How to Get that First Grant:
A Young Scientist's Guide to (AI) Funding in America
By Jim Hendler
This resource site contains the slide from a tutorial presented at the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), July, 1998.
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Contents
- How to Get that First Grant: A Young Scientist's Guide to (AI) Funding in America
- This Is Not a Grant Writing Seminar!
- Outline
- Entre Acte
- Terminology: Gifts, Grants, Contracts
- AI/CS Funders
- Corporate Funding
- Corporate Contracts
- Corporate Contract Caution
- Corporate Contract tips
- Government Funding
- US Government Funding
- Calls for Proposals
- Finding Out about Funding
- Tips
- Government Funding Types
- Funding Decisions
- Program Managers
- Program Manager's Needs
- National Science Foundation
- NSF Requests for Proposal (RFP)
- NSF Open RFP
- NSF Special RFPs
- NSF RFPs cont.
- NSF Career Awards
- NSF tip
- Department of Defense Funding
- DoD Service Funders
- DoD Labs
- DoD Lab BAAs
- Know Your Program Manager
- Know Your Program Manager
- Visiting (or Calling) a PM
- The White Paper
- Service/Lab Open BAAs
- DARPA
- The Key to Understanding DARPA
- Common Misunderstanding
- DARPA Reviewing
- Example Review Criteria/Ranking
- DARPA Desires New Ideas!
- A Funded NSF Proposal
- A Funded DARPA Proposal
- See the Difference?
- Specific DARPA Hints
- Specific DARPA Hints
- DARPA Note
- Grant Tips from the "Pros"
- TIPS From the "Pros"
- The Number 1 Tip
- Good Grants
- More General Grant Tips
- Know Your Audience
- Readability Is Important
- Budgets
- One Last Tip--BE VISIBLE
- Summary
- PPT Slide