Student Travel to the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School

学生前往马里兰州康奈尔大学马克斯·普朗克博士前研究学院

• 批准号: 1838985
• 负责人: Samrat Bhattacharjee
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1838985&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Travel; Cornell; Maryland; Max

Various universities, funding agencies including National Science Foundation, and companies have made extensive efforts to create opportunities for research experiences for undergraduates (REUs). However, at many top undergraduate institutions worldwide, far too few talented students ever attempt systems research, let alone pursue a research career.As a result many of our best students fail to realize their full potential for a research career in computing. Sadly, as many studies have shown, the fraction of students who choose a research career in Computer Science is even lower among women, underrepresented minorities, first-generation students, and those from low-income backgrounds. Focusing on Computer Science and specifically in systems, we believe this unfortunate attrition out of a career in research arises largely from a basic misunderstanding and lack of exposure to what Computer Science (CS) research is. Motivated by this observation, and in an effort to address this problem, we propose a new series of annual summer research schools aimed at giving students a brief but intensive exposure to systems research. The high-level idea is to provide an engaging environment in which students can interact with preeminent researchers from multiple areas of Computer Science, but to do so in a short enough amount of time (on the order of a week) so as to appeal to students who may be skeptical of what research has to offer.This proposal seeks funding for supporting the travel and accommodations for students from the United States to attend the summer school (we anticipate 100 participants worldwide). We believe the program will only be successful if it is able to offer full financial support for travel and accommodation for all participating students, since this will remove a significant barrier for attending for many students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

各种大学，包括国家科学基金会在内的资助机构和公司已经做出了广泛的努力，为本科生（REUS）创造了机会。但是，在全球许多顶尖的本科机构中，有才华的学生太少了尝试系统研究，更不用说从事研究职业了。由于我们许多最好的学生未能意识到他们在计算领域的研究生涯的全部潜力。 可悲的是，正如许多研究所表明的那样，选择计算机科学研究职业的学生的比例在女性，代表性不足的少数民族，第一代学生以及来自低收入背景的学生中的比例更低。 我们认为，专注于计算机科学，特别是在系统上，我们认为这种不幸的研究中的这种不幸的消耗很大程度上是由于基本的误解和缺乏对计算机科学（CS）研究的影响。在这一观察结果的推动下，为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一系列新的夏季研究学校，旨在使学生对系统研究的简短但密集地接触。 高级的想法是提供一个引人入胜的环境，在该环境中，学生可以与来自计算机科学多个领域的杰出研究人员进行互动，但要在短时间内（按一个星期的顺序）进行互动，以吸引那些可能对研究所能提供的研究持怀疑态度的学生。这项建议寻求支持的资金来支持美国的旅行和住宿，以参加100名参与暑期学校的学生（我们预期了100个参与者）（我们是我们的100个参与者） 我们认为，只有在能够为所有参与学生提供的旅行和住宿的全部财务支持时，该计划才能成功，因为这将消除参加许多学生的重大障碍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。