Subject: NIST ATP (fwd) Resent-Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:48:56 -0500 Resent-From: Geoffrey Fox Resent-To: p_gcf@npac.syr.edu Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:10:58 -0500 (EST) From: Wojtek Furmanski To: Geoffrey Fox CC: Wojtek Furmanski ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 11:38:17 -0500 (EST) From: Wojtek Furmanski To: Edward A. Bogucz Cc: Wojtek Furmanski Subject: NIST ATP Ed, I'm trying NIST ATP (Advanced Tech Program) proposal as Translet. ATP funds risky R&D in corporate env that could make quantum leaps in advancing U.S. economy. Universities are welcome to participate (and in fact most good ones are) but as subs, i.e. business is to lead (but it is not a product development either, just risky applied R&D). Any business and any topic go but small businesses are encouraged and they traditionally score 50% awards. Proposals are up to $2M, only direct costs can be charged to ATP, and cost sharing is welcome for small and compulsory for large companies. I was encouraged to apply by Marcie Sonneborn who reviewed my DoD SBIR proposal on WebFlow/UML I submitted to Rome Labs in Jan. My practical problem is that I have no way to burn out/convincingly ask for $2M as tiny Translet so I need other souls, and I think University partners would work best for me. I am also contemplating to get on board my corporate partner Teknowledge Corp. (with whom I have pending DARPA proposals and who already are happy recipients of NIST ATP for dist edu) but I'm not sure yet as they would likely try to dominate the project. The technical idea is going to be something like "WebFlow done right" i.e visual point-and-click authoring environment for Internet Programming based on emerging standards like CORBA Components, Enterprise Java Beans and all that. We build it based on lessons learned from NPAC prototypes and we use a suite of strategic application domains to drive the core design. Translet develops the core infrastructure and subs come as advanced application domain experts: Utpal Roy/MAME for Collaboratory/Agile Manufacturing Geoffrey/FSU for Science Portals (i.e. NCSA Alliance stuff) ? Perhaps Teknowledge for Knowledge Bases, Intelligent Agents etc. I talked to Utpal who is enthusiastic to participate (and has NIST funding) and Geoffrey seems to be open to collaborate as well (will talk to him later today to clarify his position re WebFlow etc.) My question to you is if you have any suggestions re other possible critical app domains and potential SU academic partners? Based on what I learned about various EECS faculty research during my interview, I see several of them could contribute a lot to the core, for example Steve Taylor or Shiu-Kai Chin, but I'm not sure there is enough time to get them on-board for this proposal which is due early March (also not clear if they would be willing to be subs to a tiny company..). On the other hand, I would imagine that someone like Charles Driscoll could be perhaps interested as he could only win something and has nothing to lose by participating and bringing his domain expertise to such project? What do you think and do you have any other suggestions? thanks Wojtek