Three quick notes … First, I can’t believe that there weren’t more comments on John King’s terrific post, “Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews.” This is serious business. And it’s not “new news” — CISE has had the lowest average proposal scores in NSF for years. We are killing ourselves in a misguided effort to show how smart we are. (The number of “highly ranked proposals” that can’t be funded is, quite naturally, a criterion argued within NSF for the allocation of funds among Directorates.) For god’s sake! Second, the NSF Graduate Fellowship awardees have recently been announced. Did you know that the number of fellowships awarded to each […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for May 9th, 2010
