
19%
17%
20%
21%
20%
2001
12,885 14,013
2002
2003
2004
14,965
16,944 18,700
9,084
10,286
11,752 12,941
36%
32%
32%
29%
25%
22%
19%
19%
16%
14%
0%
Percentage
Number
Research Grant Proposals by PI Type
NSF SHARE OF TOTAL FEDERAL
SUPPORT FOR BASIC RESEARCH
AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
84%
Computer sciences
84%
59%
Mathematics
48%
Social sciences
59%
48%
44%
Environmental sciences
44%
42%
42%
36%
Engineering
36%
35%
Physical sciences
Biological sciences
(non-medical)
35%
9%
1%
Psychology
9%
1%
0%
Medical sciences
0
0%
20
40
60
80
1 00
Where is Knowledge Mapping at NSF?
• Everywhere!!!
• Or nowhere?
• Use
– OLPA: S & E Visualization Challenge
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/
– Science and Engineering Statistics
S&E Indicators 2006
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind06/
– Potential use across NSF
• Funding Opportunities
– CISE, ENG, EHR, OCI, SBE, BIO, GEO, MPS
– IGERT, CAREER, GOALI, SBIR, …
– SGERs, workshops, REUs, RETs, …
Potential Use
• Help to understand and balance the portfolio of
funded research
• See the changes of supported areas over time
– Formation of new areas
– Impacts of initiatives
• See the impact of funded research
– Numbers and impact of publications (citations)
– Numbers of patents
– Formation of new research communities
• Planning: discover relationships and areas of
promising research
• Help program directors better manage proposal
review and award recommendations
Funding Opportunities:
Everywhere
How to Find Them?
CISE Mission
• CISE has three goals:
– Promote understanding of the principles and
uses of advanced computing, communications,
and information systems in service to society;
– Contribute to universal, transparent, and
affordable participation in an information-based
society; and
– Enable the United States to remain competitive
in computing, communications, and information
science and engineering.
Computer & Information Science &
Engineering (CISE): Current
Organization
Office
of the
Assistant
Director
Computing and
Computer and
Information and
Communication
Network
Intelligent
Foundations
Systems
Systems
(CNS)
(IIS)
(CCF)
Crosscutting Emphasis Areas:
Cyber Trust, Science of Design, Broadening Participation
Computing and
Communication Foundations
Division (CCF)
• Theoretical Foundations
– Computer science theory; numerical computing;
computational algebra and geometry; signal processing
and communication
• Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts
– Software engineering; software tools for HPC;
programming languages; compilers; computer
architecture; graphics and visualization
• Emerging Models and Technologies for
Computation
– Computational biology; quantum computing; nano-scale
computing; biologically inspired computing
Computer and Network Systems
Division (CNS)
• Computer Systems
– Distributed systems; embedded and hybrid systems; nextgeneration software; parallel systems
• Network Systems
– Networking research broadly defined plus focus areas
• Computing Research Infrastructure
– Equipment and infrastructure to advance
computing research
• Education and Workforce
– IT workforce; special projects; crossdirectorate activities (e.g., REU sites, IGERT,
ADVANCE)
Information and Intelligent Systems
Division (IIS): New Clusters
• Informatics and Information Integration
– BioInformatics, GeoInformatics …
– Databases, Information & Knowledge Management
– Digital Gov’t
– Digital Libraries
• Robust Intelligence
– Artificial intelligence
– Machine vision
– Robotics
– Speech and language (using computers)
• Human Centered Computing
– Human computer interaction
– Educational technology
– Computer-supported cooperative work
– Impact of IT on business, governance, social environment
GENI Initiative:
Global Environment for Networking Investigations
• The GENI Initiative envisions the creation of new
networking and distributed system architectures,
e.g.:
– Build in security and robustness;
– Enable the vision of pervasive computing and bridge the
gap between the physical and virtual worlds by including
mobile, wireless and sensor networks;
– Enable control and management of other critical
infrastructures;
– Include ease of operation and usability; and
– Enable new classes of societal-level services and
applications.
See: www.nsf.gov/cise/geni
Office of Cyberinfrastructure: Vision
• “Atkins report” - Blueribbon panel, chaired by
Daniel E. Atkins
• Called for a national-level,
integrated system of
hardware, software, & data
resources and services
www. nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp
• New infrastructure to
enable new paradigms of
science & engineering
research and education
with increased efficiency
“Borromean Ring*” teams needed
for Cyberinfrastructure Success
Computer &
Information,
Science&
Engineering
Social &
Behavioral
Sciences
Disciplinary,
multidisciplinary
research
communities
Iterative, participatory design; collateral learning.
*Three symmetric, interlocking rings, no two of which are interlinked.
Removing one destroys the synergy.
Atkins- Symposium on KES: Past, Present and Future
NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision
(FY 2006 – 2010)
• Ch. 1 : Call to Action
Visions for:
• Ch. 2 : High Performance
Computing
• Ch. 3 : Data, Data Analysis
& Visualizaton
• Ch. 4 : Collaboratories,
Observatories and Virtual
Organizations
• Ch. 5 : Learning and
Workforce Development
To Be Completed in Summer 2006
http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf
New CI-TEAM Solicitation
Due June 5, 2006
 Aims to prepare science and engineering workforce with knowledge and
skills needed to create, advance and use cyberinfrastructure for
discovery, learning and innovation across and within all areas of
science and engineering.
 Exploits the power of Cyberinfrastructure to cross digital, disciplinary,
institutional, and geographic divides and fosters inclusion of diverse
groups of people and organizations, with particular emphasis on
traditionally underrepresented groups.
 Focus on workforce development activities; <50% tool development.
 FY06 program funds ~ $10 M for two types of awards:
Demonstration Projects ≤ $250,000
Implementation Projects ≤ $1,000,000 (expected to deliver sustainable
learning and workforce development activities that complement ongoing
NSF investment in cyberinfrastructure).
CISE & ENG/Nanotechnology: Co-Funding
IIS-0311628
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
http://ai.eller.arizona.edu
SGER: Intelligent Patent Analysis and Visualization
Z. Huang, H. Chen, Z.-K. Chen and M. C. Roco, "International
Nanotechnology Development in 2003: Country, Institution, and
Technology Field Analysis Based on USPTO Patent Database“,
Journal of Nanoparticale Research (JNR), 6(4), 325-354,
(2004):
http://uaeller.eller.arizona.edu/%7Ezhuang/Zan/papers/international.jnr.pdf
Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
SGER: Intelligent Patent Analysis and Visualization
NSE Grant/Patent Topic Association
Grant-patent topic
linkages patterns
Pattern I (circled):
A grant topic followed
by several associated
patent topics in later
time periods.
It may indicate that
new research interest
invokes industry
efforts.
SBE & NSF: Human & Social Dynamics
(Fourth Year)
Fiscal Year 2006 areas of emphasis:
• Agents of change – focusing on large-scale
changes in humanity and society in areas such as
industrial globalization and disease epidemics, and
how we influence technological change
• Dynamics of human behavior – applying state-ofthe-art methods and cross-disciplinary
approaches to better understand the dynamics
that influence human behavior and action
• Decision-making and risk – improving decisionmaking in an uncertain world by studying risk
perception and response to stimuli such as hazards
and extreme events and the role of educational
systems in that response
SBE
• Geography and Regional Studies
– Collaboration with IIS/IKM and SEIII
• Cognitive Science
• Antropology, …
Education and Human Resources (EHR)
Some Example Projects (selected from 50+)
 Data Visualization: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Reducing the Cognitive Load when Extracting Meaning from
Large Data Sets (Undergraduate)
 Development of Quantitative Geography Curriculum Based
on Numeric Visualization (Undergraduate)
 Visualization in Science and Education (workshop)
 Windows on Earth (Informal Science)
 Seeing and Understanding: Gordon Conference,
Workshops, and Mini-Grants to Guide Visualization
Research in Science and Education (Research on Learning)
 Visualizing Statistical Relationships (Research on Learning)
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 Advanced Learning Technologies (ATL): deadline 05/04/06
International Polar Year
Marks the 50th anniversary of
the International Geophysical Year (1957-58)
Fiscal 2007 areas of emphasis:
Study of Environmental Arctic Change
Polar Ice Sheet Dynamics and Stability
Life in the Cold and Dark
Keeping Aware:
Resources at your Disposal
NSF Web Site: http://www.nsf.gov
Funding Opportunities Calendar at NSF
Guide to Programs/Browsing of Funding Opportunities
 Funding Search Engine by keywords (can the results be
visualized???)
Upcoming Due dates
Custom e-mail for your interests: http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/
Awards: Search award abstracts for keywords and
find where at NSF the topic is funded and who is doing
the research (can the results be visualized???)
Additional Pointers
• From: Kostoff, Ronald (Office of Naval Research)
Sent: 3/26/2005 8:03 AM
SUBJECT: ACCELERATING RADICAL DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION
New of approaches for systematically identifying and accelerating potentially
radical discovery and innovation in science and technology. This systematic
capability is applicable to all phases of the science and technology development
cycle (planning, investment/ selection, execution, review, publication/
dissemination, transition). It should be of interest to research managers,
performers, administrators, investors, and journal editors who might benefit
strongly from using such a systematic
discovery and innovation approach in their work.
http://www.onr.navy.mil/sci_tech/special/354/technowatch/textmine.asp
• DOE Information Vizualization
• NIH/NSF Information Vizualization: Future Challenges
Post Script
"Worldwide Scientific Publishing
Activity“
"Worldwide Scientific Publishing Activity“
CAROLINA PEREZ-IRATXETA 1,2
MIGUEL A. ANDRADE 1,2
1 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
2 Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin, Germany
Science, 26 July 2002, p. 519
Analysis of MEDLINE articles as an indicator of world's wealth.
Assumption:
publishing activity in peer-reviewed journals
is correlated to scientific activity
=>
amount of papers published by individuals of a nation
(divided by its total population)
can be taken as an indicator of that nation's wealth
(A) Approximate amount of publications for the years
1996–2001 per million inhabitants by country
10,000
1,000
100
10
1
No data
(B) Ratio of the number of publications for 1996–2001 to
the number of publications for 1989–95
Positive trend
Stable trend
Negative trend
No data
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