FYI, NSF has now posted the details on the FY2009 round of the CDI 
initiative

http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503163&from=fund

From the description,

"Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF's bold five-year 
initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research 
outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational 
thinking.  Computational thinking is defined comprehensively to 
encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and 
tools."

Probably encompasses at least some of what some of us do. Work must be 
inter-disciplinary; preliminary proposal deadlines are 8 Nov to 9 Dec. 
Most of the grants in the first round of the program were in the $300K - 
$1.5M range. Lots and lots of details on the NSF web site, of course.

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