Research Announcement DARPA?RA?10?76 July 2, 2010 seeks applications to the Computer Science Study Group.
Who is eligible?
An eligible participant must be a junior faculty member at a U.S. Institution of Higher Education. Participants should be no more than seven years beyond receiving a doctoral degree, pretenure junior faculty, with demonstrated exceptional potential for world?class contributions to the field of computer science. Each participant shall have intense research interest in a computer science topic of relevance to DoD and demonstrate novel ideas that lead to fundamental advances rather than incremental work in the field….
Topic maps fit the bill for being fundamental rather than incremental advance in the area of semantic integration.
Ask yourself: “Do I want to propose another ‘…teach the world (agency, government, etc.) to sing in perfect harmony‘ proposal, or do I want to submit something truly different? Something that makes sense out of a cacophony of data streams, while preserving the cacophony for later review?”
For what it’s worth, I don’t think terrorists will use vocabularies designed by intelligence agencies so they can “sing in perfect harmony.”
Pass this along to junior faculty members at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education and urge them to propose research based on topic maps.
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This announcement is US-centric but I am more than happy to post notices of funding opportunities from other governments or organizations that may be of interest to topic map researchers.