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04/16/2003 Archived Entry: "SURF"

SURF...Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program

Someone I love and respect a great deal is going to participate in The SURF program this summer which allows her, as an under grad student in computer engineering and mathematics, to:

Spend 12 weeks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a major government science and technology research center that is a century old and highly respected internationally...

Live in the Washington, D.C. area (Gaithersburg MD) for the summer, with travel and housing paid through her university (Southern Methodist University) from National Science Foundation funds...

Be full a participant in a research effort, with a project that is suitable to the period of time available and her educational background and interests....

Work directly with NIST scientists as a research advisor...

Attend a special weekly seminar program of outside speakers and partake of other science seminars
available at NIST...

Present her own research results to NIST scientists and other SURFers, toward the end of the summer...

Work with 14 other SURF students and summer hires in her division from universities across the country ...

Be provided a $4,000 stipend for the summer...

Areas of research being undertaken at the Information Technology Laboratory are wide-ranging. She will be working with Dr. Kevin Mills in the field of artificial intelligence systems evaluation/ computer communication/networking, particularly the ability of devices to detect each other. I think. It's way beyond this grandma.