Slide title: Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation

Slide words: Cognitive Optimization and Prediction: From Neural Systems to Neurotechnology (COPN)

• Supports higher risk, higher payoff opportunities leading to:
  • new research areas for NSF, ENG, and other agencies
  • new industries/capabilities resulting in a leadership position
  • significant progress in advancing a "grand challenge"

Slide image: An illustration titled &The Synapse Revealed& showing a neuron preparing to transmit a signal to its target.

Credit: Graham Johnson, Graham Johnson Medical Media

Slide background image: A model of cells within the lateral geniculate nucleus (LCN).

Slide background credit: Greg Hood, John Burkardt and Greg Foss of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Design by: Adrian Apodaca, National Science Foundation