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| SPEAKER: |
Sirin Tekinay,
Program Director, NSF |
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DATE: |
Monday, November 5th, 2007 |
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TIME: |
9:30 -
11:00 am |
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PLACE: |
Fiber Optic Auditorium
Busch Campus |
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold
five-year initiative to 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:
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From Data to Knowledge: enhancing human cognition and
generating new knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;
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Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social
Systems: deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising
multiple interacting elements; and
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Building Virtual Organizations: enhancing discovery
and innovation by bringing people and resources together across
institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries.
With an emphasis on bold multidisciplinary activities that, through
computational thinking, promise radical, paradigm-changing research findings,
CDI is unique within NSF. Accordingly, 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.
Sirin Tekinay is Program Director in the Division of Computing and
Communications Foundations (CCF) at the National Science Foundation. . She is on
leave from a faculty position at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
New Jersey Institute of Technology. Before joining the academia, she worked at
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and NORTEL. Sirin received her Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from George Mason University in 1994. She
holds MS (1991) and BS (1989) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici
University, Istanbul, Turkey. She is on the editorial boards of the IEEE
Communications Magazine, and the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. She
is a senior member of the IEEE.
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Presentations from 11/05/2007
Dr.
Sirin Tekinay,
Program Director, NSF
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yber-Enabled
Discovery and Innovation (CDI) The New NSF Initiative.
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