AFOSR PI’s Meeting in Syracuse
I’m spending the week in Syracuse, NY attending the Air Force Office of Scientific Research annual PI meeting. The meeting is a week long because they’ve combined the software and security presentations. Next year they plan to split them up, which is a shame since I have found the security presentations the most interesting.
I found out some other interesting tidbits of information: the NSF funds the majority (90% IIRC) of all university research in computer science, and AFOSR’s software research budget is increasing. Given the highly competitive nature of NSF funding, with 10% or less of proposals normally being funded, I’d bet that AFOSR will be getting more and more applications in the future as researchers look elsewhere.