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.

各大学、包括国家科学基金会在内的资助机构和公司都做出了广泛的努力，为本科生（REU）创造研究经验的机会。然而，在世界各地的许多顶尖本科院校中，很少有才华横溢的学生尝试过系统研究，更不用说从事研究职业了。因此，我们许多最优秀的学生未能充分发挥他们在计算机研究生涯中的潜力。 遗憾的是，正如许多研究表明的那样，在女性、代表性不足的少数族裔、第一代学生和来自低收入背景的学生中，选择计算机科学研究职业的学生比例甚至更低。 专注于计算机科学，特别是系统领域，我们认为研究生涯中这种不幸的消耗很大程度上源于对计算机科学（CS）研究的基本误解和缺乏了解。受这一观察的启发，为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一系列新的年度暑期研究学校，旨在让学生短暂但深入地接触系统研究。 高级想法是提供一个引人入胜的环境，让学生可以与计算机科学多个领域的杰出研究人员进行互动，但要在足够短的时间内（大约一周）进行互动，以吸引可能对研究成果持怀疑态度的学生。该提案寻求资金支持来自美国的学生参加暑期学校的旅行和住宿（我们预计全球有 100 名参与者）。 我们相信，只有能够为所有参与学生的旅行和住宿提供全额财政支持，该计划才会成功，因为这将消除许多学生参加的重大障碍。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。