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Cyber Advancing Research … Research

Advancing Cyber

Scott F. Midkiff: smidkiff@nsf.gov

: 703-292-8339

National Science FoundationDirectorate for Engineering

Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division

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Cyber Systems

“Cyber” implies the integration of…Computation,Communication, andAlgorithms and control

Cyber is…More than just high-performance or

embedded computingMore than just networkingMore than just software

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Cyber Systems Research• High-Performance Computing• Grid Computing• Visualization• Virtual Organizations, …

• Next-generation Computing and Communication• Cyber-Physical Systems• Integrated Systems …

Science andEngineering

Research

CyberSystems

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NSF Support for Cyber Systems(from an ECCS Perspective)

Cyberinfrastructure (CI)

Enabling FutureCyber Systems

• Utilizing state-of-the art computing systems

• Systems coupled with middleware and innovative algorithms

• Virtual organizations

• Integration of cyber systems and physical systems and the physical environment

• Foundations; Methods and tools; Components, substrates and systems

• Closing the gap between advances in devices and components and their application in systems

• Core program support for modeling and simulation

• Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)

• Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering through Petascale Simulations and Analysis (PetaApps)

• Cyberinfrastructure Experiences for Graduate Students (CIEG)

• Engineering Virtual Organizations (EVO)

• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

• Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) core program

• Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) core program

• Multicore Chip Design and Architecture: (MCDA)

• Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) core program

• Power, Control and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) core programs

• Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technologies

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Unsolicited Proposals for ECCS

ECCS core programs use program descriptions Unsolicited proposals Description of scope and example topics, but seeking the best

ideas from the research community Compared to a solicitation which can be much more specific in

scope and requirements

Two windows for submission of unsolicited proposals each year September 7-October 7 January 7-February 7

http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ECCS

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Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (NSF 08-604)

Five-year initiative (FY 2010 will be the third year) FY 2008: $53.18M (actual) FY 2009: $70.94M FY09, $6.37M ARRA (current plan) FY 2010: $102.63M (requested)

All NSF directorates and programmatic offices are involved

Goal is … to create revolutionary science and engineering research

outcomes … made possible by innovation in, or innovative use of

computational thinking … with an emphasis on bold, multidisciplinary activities

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Three CDI Themes From Data to Knowledge – enhancing human

cognition and generating new knowledge from a wealth of heterogeneous digital data;

Understanding Complexity in Natural, Built, and Social Systems – deriving fundamental insights on systems comprising multiple interacting elements;  and

Building Virtual Organizations – enhancing discovery and innovation by bringing people and resources together across institutional, geographical and cultural boundaries

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Types of CDI Projects

CDI defines research modalitiesProject size not measured by dollar amountProjects classified by magnitude of effort

Three types are defined Type I (~2 PI, 2 GRA)Type II (~3 PI, 3 GRA, 1 post-doc)Type III (center scale)

Type III (center-scale effort) not supported in FY 2008 and FY 2009

http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/cdi/

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What are Cyber-Physical Systems?

Cyber – computation, communication, and control that are discrete, logical, and switched

Physical – natural and human-made systems governed by the laws of physics and operating in continuous time

Cyber-Physical Systems – systems in which the cyber and physical systems are tightly integrated at all scales and levels Change from cyber merely appliquéd on physical Change from physical with off-the-shelf commodity “computing

as parts” mindset Change from ad hoc to grounded, assured development

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A Few Example Opportunities

Transportation Faster and more energy efficient aircraft Improved use of airspace Safer, more efficient cars

Energy and Industrial Automation

Homes and offices that are more energy efficient and cheaper to operate

Distributed micro-generation for the grid

Healthcare and Biomedical

Increased use of effective in-home care More capable devices for diagnosis New internal and external prosthetics

Critical Infrastructure

More reliable and efficient power grid Highways that allow denser traffic with

increased safety

Cyber-Physical Systems Executive Summary, CPS Steering Group, March 6, 2008 (available at http://varma.ece.cmu.edu/summit/)

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CPS – A National Research Priority

Eight priority areas, with four designated as having the highest priority Network and Information Technology (NIT)

Systems Connected with the Physical World Software Digital Data Networking

NIT systems connected with the physical world (cyber-physical systems) Essential to the effective operation of U.S.

defense and intelligence systems and critical infrastructures

At the core of human-scale structures and large-scale civilian applications

President’s Council of Advisor’s on Science and Technology (PCAST), Computational Science: America's Competitiveness Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology R&D in a Competitive World, August 2007.

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NSF Model for Expediting Progress*

A new underlying discipline

Abstracting from sectors to more general principles

Apply these to problems in new sectors

Build a new CPS community

FundamentalResearch

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civil

aeromedical

materials

energy

transportation

Sectors

chemical

* Jeannette M. WingAssistant Director, CISE, NSF

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CPS Solicitation (NSF 08-611)

Joint initiative of Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Directorate for Engineering (ENG)

Three themes Three types of proposals Proposal deadline is February 27, 2009

Contacts:Helen Gill (CISE/CNS), hgill@nsf.gov

Scott Midkiff (ENG/ECCS), smidkiff@nsf.gov

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503286

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Type of CPS Projects Small Projects – individual or small-team efforts that

focus on one or more of the three defined CPS themes (up to $200,000/year for up to three years)

Medium Projects – span one or more CPS themes and may include one or more PIs and a research team of students and/or post-docs (up to $500,000/year for up to three years)

Large Projects – multi-investigator projects addressing a coherent set of research issues that cut across multiple themes or that explore a particular theme in great depth (up to $1,000,000/year for up to five years)

Possible CPS-Virtual Organization

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Three CPS Themes Foundations – develop new scientific and

engineering principles, algorithms, models, and theories for the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems

Research on Methods and Tools – bridge the gaps between approaches to the cyber and physical elements of systems through innovations such as novel support for multiple views, new programming languages, and algorithms for reasoning about and formally verifying properties of complex integrations of cyber and physical resources

Components, Run-time Substrates, and Systems – new hardware and software infrastructure and platforms and engineered systems motivated by grand challenge applications

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Where to go from here… Read solicitations Talk to program directors about program scope,

project scale, etc. Collaborate … within a department … across campus

… across the country … across the world Develop proposals around your very best ideas Be fully responsive to NSF review criteria – intellectual

merit and broader impact – as well as additional criteria that may exist

Volunteer as a panelist

http://www.nsf.gov/