NSF joins federal partners in announcing update to national AI research and development strategic plan

NSF joins federal partners in announcing update to national AI research and development strategic plan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) joins other federal agency partners in announcing the release of the 2019 Update to the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan.

Development of the strategic plan was led by the Select Committee on AI of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), co-chaired by NSF, DARPA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and engaged leading AI researchers and research ...

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Published June 21, 2019 at 04:04PM
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California Institute of Technology Commencement

California Institute of Technology Commencement

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Published June 18, 2019 at 06:54PM
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Professional news media invited to apply to visit jointly funded US and UK research on Antarctic Thwaites Glacier

Professional news media invited to apply to visit jointly funded US and UK research on Antarctic Thwaites Glacier

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) are accepting written proposals from media professionals to visit a "deep-field" camp on the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica in December.

[Please see the section below headed "Deep Freeze" for how to apply to cover only the U.S. military's support to the U.S. Antarctic Program. This process is unrelated to the Thwaites Glacier opportunity.]

NSF, the UK's Natural ...

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Published June 07, 2019 at 04:57PM
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Statement on NSF and SpaceX Radio Spectrum Coordination Agreement

Statement on NSF and SpaceX Radio Spectrum Coordination Agreement

In late May, SpaceX launched its first 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. SpaceX plans to launch a much larger satellite constellation into low-Earth orbit with the goal of providing terrestrial internet service. The operation of these satellites will utilize frequencies that neighbor some radio astronomy assets in the 10.6 - 10.7 GHz band. SpaceX coordinated with NSF and its radio astronomy observatories regarding potential interference from their use of the radio spectrum. After working ...

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Published June 04, 2019 at 09:50PM
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NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps)

I-Corps offers researchers unique opportunities to learn how to turn discoveries into new technologies and to participate in the national innovation ecosystem.

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Published June 03, 2019 at 02:43PM
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Brought to you by NSF

Every day you encounter something made possible by the National Science Foundation

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Published May 22, 2019 at 04:45PM
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National Science Foundation announces new Diamond Achievement Award

National Science Foundation announces new Diamond Achievement Award

The National Science Foundation has announced a new award -- the NSF Diamond Achievement Award -- which will be presented for the first time to the international team of researchers who recently captured the first-ever image of a black hole.

On April 10, in coordinated press conferences across the globe, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration announced that its planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes, which was forged through international collaboration, had ...

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Published May 09, 2019 at 08:56PM
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