Dear Colleague: URGENT! WE NEED YOUR HELP!! YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TO http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist IS REQUESTED!!! PLEASE DO *NOT* RESPOND TO THIS MESSAGE. NSF is preparing for the review of proposals submitted to the Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative for FiscalYear 2000. The success of this program depends critically on our ability to enlist the help of expert reviewers such as you to help us identify the outstanding proposals. We are building a pool of reviewers qualified in IT-related research areas. ITR is a new $90M NSF initiative that aims to promote fundamental research in information technology, encouraging in particular research spanning information technology and scientific applications, and in the area of social, ethical and workforce issues. Specific areas include: 1) software; 2) information technology education and workforce; 3) human-computer interface; 4) information management; 5) advanced computational science; 6) scalable information infrastructure; 7) social and economic implications of information technology; and 8) revolutionary computing. The ITR Program Solicitation can be found on the NSF Web Page at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm The Fiscal Year 2000 competition requires the submission of preproposals by January 5, 2000 for all PIs who plan to submit full proposals requesting more than $500K. The preproposals will be panel-reviewed during the week of February 7, 2000 at three locations: 1) at NSF in Arlington, VA; 2) at a location in Chicago, IL near O'Hare Airport; and 3) at a location to be determined in the San Francisco area. Based on the results of the preproposal screening, approximately 120 full proposals will be encouraged for submission by April 17, 2000. Full proposals will be panel reviewed at NSF on May 22, 2000. A separate competition is being organized for those proposals requesting less than $500K for the full duration of the award. For this category of proposal, no preproposal is required. Proposals requesting less than $500K are due at NSF on February 14, 2000. They will be reviewed during the weeks of March 20 and March 27, 2000. We would like to consider you as a potential panelist for this activity. If you are involved in a proposal submitted to any area of ITR, as PI, co-PI or otherwise as a participant, you are ineligible to serve as a panelist. However, persons who are submitting proposals only to the more than $500K competition can serve as panelists to review proposals less than $500K and vice versa. We welcome panelists from foreign countries, national laboratories, and industry. ******IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING PLEASE ACT TODAY!******** Indicate your availability, and provide us with your information by completing the ITR Panelist Entry Form at the following URL: http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist. We urge you to fill out the form immediately, since we will start to select panelists for the February 7 panel meetings within the next few days. NSF will pay all travel costs in addition to $130 per travel day and $260 per panel day. If you have other questions related to serving as a panelist, please refer to the FAQ section of the ITR Home page at http://www.itr.nsf.gov/it2-faq.html . Finally, we would also appreciate it if you could forward this request to other well-qualified IT scientists who you think may be interested. Since ITR is a large-scale competition, and we have a number of people involved in seeking panelists, we apologize if more than one person contacts you in this regard. We look forward to your reply, Sincerely, The ITR Working Group E-mail: itr@nsf.gov ----- NOTE to the Information and Data Management (IDM) community: I am responsible for reviewing proposals in the category 4) information management, so I would like to especially encourage your volunteering to review proposals as well your submitting exciting proposals to this category. The IDM Program has a proposal submission target date of February 15, 1999. In case you'd like to submit a proposal around this date, please read carefully the IDM Program Description http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm and the ITR Program Solicitation http://www.npf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm and decide which program (IDM or ITR) would be more suitable for your work. If you have any ITR questions, please contact Michael Lesk mlesk@nsf.gov, while directing IDM inquiries to me mzemanko@nsf.gov. However, we will not be able to give you odds on your proposal's success if submitted to ITR vs. IDM. Best regards, Maria ================================================================== Maria Zemankova, Ph.D. Program Director, Information and Data Management (IDM) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Arlington, VA 22230 email: mzemanko@nsf.gov Phone: 703-306-1926 Fax: 703-306-0599 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iis/idm
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