The Second CI Fellows Project

摘要：由于国际金融危机的影响，国家的大学和工业研究实验室面临着持续的预算压力。其结果是计算研究和教学职位的严重短缺。此外，由于我们的社会在能源、医疗保健、教育和许多其他依赖it的领域面临挑战，对新人才的需求也在增长。有前途的新学者可以为从事研究和教学的机构注入知识更新和多样性的机会越来越少，我们可能会在人才库中创造一个持续数十年的“漏洞”。这反过来又使我们国家利用技术创新保持全球竞争力的能力面临风险。数百名最聪明、训练有素的计算机研究人员突然间找不到足够的机会进行高级研究并教育后代。作为一个国家，我们投入了时间、精力和资金来培养这些博士。我们绝对有必要找到实现投资回报的方法。第二届美国国家科学基金会计算创新研究员（CIFellows）项目将使刚毕业的计算机博士能够在学术机构和工业研究组织获得一到两年的职位。它将支持一批新的研究员，并为去年由NSF计算创新研究员项目资助的许多研究员提供第二年的资助。其目的是防止由于持续的预算危机带来的大幅削减而导致新的博士毕业生被迫在该领域以外寻找工作，从而可能发生的研究人才的永久流失。它还将允许新的博士积累经验，使他们成为更有效的研究人员和/或教师。

CNS - 1019343 Abstract: The nation's universities and industrial research labs are facing continuing budget pressure as part of the international financial crisis. The result is a significant shortage of computing research and teaching positions. Moreover, as our society faces challenges in energy, healthcare, education, and a host of other IT-reliant areas, the need for new talent grows. With fewer opportunities to obtain the intellectual renewal and diversity that promising new scholars can inject into institutions engaged in research and teaching, we risk creating a "hole" in the talent pool that will last for decades. This, in turn, puts at risk our nation's ability to use technological innovation for remaining globally competitive. Hundreds of our brightest and best-trained computing researchers are suddenly unable to find adequate opportunities to do advanced research and teach future generations. As a nation, we have invested time, energy, and funding in the training of these Ph.D.s. It is absolutely essential that we find ways to realize a payoff for that investment. The Second NSF Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) project will enable newly graduated computing Ph.D.s to obtain one-to-two year positions at academic institutions and industrial research organizations. It will support a new cohort of Fellows as well as second-year funding for many of the Fellows funded under the NSF Computing Innovation Fellows project last year. The aim is to forestall a permanent loss of research talent that is likely to occur if new Ph.D. graduates are forced to seek employment outside of the field due to the sharp cuts brought about by the continuing budget crisis. It will also allow new Ph.D.s to develop experience to make them more effective researchers and/or teachers.