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August 20, 2008, 11:07 AM ET
NSF Grants Four $10-Million Expeditions in Computing Awards
Four projects from researchers at more than a dozen universities and other research institutions have been awarded $10-million grants in the first edition of a competition that aims to expand the frontiers of computing. The initiative, Expeditions in Computing, has been promoted by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation.
The winning team from Princeton University, Rutgers University, New York University, and the Institute for Advanced Study aims to solve longstanding problems of computing. A joint project of Cornell University, Bowdoin College, the Conservation Fund, Howard University, Oregon State University, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which brings together computer scientists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and environmental scientists, wants to develop a new field of computational sustainability. An initiative based at Stanford University plans to address issues emerging in the broadband, wireless mobile era, while a team from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Washington will develop computer-science principles for programming information-bearing molecules, such as DNA and RNA polymers.
More details about the winning projects are available in a press release. —Maria José Viñas
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