Student Travel to the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School

各大学、包括国家科学基金会在内的资助机构和公司已作出广泛努力，为本科生(REU)创造研究经验的机会。然而，在世界上许多顶尖的本科院校，尝试过系统研究的有才华的学生太少了，更不用说从事研究事业了。结果，我们许多最优秀的学生没有充分发挥他们在计算机领域研究职业的潜力。可悲的是，正如许多研究表明的那样，在女性、少数族裔、第一代学生和低收入背景的学生中，选择计算机科学研究职业的学生比例更低。专注于计算机科学，特别是系统，我们认为这种不幸的研究生涯流失主要是由于对计算机科学(CS)研究的基本误解和缺乏接触。基于这一观察结果，并努力解决这一问题，我们提出了一系列新的年度暑期研究学校，旨在让学生短暂但密集地接触系统研究。高层的想法是提供一个吸引人的环境，学生可以在其中与来自多个计算机科学领域的杰出研究人员进行互动，但要在足够短的时间内(大约一周)做到这一点，以吸引可能对研究成果持怀疑态度的学生。这项提议寻求资金，以支持来自美国的学生参加暑期学校的旅行和住宿(我们预计全球将有100名参与者)。我们相信，该计划只有在能够为所有参与的学生提供旅行和住宿的全额财政支持的情况下才能成功，因为这将消除许多学生参加该计划的重大障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Various universities, funding agencies including National Science Foundation, and companies have made extensive efforts to create opportunities for research experiences for undergraduates (REUs). However, at many top undergraduate institutions worldwide, far too few talented students ever attempt systems research, let alone pursue a research career.As a result many of our best students fail to realize their full potential for a research career in computing. Sadly, as many studies have shown, the fraction of students who choose a research career in Computer Science is even lower among women, underrepresented minorities, first-generation students, and those from low-income backgrounds. Focusing on Computer Science and specifically in systems, we believe this unfortunate attrition out of a career in research arises largely from a basic misunderstanding and lack of exposure to what Computer Science (CS) research is. Motivated by this observation, and in an effort to address this problem, we propose a new series of annual summer research schools aimed at giving students a brief but intensive exposure to systems research. The high-level idea is to provide an engaging environment in which students can interact with preeminent researchers from multiple areas of Computer Science, but to do so in a short enough amount of time (on the order of a week) so as to appeal to students who may be skeptical of what research has to offer.This proposal seeks funding for supporting the travel and accommodations for students from the United States to attend the summer school (we anticipate 100 participants worldwide). We believe the program will only be successful if it is able to offer full financial support for travel and accommodation for all participating students, since this will remove a significant barrier for attending for many students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.