NSF Solicitation Announcement
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
The solicitation is available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603
The National Science Foundation has released a solicitation for its
five-year initiative entitled "Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation
(CDI)."
The CDI initiative will create revolutionary science and engineering
research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in
computational thinking. Computational thinking is defined
comprehensively to encompass computational concepts, methods, models,
algorithms, and tools. Applied in challenging science and engineering
research and education contexts, computational thinking promises a
profound impact on the nation's ability to generate and apply new
knowledge. Collectively, CDI research outcomes are expected to produce
paradigm shifts in our understanding of a wide range of science and
engineering phenomena and socio-technical innovations that create new
wealth and enhance the national quality of life.
CDI seeks ambitious, transformative, multidisciplinary research
proposals within or across the following three thematic areas:
- From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and generating new
knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;
- Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems:
deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting
elements; and
- Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery and innovation by
bringing people and resources together across institutional,
geographical, and cultural boundaries.
Investigators are encouraged to come together in the development of
far-reaching, high-risk science and engineering research and education
agendas that capitalize on innovations in, and/or innovative use of,
computational thinking. CDI projects are expected to build upon
productive intellectual partnerships involving investigators from
academe, industry, and/or other types of organizations, including
international entities.
Letter of Intent Due Dates (required):
30 October - 30 November 2007
30 August - 30 September 2008
30 August - 30 September, annually thereafter
Preliminary Proposal Due Dates (required):
Each preliminary proposal must uniquely correspond to a Letter of
Intent.
7 December 2007 - 8 January 2008
4 October - 4 November 2008
4 October - 4 November, annually thereafter
Full Proposal Submission Window Dates:
By invitation only, based on review of preliminary proposal.
28 March - 29 April 2008
27 January - 27 February 2009
27 January - 27 February, annually thereafter
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07603
Cognizant Program Officers:
Sirin Tekinay, Phone: 703-292-8080, E-mail: cdi [at] nsf.gov
Thomas Russell, Phone: 703-292-8080, E-mail: cdi [at] nsf.gov
Eduardo Misawa, Phone: 703-292-8080, E-mail: cdi [at] nsf.gov