Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publications of the National Science Foundation
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publications of the National Science Foundation
Author: Major Award Decisionmaking at the National Science Foundation
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309050294
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
As part of its mission to foster high-quality scientific and engineering research, the National Science Foundation (NSF) plans, grants, and administers major awards to universities and other research institutions for national research facilities, multidisciplinary research centers, and other large-scale research projects. Although few in number, less than 100, such projects account for about 30 percent of NSF's annual research budget. This book provides a useful overview of how such projects are planned, reviews proposals for merit, and evaluates ongoing projects for renewal awards. The panel makes a series of recommendations for strengthening major award decisionmaking.
Bulletin
Author: Annual Report of the Marine Mammal Commission
Author: United States. Marine Mammal CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
Book Description
Computing and the National Science Foundation, 1950-2016
Author: Peter A. FreemanPublisher: Morgan & Claypool
ISBN: 1450372740
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This organizational history relates the role of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the development of modern computing. Drawing upon new and existing oral histories, extensive use of NSF documents, and the experience of two of the authors as senior managers, this book describes how NSF’s programmatic activities originated and evolved to become the primary source of funding for fundamental research in computing and information technologies. The book traces how NSF's support has provided facilities and education for computing usage by all scientific disciplines, aided in institution and professional community building, supported fundamental research in computer science and allied disciplines, and led the efforts to broaden participation in computing by all segments of society. Today, the research and infrastructure facilitated by NSF computing programs are significant economic drivers of American society and industry. For example, NSF supported work that led to the first widely-used web browser, Netscape; sponsored the creation of algorithms at the core of the Google search engine; facilitated the growth of the public Internet; and funded research on the scientific basis for countless other applications and technologies. NSF has advanced the development of human capital and ideas for future advances in computing and its applications. This account is the first comprehensive coverage of NSF's role in the extraordinary growth and expansion of modern computing and its use. It will appeal to historians of computing, policy makers and leaders in government and academia, and individuals interested in the history and development of computing and the NSF.
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Author: Millennial Biology: The National Science Foundation and American Biology, 1975-2005
Author: Donald J. McGrawPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030563677
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
National Science Foundation (NSF) is a unique federal agency because it supports scientific research financially, but does not engage in scientific work itself. Its history is known only in part because the NSF is a vibrant, expanding, and living entity that makes the final telling of its story impossible. Much can be learned from its beginning as well as its component parts. If the founding of the NSF in 1950 was couched in an era of physics, especially atomic physics, certainly by the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, biology was, and remains, the queen of sciences for the predictable future. This book highlights the elite status of America’s biological sciences as they were funded, affected, and, to a very real degree, interactively guided by the NSF. It examines important events in the earlier history of the Foundation because they play strongly upon the development of the various biology directorates. Issues such as education, applied research, medical science, the National Institutes of Health, the beginnings of biotechnology, and other matters are also discussed.
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