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56 unusual facts about National Science Foundation


Apache Hadoop

In 2008 this collaboration, the Academic Cloud Computing Initiative (ACCI), partnered with the National Science Foundation to provide grant funding to academic researchers interested in exploring large-data applications.

Association of Synchronous Data Formats

The Association of Synchronous Data Formats (ASDF) was created in 1988 by the National Science Foundation to promote the usage of high-end synchronous data transmission technology for both intranet and internet solutions.

Audyssey Laboratories

Audyssey was created in 2002 as a spin-off from the USC Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation engineering research center at the University of Southern California.

B-modes

A research published Sep 30, 2013 in the online edition of Physical Review Letters, led by Duncan Hanson of McGill University in Montreal, Canada who is also the lead author, has discovered the B-modes using National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope and with help from the Herschel space observatory.

Calixtlahuaca

This project was sponsored by Arizona State University and the National Science Foundation, and fieldwork began in 2006 with a full-coverage intensive survey of the site.

Comparative physiology

In the United States, research in comparative physiology is funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Cornelius Herman Muller

In addition to his teaching duties during his years at UCSB, Muller conducted numerous research studies, funded partly by four National Science Foundation grants, on allelopathic mechanisms in California plant communities and systematics and evolution of the species Quercus.

Dartmouth Time Sharing System

In 1962, John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College submitted a grant for the development of a new time-sharing system to NSF (funded in 1964).

Donald Andrews

He has served on the Economics Advisory Panel, National Science Foundation, 1992—1994, and been the recipient on 10 successive multi-year grants from that organisation from 1985 to the present.

Donn B. Parker

He is a grantee of the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Justice, and is the founder in 1986 (while at SRI International) of the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4) an ongoing confidential service to large, international corporations and governments now owned and operated by KPMG-UK.

Endosymbiotic theory

RedToL, the Red Algal Tree of Life Initiative funded by the National Science Foundation highlights the role red algae or Rhodophyta played in the evolution of our planet through secondary endosymbiosis.

Farrar LSG-1 Bird Flight Machine

The LSG-1 was specially designed by Farrar for research purposes as part of a Vanderbilt University project into how birds fly and was supported by the US National Science Foundation.

Flint Hills Discovery Center

The project was funded by the National Science Foundation through the Kansas NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.

Frederica Darema

Dr. Darema was at the National Science Foundation since 1994, where she has managed the New Generation Software and Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems programs.

Frederick Kaufman

He served on various committees of the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, AFOSR, National Science Foundation, and National Research Council.

Freeway Phantom

Furthermore, colleagues at the National Science Foundation where Askins was employed reported that "tantamount" was a word that frequently cropped up in his speech.

Graeme Dingle

Dingle's awards have included the Governor-General's Award for mountain rescue, and the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Service Award.

Gravitational lens

A research published Sep 30, 2013 in the online edition of Physical Review Letters, led by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has discovered the B-modes, that are formed due to gravitational lensing effect, using National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope and with help from the Herschel space observatory.

Harry Glicken

Glicken continued his volcanological studies as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation at the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo in Japan in the mid to late 1980s.

Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station

U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed.

High-performance reconfigurable computing

The US National Science Foundation has a center for high-performance reconfigurable computing (CHREC).

History of Cartography Project

This effort is funded by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, various private foundations, and numerous individuals.

Iceland Deep Drilling Project

Funding has come from the members of the consortium, the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program and the US National Science Foundation.

Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection

Funding for the I3P has come from various sources, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

International Children's Digital Library

Funding initially came from the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The Library's principal support comes from the Library of Congress, National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Microsoft Research.

James Tiedje

James Tiedje is the director of the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at Michigan State University, as well as a Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences and Microbiology.

Jerome Levine

He began his career as an instructor at M.I.T., after which he spent a year at the University of Cambridge under a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship.

Jerome Swartz

Swartz received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The City College of New York and a Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, receiving fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation along the way.

Jones Mountains

The naming was proposed by Thiel and Craddock after Dr. Thomas O. Jones (1908-93), American chemist; senior NSF official in charge of the U.S. Antarctic Research Program, 1958-78; Director, Division of Environmental Science, NSF, 1965-69; Deputy Assistant Director for National and International Programs, NSF, 1969-78.

Kennedy J. Reed

He has also organized U.S. visits for African physicists including formal meetings and presentations at universities and high-level meetings in Washington, DC with government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, USAID, American Astronomical Society, and United States National Research Council and is on the international advisory panel for the African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications.

Lise Getoor

She has six best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow.

Maria Zemankova

She is currently a Program Officer in the Intelligent Information Systems Division at the National Science Foundation.

Marisat

It was relocated to 326.1 E (33.9º W), over the Atlantic ocean, and since 1999 F2 had been providing a wide-band data link for the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program's Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole.

Mohorovičić discontinuity

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, a proposal was taken up in the executive committee of the U.S. National Science Foundation to drill a hole through the ocean floor to reach this boundary.

Nate Boyden

He is in the Cognitive Psychology PhD program and is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers.

Nora Thompson Dean

Nora Thompson Dean created material included four Lenape Language Lessons; these sound recordings, as well as others made with Dean and other Lenape elders during the twentieth-century, have been digitized to provide the voices of the Lenape Talking Dictionary, a project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Peep and the Big Wide World

Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an educational and outreach program.

Project Vanguard

Encouraged by conversations between Richard W. Porter of General Electric and Alan T. Waterman, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Rosen on November 27, 1954 completed a report describing the potential value of launching an earth satellite.

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington was given overall responsibility, while initial funding came from the National Science Foundation.

Robin Lingle

In December 1966, Lingle married Margaret "Marky" Williams, completed his master's degree in electrical engineering, and passed up the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program in order to return to The Stony Brook School as a science and Bible teacher and track coach.

Sandra Markle

Markle was chosen to journey to Antarctica in 1996 and 1998 as part of the National Science Foundation's Artists and Writers Program.

Şanţul Mare

The archaeological site Pecica - Şanţul Mare was the winner of a $ 250,000 grant obtained from the National Science Foundation (USA), following a project by Arad Museum Complex in partnership with Museum of Banat and University of Michigan (USA).

Self-locating datum marker buoy

The design is based on those of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) and Davis-style oceanographic surface drifters – National Science Foundation (NSF) funded experiments exploring ocean surface currents.

Soap Lake

Because of this, in 2002 the National Science Foundation awarded a grant to researchers from Central Washington University to study the lake to learn about the possibility of life on Mars.

Sol Garfunkel

Sol has served as project director for several National Science Foundation curriculum projects, and in 2009 was awarded the Glenn Gilbert National Leadership Award from the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics.

Stephen J. Ceci

National Science Foundation Advisory Board on Social, Economic and Behavioral Sciences

Stratton Air National Guard Base

Since 1971, the 109th has played an important role in support of the National Science Foundation's research expeditions at both the North and South Poles.

SuperQuest

The following year, corporate problems led ETA to cancel the program, and the Cornell Theory Center, with support from the National Science Foundation and IBM, designed a revised program, where all winning teams received internet connections and access throughout the year to the supercomputing resources at the Cornell Theory Center.

System for Teaching Experimental Psychology

Support for STEP comes from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation.

University of Puerto Rico

On October 15, 2010 the University of Puerto Rico was awarded over $25 million from National Science Foundation to support research in nanotechnology.

WestEd

In 2012, WestEd's annual revenue was approximately $129.9 million, with over 400 funders including the United States Department of Education, National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Justice, and many state, county, local, philanthropic, and business entities.

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

The National Science Foundation awarded the center a major grant in support of a permanent exhibit for the new Science Center.

Willoughby v. Stever

Willoughby v. Stever was a 1973 American legal decision in a case brought by evangelist William Willoughby against the National Science Foundation director H. Guyford Stever and the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado for using taxpayer money to fund textbooks developed by the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) because they included evolution instruction.

Yale Seminar

The National Science Foundation had sponsored science curriculum development in the late 1950s.


Abraham Adrian Albert

He served on policy-making bodies at the Office of Naval Research, the United States National Research Council, and the National Science Foundation that funneled research grants into mathematics, giving many young mathematicians career opportunities previously unavailable.

Anitra Thorhaug

In the United States, she has worked for and advised the Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, and Seagrant and has held offices in national scientific associations such as Chair of Physiology of the Botanical Society of America.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

The report also recommends augmenting the Explorer program for small and medium sized missions with rapid turnaround and high scientific return, and the creation of a Midscale Innovations Program within the National Science Foundation for funding projects in the $4–135 million range.

Center for Detectors

Additional sources of funding include the National Science Foundation, BAE Systems, the Spitzer Science Center, the Herschel Science Center, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

David H. Frisch

Frisch served on the Physics Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, on the Brookhaven High Energy Advisory Committee, and was chairman of the Long-Range Planning committee of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Generic Model Organism Database

The GMOD project is funded by the United States National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

George Wetherill

Wetherill provided leadership in the scientific community by serving on advisory committees for NASA, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

Hurricane engineering

As a result of the tremendous threats to life safety and economic disruptions caused by the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, governmental organizations, such as the United States National Science Foundation, have recognized the need to better understand hurricane threats and further establish this discipline.

Invalid science

Major funders, including the European Research Council, the US National Science Foundation and Research Councils UK have not changed their preference for new work over replications.

Joseph Lykken

Lykken is a former member and subpanel chair of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel, which advises the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.

Laboratory for Automation Psychology

Research in the LAP has been supported by corporations such as AT&T, Sperry, and IBM and by U.S. federal agencies such as NASA, NSF, NRL, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

National Historical Geographic Information System

NHGIS was launched in 2007 and is maintained by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and is funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Network Startup Resource Center

NSRC receives major funding and in-kind donations from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Google and Google.org, Cisco, O'Reilly Media, Vint Cerf, the Richard M. Karp Foundation, IDRC, ISOC, and many other institutional and private donors.

Richard A. Lutz

Lutz served as Principal Investigator and Science Director of the 2005 IMAX film Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and co-produced by Rutgers University.

Storage Resource Broker

SRB development began in 1995, through the cooperative efforts of General Atomics, the Data Intensive Cyber Environments Group (DICE), and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Thomas Kilduff

Kilduff obtained a B.S. from the University of Florida and earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Stanford University, where he was also awarded fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the Grass Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Tom Lubensky

He was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Paris in Orsay (1969–70) and a postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University (1970–71).

University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System

Federal support for and cooperation with UNOLS is found in the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and other agencies.

Vanessa DiMauro

Born in Hartford, Connecticut DiMauro started her career at TERC under the auspices of a National Science Foundation grant to study the ways in which professionals share information in communities of practice online.

Whova

In July 2013, Whova has received a grant from US National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to further accelerate its development of people search and automatic name disambiguation technology.

Yuri Kovchegov

In August 2001 he was awarded travel award from the National Science Foundation and on May 21, 2006 he was awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize.