{"id":2038,"date":"2008-08-18T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2008-08-18T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:25:06","slug":"nsf-expeditions-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/08\/18\/nsf-expeditions-awarded\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Expeditions Awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Expeditions in Computing awards&#8221; are ten million dollar NSF grants from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering to pursue long-term research agendas.  My favorite kinds of projects: high risk, high reward, and long term.  Today the first four award winners have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112075&amp;org=NSF&amp;from=news\">announced<\/a>.  The winning programs are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020<\/li>\n<li>The Molecular Programming Project<\/li>\n<li>Understanding, Coping with and Benefiting from Intractibility<\/li>\n<li>Computational Sustainability: Computational Methods for a Sustainable Environment, Economy and Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of note for the theoretical computer science crowd is the third of these, won by a Princeton area team (lead by Sanjeev Arora), which is going to establish a &#8220;Center for Intractability&#8221; at Princeton.  Very cool.  And now I know where to go if I ever need a traveling salesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Expeditions in Computing awards&#8221; are ten million dollar NSF grants from the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering to pursue long-term research agendas. My favorite kinds of projects: high risk, high reward, and long term. Today the first four award winners have been announced. The winning programs are Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/08\/18\/nsf-expeditions-awarded\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSF Expeditions Awarded&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}