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

各大学、国家科学基金会等资助机构、企业为创造大学生研究经历的机会做出了广泛的努力。然而，在全球许多顶尖的本科院校中，很少有有才华的学生尝试过系统研究，更不用说从事研究工作了。因此，我们许多最优秀的学生没有意识到他们在计算机研究事业中的全部潜力。可悲的是，正如许多研究表明的那样，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，特别是在系统领域，我们认为这种不幸的人员流失主要源于对计算机科学（CS）研究的基本误解和缺乏了解。在这种观察的激励下，为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一系列新的年度暑期研究学校，旨在为学生提供简短但密集的系统研究机会。高层次的想法是提供一个吸引人的环境，让学生可以与来自计算机科学多个领域的杰出研究人员互动，但要在足够短的时间内完成（大约一周），以吸引那些可能对研究成果持怀疑态度的学生。该提案寻求资助美国学生参加暑期学校的旅行和住宿（我们预计全球有100名参与者）。我们认为，只有能够为所有参与的学生提供旅行和住宿的全额经济支持，该计划才会成功，因为这将消除许多学生参加的一个重大障碍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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.