NSF and CISE Updates Jeannette M. Wing Assistant Director Computer and Information Science and Engineering National Science Foundation CISE Advisory Committee

NSF and CISE Updates

Jeannette M. WingAssistant Director

Computer and Information Science and EngineeringNational Science Foundation

CISE Advisory Committee MeetingMay 7, 2010

A New Administration^

Not-so

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Science and Research Informs Policy

• It talks science and research:We’ll restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s

wonders…. [President Obama, Inaugural Address, January 20, 2009]

Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment, and our quality of life than it has ever been before. And if there was ever a day that reminded us of our shared stake in science and research, it’s today. [President Obama, speech at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), April 27, 2009]

• And it talks evidence-based policy:…to ensure that federal policies are based on the best and most

unbiased scientific information [President Obama, NAS]


Administration Priorities

• Scientific interests – Economy: innovation, jobs, prosperity, growth– Energy: Obama’s Sputnik– Health: biomedical and IT– Security– Broadband, including spectrum: http://www.broadband.gov/– STEM Education: K-12 through life-long

• Cross-cutting– High-risk, high-return– Multi-disciplinary– Young investigators– “Open innovation” model– Accountability and transparency

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FY08-FY11 NSF/CISE Funding

• FY08 NSF $6.13B• CISE Appropriation was $535 million, 1.5% increase from FY07

• FY09 NSF $6.49B, 7% over FY08• CISE Appropriation was $574 million, 7.1% over FY08.

– ARRA (“stimulus”) NSF: $3 billion• CISE ARRA: $235 million

• FY10 NSF $6.93B, 7.07% over FY09• CISE Appropriation is $618.83 million, 7.71% over FY09 (excl. ARRA).

• FY11 NSF Request $7.4B, 8.5% over FY09• CISE Request is $684.51 million, 10.6% over FY10

NSF FY 2011 Request to Congress(Dollars in Millions)

Request over FY 2010 Estimate

FY 2011 Amount PercentBIO $ 767.81 $ 53.27 7.5%CISE $ 684.51 $ 65.68 10.6%ENG (Excl SBIR) $ 682.81 $ 64.65 10.5%GEO $ 955.29 $ 65.65 7.4%MPS $1,409.91 $ 58.07 4.3%SBE $ 268.79 $ 13.54 5.3%OCI $ 228.07 $ 13.79 6.4%

NSF Total $7,424.40 $551.89 8.0%

CISE $ 684.51 $ 65.68 10.6%

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FY11NSF-wide New Requests

SEES: Science, Engineering, and Education for a Sustainable Well-Being

• Sustainability = energy, environment, climate, economics• $765.50M NSF, $29.36M CISE• FY10 Climate Research Initiative FY11 SEES

• CISE Interests– Direct (CCF, CNS): energy-intelligent computing to optimize energy-

computational performance in computing & communications systems– Indirect (CNS, IIS): advances in computing to reduce energy consumption

in other sectors, e.g., Smart Grid, Smart Home, Smart Transportation– Foundational (CCF): energy as a third resource, along with time and

space, to measure algorithmic complexity and system performance– Systemic (CCF, IIS): algorithms and software for climate modeling,

economic and social incentives

10CISE AC Jeannette M. WingDeclare Success!

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CTE: Cyberlearning Transforming Education

• CISE + EHR + SBE: $41.28M total, $15.00M CISE

• Advanced learning technologies to enhance learning- Anytime, Anywhere Learning- Personalized Learning- (Cyber)Learning about (Cyber)Learning

• It’s a research program: Fundamental knowledge about learning to inform new cyber tools and techniques

• Assessment and evaluation is a challenge

11CISE AC Jeannette M. WingDeclare Success!

FY10 Updates:NSF-wide Investments

Five Science and Technology Centers

• Science of Information– Szpankowski, Purdue, Bryn Mawr, Howard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford,

Berkeley, UCSD, UIUC– What is Information? – One of our fields “Deep Questions” [Wing, CACM 2008]

– Core of CCF/CIF

• BEACON, Goodman, MSU, UT/Austin, UW, NCSU, U of Idaho– Computational Methods to Study Evolution

• Energy Efficient Electronics Science, Yablonovitch, Berkeley+ …– Millivolt electronic switch as successor to transistor

• Integrated Cellular Systems, Kamm, MIT+ …– Engineer clusters of living cells or “biological machines”

• Dark Energy Biosphere, Edwards, USC+ …13CISE AC Jeannette M. Wing

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CDI: Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation

• Paradigm shift– Not just computing’s metal tools (transistors and wires) but also our mental

tools (abstractions and methods)• It’s about partnerships and transformative research.

– To innovate in/innovatively use computational thinking; and– To advance more than one science/engineering discipline.

• Investments by all directorates and offices– FY08: $48M, 1800 Letters of Intent, 1300 Preliminary Proposals, 200 Full

Proposals, 36 Awards– FY09: $63M+, 830 Preliminary Proposals, 283 Full Proposals, 53+ Awards– FY10: 320 Full Proposals, … holding panels now ….– FY11 President’s Request: > $100M

Computational Thinking for Science and Engineering

CISE


Expeditions

• Bold, creative, visionary, high-risk ideas

• Whole >> part i

• Solicitation is deliberately underconstrained– Tell us what YOU want to do!– Response to community

• Loss of ITR Large, DARPA changes, support for high-risk research, large experimental systems research, etc.

• ~ 3 awards, each at $10M for 5 year

– FY08 122 LOI, 75 prelim, 20 final, 7 reverse site visits, 4 awards– FY09 48 prelim, 20 final, 7 reverse site visits, 3 awards– FY10 23 prelim, 16 final, …

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What does it mean and what should we do about it?Go to 18-month starting FY11 and reassess for future.


FY08-FY09 Awards

• FY08 Awards– Computational Sustainability

• Gomes, Cornell, Bowdoin College, the Conservation Fund, Howard University, Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

– Intractability• Arora, Princeton, Rutgers, NYU, Inst for Adv. Studies

– Molecular Programming• Winfrey, Cal Tech, UW

– Open Programmable Mobile Internet• McKeown, Stanford

• FY09 Awards (funded with ARRA – Customized Computing Technology

• Cong, UCLA– Modeling Tools for Disease and Complex Systems

• Clarke, CMU, NYU, Cornell, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Maryland– Robotic Bees

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Core and Cross-Cutting Programs

CNS IISCCF

Core Core

• Algorithmic F’ns• Communications & Information F’ns• Software & Hardware F’ns

• Human-Centered • Information Integra- tion & Informatics• Robust Intelligence

• Computer Systems• Network Systems

• Infrastructure• Education & Workforce

Core

Cross-Cutting

• Data-intensive Computing• Network Science and Engineering• Trustworthy Computing

Plus many many other programs with other NSF directorates and other agencies

Updates of Joint and Cross-Cutting Programs


FY10 Joint Programs (CISE + X)

• Cyber-Physical Systems (CISE + ENG)– FY09 527 projects (642 proposals) submitted, 58 awards, 11% success rate.– FY10 366 projects (475 proposals)– March 11 Interagency workshop, strong OSTP interest– CPS Week (April) in Stockholm had 560 participants

• Socially Intelligent Computing (CISE + SBE)– Computer = Networks [Humans + Machines]– FY10 148 proposals submitted, xx awards, yy success rate.

• Computer Science and Economics (CISE + SBE)– Algorithmic game theory, automated mechanism design,

new economic models for internet marketplaces, etc.

• SI2: Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation– OCI, BIO, CISE, ENG, GEO, MPS, OISE, SBE– http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10029/nsf10029.jsp?org=OCI– Middleware and application software for science and engineering

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Cross-Cutting Programs• Data-intensive Computing

– Cloud infrastructure (next slide)• Transition from CISE to OCI

– Research funded by CISE rolls into core programs

• Network Science and Engineering– GENI– Future Internet Architectures– National Context: National Broadband Plan

• Trustworthy Computing– FY11 Request $70M, $55M from CNCI ($15M above FY10)– National Context

• Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative• Cybersecurity Act of 2010 Draft Legislation in Senate


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Cloud Computing Infrastructure for CISE Community

• Google + IBM partnership announced in February 2008– Access to 1600+ nodes, software and services (Hadoop, Tivoli, etc.)– Cluster Exploratory (CluE) seed program– April 23, 2008: Press release on CluE awards to 14 universities

• http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114686&org=NSF&from=news

– Oct 5-6, 2009: CluE PI meeting, Mountain View, CA• https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/ccc/index.php/CLuE_PI_Meeting_2009

• HP + Intel + Yahoo! + UIUC cluster announced in July 2008– 1000+ nodes– Bare machine, not just software (Hadoop) accessible– Hosted at UIUC, available to entire community

• Microsoft partnership to provide Windows Azure platform– Announced February 4, 2010– Supplements, EAGERs, Computing in the Cloud solicitation– Engages BIO, EHR, GEO, MPS, OCI, SBE too.


Others

• Joint with other directorates and offices– CISE + BIO + SBE + MPS: Computational Neuroscience (with NIH)– CISE + ENG: Cyber-Physical Systems, Multi-core (with SRC)– CISE + MPS: FODAVA (with DHS), MCS– OCI + OCI: HECURA, DataNet, SI2

• Activities with other agencies, e.g., DARPA, DHS, IARPA, NGA, NIH, NSA, ONC

• Partnerships with companies– Google+IBM, HP+Intel+Yahoo!, Microsoft: Data-Intensive Computing– SRC: Multi-core

• Activities with other countries: Germany (CRCNS), China (3rd summit in June)• Research infrastructure: CRI, MRI…

Please see website www.cise.nsf.gov for full list.

Education and Workforce


Education Implications for K-12

What is an effective way of learning (teaching) computational thinking by (to) K-12?

- What concepts can students (educators) best learn (teach) when? What is our analogy to numbers in K, algebra in 7, and calculus in 12?

- We uniquely also should ask how best to integrate The Computer with teaching the concepts.

Question and Challenge for the Computing Community:

• Two CSTB Workshops on Computational Thinking for Everyone.• First workshop report: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12840

CISE Education Program Plans

• One program building on successes of CPATH and BPC• Pipeline

– Lengthen it: Middle school and up– Fatten it: Diversity along multiple dimensions

• Theme is “Computing is for Everyone”– Side benefit: Inspiring more at a younger age to enter our field– Supports more centrally: 10K x 10K, CS AP course/exam with

College Board, “C” in STEM, National Lab Day– Consistent with “Let’s Compute!” CISE Strategic Framework

• Stay tuned: Program solicitation to come this summer!


Young Faculty and Graduate Student Support

• CAREER program– $54.57M in FY11– 7.1% increase over FY10

• Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF)– $2.55M in FY11– Reflects doubling over past two years– Please encourage your seniors and first-year graduate students to apply!



Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows)• Situation: Economic crisis for graduating Ph.D. students• Goal: Keep people in the academic pipeline

• CISE awards CRA $15M for 100 fellows (60 this year, 40 next)

• Tremendous response: 526 applicants, over 1300 mentors from 200 institutions

• FY09: Matching to ensure “cross flow” and diversity– 60 from 43 distinct institutions going to 49 distinct institutions, including 6

industrial research labs– 40% women, 13% underrepresented minorities, 77% US or PR

• FY10: Proposal for one-year renewal for 55 current CI Fellows, fund 36 new ones; and extensive evaluation of project

• Social experiment for our field– Where will the individuals be in six years?– Will their institutions be different?

Let’s Compute!

Computing is for Everyone

• Increase IT-savvy in general workforce• Increase interest in students to enter CISE majors• Increase diversity in CISE fields

• Comments on draft welcome!

In the Works


Smart Health

• It’s more than electronic health records• It’s more than digitizing current data and processes

What are the computing research challenges such that we can transform healthcare delivery and wellness management of all individuals?

• Modeling, decision making, discovery, visualization, summarization, data availability, smart sensing, telemetry, actuation for patient monitoring, robotics and vision for diagnosis and surgery, deployment (software integration), security and privacy, …

• CISE AD co-chairs with ONC NITRD Health IT Planning Group• FDA, NIST, NIH, NLM, NSF, ONC, VA• ARRA Section 13202(b) – NITRD Strategic Plan for Health IT

• Working with ENG and SBE within NSF• OSTP support

CISE Family Updates

Waterman Award

• Subhash Khot, NYU• Theoretical computer science

– Unique Games Conjecture– Connections between optimization, computer science,

mathematics

• Given since 1976– CISE-y winners have been Emanuel Candes (2006, compressed

sensing), Vahid Tarokh (2001, wireless communications), Herbert Edelsbrunner (1991, computational geometry), and Terence Tao (2008, mathematics)



Welcome New Staff and Staff Transitions• Division Directors (DDs)

– Incoming: Keith Marzullo (CNS) and Howard Wactlar (IIS)– Outgoing: Sampath Kannan (CCF), Ty Znati (CNS), and Haym Hirsh (IIS)

• Deputy Division Directors (DDDs), Acting– Anita LaSalle (CCF)– Suzi Iacono (IIS)

• Expert Appointment– Richard Hirsh, MRI

• Program Directors (PDs)– Carl Landwehr, U of MD, Trustworthy Computing, CNS, joined last Nov– Thomas Henderson, U of Utah, Robust Intelligence, IIS, Expert Appt now, IPA starts this summer– Sven Koenig, USC, Robust Intelligence, IIS, starts June 21

• Admin staff– Iesha McGhee, NeTs/NetSE– Nelka Fernando, Trustworthy Computing– Tiffany Hall, NeTs/NetSE

• STEP Student– Daniel Sheehy, CCF


Scientific Staff Searches

• CCF Division Director: PLEASE HELP!• PDs ongoing for these areas:

– Programming languages, formal methods, software engineering– Trustworthy computing– Numeric/symbolic computation/optimization– Wireless communications– SEES: Energy, power management, sustainability– CTE: cyberlearning– Smart health

• High-quality people

Elephant in the Rooms

How You Can Help NSF


CISE AC Roles

• External– Helping get CISE’s and NSF’s messages heard.

• Internal– Advise CISE on programs, potential new initiatives, and policies

through suggestions and feedback

• In between meetings

Your Feedback Wanted

• NSF Strategic Plan– Provide feedback through

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CDQWMQ8?c=3399

• NSF Open Government Plan– www.nsf.gov/open

• CISE Let’s Compute (noontime discussion)



NSF Needs Good People

• Quality of program directors Affects quality of reviewers chosen on panels and ad hoc

Affects quality of reviews PIs receive Affects funding decisions

Affects the nature and content of our research Affects the frontiers of our discipline!

• Collective effort• We are all part of the solution.• We are in this together!

• CSTB, CRA, ACM, CCC, …• Government—Academia—Industry ecosystem


What You Can Do for NSF, for ComputingIn increasing order of comfort:

• Service counts: Discuss at your institution how to include service as part of the evaluation, promotion, and tenure process.

• Names, names, names: Have your department head/dean/lab director send Dick Karp and me (1) a list of qualified reviewers, (2) a list of potential program directors, division directors, assistant directors.

• Support the field, support your colleagues: Our self-hypercriticalness hurts us when we compete at the foundation level (e.g., MRI, PECASE, S&TCs, ERCs, IGERT, CDI).

• Most importantly: Do great research!• Be creative, innovative, bold, visionary. As senior members of the community, set an

example for and mentor the junior members.• Send us your good ideas!

How Hypercritical Are We?


Data from 2005 through 2010 are similar

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Serve the Nation

“We also need to engage the scientific community directly in the work of public policy.” [President Obama, speech at the National Academy of Sciences, April 27, 2009]


Thanks to CISE!

• CISE works as a team.

• Special thanks to all the program directors and administrative staff.

Thank You!


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NSF and CISE Updates Jeannette M. Wing Assistant Director Computer and Information Science and Engineering National Science Foundation CISE Advisory Committee