RECENT PROGRAM CHANGES
• Scope widened from mathematical analysis to
mathematical, engineering and/or behavioral analysis
• Increased focus on complex phenomena for which
first/basic principles have not yet been well developed
– Physical phenomena
– Behavioral phenomena
– Abstract phenomena in information theory and
networks
• Balance between analysis for “hard,” physics-based
areas and analysis for “soft,” information- and
behavioral-based areas shifted toward latter
• New name: ?