From raghu@cs.wisc.edu Fri Jan 3 10:27:01 1997 Received: from ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (ricotta.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.67.19]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA26556 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:26:55 -0600 Received: (from raghu@localhost) by ricotta.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA25681 for dbworld; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:26:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:26:54 -0600 (CST) From: Barbara Blaustein Message-Id: <199701031626.KAA25681@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu> To: dbworld@ricotta.cs.wisc.edu **IMMINENT DEADLINE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY** Please pardon multiple copies of this message; please forward to interested colleagues... The newly formed National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) has announced a new funding opportunity under its University Research Initiative (URI). The URI is intended to "enhance universities' capabilities to perform research and related education in science and engineering areas critical to national defense and NIMA missions." SPECIFIC TOPIC TITLES FOR FY97 ARE: Intelligent agents for geospation information discovery and retrieval "Advanced Virtual Experts" - Knowledge Based and Expert Systems Like-feature detection Cognitive workload - key information needs in high-stress decision environments Uncertainty in geospatial information representation, analysis, and decision support Cognitive aspects of geospation information Formal models of spatial objects ***************************************************************************** PRE-PROPOSAL WHITE PAPERS (NO MORE THAN 5 PAGES) ARE DUE BY 4 PM EST, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1997 ***************************************************************************** For more information see http://164.214.2.57/.NIMA/URI.html (capitalization is important) Or, go through the NIMA home page (http://www.nima.mil/), Business Opportunities/Solicitations/PCS Best of luck to you all -- the data management community has much to offer here! --Barbara ================================================================== Barbara Blaustein Internet: bblauste@nsf.gov Database and Expert Systems Program Bitnet: bblauste@nsf National Science Foundation Phone: 703-306-1926 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1115 Fax: 703-306-0599 Arlington, VA 22230 URL: http://www.cise.nsf.gov/iris/DBEShome.html ================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER-