The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering; its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about 8.75 billion dollars for fiscal year 2026, it funds approximately 25 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by the United States' colleges and universities, and in some fields, such as mathematics, computer science, economics and the social sciences, it is the major source of federal backing. It was established by the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 and employs about 2,100 people at its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.
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She retired from the Intelligent Information Systems Division at the National Science Foundation in July 2020.
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