Student Travel Support for the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols

由IEEE计算机学会主办的第22届IEEE网络协议国际会议(及相关活动)将于2014年10月21日至24日在北卡罗来纳州的研究三角地区举行。国家科学基金会的这笔赠款资助了大约20名美国研究生参加ICNP。这笔资金的目标是扩大参加主要网络协议会议-IEEE国际网络协议会议(ICNP)的受众，并因此提高互动水平和新合作、新调查和更高质量研究的潜力。通过支持研究生参加ICNP 2014年，该奖项增加了会议研究成果向更大范围和更多样化的受众的传播，否则这些受众将无法参加。这反过来将有助于增强研究界的力量和包容性，并将导致ICNP的长期健康和活力。此外，优先向女性和代表性不足的学生发放助学金，有望增加这些群体的参与度。通过向广泛的学院和大学做广告，来自更多不同机构的参与者应该能够参加会议并从中受益。广泛和多样化的人群是研究界和学科健康发展的关键。出席会议是研究人员生活中至关重要的一部分。通过为学生创造新的机会--特别是那些来自代表人数不足的群体的学生--参加高质量的会议，该项目将在几个方面使研究界受益。学生本身受益于在有利的环境下与许多其他研究人员见面和互动的机会，以及看到可能与他们所从事的工作相关的研究报告，或者可能激励他们尝试新方向的研究。研究界受益于正在筹备中的学生的提高，以及新的研究视角的引入。此外，每个人都受益于出席会议的参与者的多样性增加。

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (and associated events) will be held in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, during the week of October 21-24, 2014. This grant from the National Science Foundation funds approximately 20 US-based graduate students to attend ICNP. The goal of this funding is to broaden the audience attending the premier network protocol conference, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), and as a result, raise the level of interaction and the potential for new collaborations, new investigations, and higher quality research.By supporting graduate students to attend ICNP 2014, this award increases the dissemination of the conference research results to a larger and a more diverse audience, which otherwise would not have been able to attend. This in turn will contribute to the strength and inclusiveness of the research community, and will lead to the long term health and vitalization of ICNP. In addition, giving preference in grant awards to women and underrepresented students hopefully will increase the participation among these groups. By advertising to a wide range of colleges and universities, participants from a more diverse set of institutions should be able to attend and benefit from the conference. A broad, as well as diverse population is key to the health of the research community and the discipline.Conference attendance is a crucial part of the life of a researcher. By creating new opportunities for students - especially those from underrepresented groups - to attend a high quality conference, this project will benefit the research community in several ways. The students themselves benefit from the opportunity to meet and interact with many other researchers in a favorable setting, and from seeing research presented that may be related to what they are working on, or may inspire them to try a new direction. The research community benefits from the improvement of the students in the pipeline, and the introduction of new researcher perspectives. Additionally, everyone benefits from increased diversity of participants attending the conference.