Title slide title: National Science Foundation
Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Request

Slide Words: Dr. France A. Córdova
Director, National Science Foundation

Slide image: collage of winning and finalist images from The Vizzies Visualization Challenge (formerly the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge); (clockwise from top left) false color X-ray of a snapping turtle; image showing the connectivity of a cognitive computer based on the macaque brain; photograph showing "invisible" coral flows; illustration showing diabetic morphological changes in a kidney; photograph of a common bacterium colony; photograph of microscopic crystals found in a sea urchin’s tooth; stylized illustration of a section of the cerebral cortex; image from the Glassbrain app

Image credit: design by Adrian Apodaca, NSF; (clockwise from top left): Ted Kinsman; Emmett McQuinn, Theodore M. Wong, Pallab Datta, Myron D. Flickner, Raghavendra Singh, Steven K. Esser, Rathinakumar Appuswamy, William P. Risk, and Dharmendra S. Modha; Vicente I. Fernandez, Orr H. Shapiro, Melissa S. Garren, Assaf Vardi and Roman Stocker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; ©2014 Cynthia Turner; Michelle Allen, Northwest Missouri State University; Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert and Christopher E. Killian, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Greg Dunn, Greg Dunn Design, www.gregadunn.com; Adam Gazzaley, Roger Anguera Singla, Rajat Jain, Tim Mullen, Christian Kothe, John Fesenko, Oleg Konings, and Matt Omernick