EAGER: Exploring the History and Impact of the Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation

EAGER：探索美国国家科学基金会计算与信息科学与工程 (CISE) 理事会的历史和影响

• 批准号: 1743282
• 负责人: John Goodhue
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743282&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Exploring; History; Impact; Computing

The purpose of this project is to study the role of funded initiatives and investments as they impacted computing research, infrastructure and education. It explores and documents the important milestones in the NSF support of computing, providing a thematic framework for NSF development of organizations, programs and initiatives that catalyzed the fledgling field of computer and information science and engineering. The project also explores the NSF role in the context of national and federal investments in information technology. This study will document and describe the arc of computing history in terms of institutional evolution and programmatic thrusts that have served to move computing forward in the Nation. It will bring together in one place public documents relevant to the organizational history of CISE from FY1985 to FY2016.The outcomes of the Study (milestones, organizational history, relevant documents and thematic framework) will provide a resource for historians and policy experts in a publicly accessible manner. The data collected will enable and simplify the future work of historians of science, national study committees, and policy makers. The narratives will simplify the work of some of these groups, as well as to serve as useful sources for a wide variety of educational usages.Specifically, the study will:1. Examine how the roles of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) programs have evolved as other NSF units, federal agencies and industries have modified their focus and level of support for computing research, education and infrastructure;2. Identify national, federal, NSF and CISE special initiatives with background and context, including the reports that help define or assess these initiatives;3. Describe the role of organizations and individuals in implementing programs and initiatives;4. Develop a series of evolving themes that characterize NSF's investment strategy for computer and information science and engineering research, education and infrastructure;5. Develop a series of accessible narratives.The project team will establish a Study Advisory Committee, which will review interim reports, databases, and other artifacts developed during the study.

这个项目的目的是研究资助的倡议和投资在影响计算研究、基础设施和教育方面的作用。它探索并记录了NSF支持计算的重要里程碑，为NSF发展组织、计划和倡议提供了一个主题框架，这些组织、计划和倡议促进了计算机和信息科学与工程的新兴领域。该项目还探讨了国家科学基金会在国家和联邦信息技术投资的背景下所扮演的角色。这项研究将记录和描述计算历史的弧线，从制度演变和程序推进的角度来看，这些推动了全国的计算向前发展。这项研究的结果(里程碑、组织历史、相关文件和专题框架)将以公开的方式为历史学家和政策专家提供资源。收集到的数据将使科学史学家、国家研究委员会和政策制定者能够简化未来的工作。这些叙述将简化其中一些小组的工作，并作为各种教育用途的有用来源。具体地说，这项研究将：1.检查NSF的计算机和信息科学与工程(CEISE)计划的角色是如何演变的，因为其他NSF单位、联邦机构和行业已经改变了他们对计算研究、教育和基础设施的重点和支持水平；2.确定国家、联邦、NSF和CESE的特殊倡议，包括帮助定义或评估这些倡议的报告；3.描述组织和个人在实施计划和倡议中的作用；4.开发一系列不断变化的主题，这些主题是NSF在计算机和信息科学与工程研究、教育和基础设施方面的投资战略的特征；5.开发一系列可访问的说明。项目团队将建立一个研究咨询委员会，该委员会将审查在研究期间开发的中期报告、数据库和其他人工制品。