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- From: xm8@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (patrick k. simpson)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Subject: NSF Message From Paul Werbos
- Keywords: NSF, Program Focus, Neural Networks
- Message-ID: <44091@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:01:56 GMT
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- [NOTE: I am forwarding this for Paul Werbos, Program Manager at
- NSF for Neural Networks. Please send any questions to Paul
- at "pwerbos@nsf.gov" or call him at the number found at the
- bottom of the message. Thanks, PKS]
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- The Neuroengineering Program at NSF will be broadening the scope of
- what it funds a little this year.
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- In particular, there is circa 100K new money earmarked for "HPCC" activities.
- In the past, neuroengineering has not supported hardware-related research.
- However, this year it will certainly be able to support optical neural net
- work, and probably be able to cofund VLSI work as well. IN the latter case,
- however, we will still probably require coreview and cofunding from the
- MIPS Division in Computer Science (for which one should consult Mike Foster,
- (202)357-7853). Also, there is circa 100K earmarked for work related
- to manufacturing; how this "relation" will be verified is unclear as yet,
- but use of test problems of interest to manufacturing (or even letters
- indicating potential interest from manufacturers) would certainly help
- increase the probability of funding.
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- Beyond this, the basic funding levels and priorities are essentially
- unchanged, as described in the Handbook of Intelligent Control
- (D.White and D.Sofge, eds) -- neurocontrol, neural nets for
- prediction or system identification, and improvements in
- supervised learning.
-
- It would certainly be legal to copy this email over to other BBS's; in fact,
- I hope someone does that kind of thing, to get the word out to the entire
- community.
-
- If optically-related proposals do come in, of course, I would hope that they
- would also make some contribution to the existing program priorities, and/or
- involve the kinds of work which are too fundamental (e.g. Bell's Theorem
- effects or chaotic solitons) to be funded by the existing programs elsewhere.
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- As in the past, the deadline for proposals is formally the end
- of February, but I will try (without promising anything) to
- schedule later proposals for panel review as well.
-
- Best wishes.
-
- Paul J. Werbos
- (202)-357-9618
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