May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 1 Some NSF funding opportunities Terry Langendoen (703) Expert, Robust Intelligence Program, Division of Information & Intelligent Systems, CISE

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 2 Upcoming Funding Opportunities July –CAREER –Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) August –Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) –CISE Core and Cross-cutting Medium proposals September –Social-Computation Systems (SoCS)

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 3 CAREER Solicitation Deadlines –July 21 (CISE) –July 22 (ENG) –July 23 (SBE)

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 4 Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) INTEROP supports community efforts to provide for broad interoperability through the development of mechanisms such as robust data and metadata conventions, ontologies, and taxonomies. Support is provided for Data Interoperability Networks that will be responsible for: –Consensus-building activities, e.g. community workshops web resources such as community interaction sites task groups –Providing the expertise necessary to turn the consensus into technical standards with associated implementation tools and resources, e.g. information sciences software development ontology and taxonomy design and implementation

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 5 INTEROP (cont’d) Full proposal target date: July 23, Funding: $10M; Up to 10 awards of up to $250K per year for three to five years. –Cofunding from the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) is available, provided that two Directorates agree to cofund a project. Solicitation:

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 6 Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) Deadline: August 5 Funding: $18M Solicitation: Contacts: Tanya Korelsky (IIS), Anita La Salle (CNS), Chita Das (CCF)

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 7 CISE Core Medium proposals Deadline: August 30 Funding level: between $500K & $1,200K Solicitations: (CCF) (CNS) (IIS) Note: Core Large proposals are due Nov 28 and Core Small proposals are due Dec 17; same for CISE Cross-Cutting proposals.

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 8 CISE Cross-cutting Medium proposals Deadline: August 30 Funding level: between $500K & $1,200K Solicitation: Areas: –Data-intensive Computing –Network Science & Engineering –Trustworthy Computing

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 9 Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) SoCS will provide funding for projects that make use of (exploit or explain) the combination of machine and human intelligence, particularly when networked together, and exploring the nature of “socially intelligent computing”.

May 28, 2009Great Plains Network meeting, Kansas City 10 SoCS (cont’d) Full proposal deadline: Sept 21, 2009 Funding: $15M; from 20 to 35 awards of up to $250K per year for three years. Solicitation: Contacts: Amy Baylor & Anita La Salle (CISE), Vincent Brown & Frederick Kronz (SBE)