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DGOnline Newsletter
Volume 11: October 2007
Welcome to dgOnline, the electronic newsletter of the Digital Government Society of North America. dgOnline is a monthly summary of news and events of interest to the DG community. To submit material for inclusion in future issues, please contact Denise Dreany
In this issue:
-- Dutch e-Citizen Charter Wins Award
-- Articles and Reports of Interest
-- Conferences and Calls for Papers
Meet the candidates here and on the DGSNA website. Voting will be held online beginning November 15 through December 15 to elect officers and decide on one consitutional amendment. Voting is open to members of DGSNA.
For those who would like to participate in the election process and are not yet members, please visit our membership page and fill out the registration form.
President Elect: Hans Jochen Scholl
H. Jochen Scholl is an assistant professor in the University of Washington's Information School. He teaches and conducts research on information management, process change, and organizational transformation in government and other organizations.
He has been engaged in the formation of the DGSNA and has served on board of elected officers. Jochen facilitated the worldwide discussion and voting processes on both the Society's Mission Statement and its constitution. He has also been an active member of the Society's journal committee.
“The Digital Government Society plays an important role in advancing an inclusive, multi-disciplinary, and democratically governed community of practitioners and scholars in Digital Government. The society’s leadership plays a key role in advancing this vision.”
Treasurer: Yigal Arens
Yigal Arens is Director of the Intelligent Systems Division of the University of Southern California's Information Science Institute; Director of DGRC, the USC/Columbia University Digital Government Research Center; and Research Professor at USC’s Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering.
Yigal helped found the DGSNA and currently serves as its treasurer. He has been active in the digital government research community since its inception. “Among other things, holding this position has required me to plan the conversion of the conference from its past dependence on NSF grants to a future of financial self-sufficiency, and possibly even one of being a revenue generator for the Society.”
Secretary: Andrea Kavanaugh
A Fulbright scholar and Cunningham Fellow, Andrea Kavanaugh is Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. She is also the Associate Director of the university-wide interdisciplinary research Center for Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
Andrea currently serves as the Chair of the DGSNA Communication Committee which assists the Board and the membership with the design and development of the DG website. “I will serve to promote a vibrant and growing society with diverse membership in academia, industry and government.
Board: George Beard
George Beard is a senior instructor and consulting principal with the Executive Leadership Institute at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government. During his 30-year career, he has split his time between the public and private sectors.
“My practice focuses on public sector innovation, performance improvement, and development of next-generation leaders. My interest in these pursuits flows from two factors. One is the worsening fiscal condition of the country and how it will exacerbate our ability in the future to fuel the important work of government. The second problem I see is structural: Our service model for government is too sluggish and too costly for a 21st century world and for a new cadre of citizens that I like to call, “The New Wired Majority.”
Board: John Bertot
John Carlo Bertot is Professor in the College of Information at Florida State University. He also serves as associate director of the Information Use Management and Policy Institute in the School and as editor of Government Information Quarterly, an international journal of policy, practice and management.
“ The vision I have for the Society is one in which practitioners and researchers work together to understand the digital government arena from multiple perspectives – policy, technology innovation, technology development and implementation, integration, and benchmarking (to include impact measures), to name selected areas. ”
Board: Valerie Gregg
Valerie Gregg is Assistant Director for Development at the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute's Digital Government Research Center. She also serves as an independent digital government advisor and consultant. She is Secretary of the DGSNA. Prior to working in academia, she had a 30-year career in public service at the Federal level. For eight years, she was Program Manager for the Digital Government Research in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at NSF.
“My vision for the coming two years involves enhancing the organization’s infrastructure that enables increased stability, sustainability and growth. This vision can only be realized if we develop and clearly communicate new benefits and services for members and sponsors alike."
Board: Robert Maslyn
Bob Maslyn has anchored his federal career in two major agencies: currently in the Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer of the U.S. General Services Administration; earlier in the Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Bob has served on DGSNA's first Board of Directors , as liaison to the Research and Government Management Committee. He initiated the DGSNA partnership with the Transitions in Governance 2008 project, focusing on e-government, which seeks to shape the government reform agenda for the next President.
“My vision for DGSNA is to accelerate the scholar – manager conversation and collaboration, especially in the service of making digital democracy real, vibrant and consequential to public interest decision-making. ”
Board: Costas Panagopoulos
Costas Panagopoulos is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Electoral Politics and the Mater’s Program in Elections and Campaign Management at Fordham University. He is also Research Fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.
Costas served on the DGSNA Board during its inaugural year. "We have launched several initiatives and I would like to continue to work with the Board to advance these and the other goals of DGS."
Board: Theresa Pardo
Theresa A. Pardo is Deputy Director of the Center for Technology in Government located at the University at Albany. She is also a faculty member in Public Administration and Policy and Informatics at the University.
Theresa served as Program Co-chair for dg.o 2006 and 2007. During the Society formation process she served as a member of the constitution drafting committee and the first election committee. She is currently chair of the DGSNA sponsorship committee.
"As a member of the DGSNA board I will work to continue the evolution of the Society as an enabler of critical interdisciplinary and collaborative research and practice both in North America and beyond."
The Call for Papers for the 10th International Digital Government Research Conference dg.o 2008 "Partners in Public Innovations" has gone out for both Student Papers and Research Papers. The Conference submission website is available beginning November 1 at www.easychair.org/dgo2008/.
For information for Student Papers, contact Jaime Arguillo
For all other information, contact dgo2008@easychair.org
Keynote Speakers are announced:
- Daniel J. Chenok, Vice President & Director SRA Touchstone Consulting Group
- Edwin Lau, head of the E-Government Project at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia
Important Dates
November 1, 2007 Conference submission web site launched. The submission site is located at: http://www.easychair.org/dgo2008/.
December 1, 2007 Submission deadline for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
February 1, 2008 Acceptance notifications for all papers and panel sessions, as well as pre-conference tutorials and workshops.
February 15, 2008 Submission deadline for Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions, posters, and system demonstrations.
March 1, 2008 Acceptance notifications for posters, system demonstrations, and BOF sessions.
March 15, 2008 All camera ready versions are due.
Dutch e-Citizen Charter Wins Award
What can citizens expect when e-government is finally implemented? This is the question addressed by the e-Citizen Charter, winner of the European eDemocracy Award at the Global e-Democracy Forum in Paris in October. Developed by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior, part of the Dutch implementation organization for ICT in the public sector, the e-Citizen Charter sets quality standards that define the digital relationship between citizen and government (both in the field of information exchange, service delivery and political participation). The e-Citizen Charter has been adopted as a standard for public service delivery on all levels of Dutch government, and is fast becoming a standard for others in the European Union.
These standards are formulated as rights citizens are entitled to, and matching obligations by government bodies. They are in the interest of both citizen and government. It allows citizens to call their government to account for the quality of online contacts. Government can use the charter to examine the external quality of e-government. Thus the charter is an instrument to stimulate the further development of e-government from the citizen's perspective.
Articles and Reports of Interest:
Come Together
A quiet transformation is under way within Chicago's city government. In his first 18 months on the job, CIO Hardik Bhatt has taken major strides to change how the city's 35,000 employees in 46 departments interact not only with documents, but also each other.
The CIO Council Releases "Architecture Principles for the U.S. Government"
The CIO Council adopted a set of principles to help achieve consistent, effective IT decision-making across federal government. The Architecture Principles for the U.S. Government provide a framework for IT decision-making across multiple agency business units.
www.cio.gov/documents/Architecture_Principles_US_Gov_8-2007.pdf
Best in Show
States, known as the laboratories of democracy, also happen to be labs of experimentation for e-government. These somewhat unsurprising findings are the result of a report prepared for the Congressional Research Service by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
www.govtech.com/pcio/articles/134625
NASCIO Releases "Profiles of Progress II: State Health IT Initiatives"
NASCIO has released "Profiles of Progress II: State Health IT Initiatives, a product of NASCIO's Health IT Working Group. This updated compendium delivers a state-by-state snapshot that illustrates the states' progress in health information technology implementation.
www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-ProfilesOfProgress2.pdf
NASCIO Annual Conference 2007
The sessions and conference presentations of the NASCIO Annual Conference in Tucson, Arizona"Building on the Past, Managing the Present and Stepping into the Future", held in September of this year, are now available online.
www.nascio.org/events/2007Annual
Conferences and Calls for Papers:
Calls for Papers
2nd International Conference on Legal Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law - Call for Papers
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 5-7, 2007
Deadline: October 27, 2007
Third Annual i Schools Conference - Call for Papers
Futures: Systems, Selves, Society
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, February 28-March 1, 2008
Deadline: October 29, 2007
The Georgetown Public Policy Review - Call for Papers
2008 Edition - Democracy in Practice: Campaigns, Elections, and Voters
Deadline: November 1, 2007
Contact: Betsey G. Hawkins
CfP ICTTA 08
Damascus, Syria, April 7-11, 2008
Deadline: November 25, 2007
www.conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/ictta
dg.o 2008 "Partnerships for Public Innovation"
9th Annual International Conference on Digital Government
Hilton Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal Canada, May 18-21, 2008
Deadline: December 1, 2007
www.dgo2008.org/images/pdfs/cfpdgo2008_v18.pdf
Conferences
9th Public Management Research Association (PMRC) Conference
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, October 25-27, 2007
www.pmranet.org/conferences/ProConf.html
eChallenges e-2007 Conference & Exhibition
The Hague, The Netherlands, October 24-26, 2007
www.echallenges.org/e2007/default.asp?page=c4p
2nd International Conference on Legal Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December 5-7, 2007
ICEGOV 2007
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Macao SAR, China, December 10-13, 2007
41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 41)
Big Island, Hawaii, January 6-10, 2008
Third Annual i Schools Conference
Futures: Systems, Selves, Society
University of California, Los Angeles, CA, February 28-March 1, 2008
CfP ICTTA 08
Damascus, Syria, April 7-11, 2008
www.conferences.enst-bretagne.fr/ictta
2008 NASCIO Mid-Year Conference
Chantilly, Virginia, April 29-May 2
Advanced Learning Technologies (joint with NSF’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources)
Scientific Foci: Research on computer science and cognitive science challenges posed by human learning environments and learning technology platforms. Projects must pursue both learning and technology questions, and focus on science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) education.
Proposal Deadline: April 25, 2008
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12834&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (joint with the National Institutes of Health and other NSF directorates)
Scientific Foci: Interdisciplinary research in computational neuroscience, providing a theoretical foundation and set of technological approaches that enhance understanding of nervous system function and may also have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released in January 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5147&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
CreativeIT **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Focus on research that improves our understanding of creativity while producing simultaneous advances in computer science and information technologies with digital arts, cognitive science, engineering design, and physical and life science.
Proposal Deadline: September 21, 2007
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501096&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI ) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking, where computational thinking is defined comprehensively to encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools. CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research proposals within or across the following three thematic areas: From Data to Knowledge; Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems; and Building Virtual Organizations. PIs are encouraged to submit CDI proposals that are truly distinctive from proposals submitted to other CISE programs.
Letter of Intent Deadline (mandatory): November 30, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 8, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: April 29, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503163&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Community-Based Data Interoperability Networks
Scientific Foci: This program supports research community efforts aimed at broad digital data interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for community consensus-building activities and, based on community consensus, for developing associated technical standards with supporting implementation tools and resources.
Proposal Deadline: July 23, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network Partners (DataNet)
Scientific Foci: DataNet will create a set of exemplar national and global data research infrastructure organizations that integrate library and archival sciences, cyberinfrastructure, computer and information sciences, and domain science expertise to: provide reliable digital preservation, access, integration, and analysis capabilities for science and/or engineering data over a decades-long timeline; continuously anticipate and adapt to changes in technologies and in user needs and expectations; engage at the frontiers of computer and information science and cyberinfrastructure with research and development to drive the leading edge forward; and serve as component elements of an interoperable data preservation and access network.
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 7, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline: March 21, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503141&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Foundations of Data and Visual Analytics (joint with Department of Homeland Security) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: CISE will establish a network of projects focused on the creation of the mathematical and computational sciences foundations required to transform data in ways that permit visual-based understanding. This is a one-time solicitation with 5-7 awards anticipated; no subsequent competitions are envisioned.
Proposal Deadline: November 20, 2007.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501081&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
High End Computing University Research Activity (with DARPA)
Scientific Foci: Research and education projects in languages, programming models and programming environments for high-end computing.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline winter of 2007-2008. Stay tuned for more information.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13645&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with Computer Sciences
Scientific Foci: Supports collaborative research in fundamental mathematics and statistics, and computer science with a focus primarily on mathematical and statistical challenges posed by large data sets, managing and modeling uncertainty, and modeling complex nonlinear systems.
Proposal Deadline: Spring 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=9673&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Software for Real-World Systems (SRS) **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: SRS calls on researchers to discover, define, and apply fundamental scientific principles, engineering methods, and educational methods to the challenges of developing, analyzing, and maintaining software for real-world systems of today and tomorrow.
Proposal Deadline: January 17, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503175&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Computer Systems Research
Scientific Foci: Innovative research that has potential to augment our fundamental understanding of these increasingly large and complex systems and lead to major advances in systems software, service architectures and abstractions, system modeling and simulation, virtualization, cross-system integration, real-time and pervasive computing, storage and file systems, networked sensing and control, flexible assured system composition, and design for dependability and resiliency under uncertainty.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13385&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Cyber Trust
Scientific Foci: Research leading to computer-based systems and networks that function as intended, especially in the face of cyber attack, that process, store and communicate sensitive information according to specified policies, and that reflect privacy concerns of citizens. Proposals may address any aspect related to security, privacy, dependability, reliability and safety of systems and networks.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline early spring 2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13451&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Engineering Research Centers (ERCs)
Scientific Foci: Create a culture of innovation in engineering research and education that links scientific discovery to technological innovation through transformational engineered systems research in order to advance technology and produce engineering graduates who will be creative innovators in a global economy.
Letter of Intent Deadline (required): February 02, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline (required): May 03, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time): December 10, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5502&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
Emerging Models and Technologies
Scientific Foci: Frameworks and foundations for novel computing models that will lead to better computing and communication systems, including, for example: modeling and simulation of bio-systems; design of bio-inspired computing models for solving complex problems; investigation of various aspects of quantum-based approaches to processing information; and nanoscale science and engineering approaches.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Program announcement to be released fall 2007; proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11176&org=CCF
Expeditions in Computing **NEW in FY 2008**
Scientific Foci: New research program to tap the great reservoir of opportunities that fundamental research advances in computing and information promise for the future. Investigators in the computer and information science and engineering fields and beyond are encouraged to come together within and/or across departments or institutions in the development of compelling, transformational research agendas that promise disruptive innovations in computing and information for many years to come. Three five-year awards, each totaling $10 million, will be supported this year, with three new awards to be made each year in subsequent years.
Letter of Intent Deadline (Mandatory): November 5, 2007
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: December 30, 2007
Full Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503169&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Scientific Foci: A foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Proposal Deadline: Midsummer 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262&org=NSF
Foundations of Computing Processes and Artifacts
Scientific Foci: Transformative research to advance at a fundamental level the design, verification, evaluation, utilization, and understanding of computing and communication systems. Projects may focus on processes, such as design methods for hardware or software, especially programming models for parallel computing; they may also focus on artifacts, such as new tools for validation of a system design, new languages, or new techniques for graphics, visualization, and animation.
Proposal Deadline: December 7, 2007
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500027&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)
Scientific Foci: Synergize university-industry partnerships by making project funds or fellowships/traineeships available to support an eclectic mix of industry-university linkages. Program targets high-risk/high-gain research with a focus on fundamental topics, new approaches to solving generic problems, development of innovative collaborative industry-university educational programs, and direct transfer of new knowledge between academe and industry.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13706&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program (I/UCRC)
Scientific Foci: Develops long-term partnerships among industry, academe, and government. The centers are catalyzed by a small investment from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and are primarily supported by industry center members, with NSF taking a supporting role in their development and evolution.
Letter of Intent Deadline: January 4, 2008
Proposal Deadline: March 28, 2008
Letter of Intent Deadline: June 27, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5501&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Information and Intelligent Systems: Advancing Human-Centered Computing; Information Integration and Informatics; and Robust Intelligence
Scientific Foci: The IIS Division has a single yearly solicitation that funds core activities in all three programmatic areas covered by IIS:
Human-Centered Computing studies the roles of and relationships between people and the computing and information technologies they develop and use, focused both on the design of computational artifacts in support of human activities and on the study of the impact these technologies have on individuals, groups, and society at large.
Information Integration and Informatics focuses on processes and technologies for creating, storing, querying, representing, organizing, integrating, updating, analyzing, preserving, protecting, and interacting with digital content at scales ranging from individuals to globally-distributed dynamic networked repository systems.
Robust Intelligence encompasses computational understanding and modeling of the many human and animal capabilities that demonstrate intelligence and adaptability in unstructured and uncertain environments. This programmatic area includes research in robotics, speech, vision, natural language processing, and other areas of artificial intelligence.
Each year, this solicitation also focuses on a number of cross-cutting technical areas. The current solicitation includes two such areas:
Integrative Intelligence , targeting the challenges involved in creating more broadly capable intelligent systems; and
Next-Generation Networked Information, seeking the development of information systems that anticipate future distributed networking environments.
Proposal Deadlines (by project size): October 23, 2007 (Medium); November 19, 2007 (Large); and December 10, 2007 (Small).
http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13707&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Networking Technology and Systems
Scientific Foci: Supports forward looking, basic and experimental, research to increase our understanding of how complex, dynamic networks behave, how they can be designed to deliver sustainable end-to-end performance and services, and how they can be managed and controlled to rapidly adapt to changes with a high degree of reliability and minimal service disruption. Both evolutionary proposals which focus on radical approaches to address challenges related to the current Internet and revolutionary, clean-slate proposals, which seek to create a future Internet, are welcome.
Proposal Deadline: Winter 2007-2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12765&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Scientific Foci: Enable U.S. institutions to establish collaborative relationships with international groups or institutions in order to engender new knowledge and discoveries at the frontier and to promote the development of a globally-engaged, U.S. scientific and engineering workforce.
Proposal Deadline: The next PIRE competition is being planned for 2009. Please check the link below for updates.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites
Scientific Foci: Supports active research participation by undergraduate students in all research areas funded by CISE. REU Sites engage a number of undergraduate students in research and may be based in a single discipline or academic department, or on interdisciplinary or multi-department research opportunities with a coherent intellectual theme.
Proposal Deadline: August 18, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Research in Undergraduate Institutions
Scientific Foci: Supports research by faculty members of predominantly undergraduate institutions through the funding of (1) individual and collaborative research projects, (2) the purchase of shared-use research instrumentation, and (3) Research Opportunity Awards for work with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions.
Proposal Deadline: Proposals accepted in all CISE programs at relevant deadlines.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Science of Learning Centers (SLCs)
Scientific Foci: Offers awards for large-scale, long-term centers that create the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of Science of Learning research. It supports research that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper understanding of learning.
Proposal Deadlines: February 4, 2008 and August 4, 2008
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5567&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Science and Technology Centers (STCs)
Scientific Foci: Enables innovative research and education projects of national importance that require a center mode of support to achieve the research, education, and knowledge-transfer goals shared by the partners. Science and Technology Centers conduct world-class research in partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities to create new and meaningful knowledge of significant benefit to society.
Proposal Deadline: Deadlines TBD.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5541&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER)
Scientific Foci: SGER proposals are for small-scale, exploratory, high-risk research in the fields of science, engineering, and education normally supported by the NSF. While not a program, per se, the SGER is a mechanism NSF uses to catalyze rapid and innovative advances by supporting preliminary work on untested and novel ideas and/or ventures into emerging and potentially transformative research ideas. SGER awards cannot exceed $200,000 for a period of two years, however most are for smaller amounts and/or for shorter durations. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to contact program directors in their disciplines to discuss the opportunities for SGER awards.
Proposal Deadline: Please speak to a CISE program director.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05053/nsf05053.jsp
Theoretical Foundations
Scientific Foci: Basic research on algorithms, complexity, and theory that enables scientific advances in and reveals the potential limitations of computation, communications, signal processing, numerical computing and optimization, symbolic and algebraic computation, and the applications of these insights to other areas of science and engineering.
Proposal Deadline: TBD. Solicitation to be released fall 2007, with a proposal deadline winter 2007-2008.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13679&org=CISE&sel_org=CISE&from=fund
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