NSF News -- Computer/Information Sciences http://www.nsf.gov/news/ News for Computer/Information Sciences posted on the NSF website, http://www.nsf.gov. en Sat, 25 May 2013 07:02:24 EDT NSF and SRC to Fund Research to Create Failure-Resistant Systems and Circuits for Tomorrow’s Computing Applications http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127915&WT.mc_id=USNSF_53&WT.mc_ev=click

Diagram showing the cycle of circuits breaking and being repaired

Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced 18 new projects funded through a joint initiative to address research challenges in the design of failure-resistant circuits and systems.

The three-year, $6 million collaborative program ...
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racks of servers at the University of Chicago Kenwood Data Center.

The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.

The Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud, as it is called, enables researchers who are authorized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to access and analyze data in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) ...
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Imagine a young athlete arriving at a university with the potential to win big over the next four years. Now imagine this athlete sitting out an entire season while practicing with the team and getting the lay of the land. This strategy is called redshirting, and it has proven to be an effective way to prepare athletes for success.

Now imagine using the same concept for preparing undergraduates for a degree in engineering. It's just one of the creative approaches ...
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced two grants totaling $13 million to support multi-university projects in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). These projects are key components of NSF's CPS technologies portfolio, for which investments exceeded $150 million during the last four years.

CPS technologies employ sensors, ...
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Today, Andrew Viterbi, Donald Bitzer and John Daugman will be among 17 honorees inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame at the United States Patent and Trademark Office headquarters in Alexandria, Va. The honor and their accomplishments are in part a testimony to the power of funding by the National Science Foundation.

Viterbi, an electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, used NSF support to develop an important ...
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As a new crop of graduates from U.S. colleges and universities hits the street, the country is counting on a new wave of skilled workers to navigate a complex set of challenges to national security, health and rehabilitation, energy security, and reliability of critical infrastructure, among others.

In the critical fields of engineering and computer science, industry leaders lament an-inadequate supply of graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in ...
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A map of predicted greening of the Arctic Rising temperatures will lead to a massive "greening" of the Arctic by mid-century, as a result of marked increases in plant cover, according to research supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of its International Polar Year (IPY) portfolio.

The greening not only will have effects on plant life, the researchers noted, but also on the wildlife that depends on vegetation for cover. The greening could also have a multiplier effect on warming, as ...
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President Obama today announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) will participate in a White House initiative called Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN), which is designed to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain. NSF Acting Director Cora Marrett took part in the announcement at the White House, which also included the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Advanced Research ...
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Panoramic image of the Blue Waters super computer system

National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded Blue Waters, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, was formally declared available for use today at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The ceremony was attended by corporate, government and university leaders.

Blue Waters, a partnership among NSF, the State of Illinois, the University of ...
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Photo of flash memory inside the supercomputer Gordon

When it officially came online at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in early January 2012, Gordon was instantly impressive. In one demonstration, it sustained more than 35 million input/output operations per second--then, a world record.

Input/output operations are an important measure for data intensive computing, indicating the ability of a storage system to ...
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Map of Antarctica

Not every scientific discovery originates in the lab, or from the field.

Scientists increasingly are turning to powerful new computers to perform calculations they couldn't do with earlier generation machines, and at breathtaking speed, resulting in groundbreaking computational insights across a range of research fields.

"Science is conducted in a number of ways, including traditional pen and paper, deep thinking, theoretical studies and observational work--and ...
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Image of Mung Chiang in his office surrounded by computers.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) will present Mung Chiang of Princeton University with this year's Alan T. Waterman Award. Chiang is an electrical engineering professor who uses innovative mathematical analyses to design simpler and more powerful wireless networks.

This annual award honors outstanding researchers under the age of 35 in any field of science or engineering that NSF supports. Chiang's ...
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Many of the world's leading computational scientists across multiple disciplines will gather in Sweden March 18 to March 20 for the first plenary session of the new international Research Data Alliance (RDA)--an interdisciplinary organization whose goal is to accelerate data-driven innovation through research data sharing and exchange.

Spearheaded by RDA leaders from the U.S. government, ...
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image of the printable robots circuits Average person could design, customize and print a specialized robot in a matter of hours
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The NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI), formerly known as the Office ofCyberinfrastructure, is interested in encouraging collaborations with China-based researchers who arecurrently funded by or seeking funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). This interest is one outcome from the US and China Workshop Series to Build a CollaborativeFramework for Developing Shared Software Infrastructure, which was ...
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