Department Information Technology Research Initiative

September 2000

What is the Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative?

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced its first grants under the new $90 million Information Technology Research (ITR) initiative. The awards, which will spur fundamental research and innovative applications of IT, are a step toward building on U.S. leadership in this area of growing importance to the economy.

Selected from over 1,400 proposals, the newly funded activities will promote IT-driven science and engineering. Included are 62 large projects that will average $1 million per year for three to five years, involving 41 institutions in 22 states. Another 148 smaller projects will each total $500,000 or less for up to three years, involving 81 institutions in 32 states.

For more information, visit the National Science Foundation.

What faculty at the University of Colorado are involved?

There are two ways that faculty can be involved in ITR awards --- they can either be principal investigators of an award, meaning they play the organizing role in the proposed work, or they can be Co-PIs. In each case, the success of the ITR award is attributable to all the participants.

The following is a list of the awards, totaling over $14.5M, in which faculty at the University of Colorado are involved:

• ITR: Collaborative Research on Multiresolution Adaptive Spectral Element Solvers for Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics
  Gregory Beylkin (Principal Investigator current)
  Professor, Department of Applied Math
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  $211,294 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: An Interactive Experimental/Numerical Simulation System with Applications in MEMS Design
  Elizabeth Bradley (Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
    and Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  
  Xiao-Chuan Cai (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  Yung-Cheng Lee (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  $469,999 (Estimated)
  
  
  
• ITR: Energy and Quality of Service Aware Ad-Hoc Networking
  Dirk Grunwald (Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  
  Timothy Brown (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  $499,997 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: Research, Curriculum and Partnerships for Broadening the Information Technology Pipeline
  Robert (Bobby) Schnabel (Principal Investigator current)
  Professor, Department of Computer Science
  Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic and Campus Technology
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  
  $448,655 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: Revolutionary Computing Using Ultrafast Optical Soliton Switching
  Kelvin Wagner (Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  $499,002 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: Creating the Next Generation of Intelligent Animated Conversational Agents
  Ronald Cole (Principal Investigator current)
  Research Professor, Department of Computer Science
  Director, Center for Spoken Language Understanding
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  
  Jan van Santen (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Dominic Massaro (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Javier Movellan (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  $4,000,000 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: Framenet++: An On-Line Lexical Semantic Resource and its Application to Speech and Language Understanding
  Charles Fillmore (Principal Investigator current)
  Professor, Department of Linguistics
  University of California, Berkeley
  
  Jean Gawron (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Daniel Jurafsky (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
    and Department of Computer Science
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  Srinivas Narayanan (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  $2,098,356 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: Dynamic Cooperative Performance Optimization
  J. Eliot Moss (Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Massachusetts
  
  Charles (Chip) Weems (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Kathryn McKinley (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Amer Diwan (Subcontractor)
  Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  $3,156,901 (Estimated)
  
  
• ITR: New Approaches to Human Capital Development through Information Technology Research
  Bryant York (Principal Investigator current)
  Associate Professor and Research Director, College of Computer Science
  Northeastern University
  
  Juan Gilbert (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Roscoe Giles (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  Clarence (Skip) Ellis (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  Professor, Department of Computer Science
  University of Colorado Boulder
  
  Valerie Taylor (Co-Principal Investigator current)
  
  $3,176,944 (Estimated)