Travel Grant for International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2011

为了鼓励更多的美国人参与地理空间研究，这项支持将使20名有前途的计算机科学研究生和本科生获得必要的财政支持，参加今年8月24日至26日在明尼阿波利斯举行的空间和时间数据库国际研讨会（SSTD）。这项两年一度的活动展示了跨越广泛主题的前沿研究，吸引了来自学术界、工业界和政府的研究人员、开发人员和最终用户。 从事空间和时间数据工作的下一代科学家和工程师的参与和随后的教育将对世界各地普通人的生活产生重大影响。除了改进车辆和各种形式的公共交通之外，通过对卫星图像进行空间分析，加强情报收集，将使具有前所未有的复杂性的安全机制成为可能，并将通过更多地使用时空数据，更准确地模拟宏观生态健康。促进美国研究生和本科生参加这次会议对于帮助美国在空间和时间数据领域令人兴奋的产品，服务和想法中保持主要立足点非常重要。

To encourage more US-based participation in geo-spatial research, this support will enable 20 promising graduate and undergraduate students in computer science the necessary financial support to attend one of the field's premier forums, the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), to be held this year in Minneapolis August 24-26. The biennial event showcases cutting-edge research spanning a vast array of topics and attracts researchers, developers, and end users around the world from academia, industry, and government. The engagement and subsequent education of the next generation of scientists and engineers working with spatial and temporal data will have a significant impact on the lives of ordinary people everywhere. In addition to improvements in vehicular and various forms of public transportation, security mechanisms featuring unprecedented sophistication will be made possible by enhanced intelligence gathering via spatial analysis of satellite imagery, and macroscopic ecological health will be more accurately modeled with more informative uses of spatio-temporal data. Promoting this conference participation by U.S. based graduate and undergraduate students is important for helping the United States to maintain a major foothold in the exciting products, services and ideas to come out of the field of spatial and temporal data.