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

各种大学，包括国家科学基金会在内的资助机构和公司都做出了广泛的努力，为本科生（雷乌斯）创造研究经验的机会。然而，在世界上许多顶尖的本科院校，很少有才华的学生尝试过系统研究，更不用说追求研究生涯了。因此，我们许多最优秀的学生未能充分发挥他们在计算机研究生涯中的潜力。 可悲的是，正如许多研究表明，选择计算机科学研究职业的学生比例在女性，代表性不足的少数民族，第一代学生和低收入背景的学生中甚至更低。 专注于计算机科学，特别是在系统中，我们认为这种不幸的研究职业生涯的磨损主要是由于基本的误解和缺乏对计算机科学（CS）研究的了解。出于这种观察，并在努力解决这个问题，我们提出了一个新的一系列的年度暑期研究学校，旨在让学生一个简短的，但密集的接触系统研究。 高层次的想法是提供一个引人入胜的环境，学生可以与来自计算机科学多个领域的杰出研究人员进行互动，但要在足够短的时间内做到这一点（大约一周）以便吸引那些可能对研究所能提供的东西持怀疑态度的学生。这项提案寻求资助来自美国的学生参加夏季会议的旅行和住宿。学校（预计全球100名参与者）。 我们相信，只有当该计划能够为所有参与的学生提供旅行和住宿的全额经济支持时，该计划才会成功，因为这将消除许多学生参加的重大障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.