Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:37:36 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [192.100.21.30] ([192.100.21.30] verified) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.5) with ESMTPS id 11748664 for cni-announce@cni.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:00:26 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:03:07 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: NSF Call on Future Research Directions in Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The US National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) has issued a call for brief papers outlining grand challenge problems for the next decade or more in these fields. Given the rich and complex large-scale interactions among information, technology, individuals and societies, this seems to me to be a wonderful opportunity for the CNI community to offer perspectives on the research opportunities and challenges, as well as ideas about infrastructure capabilities and requirements. I would note that the Science Resource Statistics division, which seeks to understand the structure and development of science broadly, is also part of the SBE directorate. There is a short deadline on these submissions, which are requested by September 30, 2010. You can find full information on this call (in the form of an NSF "Dear Colleague" letter) at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10069 Clifford Lynch Director, CNI