NSF Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (non-NC/GC) Budget Code:  
The Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic Research (SBER) was created at the beginning of 1993, by amalgamation of many existing programs. SBER is currently engaged in the development of a general plan for computing in the social and behavioral sciences, and it is examining how best to contribute to the HPCC component, IITA. There are five program clusters in SBER, and each one has held a workshop on aspects of high performance computing that relate to its disciplines:
  • Cognitive, Psychological, and Language Sciences cluster: 'Cognitive Science' workshop;
  • Anthropological and Geographic Sciences cluster: 'Computational Geography' workshop;
  • Economics, Decision and Management Sciences cluster: 'Computational Economics' workshop;
  • Social and Political Sciences cluster: Artificial Social Intelligence' workshop; and
  • Science, Technology and Society cluster: 'Electronic Networks' workshop.
SBER will be heavily involved in the IITA component, because its goals are close to the social and behavioral sciences.
Budget ($ M)
FY 95 Act 3.10
FY 96 Pres 2.14
FY 96 Est 2.14
FY 97 Rqst  
Program Component Areas
  FY 96 FY 97
HECC    
LSN 2.14  
HCS    
HuCS    
ETHR    
Agency Ties
DARPA  
NSF  
DOE  
NASA  
NIH  
NSA  
NIST  
NOAA  
EPA  
ED  
AHCPR  
VA  
Milestone Changes  
FY 1995 Actual Milestones FY 1996 Estimated Milestones FY 1997 Agency Requested Milestones
Established distributed processing geographic information systems for the National Information Infrastructure.

Adapted genetic algorithms, neural networks, and symbolic processors to a wide range of problems in the social sciences.

Demonstrated new methods for providing wide access to previously unavailable government statistics, while preserving data integrity and preventing misuse. 		Launch new competition for multi-disciplinary research groups to conduct research in advanced computing for the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

Support work on software and mathematical tools for the National Information Infrastructure.

Develop Cognitive Science activity in a partnership of the programs in Linguistics and in Human Cognition and Perception. 		This activity is now incorporated into the activity described under Applications.