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Note: meeting was cancelled; below are some updates
- EC/MPI Updates
- No EC meeting last week.
- Draft dates for the budget process have been shared; still under review but expect to have the budgets shared for input in early March anticipating a recommendation to the Director in late April.
- Email with more detail will be sent out next week (February 1).
- P&E cases are still in process - approvals have been coming through.
- The ADs would like to be proactive about imminent solicitations coming down for the National AI Research Resource from NSF, in order to avert scrambling at the last minute.
- ICI has already begun brainstorming potential hardware needs. Other groups will be looking at what the solicitations may require as well.
- Mary Pietrowicz has joined NCSA as a Senior Research Scientist in the Software Directorate. If anyone is looking for a researcher with extensive experience in Natural Language Processing, please connect.
- Draft dates for the budget process have been shared; still under review but expect to have the budgets shared for input in early March anticipating a recommendation to the Director in late April.
- No EC meeting last week.
- EngageNCSA - Speaker series kicking off on January 23 (3:30 PM). Please try to attend if you will be at NCSA.
- Overview of CAPS activities - Joaquin Vieira
- NCSA's Quantum Strategy - Santiago Núñez-Corrales and Bruno Abreu
- CropWizard - Kastan Day
- Engagement AD has kicked off - the posting is live: https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/9183?c=illinois&lang=en-US