National Science

Foundationhttp://www.nsf.gov

Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. mzemanko@nsf.govProgram DirectorInformation & Knowledge ManagementInformation & Intelligent Systems DivisionComputer & Information Science & Engineering Directoratehttp://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis703-292-8930

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

Inspector General(OIG)

National Science Board(NSB)

Staff Offices

Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

(SBE)

Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences

(SBE)

Budget, Finance & Award

Management(BFA)

Budget, Finance & Award

Management(BFA)

Information Resource

Management(IRM)

Information Resource

Management(IRM)

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Director Deputy Director

(OD)

Engineering(ENG)

Geosciences(GEO)

Mathematical & Physical Sciences

(MPS)

Education & Human Resources

(EHR)

Biological Sciences

(BIO)

Computer & Information

Science & Eng (CISE)

OTHER NSF OFFICES

• EPSCoR

• Integrative Affairs

• International S&E

• Polar Programs

• SBIR/STTR

• New: Office of Cyber Infrastructure

• Legislative & Public Affairs (OLPA)

• General Counsel

• Equal Opportunity

• Overseas (Paris/Tokyo)

NSF PROPOSALSUBMISSION 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.”

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• Organizational Excellence – Operating an agile, innovative organization with leadership and sound business practices

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Proposals - New PI 7,446 8,013 7,910 7,526 7,951 8,561 9,084 10,286 11,752 12,941

Funding Rate - Prior PI 36% 34% 36% 36% 36% 36% 32% 32% 29% 25%

Funding Rate - New PI 19% 17% 20% 21% 20% 22% 19% 19% 16% 14%

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NSF SHARE OF TOTAL FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR BASIC RESEARCH

AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

Computer sciences

Mathematics

Environmental sciences

Engineering

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Biological sciences (non-medical)

Psychology

Medical sciences

Social sciences

Where is Knowledge Mapping at NSF?

• Everywhere!!!• Or nowhere?• Use

– OLPA: S & E Visualization Challengehttp://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/

– Science and Engineering Statistics S&E Indicators 2006http://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

Crosscutting EmphasisCrosscutting Emphasis Areas:Areas:Cyber Trust, Science of Design,Cyber Trust, Science of Design, Broadening ParticipationBroadening Participation

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Computing andCommunication 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; next-

generation 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; cross-directorate 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” - Blue-

ribbon panel, chaired by Daniel E. Atkins

• Called for a national-level, integrated system of hardware, software, & data resources and services

• New infrastructure to enable new paradigms of science & engineering research and education with increased efficiencywww. nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp

“Borromean Ring*” teams needed for Cyberinfrastructure Success

*Three symmetric, interlocking rings, no two of which are interlinked. Removing one destroys the synergy.

Disciplinary,multi-disciplinaryresearch communities

People & Society

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Computer & Information, Science& Engineering

Iterative, participatory design; collateral learning.

Atkins- Symposium on KES: Past, Present and Future

NSF’s Cyberinfrastructure Vision(FY 2006 – 2010)

To Be Completed in Summer 2006

• Ch. 1 : Call to ActionCh. 1 : Call to Action

Visions for:Visions for:

• Ch. 2 : High Performance Ch. 2 : High Performance ComputingComputing

• Ch. 3 : Data, Ch. 3 : Data, Data Analysis Data Analysis & Visualizaton& Visualizaton

• Ch. 4 : Collaboratories, Ch. 4 : Collaboratories, Observatories and Virtual Observatories and Virtual OrganizationsOrganizations

• Ch. 5 : Learning and Ch. 5 : Learning and Workforce DevelopmentWorkforce Development

http://www.nsf.gov/od/oci/ci_v5.pdf

New CI-TEAM Solicitation New CI-TEAM Solicitation Due June 5, 2006Due 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 ArizonaSGER: Intelligent Patent Analysis and Visualization

NSE Grant/Patent Topic AssociationNSE 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-of-the-art methods and cross-disciplinary approaches to better understand the dynamics that influence human behavior and action

• Decision-making and risk – improving decision-making 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)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Advanced Learning Technologies (ATL): deadline 05/04/06

International Polar YearMarks 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

NSF Web Site: NSF Web Site: http://www.nsf.govFunding Opportunities Calendar at NSFFunding Opportunities Calendar at NSFGuide to Programs/Browsing of Funding OpportunitiesGuide to Programs/Browsing of Funding Opportunities Funding Search Engine by keywords Funding Search Engine by keywords (can the results be (can the results be visualized???)visualized???)Upcoming Due datesUpcoming Due datesCustom e-mail for your interests: Custom e-mail for your interests: http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/

Awards: Search award abstracts for keywords and Awards: Search award abstracts for keywords and find where at NSF the topic is funded and who is doing find where at NSF the topic is funded and who is doing the research the research (can the results be visualized???)(can the results be visualized???)

Keeping Aware:Keeping Aware:

Resources at your DisposalResources at your Disposal

Additional Pointers• From: Kostoff, Ronald (Office of Naval Research)Sent: 3/26/2005 8:03 AMSUBJECT: 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 systematicdiscovery 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, GermanyScience, 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

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(B) Ratio of the number of publications for 1996–2001 to the number of publications for 1989–95

Stable trend

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Knowledge Mapping:validation?

• Understandability

• Conclusions

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