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NSF Announces Expeditions in Computing Awards

National Science Foundation (08/18/08) Zacharias, Maria C.

The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has awarded four new Expeditions in Computing grants. The $10 million grants will enable teams of researchers and educators to pursue potentially far-reaching agendas that could lead to significant advancements in computing and benefit society as a whole. "We created the Expeditions program to encourage the research community to send us their brightest and boldest ideas," says CISE assistant director Jeannette Wing. Wing says the four Expeditions will pursue long-standing scientific questions of computing, create a new field of computational sustainability, experiment with novel technologies for secure and ubiquitous computing and communications, and explore the basic concepts of what constitutes computing. The first project, the Expedition to Understand, Cope with, and Benefit From Intractability, will work to bridge the fundamental gaps in the understanding about the power limits of efficient algorithms. "Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society," will explore the development and applications of computational methods to ensure a sustainable environment, economy, and society. The Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020 project addresses issues emerging in the forthcoming broadband wireless mobile revolution. The Molecular Programming project will develop computer science principles for programming information-bearing molecules, such as DNA and RNA polymers, and demonstrate their applications experimentally.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112075&govDel=USNSF_51

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