SGER: Social Informatics of Surface Computing

SGER：表面计算的社会信息学

• 批准号: 0742687
• 负责人: Steven Sawyer
• 金额: $ 8.38万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2009-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0742687&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Social; Informatics; Surface; Computing

This project explores a new approach to analyzing the impacts derived from Federal funding for basic computer and information science research. The motivation for pursuing this work comes in response to a series of charts developed by the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies of Science (CSTB, 2003). These charts detail the connections from modest levels of Federal funding of basic research into computing and the impressive number of $1 Billion industries that have emerged due in part to the technological innovations that arise from this research.This work will expand the CSTB charts to showcase the development and evolution of the human capital through which the technological innovations currently depicted arise. It will bring to the foreground the development and value of the human capital, the formation of intellectual communities, and the social ties and networks of relations among scholars that provide a vehicle to inform funding for scholarly development, improve technology transfer, and amplify the value to the Nation for funding computing research.This research will be done in the social informatics tradition. That is, inquiry at multiple levels of analysis, moving between macro-scale interests and detailed micro-scale analyses. The macro-scale interests are the development and evolution of the scientific communities from which technological innovations in computing arise, focusing on the ways in which the development of human capital is shaped by, and shapes, the technological innovations and situated contexts. The detailed micro-scale analysis will be the development of the recently announced Microsoft computing surface (see http://www.microsoft.com/surface/). The intellectual merit of this activity is twofold: 1.) Develop better insights into the growth, evolution and role of Federal funding to nurture and sustain the human capital and intellectual communities from which arise the technological innovations that drive the U.S. economy, 2.) Make clear the situated, mutually-interdependent, and evolving patterns of social and technological activities from which innovations arise. There are at least two broader impacts that arise from this activity: 1.) Provide empirical insights and support for the importance of Federal funding for basic research into computing by highlighting the development of the human capital and intellectual communities that support technological innovation, 2.) Showcasing the forms and levels of technology transfer among industry and academe, and the roles that Federal funding plays in supporting these activities.

本项目探索了一种新的方法来分析联邦基金对基础计算机和信息科学研究的影响。从事这项工作的动机是对美国国家科学院计算机科学和电信委员会（CSTB, 2003）开发的一系列图表的回应。这些图表详细说明了联邦政府对计算机基础研究的适度资助，以及部分得益于这项研究产生的技术创新而出现的价值10亿美元的令人印象深刻的产业数量之间的联系。这项工作将扩大CSTB图表，以展示人力资本的发展和演变，目前所描述的技术创新正是通过人力资本的发展和演变产生的。它将把人力资本的发展和价值、知识社区的形成、学者之间的社会联系和关系网络，提供一个为学术发展提供资金的工具，改善技术转让，并扩大资助计算研究对国家的价值。本研究将按照社会信息学的传统进行。也就是说，在多个分析层次上进行探究，在宏观尺度的兴趣和微观尺度的详细分析之间移动。宏观尺度的兴趣是科学社区的发展和演变，计算技术创新由此产生，重点关注人力资本的发展是如何被技术创新和情境所塑造的。详细的微尺度分析将是最近宣布的微软计算表面的发展（见http://www.microsoft.com/surface/）。这种活动的智力价值是双重的：更好地了解联邦资金的增长、演变和作用，以培育和维持人力资本和智力社区，这些社区产生了推动美国经济的技术创新。明确产生创新的社会和技术活动的位置、相互依存和不断发展的模式。这项活动至少有两个更广泛的影响：1)通过强调支持技术创新的人力资本和智力社区的发展，为联邦政府资助计算机基础研究的重要性提供实证见解和支持。展示工业和学术界之间技术转移的形式和水平，以及联邦资金在支持这些活动中所起的作用。