Software

Agency:

National Science Foundation

Branch:

N/A

Program | Phase | Year:

SBIR | Phase I | 2017

Solicitation:

NSF 16-554

Topic Number:

IT13

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The official link for this solicitation is: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16554/nsf16554.htm

Release Date:

March 21, 2016

Open Date:

May 16, 2016

Application Due Date:

June 16, 2016

Close Date:

June 16, 2016

Description:

This subtopic focuses on information technology innovations that are embodied in software and provide important new or enhanced capabilities. Usually these capabilities will be generalized, rather than directed to a specific use case. Examples include (but are not limited to): enhanced computational speed or efficiency; new or improved functionality; improved or extended performance; increased ease of use and accessibility.

The range of possible innovations under this subtopic is too broad to attempt to describe here. Past examples of significant software innovations cover a wide range of technical approaches and resulting new capabilities, and include (but are obviously not limited to): Object-Oriented Programming; the GUI; HTTP; HTML; TCP/IP; SQL; internet search engine(s); the spreadsheet; word processing; MapReduce; virtualization.

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