May 15, 2012

Leaders from about 50 countries gathered for a two-day inaugural Global Summit on Merit Review, hosted by the National Science Foundation, agreed upon and released a set of merit review principles and established a Global Research Council. The merit review principles, crafted by the summit leaders, is recognized as an essential tool for evaluating scientific research.

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(Time: 31:01)

April 17, 2012

Tara Hutchinson and Jose Restrepo of UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, and Joy Pauschke of NSF's NEES program discuss the shake test of a five-story building outfitted with non-structural elements like elevators and wiring.

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(Time: 29:22)

March 29, 2012

Broadcast of OSTP-led federal government big data rollout, held on March 29, 2012, in the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC, and featuring: John Holdren, assistant to the President and director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Subra Suresh, director, National Science Foundation; Francis Collins, director, National Institutes of Health; Marcia McNutt, director, United States Geological Survey; Zach Lemnios; assistant secretary of defense for research & engineering, U.S. Department of Defense; Ken Gabriel, acting director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and William Brinkman, director, Department of Energy Office of Science. Each official announced initiative(s) that his or her federal government agency was embarking on to embrace the opportunities and address the challenges afforded by the Big Data Revolution.

The announcements were followed by a panel discussion with industry and academic thought leaders, moderated by Steve Lohr of the New York Times. Panelists were: Daphne Koller, Stanford University (machine learning and applications in biology and education); James Manyika, McKinsey & Company (co-author of major McKinsey report on Big Data); Lucila Ohno-Machado, UC San Diego (NIH's "Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and Sharing" initiative); and Alex Szalay, Johns Hopkins University (big data for astronomy).

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(Time: 1:56:35)

February 13, 2012

The National Science Foundation's $7.373 billion fiscal 2013 budget request is designed to ensure the nation's prosperity and competitiveness. NSF Director Subra Suresh discusses NSF's investments in fundamental research, advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, sustainability and education.

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(Time: 27:07)

February 9, 2012

NSF and Dr. Subra Suresh welcome two ambassadors to a workshop for NSF RAPID grantees. Remarks from the ambassadors of New Zealand and Japan will open the Feb. 9-10 NSF workshop on investigations concerning the recent earthquakes and ensuing tsunamis that deeply affected their countries.

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(Time: 30:10)

January 30, 2012

Markus Buehler of Massachusetts Institute of Technology explains how spider webs survive frequent assaults without failing--and how the silk is only part of the answer.

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(Time: 21:55)