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News Release 04-135
NSF Awards $130 Million to Tackle Information Technology Research for National Priorities
120 new projects will advance science and engineering, economic prosperity, national security
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The ITR project led by John Delaney of the University of Washington and John Orcutt of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will prototype a data management and instrument control system for the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative and the MARS cabled ocean observatory experiment, illustrated here.
Credit: The NEPTUNE Project, University of Washington
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Illustration of the ITR project awarded to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Johns Hopkins University and MIT. Led by Hanumant Singh of Woods Hole, the team will work to enable multiple autonomous vehicles to be deployed from a single ship. This will dramatically increase the scientific community's ability to gather information from deep-sea surveys.
Credit: E. Paul Oberlander, WHOI
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Researchers from the University of Southern California, Caltech and Purdue University, led by USC's Priya Vashishta, are studying how materials fail as a result of mechanical stresses and harsh chemical environments. In their system, a finite-element simulation (left) would invoke a molecular simulation (center), which in turn would call up an electronic-level quantum simulation (right) to simulate bonds breaking, forming and reacting with environmental molecules.
Credit: Priya Vashishta, Rajiv Kalia and Aiichiro Nakano, USC
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In a project led by Feniosky Pena-Mora at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, researchers are developing new collaboration technologies for disaster relief and recovery in urban settings.
Credit: Feniosky Pena-Mora, UIUC
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One of the devices that researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, are interested in using to deliver adaptive cancer radiation therapies that account for anatomical changes or patient movement throughout the treatment process.
Credit: Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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A map of the North American distribution of house finches during the winter of 2002-2003. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch has amassed one of the largest data sets of North American bird distribution in existence, and lab researchers and Cornell computer scientists are using it to explore techniques for estimating the abundance of wild bird populations across North America.
Credit: Steven Kelling, Cornell Lab of Ornithology