NSF Funding opportunity (fwd) (fwd)
Administrador del nodo (mailto:postmast@DESIGN.FADU.UBA.AR)
Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:22:56 ARG
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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:22:56 ARG
From: Administrador del nodo <mailto:postmast@DESIGN.FADU.UBA.AR>
Subject: NSF Funding opportunity (fwd) (fwd)
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 21:50:16 -0600 (CST)
> > From: S. Kritikos <mailto:napoli@wwa.com>
> > To: GNA-Curriculum <mailto:gna-curriculum@list.uvm.edu>
> > Subject: NSF Funding opportunity (fwd)
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 5 Dec 96 13:01:01 PST
> > From: John Koza <mailto:koza@cs.Stanford.EDU>
> > To: mailto:genetic-programming@cs.Stanford.EDU
> > Subject: NSF Funding opportunity
> >
> > NSF has just announced a new initiative in Learning and Intelligent
> > Systems, with a first-year funding of about $20 million. The
> > announcement is up on the web site:
> >
> > http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/LIS/index.htm
> >
> > The scope of this initiative is not 100% clear from the outside, but
> > the core will involve support of collaborations across major
> > disciplines (e.g. biology, engineering, computer science, psychology,
> > education), hopefully to develop a more unified understanding of
> > learning mechanisms/models/designs/issues applicable to both natural
> > and artificial systems. Neural network models are mentioned, along
> > with several other paradigms, as a tool for understanding and
> > implementing learning in a more unified way across disciplines.
> >
> > Technology development and education will also be a major part of
> > this. The relative emphasis between basic science and software
> > development is still not entirely clear, but both will clearly have a
> > major role. It is clear, however, that there is White House interest.
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