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dhtobey Tobey

US NSF - Dear Colleague Letter: Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business T... - 1 views

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SBIR NSF grants

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  • The Directorate for Engineering’s Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships’ Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs invites all active SBIR/STTR Phase I grantees to participate in the Phase IB supplemental funding opportunity. Phase IB supplements to Phase I grantees are intended to foster partnerships between strategic partners and investors and the SBIR/STTR companies.
  • Through this supplemental program, small businesses will be able to effectively leverage funding and investment from interested outside parties on the technology funded in Phase I that could lead to successful commercial products and processes and at the same time provide some of the gap funding required to carry the grantees' effort from Phase I to Phase II.
  • The objective of the Phase IB option is to extend the R&D efforts beyond the current grant to meet the product/process/software requirements of a third party investor to accelerate the Phase I project to the commercialization stage and enhance the overall strength of the commercial potential of the subsequent Phase II project. The Phase IB option extends the Phase I grant for six months, and the combined Phase I and IB project will typically not exceed one year in duration for the SBIR grant and one and one half years for the STTR grant.
  • dhtobey Tobey on 26 May 10
     
    SBIR Phase 1B awards in conjunction with venture firms targeting this space might be prime prospects for the DTSE Methodology and commercialization services. I wonder if there is an easy way to get a list of currently active SBIR Phase I projects?
  • Steve King on 26 May 10
     
    I think is what Bob mentioned as a good thing for the grants he is working on? .. . maybe he has list.. he seems focused on grants these days
dhtobey Tobey

Research Coordination Networks (RCN) nsf10566 - 0 views

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research coordination network grants NSF August_2010

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  • The National Science Foundation announces plans to expand its support of research coordination networks designed to foster communication and promote new collaboration among scientists and engineers with diverse expertise and who share a common interest in a new or developing area of science or engineering. By encouraging the formation of new groups and networks, the RCN program will advance fields and create novel directions and opportunities for research and science education. It is anticipated that this program will contribute to further progress in all areas of science, however RCNs are intended to foster networking activities and thus will not directly support costs related to research.
  • dhtobey Tobey on 22 May 10
     
    This may be another grant source for university-based development of community desktop components.
dhtobey Tobey

The Rise of Crowd Science - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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research collaboration community-desktop science NSF

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  • Alexander S. Szalay is a well-regarded astronomer, but he hasn't peered through a telescope in nearly a decade. Instead, the professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University learned how to write software code, build computer servers, and stitch millions of digital telescope images into a sweeping panorama of the universe.
  • Today, data sharing in astronomy isn't just among professors. Amateurs are invited into the data sets through friendly Web interfaces, and a schoolteacher in Holland recently made a major discovery, of an unusual gas cloud that might help explain the life cycle of quasars—bright centers of distant galaxies—after spending part of her summer vacation gazing at the objects on her computer screen. Crowd Science, as it might be called, is taking hold in several other disciplines, such as biology, and is rising rapidly in oceanography and a range of environmental sciences. "Crowdsourcing is a natural solution to many of the problems that scientists are dealing with that involve massive amounts of data," says Haym Hirsh, director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation.
    • dhtobey Tobey
      dhtobey Tobey on 01 Jun 10
       
      Crowdsourcing should be added to our pitch on collective intelligence and included as a primary benefit in NSF and related grants for university development of our code base.
  • Mr. Szalay's unusual career began with a stint as a rock star. While in graduate school in Hungary, he played lead guitar in the band Panta Rhei, which released two albums and several singles in the 1970s.
    • dhtobey Tobey
      dhtobey Tobey on 01 Jun 10
       
      Hey, this guy might "get" our publishing/producer metaphor for LivingMethods. Perhaps he might be a collaborator on the NSF solicitation for coordinated science applications?
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  • In 2007 tragedy ended their long partnership. Mr. Gray set out from San Francisco on a solo trip on his 40-foot sailboat and did not return.
    • dhtobey Tobey
      dhtobey Tobey on 01 Jun 10
       
      Oops... looks like the guy needs a new systems partner!
  • A couple of years after Mr. Szalay joined the project, a colleague introduced him to Jim Gray, who was a kind of rock star himself—in the computer-science world. Wired magazine once wrote that the programmer's work had made possible ATM machines, electronic tickets, and other wonders of modern life. When Mr. Szalay met him, Mr. Gray was a technical fellow at Microsoft Research and was looking for enormous sets of numbers to place in the databases he was designing.
    • dhtobey Tobey
      dhtobey Tobey on 01 Jun 10
       
      Nice link with Microsoft Research Labs.
  • in 1992 came the project that would change his career. Johns Hopkins joined the Sloan Digital Sky Survey project, a computerized snapshot of the heavens.
  • The scientists, along with tech-industry leaders whom Mr. Gray had mentored in the past, offered to help the Coast Guard search the open sea using any technology they could think of. Google executives and others helped provide fresh satellite images of the area. And an official at Amazon used the company's servers to send those satellite images to volunteers—more than 12,000 of them stepped forward—who scanned them for any sign of the lost researcher.
  • But Jim Gray was never found. Some of the techniques that the astronomer learned from the search effort, though, have now been incorporated into a Web site that invites anyone to help categorize images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
  • The number of volunteers surprised the organizers. "The server caught fire a couple of hours after we opened it" in July 2007, he said, burning out from overuse. More than 270,000 people have signed up to classify galaxies so far.
  • Gene Wikis
  • It started under the name of GenMAPP, or Gene Map Annotator and Pathway Profiler. Participation rates were low at first because researchers had little incentive to format their findings and add them to the project. Tenure decisions are made by the number of articles published, not the amount of helpful material placed online. "The academic system is not set up to reward the sharing of the most usable aspects of the data," said Alexander Pico, bioinformatics group leader and software engineer at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease. In 2007, Mr. Pico, a developer for GenMAPP, and his colleagues added an easy-to-edit Wiki to the project (making it less time-consuming to participate) and allowed researchers to mark their gene pathways as private until they had published their findings in academic journals (alleviating concerns that they would be pre-empting their published research). Since then, participation has grown quickly, in part because more researchers—and even some pharmaceutical companies—are realizing that genetic information is truly useful only when aggregated.
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