NSF Workshop Reports

On September 25th, 2020, the United States and United Kingdom signed a joint declaration on cooperation in Artificial Intelligence (AI), signaling an intention to work together for mutual benefit on this rapidly evolving and strategically important area ...

This short paper is based on summary of the full report [1] of the NSF Workshop on Multimedia Challenges, Opportunities and Research Roadmaps held on March 30-31, 2017 in Washington DC. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science ...

Public cloud platforms are becoming the foundation of our Information-based economy, providing the large-scale computing resources driving advances in many industry sectors. A key benefit that public cloud platforms offer is "pay-as-you-go" pricing ...

Women are underrepresented in the field of computer systems research (CSR). This report highlights some of the underlying problems and the actions most likely to result in substantial change: these are high priority areas for the systems research ...

Recent years have seen a dramatic and rapid paradigm shift in computing from static control systems (often implemented in hardware), to dynamic, easily-reconfigurable, software-defined systems. The researchers and practitioners have just begun to ...

Cloud computing has the potential to transform both research and education in the CISE (computer and information science and engineering) community. The CISE directorate of the National Science Foundation convened a workshop on January 8-9, 2018, to ...

The kickoff workshop of the new NSF RCN (research coordination network) on mmW (millimeter-wave) wireless (RF frequencies between 10 GHz and 300 GHz) networks was held on Dec 7-8, 2016 on the campus of Catholic University of America. The steering ...

This report outlines findings from the National Science Foundation funded workshop on Ultra-Low-Latency Wireless Networks, held in Arlington, VA on November 3-4, 2016.

Wireless networks have become a ubiquitous part of everyday life all around the ...

The NSF 'Large-scale Networking Platforms "Communities of Practice"' workshop was held on October 24-25, 2016 in Washington DC. The main aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers from both academia and industry involved in (data) networking ...

The NSF workshop on Security and Formal Methods, held 19--20 November 2015, brought together developers of formal methods, researchers exploring how to apply formal methods to various kinds of systems, and people familiar with the security problem ...

This report summarizes the organization and execution of the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored workshop, "Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI₂) Principal Investigator (PI) Workshop," and the observations and discussions it ...

The NSF Spectrum Measurement Infrastructure Workshop was sponsored and funded by the National Science Foundation and was hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois on the 6th and 7th of April 2016. This report summarizes the ...

This report defines research challenges related to the development of task-based information search systems that were elicited during a NSF-sponsored workshop held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in March 2013.

The goal of the Intelligent Systems for Geosciences workshop was to identify avenues for future research on intelligent systems that will result in fundamental new insights in geosciences. Geosciences representatives brought requirements from Earth, ...

Wireless systems have proven to be significant productivity enablers in almost every sector of the national economy. Emerging applications such as the Internet of Things, wireless healthcare, and mobile cloud computing are powered by ubiquitous wireless ...

The report from the workshop, "Big Data, Big Decisions for Government, Business and Society," makes a number of astute contributions. There is no need to replicate them in this foreword - they are in the report. What might be missed comes between the ...

Software is as essential as data in the modern practice of science. When scientists share with each other not only research results, but also data and software, it vastly amplifies the reach, relevance, and transparency of science. Yet there are ...

Report from the National Science Foundation-funded workshop held February 17-18, 2015, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia for Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) Principal Investigators

The workshop on Ultra-Low-Latency Wireless Networks was held on March 26-27, 2015 at Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. The workshop's attendees included over 40 participants from Academia, Government and Industry, representing a range of ...