Student Travel Support to Sensys 2008

资助符合条件的美国高等院校研究生参加第六届ACM嵌入式网络传感器系统会议(SenSys 2008)。获奖者将被要求参加会议，并参加一个重要的会议，讨论他们的经验。助学金的目的是鼓励那些资金不足、代表性不足或不太可能参加该领域知名会议的学生对研究感兴趣并参与其中。通过在经济上促进学生的参与和引发讨论，该助学金将鼓励这些学生在这个重要领域的最新研究方向上变得活跃起来。Sensys会议将于2008年11月在北卡罗来纳州罗利举行。Sensys是一个高度选择性的单轨论坛，用于展示嵌入式网络传感器领域的系统问题的研究成果。它提供了一个理想的场所来解决这些系统在设计、部署、使用和基本限制方面面临的研究挑战。传感器网络需要来自多个领域的贡献，包括无线通信和网络、嵌入式系统和硬件、分布式系统、数据管理和应用程序，因此我们欢迎跨学科的工作。本提案的作者是大会总主席。为了引起网络技术和系统领域的年轻研究人员的兴趣，这项提议是为学生到Sensys的旅行创建一些旅行津贴。赠款获得者将被要求出席会议，并在特别会议上讨论这一经验。其目的是鼓励代表不足和资金不足的学生更积极地参与对网络技术感兴趣的研究。将在会议网页上宣布这一点，并确认国家科学基金会是学生旅费补助金的赞助者。这项提议是创建25个由NSF赞助的学生旅行补助金，每个大约600美元，总计15,000美元。这笔款项将作为注册费支付，以支付参赛费用。将宣布项目说明中所列的资格标准，并将制定程序，根据这些标准选择最合适的申请者。

To support the funding for travel of eligible graduate students from US institutions of higher learning to the 6th ACM Conference on EmbeddedNetworked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2008). Grant recipients will be required to attend the conference and participate in a bird-of-a-feather session to discuss their experience. The goal of the grants is to encourage research interest and involvement of students who are not well-funded, under-represented, or otherwise not likely to be able to attend high-profile conferences in the field. By financially facilitating attendance and generating discussion the grant will encourage such students to become active in the latest research directions in this important field. The Sensys conference will take place in Raleigh, NC, in November 2008. Sensys is a highly selective, single-track forum for the presentation of research results on systems issues in the area of embedded, networked sensors. It provides an ideal venue to address the resear ch challenges facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of these systems. Sensor networks require contributions from many fields, from wireless communication and networking, embedded systems and hardware, distributed systems, data management, and applications, so we welcome cross-disciplinary work. The author of this proposal is the General Chair of the conference. To interest young researches in the field of networking technology and systems,this proposal is to create a number of travel grants for student travel to Sensys. Grant recipients will be required to attend the conference and discuss this experience in a special session. The purpose is to encourage under-represented and under-funded students to become more actively engaged in research of interest to networking technology. An announcement to that effect will be made at the conference web page with an acknowledgement to NSF as the sponsor of the student travel grants. The proposal is to create 25 NSF-sponsored student travel grants of approximately $600 each, for a total of $15,000. This amount is payable as registration fees to cover participation cost. Eligibility criteria, listed in the project description, will be announced and a procedure will be put in place to select the most appropriate applicants in accordance with these criteria.