A digital library for undergraduate education: goals and status of efforts at the US National Science Foundation (poster)

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Lillian N. Cassel
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Education Goals

The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas König ◽  
Michael E. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.

Government Funding of E-collaboration Research in the European Union

2009 ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Ned Kock ◽  
Pedro Antunes
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Society ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The Eu

Government funding of e-collaboration research in both the US and EU seems to be growing. In the EU, a key initiative to promote governmental investment in e-collabo-ration research is the Collaboration@Work initiative. This initiative is one of the EU’s Information Society Technologies Directorate General’s main priorities. In the US, government investment in e-collaboration research is channeled through several gov-ernment branches and organizations, notably the National Science Foundation. There are key differences in the approaches used for government funding of e-collaboration research in the EU and US. Some of these differences are discussed here, as well as related implications.

A Knowledge Preservation and Re-Use Tool Based on Context-Driven Reasoning

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 1550020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelino J. Gonzalez ◽  
Brian Sherwell ◽  
Johann Nguyen ◽  
Brian C. Becker ◽  
Víctor Hung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Representation Structure ◽  
Contextual Graphs ◽  
Knowledge Preservation

This article describes a knowledge preservation and re-use tool designed to capture the knowledge of a specific individual at the US National Science Foundation, for later retrieval by successors after his retirement. The system is designed in a Q&A format, where it is sufficiently intelligent to ask for clarifying questions. The primary objective was to create a system that would result in acceptance of the system by the users. The domain of interest to be preserved and re-used was programmatic knowledge about the NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program, and more specifically, the knowledge of its long-time director, Dr. Alex Schwarzkopf. The system is called AskAlex and it uses a trio of techniques to accomplish its objectives. Contextual graphs (CxG) are used as the basic knowledge representation structure. CxG’s are assisted by a search engine and an ontology of terms to help find the proper contextual graph that can best answer the question being asked. Evaluations with users and potential users generally confirm our selection and provided some guidance for improvements in the system.

scholarly journals Chemical biology at the US National Science Foundation

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 511-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfredo Colón ◽  
Parag Chitnis ◽  
James P Collins ◽  
Janice Hicks ◽  
Tony Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science

scholarly journals A new 122 mm electromechanical drill for deep ice-sheet coring (DISC): 5. Experience during Greenland field testing

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay A. Johnson ◽  
William P. Mason ◽  
Alexander J. Shturmakov ◽  
Scott T. Haman ◽  
Paul J. Sendelbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Drill System

AbstractThe Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) drill developed by Ice Coring and Drilling Services under contract with the US National Science Foundation is an electromechanical ice-drill system designed to take 122mm ice cores to depths of 4000 m. The new drill system was field-tested near Summit camp in central Greenland during the spring/summer of 2006. Testing was conducted to verify the performance of the DISC drill system and its individual components and to determine the modifications required prior to the system’s planned deployment for coring at the WAIS Divide site in Antarctica in the following year. The experiments, results and the drill crew’s experiences with the DISC drill during testing are described and discussed.

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