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New AI research funding to focus on 6 areas

Seven new artificial intelligence laboratories aim to support human health and development research and cyber defenses as well as aid climate-resilient agricultural practices.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

Agencies seek public input on updates to guiding plan for cyber R&D

The document is updated once every four years.

  • By Kirsten Errick

NSF will invest up to $28M for STEM open-source ecosystems

State and local governments can apply for funding that supports open-source ecosystems to make products such as hardware, software, programming languages and other tools publicly accessible.

  • By Kirsten Errick

Plan for federal AI research and development resource emphasizes diversity in innovation

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force released its operating framework, making the case for implementation.

  • By Alexandra Kelley

NSF awards $29M in new CyberCorps scholarship for service grants

The funding will go to nine universities in 2023 to support building the next generation of cyber professionals to serve local, state and federal governments.

  • By Kirsten Errick

NSF invests $25.4M into cybersecurity and privacy research projects

The awardees will aim to strengthen open-source supply chain security, increase computing privacy for marginalized populations and ensure trustworthy cloud computing.

  • By Kirsten Errick

NASA looks to space for better earthquake data

The agency is testing READI, which uses satellites to detect minute changes in GPS-enabled ground stations, providing real-time data on quakes and better tsunami predictions.

  • By Henry Kenyon

White House launches $200M 'Big Data R&D' initiative

Six agencies, with more to follow, will work on ways to dig pertinent information out of the growing mountains of data.

  • By Rutrell Yasin

Cybersecurity research gets boost in 2013 budget request

Cybersecurity is identified as a priority for basic research in the president's budget request for fiscal 2013, with large investments proposed for DOD, DHS and NSF.

  • By William Jackson

Budget reflects shift in scientific R&D, education

Funding requests for scientific research and development, including clean energy, bio and nano research and education, would increase under the president's 2013 budget proposal.

  • By William Jackson

Tech projects top $7B list of 'stupid' federal spending

Sen. Tom Coburn's annual list of wasteful government spending does not spare new technologies, though some would debate their place on "Wastebook 2011."

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Secure hardware, smarter software can help thwart cyberattacks

Government and industry research is focusing on embedding security into microchips and developing self-diagnostic software, an ELC panel said.

  • By Henry Kenyon

NSF's new shared supercomputing platform goes to extremes

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment will replace and expand the TeraGrid, which gives researchers access to high-performance platforms.

  • By William Jackson

Search for intelligent life falls victim to funding cuts

The SETI radio telescope array that was scanning the skies for signals from alien civilizations has stopped listening.

  • By Michael Hardy
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NSF puts supercomputing power into Japan quake recovery

The TeraGrid community responds to the 9.0 magnitude March earthquake in Japan by sharing high-performance computing resources with Japanese colleagues, and the National Science Foundation is offering grants for disaster response research.

  • By William Jackson

Energy aims to retake supercomputing lead from China

The Energy Department's next supercomputer, the IBM-built Mira, will greatly outperform the current generation of machines, and is expected to surpass China's current leader.

  • By Henry Kenyon

Phony White House e-card the work of spies?

A handful of government organizations apparently were targeted over the holidays by attackers using a phony White House Christmas e-card, which analysts say appears to be the work of the same gang that attacked government systems last February.

  • By William Jackson

5 agencies design robots of the future

Five agencies team to design robotic doctors, helpers, farmworkers and bomb-removers.

  • By Henry Kenyon

NSF offers researchers high-performance computing time on advanced computing network

The coming round of one-year grants of computing time on the NSF’s advanced TeraGrid system give researchers access to more than two petaflops of computing power and 50 petabytes of online and archived data storage.

  • By William Jackson

Supercomputer tapped for 3D models of oil spill

The National Science Foundation has made an emergency allocation of 1 million compute-hours on a supercomputer used at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas to create 3-D models of the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • By GCN Staff

Agencies sponsor $12M IT innovation contest

Organizations can compete on six teams for the best innovations in smart grid, IT infrastructure and green technology.

  • By Alice Lipowicz