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

II. CORE PROGRAMS WITH RECURRING ANNUAL DEADLINES

Core program announcements have recurring annual deadlines and are critical to the vitality and stability of the academic-based computing and information research and education community.  Core programs contribute in several ways: 1. they target particular scientific fields or subfields within computing and information; 2. they target subsets of the computing and information community (e.g., new faculty, undergraduate students, etc.); or 3. they target specific project modalities (e.g., team awards of larger funding levels and longer durations.)

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