NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference; Boston, Massachusetts; January 5-7, 1994

这个奖项是为了举办年度NSF设计和制造受资助者会议。会议将包括来自设计和制造系统司和工程教育和中心司的研究人员，这两个司都位于工程理事会，以及信息、机器人和智能系统司，位于计算机和信息科学与工程理事会。会议确保每个研究人员都了解他们的同事正在进行的活动。这种活动可以消除它们的重复工作，并可能产生一定程度的合作。预期研究活动的效率将全面提高。此外，会议计划组织允许充足的时间在会议上与集体研究社区详细讨论制造研究，并向国家科学基金会提供反馈和输入。最后，受资助者与各司方案主任之间的个人接触应有助于澄清其工作中的许多当前问题。会议的目的是加强研究人员之间的交流，鼓励联合研究，促进协同作用，发展技术交流网络。参加会议的人可以较早地接触到传播的信息。

This award is to conduct the annual NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference. The conference will involve researchers from the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems and the Division of Engineering Education and Centers, both located within the Directorate for Engineering, and the Division of Information, Robots and Intelligent Systems, located within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. The conference ensures that the individual researchers are informed about the ongoing activities of their colleagues. An elimination of duplication of their efforts may be achieved and a degree of cooperation may result from this activity. An overall improvement of efficiency of the research activity could be expected. In addition, the conference program organization allows for ample time to discuss manufacturing research in detail with the collective research community at the meeting, with feedback to and input from the National Science Foundation. Finally personal contacts between the grantees and program directors in the Divisions should contribute to clarifying many current issues in their work. The aims of the conference are to enhance communication between researchers, encourage joint research, promote synergism, and develop networks for technical interchange. Attendees to the conference gain an early access to the information disseminated.