CI-TEAM (see solicitation) Demonstration Projects "signals NSF’s commitment to join with the national science and engineering community in the support of projects designed to prepare current and future generations of scientists and engineers to create, advance and exploit cyberinfrastructure. Since cyberinfrastructure promises to make state-of-the-art science and engineering research more accessible to all, it is expected that activities undertaken will broaden the participation of groups currently underrepresented in the science and engineering enterprise."
Proposals were due May 27, 2005. The program received 101 proposals representing 76 projects. Some of the 101 proposals are cross-linked as collaborative, inter-institutional projects. Ten awards are anticipated so the hit rate should be about 13% -- a bit higher than other programs of late.
Actually, that hit rate probably overstates things...to the extent that CI Team restricted institutions to a single application (at least this is the way it was handled at the University of Michigan). This means that a number of competitive proposals probably never made it into the pool -- so the actual number of submissions is an underestimate of the denominator in determining the likely success rate.
Still, ten awards is better than no awards!
Posted by: Tom Finholt | June 07, 2005 at 03:23 PM
Are you saying that the quality of the pool is unusually bimodal and thus the odds of success of a good proposal are higher than would normally be the case??
Posted by: Dan Atkins | June 07, 2005 at 09:59 PM