Title: Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in 
       Computational Cognition
Date: 11/4/2014

   NSF 14-019

Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational
Cognition

   December 16, 2013

   This Dear Colleague Letter is intended to enhance the scientific and
   societal impact of the field by encouraging active dialogue across the
   cognitive and computational communities, facilitating bidirectional
   cross-fertilization of ideas, and nurturing emerging areas of
   transdisciplinary research.

   The National Science Foundation (NSF) is interested in receiving
   proposals to existing programs, listed below, that explore
   computational models of human cognition, perception and communication
   and that integrate considerations and finding across disciplines.
   Proposals submitted to programs in SBE should include a rigorous
   computational context, and proposals submitted to programs in CISE
   should include a rigorous cognitive context. For example, proposals
   that explore human cognition, perception, action, communication or
   learning should integrate and exploit what has been learned in the
   fields of artificial intelligence, natural language processing,
   computational neuroscience, computer vision, robotics, machine
   learning, or other related areas. Similarly, proposals that explore
   artificial systems, cyber-human or co-robotics designs should leverage
   and integrate our understanding of human cognition, perception, action
   control, linguistics, or developmental science.

   This is not a special competition or new program. Proposals in response
   to this Dear Colleague Letter must meet the requirements and deadlines
   of the program to which they are submitted, but should start the
   proposal title with "CompCog:". Primary and secondary units of
   consideration on the cover sheet should indicate which participating
   SBE and CISE programs are most relevant. These proposals may, at the
   discretion of the cognizant program director, be reviewed in a special
   cross-directorate Computational Cognition panel which will occur
   sometime during the spring.

   Participating programs in SBE include:

     Cognitive Neuroscience
     [1]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5316

     Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
     [2]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423

     Developmental and Learning Sciences
     [3]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671

     Linguistics
     [4]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408

     Perception, Action, and Cognition
     [5]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686

   Participating programs in CISE include:

     Cyber-Human Systems
     [6]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504958

     National Robotics Initiative (NRI)
     [7]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503641

     Robust Intelligence
     [8]http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503305

   Questions concerning this Dear Colleague Letter should be directed to
   the e-mail alias [9]CompCog@nsf.gov.

   Sincerely,
    
    Fay Lomax Cook
    Assistant Director
    Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

    Farnam Jahanian
    Assistant Director
    Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering

References

   1. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5316
   2. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5423
   3. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=8671
   4. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5408
   5. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5686
   6. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504958
   7. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503641
   8. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503305
   9. mailto:CompCog@nsf.gov