EAGER: Exploring the History and Impact of the Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate of the National Science Foundation

这个项目的目的是研究资助计划和投资的作用，因为它们影响了计算研究、基础设施和教育。它探索并记录了NSF支持计算的重要里程碑，为催化计算机和信息科学与工程的羽翼未丰的领域的组织、计划和倡议的NSF发展提供了一个主题框架。该项目还探讨了国家科学基金会在国家和联邦信息技术投资方面的作用。这项研究将记录和描述计算机历史的弧线，从制度演变和项目推进的角度来看，这些都有助于推动国家的计算机发展。它将在一个地方汇集与CISE从1985财年到2016财年的组织历史相关的公共文件。该研究的成果（里程碑、组织历史、相关文件和专题框架）将以公开的方式为历史学家和政策专家提供资源。收集到的数据将使科学史家、国家研究委员会和政策制定者的未来工作更加便利和简化。这些叙述将简化其中一些小组的工作，并为各种各样的教育用途提供有用的来源。具体而言，本研究将：1。随着其他NSF单位、联邦机构和行业对计算研究、教育和基础设施的重点和支持水平的调整，研究NSF计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）项目的角色是如何演变的；2 .确定国家、联邦、NSF和CISE特别倡议的背景和背景，包括有助于定义或评估这些倡议的报告；描述组织和个人在实施计划和倡议中的作用；4 .制定一系列演变的主题，这些主题是NSF在计算机和信息科学与工程研究、教育和基础设施方面的投资策略的特征；编写一系列通俗易懂的叙述。项目团队将建立一个研究咨询委员会，该委员会将审查中期报告、数据库和研究期间开发的其他工件。

The purpose of this project is to study the role of funded initiatives and investments as they impacted computing research, infrastructure and education. It explores and documents the important milestones in the NSF support of computing, providing a thematic framework for NSF development of organizations, programs and initiatives that catalyzed the fledgling field of computer and information science and engineering. The project also explores the NSF role in the context of national and federal investments in information technology. This study will document and describe the arc of computing history in terms of institutional evolution and programmatic thrusts that have served to move computing forward in the Nation. It will bring together in one place public documents relevant to the organizational history of CISE from FY1985 to FY2016.The outcomes of the Study (milestones, organizational history, relevant documents and thematic framework) will provide a resource for historians and policy experts in a publicly accessible manner. The data collected will enable and simplify the future work of historians of science, national study committees, and policy makers. The narratives will simplify the work of some of these groups, as well as to serve as useful sources for a wide variety of educational usages.Specifically, the study will:1. Examine how the roles of NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) programs have evolved as other NSF units, federal agencies and industries have modified their focus and level of support for computing research, education and infrastructure;2. Identify national, federal, NSF and CISE special initiatives with background and context, including the reports that help define or assess these initiatives;3. Describe the role of organizations and individuals in implementing programs and initiatives;4. Develop a series of evolving themes that characterize NSF's investment strategy for computer and information science and engineering research, education and infrastructure;5. Develop a series of accessible narratives.The project team will establish a Study Advisory Committee, which will review interim reports, databases, and other artifacts developed during the study.