Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
Funds eleven NSF computing programmes through one door — $280 million and roughly 600 awards across algorithms, systems, networks and AI.
This is the single largest notice in this catalogue by award count. NSF's computing directorate runs eleven core programmes through it, covering new knowledge in every part of computing, communications and information science and engineering.
The eleven are Algorithmic Foundations; Communications and Information Foundations; Computer Systems Research; Computing Education Research; Cyber-Physical …
Eleven NSF computing programmes reached through one solicitation — algorithmic foundations, communications and information foundations, computer systems, computing education research, cyber-physical systems, foundations of emerging technologies, human-centered computing, information integration and informatics, networking, robust intelligence, and software and hardware foundations.
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