{"id":460,"date":"2010-08-15T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T21:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2010-08-15T17:48:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T21:48:04","slug":"and-now-a-word-from-our-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"And now a word from our sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I interrupt your regularly-scheduled P vs. NP programming to bring you a special message from Dmitry Maslov, the program director at NSF Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) who handles quantum information science.\u00a0 Besides paying for my CAREER grant (and thus, arguably, in an indirect sense, for this blog), Dmitry <em>also<\/em> happens to be one of my favoritest people anywhere: a stand-up guy who&#8217;s doing an incredible amount to help quantum computing research in the United States.\u00a0 So, given that what he wants is for us to send in more proposals, so that he can <em>help us even more<\/em>, I found it impossible to say no to his request for some advertising space on <em>Shtetl-Optimized<\/em>.\u00a0 Announcement follows.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Division of Computing and Communication Foundations at the National  Science Foundation invites proposal submissions in the area of Quantum  Information Science (QIS). NSF&#8217;s interest in Science and Engineering  Beyond Moore&#8217;s Law emphasizes all areas of QIS. The range of topics of  interest is broad and includes, but is not limited to, all topics  relevant to Computer Science in the areas of quantum computing, quantum  information, quantum communication, and quantum information processing.  Please note the deadlines:MEDIUM Projects<br \/>\nFull Proposal Submission Window:\u00a0 September 1, 2010 &#8211; September 15, 2010<\/p>\n<p>LARGE Projects<br \/>\nFull Proposal Submission Window:\u00a0 November 1, 2010 &#8211; November 28, 2010<\/p>\n<p>SMALL Projects<br \/>\nFull Proposal Submission Window:\u00a0 December 1, 2010 &#8211; December 17, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Additional information may be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&amp;org=CCF\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/<wbr><\/wbr>pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&amp;<wbr><\/wbr>org=CCF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I interrupt your regularly-scheduled P vs. NP programming to bring you a special message from Dmitry Maslov, the program director at NSF Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) who handles quantum information science.\u00a0 Besides paying for my CAREER grant (and thus, arguably, in an indirect sense, for this blog), Dmitry also happens to be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}