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Mr. Dariusz Jack Slawiec, M.Sc.Global Solar Thermal & PV Energy ConsortiumWarsaw, Polandhttp://tinyurl.com/solarfarms eConsortium of high-tech developers, integrators, inventorsphone +48 600 733322 (EU)Global Mobile 2D Codes Worlds (GM2DBW)http://tinyurl.com/GM2DBWGlobal Mobile Money Transfer Micro-Payments Micro-Loans Micro-Credits USSD Gateway SMS Gateway.Global Mobile Money HUB (GMMH)http://www.tinyurl.com/globalmobilemoney/International MOO2009 Conference - Chairdariusjack2006@yahoo.ie http://tinyurl.com/6gdb4w  -- about Dr. Takeshi Utsumihttp://tinyurl.com/GLOSAS -- about GLOSAShttp://tinyurl.com/4o6ach -- about Peace Gaminghttp://tinyurl.com/5s345h  -- about FiberAfricahttp://tinyurl.com/NobelPeacePrize2008  -- about Peace Prizehttp://tinyurl.com/PresidentMarttiAhtisaari  -- about Martti Ahtisaari

References:

(a) The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) and The Global University System (GUS) (January 21, 2012)<http://tinyurl.com/886ptac>

(b) Concept Note: The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with Global University System (GUS) In Rwanda (November 20, 2011)<http://tinyurl.com/82uhmn6>

Dear Darius:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I below) -- awfully sorry for my belated reply.

(2) I recently found a funding source which may be suitable for you;

(a) BBC News, February 24, 2012;“EU's 'frontier funder' turns five”<http://tinyurl.com/7tymuva>

(b) European Research Council (ERC):“Supporting top researchers from anywhere in the world”

(i) <http:// erc.europa.eu/ >(ii) <http://tinyurl.com/72pu6uu>(iii) <http://tinyurl.com/7xkvlro>

Since our GUS/GEWS projects are multidisciplinary and multinational, it may suit to this ERC program — listen to the audio clips in the Item (2)-(a) above.

Although it says that the fund would come to individual researchers rather then the institutions they belong, you may still need to have such institutions which can receive the fund and administer it for you.  So, pls locate an appropriate one of your choice in Poland.

(3) I greatly appreciate your continuing strong interest and willingness to work with our GEWS/GUS projects.

Pls come up a concept paper (with its text within 4 pages) for your GEWS/Poland as similar to GEWS/Rwanda (see Reference (b) above) revising the Reference (a) above, which you worked last month for a book of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) XIII conference in Qatar in April.

(4) When you come it up, I will then pass around to our colleagues in other EU countries asking to come up similar ones for their countries.

All of them may be combined and be submitted to ERC, as yet each applicant to receive their portion of the fund individually, if approved.

The objective is to construct the distributed simulation system of socio-economy-energy-environment system in Europe, which will then later be interlinked to similar ones in Africa, Central Asia, South and East Asia, Americas, etc.

BTW, our Spanish colleagues have already started working on to have their planning workshop in Madrid this coming summer.

As interlinking and combining the models of other European countries, you would be able to form a virtual European Union model — which you wished to have.

(5) Our colleagues here in NYC is now preparing a concept paper which is to be submitted to;

(i) NSF and USAID Jointly Launch International, Interagency PEER Program to Advance Science Collaboration With the Developing World<http://tinyurl.com/6ttzqmq> (ii) New Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) of the State Department,<http://www.state.gov/g/cso>

(iii) U.S. AFRICOM Mission Needs<http://tinyurl.com/7ggfzso>

When it is completed, I will pass it to you for your reference.

(6) Pls send me the followings;

(a) Full address (name of your affiliation, snail mail address, phone/fax, URL, etc.),(b) Brief (1/2 page) descriptive bio,(c) Photo,See others for the above at <http://tinyurl.com/72dg7ps>

(d) 2 page CV — see mine at <http://tinyurl.com/2esr94l>

Looking forward to receiving your prompt response,

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: Darius Jack <dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie>Subject: Re: Respectfully inquiring fund for our GEWS planning workshopDate: February 1, 2012 11:20:45 AM ESTTo: Takeshi Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com>Reply-To: Darius Jack <dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie>

Dear Tak,

Today your links are on (Firefox).

Already 15 years with Global University System,I would like to work for you, representing Poland, as you don't plan one-man representation for the European Union.

Tell me what you need.

Darius

From: Takeshi Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com>To: Darius Jack <dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie> Cc: Takeshi Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 17:35:00Subject: Re: Respectfully inquiring fund for our GEWS planning workshop

Dear Darius:

They are now working with Safari.

Thanks for your continuing interest.

Best, Tak

On Jan 31, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Darius Jack wrote:

Dear Tak,

Web links coming with the following passage are not active

"(ii) Construction of global virtual supercomputer with globally scattered simulation models in laptops, all of which would act as a single global model by interlinking them via broadband Internet <http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a> <http://tinyurl.com/3y3gzup>,"

Darius

From: Tak Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com > To: Amber L. Story <astory@nsf.gov > ; Dr. Edward O. Murdy <emurdy@nsf.gov > ; Julia Skapik <jskapik@nsf.gov > Cc: Tak Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com > Sent: Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 0:06:03Subject: RE: Respectfully inquiring fund for our GEWS planning workshop

Amber L. Story, Ph.D. <astory@nsf.gov>

Dr. Edward O. Murdy <emurdy@nsf.gov>

Julia Skapik <jskapik@nsf.gov>

References:

(a) Concept Note: The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with Global University System (GUS) In Rwanda (November 20, 2011)<http://tiny.cc/br2ya>

(b) Concept Paper to Create a Central African Hub of Global Early Warning System (GEWS) and Global University System (GUS) For the Sustainable Development of the Congo River Basin In Relation to Democracy and Governance (November 26, 2011)<http://tiny.cc/r6f9i>

(c) Concept Paper to Create a South Asian Hub of Global Early Warning System and Global University System in Bangladesh (November 9, 2011)<http://tiny.cc/2s5az>

(d) FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA: Framework for NIGCOMSAT Communications Satellite & Research and Development Training Centre.<http://tiny.cc/q6key>

(e) PROJECT CONCEPT: ESTABLISHMENT OF CLOUD COMPUTING SIMULATION CENTER FOR GLOBAL EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (GEWS) WITH OPERATIONAL HUB DOMICILED AT THE NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS SATALLITE LIMITED, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF

NIGERIA.<h ttp://tiny.cc/hp94v>

(f) Concept Paper on The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) for The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) (November 19, 2011)<http://tiny.cc/p94s7>

(g) First Planning Workshop: The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with The Global University System (GUS); To be held at School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University (tentative), Date: (tentative); (September 26, 2011)Attached file <GEWS Planning Workshop_v9_[tu110411].pdf>

(h) Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"<http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a>

(i) The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) and The Global University System (GUS), (January 21, 2012)<http://tiny.cc/a6k5b>

(j) Speech made recently by former Prime Minister Hatoyama at Tokyo Institute of Technology<http://tinyurl.com/29u8wte>

Dear Dr. Story:

(1) Many thanks for your prompt reply of January 23rd (ATTACHMENT I below) in response to my msg sent to you on January 19th (ATTACHMENT II below).

(2) Upon your suggestion, I studied the PEER program.

However, I found that, according to a PEER program rule, we can encourage our colleagues in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, and Nigeria (References (a) to (f) above) to apply for this program -- ONLY AFTER we receive a grant from your NSF.

(3) Subsequently, we would like to know from you about an appropriate program at your NSF to which we can submit our application of $250,000 to organize our first planning workshop at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University (Reference (g) above).

This workshop will officially start our Global Early Warning System

(GEWS) project (Reference (i) above which is the outgrowth of GCEPG — Reference (h) above).

(4) The mission of our GEWS project is to foster rational scientific thinking and methodology for policy analysis, evaluation and planning among young bureaucrats and would-be decision-makers (especially women) for implementing effective strategies managing energy, environmental sustainability, national prosperity (Reference (j) above (*)). This training is for leadership skills, conflict resolution and management, negotiating in conflicts around scarce resources, increasing population and climate changes. GEWS in various countries will be equipped with a national simulation model, which are interlinked through Internet to form a global model for globally collaborative peace building, which can effect positive change for millions in Africa and developing regions.

(*) Mr. Hatoyama, former Japanese Prime Minister made this speech at the Tokyo Institute of Technology when he passed over his prime ministership to Mr. Naoto Kan, my junior alumni.

There is a companion global alliance of major universities called the Global University System (GUS) <http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7>, as a part of UNESCO Program, started with funds from the World Bank, US National Science Foundation, etc., in 1999.  This GUS will support GEWS project.

(5) At this workshop we will discuss overall administration and coordination procedures of GEWS projects in various countries (Reference (i) above or <http://tiny.cc/a6k5b> <http://tiny.cc/a6k5b%3E>) and the ones which we have already been working with;

(i) the National University of Rwanda, assisted by the Presidential office of the Rwandan government and the UNDP in New York (Reference (a) above), (ii) the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Reference (b) above), (iii) Brac University in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reference (c) above) and (iv) ECOWAS in Nigeria (References (d) to (f) above).  

Each of them focuses on the collaborative management of water among the countries of Nile-, Congo-, Niger- and Ganges-river basins. There will also be profound implications for education, telemedicine, and democratic processes.

(6) At this workshop we will also demonstrate the GEWS concept by

verifying energy policies of Gore/Obama to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, which may bring devastating consequences to the Nigerian government, since 97% revenue comes from oil and 40% of Nigerian oil export goes to the US. We will examine the effect of this upon Nigeria’s economic and social structures. This gaming/simulation exercise in collaborative fashion may be continued between Columbia University and Nigerian universities (References (d) to (f) above) in the future.

(7) Our GEWS has following innovative “paradigm shifts”;

(i) International political science with the combined use of “normative (role-playing)” gaming and “quantitative (model-based)” simulation based on “facts and figures,”

(ii) Construction of global virtual supercomputer with globally scattered simulation models in laptops, all of which would act as a single global model by interlinking them via broadband Internet <http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a> <http://tinyurl.com/3y3gzup>,

(iii) Our GEWS’ repetitive simulation approach is also to back up the validity of the intangible variable, such as the so-called “Gross National Happiness” Index, which is now forging ahead with the Japanese government after the trip of the king of Bhutan to Japan,

(iv) Our GEWS system is to become a simulator/trainer on a global socio-economic-energy-environmental system for bureaucrats and future leaders (particularly women) at various levels of government, similar to those of a nuclear power plant with a hands-on experiential learning apparatus.

(8) Our GEWS is to follow the success story of “computer mediated negotiation technique” with which the United Nations enacted the “Law of Sea” with consensus of 150 countries as transforming adversaries into collaborators <http://tinyurl.com/2g3teej>.

African colleagues will create their own GEWS with us.  At their planning workshop, they will form task teams on various subjects, e-learning, e-healthcare, e-governance, etc., which will then construct their project proposals for their subsequent 5 year activities, which in a combined form will be submitted for Japanese ODA funds, through Japanese Embassies in their countries.  The Japanese government pledged US$ 3.5 billion for education <http://tinyurl.com/28zukro> and $ 5 billion for healthcare <http://tinyurl.com/26mfuf7> (**) (***).

(**) These pledges were made by the then Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Kan, when he came to the UN General Assembly in the fall of 2010 — see the above Item (4).

(***) With the help of Dr. Federico Mayor, former Director General of UNESCO, our Spanish colleagues are now working to hold their planning workshop in this coming summer in Madrid, and to get funds from the European Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Industry/Avanza Program <http://tiny.cc/xmqla> to assist our African colleagues.

Global warming will lead to environmental, social and economic havoc with raising consumption, population increase and the rise of living standards, which are causing serious resource scarcity, particularly water in many parts of the world. This will inevitably lead to severe conflicts of interest among various stakeholders. I am firmly committed to global peace out of my devastating experience during the WWII in Japan.

It is now urgent to educate future leaders to meet with fierce resource competition and potential conflict, using systemic simulation models to play out different policy scenarios and then make informed decisions. Gaming/simulation is the best tool we have for understanding the world's confrontation prone problems. Their understanding gained with scientific and rational analysis and critical thinking with the gaming/simulation could be the basis of global peace. The GEWS will particularly be suited for this situation fostering camaraderie among game players around the globe.

(9) I created the Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) of the International Society for Computer Simulation.  When I was its General Chairman of the 1971 SCSC in Boston, I invited team members of the “Limits to the Growth” project from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I then realized a major flaw of the project with an aggregated world model, since it clearly violated the Iron Rule of simulation “Make simulation as close to simuland as much as possible,” when ignoring the national boundaries, the basic fact of our human society. My idea of “Distributed Simulation System” was then born to have models of each country built by their experts, which are then to be interlinked with one another to form a virtual global model.

I then encountered with the demonstration of ARPANET at the First Computer Communication Conference held in Washington, DC in October 1972 <http://tinyurl.com/6jtd4jl>, when I presented my paper "Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)" (Reference (h) above), which has now outgrown itself to become our

current GEWS project.

In 1970s to 80s, I then spent considerable time, effort and private funds to extend the US data telecom to Asian countries, particularly to Japan, initiating the advent of global Internet <http://tinyurl.com/6jtd4jl> and <http://tinyurl.com/lyysx>.

I deregulated Japanese telecom policies for the use of email with the help from Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge, which led to the privatization of Japanese telecom industries. These were emulated in other countries, thus having now 2.5 billion email users nowadays around the world <http://tiny.cc/rdd51> and <http://tinyurl.com/bdcjha> -- even leading to the so-called “Arab Spring.”

Since there was only text-oriented email which was not suitable for the transmissions of engineering diagrams and medical images, I conducted a series of “Global Lecture Hall” multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia, interactive video-conferencing in the 1990s spanning the globe using many satellites free of charge (with a million dollar equivalent in-kind services), initiating the global e-learning movements <http://tinyurl.com/6r8c63>.

I then initiated the Global University System (GUS) project, with funds from World Bank, US National Science Foundation, etc., at the University of Tampere in the summer of 1999 <http://www.uta.fi/%7etitava/EGEDL/>, <http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7>.

(10) Our GEWS project is visionary, yet meeting with the current urgent need to foster young future leaders for solving global complex inter-related problems collaboratively on policy analysis and evaluation with rational and scientific methodology.

Our list-serve forum (*) has currently more than 3,500 members <http://tinyurl.com/2fzx23e>.  Our colleagues in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Bangladesh, Spain, Poland, etc. are now preparing their planning workshops <http://tinyurl.com/7o5rvpp>. Their national simulation models are to be interlinked to one another to study of co-prosperity and sustainability.

(*) This list as well as our web <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/> have been administered by Prof. Greg Cole of the Univ. of Tennessee for many years in return for my publicizing his work on initial stage of World Wide Web browser during our “Global Lecture Hall (GLH)” videoconferencing, spanning the globe from Tennessee to Moscow in July of 1994,

which initiated his GLORIAD <http://tinyurl.com/4xag4bt> with substantial funding from your NSF. We hope to utilize this ultra high-speed broadband Internet for the peer-to-peer inter-linkage of our GEWS’ distributed simulation models scattered around the world, in the near future.

Thanks to these efforts and also for initiating the movement of global e-learning since early 1980s, I received the prestigious Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Distance Education in the fall of 1994, from Lord Perry, the founder of the U.K. Open University. The two-year senior recipient of the same award was Sir Arthur C. Clark, the inventor of the satellite.

Dear Dr. Story:

(11) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly support the “Paradigm Shift” of international political science with the combined use of “normative (role-playing)” gaming and “quantitative (model-based)” simulation (mentioned in the Item (7)-(i) above) based on “facts and figures,” rather than so-called, “political illusions.”  Our demo of GEWS concept on the verification of Gore/Obama energy proposition will be the extension of the current “normative” gaming done on “Human Rights and Oil Production” at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University with a former President of Shell Oil Development Company in Nigeria, who lived for a dozen years in Port Harcourt in Niger Delta area in Nigeria.

To this end, our partner Millennium Institute <http://www.millennium-institute.org> has already constructed national energy-economy simulation models of both the US and Nigeria, and we just need to develop their inter-linkages, following my previous experiences, such as;

(a) Construction of the Advanced Continuous Simulation Language (ACSL) with Dr. Ed Mitchell, my friend, which was named by me in early 1970s and used most widely around the world,(b) Preliminary design of process control simulator/trainer of ethylene plant at the Stone and Webster Engineering Company in Boston,(c) Exclusive use of the world largest hybrid computer for extraction of shale oil in the mid 1960a (while I was with Mobil Oil), computer which was also used for design of a space shuttle by Boeing engineers and for real-time simulation of Astronaut Armstrong’s first lunar landing by the MIT scientists in the late 1960s.

BTW, I engaged in similar gaming when Prof. Bob Noel at the Political Science Department of the University of California in Santa Barbara conducted it through ARPANET in early 1970s, assigning various universities to act as individual countries in the Cold-War era.  I asked him which university was playing for Japan. He said the University of South California. Then, I said to him, “However hard Americans study about Japan, they cannot think as Japanese, since they eat steak with knife and folk while Japanese eat noodles with chopsticks.”

I then got the University of Tokyo to join. Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld was a graduate student there. He received NSF funding to create the International Communication of Negotiation with Simulation (ICONS) at the University of Maryland <http://www.icons.umd.edu/>, inheriting my idea of having participants from real countries for his normative gaming through Internet.

Dear Dr. Murdy:

(12) For our establishment of GEWS/Nigeria, we are in contact with Nigeria Communication Satellite (Nigcomsat), Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) and others in Nigeria.

Late Prof. G. Olalere Ajayi, then Director General/CEO of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) of the Ministry of Science and Technology invited me to a half dozen universities in Nigeria several years ago, for my preliminary assessment of them for our projects.

I would be very delighted if you can kindly support our demo on the verification of Gore/Obama energy policy proposition mentioned above.

Dear Dr. Skapik:

(13) I would also greatly appreciate it if you can kindly support our demo of GEWS concept using the verification of Gore/Obama energy proposition mentioned above.

As mentioned in the Item (7)-(ii) above, this demo will be the first step in constructing a global virtual supercomputer with globally scattered simulation models in laptops which would be the new paradigm shift in the supercomputer field.

BTW, this was initiated by Dr. Max Gilliland in the early 1970s with the Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP) as stacking up 50 CPUs of

DEC/PDP-11, which was then emulated by the Thinking Machine of IBM. It was the world first Beowulf mini supercomputer.

BTW, Pet Mayfield, my professor at Montana State University, was then in charge of setting up a dozen supercomputer centers around the US while he was at the NSF, though they were not Beowulf type.

I introduced the HEP to NEC in Japan which then produced Earth Simulator (utilizing the vector-processing scheme of the HEP) with US$350 million of the Japanese government’s funding (which was once the world fastest supercomputer) — NEC then discontinued because over 85% of supercomputers in the field were then Beowulf, e.g., at Virginia Polytech with 1100 Apple desktops and Hiroshima University with 500 Fujitsu desktops (which is used individually with Window in daytime and connected with Linux in nighttime), etc.

(14) I look forward to receiving your response soon.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: "Story, Amber L." <astory@nsf.gov <http: //astory@nsf.gov > <http: //astory@nsf.gov < http: //astory@nsf.gov > /> >Subject: RE: Respectfully inquiring fund for our GEWS planning workshopDate: January 23, 2012 4:47:50 PM ESTTo: "Tak Utsumi" <takutsumi0@gmail.com <http: //takutsumi0@gmail.com > <http: //takutsumi0@gmail.com/ > >Cc: "Francisco Bozzano-Barnes" <paco.bozzano@gmail.com <http: //paco.bozzano@gmail.com > <http: //paco.bozzano@gmail.com <http: //paco.bozzano@gmail.com > /> >

Dear Dr. Utsumi,The GEWS project you describe is rather large and covers a wide and diverse range of topics, so it is difficult to advice you.  However, there are some activities at NSF and elsewhere that might be potentially relevant to your interests.  Regardless of which path forward you take, you will likely have to refine and focus your project to something more defined.

-         Smart Health and Well-Being, which touches on your interest in IT as well as well-being (broadly defined).

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504739-         PEER, a joint NSF and USAID venture.  In this activity, the foreign collaborator would need to submit a proposal as well.  There are restrictions on the countries and topics that are eligible. ht tp://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121003 -         In NSF’s Office of International Science and Engineering, I would direct you to Dr. Ed Murdy.  He knows much more about science in Nigeria than I do.Sincerely,Amber Story

 Amber L. Story, Ph.D.Deputy Division DirectorDivision of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

National Science Foundation4201 Wilson Blvd.Suite 995Arlington VA  22230email: astory@nsf.go <http: //astory@nsf.go > <http: //astory@nsf.go <http: //astory@nsf.go > /> vvoice: 703-292-7249fax: 703-292-9068

ATTACHMENT II

From: Tak Utsumi [mailto: takutsumi0@gmail.com ] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:33 PMTo: Story, Amber L.Cc: Tak Utsumi; Francisco Bozzano-BarnesSubject: Respectfully inquiring fund for our GEWS planning workshop Mr. Amber StoryDirectorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesThe National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22230 703-292-7249 <tel:703-292-7249>  <tel:703-292-7249 <tel:703-292-7249> > astory@nsf.go <http: //astory@nsf.go >   <http: //astory@nsf.go <http: //astory@nsf.go > / > v

Dear Mr. Story:

(1) Attached to this msg are the following files;

(a) Cover letter addressed to you.<12=01-19_v2_Letter to National Science Foundation.pdf>

(b) First Planning Workshop: The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with The Global University System (GUS); To be held at School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University (tentative), Date: (tentative); (September 26, 2011)<GEWS Planning Workshop_v9_[tu110411].pdf>

(c) Letter to Mrs. Johnson, Minister of Communications and Technology of Nigerian government, (8/22/11)<Ltr to Johnson with her acknowledgement.pdf>

(2) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly forward to appropriate division of your NSF, if our GEWS project does not meet with your program.

Looking forward to receiving your prompt response,

Very sincerely yours,

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.

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Amber L. Story, Ph.D.Deputy Division DirectorDivision of Behavioral and Cognitive SciencesNational Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 995Arlington, Virginia 22230 703-292-7249 <tel:703-292-7249> Fax: 703-292-9068 <tel:703-292-9068> astory@nsf.gov <http: //astory@nsf.gov >

Dr. Edward O. MurdyOffice of International Science & Engineering (OISE)National Science Foundation, Room II-1155 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 995Arlington, Virginia 22230

703-292-8707 <tel:703-292-8707> emurdy@nsf.gov <http: //emurdy@nsf.gov >

Julia SkapikDirectorate for Computer & Information  Science & EngineeringNational Science Foundation4201 Wilson BoulevardArlington, Virginia 22230(703) 292-8930 <tel:%28703%29%20292-8930> jskapik@nsf.gov <http: //jskapik@nsf.gov >

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