Corpora: Request for Reviewing Help

Priscilla Rasmussen (rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu)
Tue, 7 Dec 99 17:29:07 EST

Subject: Fw: Please Read And Act!
From: Ephraim P. Glinert <glinert@cs.rpi.edu>

Folks: I'm contacting you because of your active involvement in the HCI
research community. There is something important I need to bring to your
immediate attention - time is of the essence. Please read the letter
below,
which has been widely circulated by NSF within the scientific community.
You may already have gotten one or more copies; if so, my apologies. I am
concerned that we act to ensure NSF has the right reviewer pool to give HCI
proposals the best possible chance for funding. What can you do?

o Please consider volunteering to as a reviewer yourself to
help with this enormous undertaking.
o Pass this announcement on to other qualified colleagues.
o Perhaps you have access to some appropriate mailing lists;
if so, please use them to circulate this message widely
and encourage others to participate.

BUT DO ACT RIGHT AWAY to ensure that our community gets its fair share of
the ITR pie! Thanks for your understanding and help. -Ephraim

**** URGENT! WE NEED YOUR HELP! YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE IS REQUESTED! ****

NSF is preparing for the review of proposals submitted to the Information
Technology Research (ITR) initiative for Fiscal Year 2000. The success of
this program depends critically on our ability to enlist the help of expert
reviewers such as you to help us identify the outstanding proposals. We
are building a pool of reviewers qualified in IT-related research areas.

ITR is a new $90M NSF initiative that aims to promote fundamental research
in information technology, encouraging in particular research spanning
information technology and scientific applications, and in the area of
social, ethical and workforce issues. Specific focus areas include:

1) software
2) information technology education and workforce
3) HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE
4) information management
5) advanced computational science
6) scalable information infrastructure
7) social and economic implications of information technology
8) revolutionary computing

The ITR Program Solicitation can be found on the NSF Web Page at:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf99167/nsf99167.htm

The Fiscal Year 2000 competition requires the submission of preproposals
by January 5, 2000 for all PIs who plan to submit full proposals requesting
more than $500K. The preproposals will be panel-reviewed during the week
of February 7, 2000 at three locations: 1) at NSF in Arlington, VA; 2) at
a location in Chicago, IL near O'Hare Airport; and 3) at a location to be
determined in the San Francisco area. Based on the results of the
preproposal screening, approximately 120 full proposals will be encouraged
for submission by April 17, 2000. Full proposals will be panel reviewed
at NSF on May 22, 2000.

A separate competition is being organized for those proposals requesting
less than $500K for the full duration of the award. For this category
of proposal, no preproposal is required. Proposals requesting less than
$500K are due at NSF on February 14, 2000. They will be reviewed during
the weeks of March 20 and March 27, 2000.

We would like to consider you as a potential panelist for this activity.
If you are involved in a proposal submitted to any area of ITR - as PI,
co-PI or otherwise as a participant - you are ineligible to serve as a
panelist. HOWEVER, PERSONS WHO ARE SUBMITTING PROPOSALS ONLY TO THE MORE-
THAN-$500K COMPETITION CAN SERVE AS PANELISTS TO REVIEW PROPOSALS IN THE
LESS-THAN-$500K CATEGORY, and vice versa. We welcome panelists from
foreign countries, national laboratories, and industry.

***** IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING PLEASE ACT TODAY! *****

Indicate your availability, and provide us with your information by
completing the ITR Panelist Entry Form at the following URL:

http://www.itr.nsf.gov/panelist

We urge you to fill out the form immediately, since we will start to select
panelists for the February 7 panel meetings within the next few days. NSF
will pay all travel costs in addition to $130 per travel day and $260 per
panel day. If you have other questions related to serving as a panelist,
please refer to the FAQ section of the ITR Home page at:

http://www.itr.nsf.gov/it2-faq.html

Finally, we would also appreciate it if you could forward this request to
other well-qualified IT scientists who you think may be interested. Since
ITR is a large-scale competition, and we have a number of people involved
in seeking panelists, we apologize if more than one person contacts you in
this regard.