Continuing its long-standing commitment to support groundbreaking research through Network Science and Engineering (NetSE), the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites research teams to submit innovative and creative proposals that describe projects to conceive, design, and evaluate trustworthy Future Internet architectures.  Proposing teams should include individuals with expertise in a range [...]

The primary goal of the Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI) Program is to support activities that lead to innovative cyberinfrastructure but are not currently funded by other programs or solicitations.  Eligible projects include development, deployment, research, and education necessary to create cyberinfrastructure, or creation of cyberinfrastructure that will enable innovative science and education.  Proposals submitted [...]

Transport networks are ubiquitous in both social and biological systems.  Robust network performance involves a complex trade-off involving cost, transport efficiency, and fault tolerance.  Biological networks have been honed by many cycles of evolutionary selection pressure and are likely to yield reasonable solutions to such combinatorial optimization problems.  Furthermore, they develop without centralized control and [...]

A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA’s experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight.  It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit.  On the ground, the Puffin is designed to stand on its tail, which splits into four legs [...]

Penn State University provides a great web resource for all engineering and science students with the models, exercises, and advice that it gives for over a half dozen type of documents they will likely encounter in their schooling and eventual professions.  On the left hand side of the homepage visitors will find “Student Resources,” “Instructor [...]

I have never seen anyone get so excited about cow dung as Eric Warrant.  We are driving through the wide open landscape of the dusty Araluen valley in New South Wales, Australia, when he spies a herd of cows lumbering away from their roadside water trough.  “This is perfect,” he enthuses, veering his rusty pickup [...]

It’s a laser, but not as we know it.  For a start, you need a microscope to see it. Gleaming eerily green, this laser is a single spherical particle just tens of nanometres across.  Tiny it might be, but its creators have big plans for it.  With further advances, it could help to fulfill a [...]

Popularization of portable electronics and electric vehicles worldwide stimulates the development of energy storage devices, such as batteries and supercapacitors, toward higher power density and energy density, which significantly depends upon the advancement of new materials used in these devices.  Moreover, energy storage materials play a key role in efficient, clean, and versatile use of [...]

The use of zeolite MFI-coated titanium alloy for bone cell growth and new bone formation in vitro is investigated.  The corrosion-resistant MFI coating is shown to be osteoconductive and to promote proliferation of human fetal osteoblasts (hFOBs) as compared to bare titanium alloy, Ti6Al4V.  The zeolite crystal microstructure appears to facilitate osteoblast adhesion and induces [...]

In the present study, in order to improve the performance and reduce the amount of power which is dissipated in heterogeneous multicore processors, the ability of detecting the program execution phases is investigated.  The programs execution intervals have been classified in different phases based on their throughput and the utilization of the cores.  The results [...]