[Coral_current] NSF 2022-60 - DCL on Design for Sustainability in Computing (fwd)

[Tim Oates]

If anyone has ideas about the topic below, let me know.

   - tim


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Tim Oates, Professor
Department of CS and EE
University of Maryland Baltimore County
(410) 455-3082
https://coral-lab.umbc.edu/oates/

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 14:00:59 +0000
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Subject: NSF 2022-60 - DCL on Design for Sustainability in Computing




Environmental impacts of computing technologies extend well beyond their
energy consumption and require a holistic focus on broader sustainability.
Negative impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, depletion of rare earth
elements, and e-waste are exacerbated by the proliferation of computing
throughout society and treatment of computing systems as disposable
commodities with planned obsolescence. The current transition to a post
Moore era is an opportunity to look well beyond power efficiency to make
carbon and other sustainability metrics first order concerns in computing.
This requires a paradigm shift towards design for sustainability that treats
sustainability impacts as first order metrics and on equal standing with
performance, reliability, usability, and operational energy efficiency.



This recently issued Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 2022-60) Design for
Sustainability in Computing encourages the submission of novel and high
impact proposals that advance sustainability in all aspects of computing to
the CISE Core programs (NSF 21-616). The DCL invites transformative,
cross-disciplinary and potentially clean slate approaches to enable
sustainability across all levels of the entire computing stack from hardware
to networking to software applications. Proposals should consider diverse
notions of sustainability and propose suitable metrics for quantifying
impact. Traditional energy efficiency and power savings methods alone are
not in scope for this DCL. Computing techniques for sustainability in other
fields are not in scope for this DCL. This DCL seeks ambitious and
forward-thinking proposals on Design for Sustainability in Computing along
multiple dimensions that go beyond energy efficiency.



This DCL neither constitutes a new competition nor a new program. Rather,
interested proposers should prepare and submit proposals in accordance with
the instructions in the CISE Core program solicitation (NSF 21-616) and the
NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). Additionally, to
call attention to responsiveness to this DCL, the Project Summary should
include "SustainabilityDCL" in the keyword list. Proposals submitted to this
DCL will count towards the proposal limits imposed in the CISE Core program
solicitation.





Be safe,

Wendy



Wendy J. Nilsen, PhD

Acting Deputy Division Director

Information and Intelligent Systems

Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate

National Science Foundation

2415 Eisenhower Avenue

Alexandria, Virginia 22314

Tel: 703-292-2568

Email: wnilsen at nsf.gov

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