'frontier of research' is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the most current and advanced research in a particular field. For example, you might write, "In the field of artificial intelligence, the frontier of research is rapidly advancing."
Quite so.Yet who can deny, as the geographers complain, that at the frontier of research, abstract economic modelling and the real world have moved dispiritingly far apart?
In it Gauss organized and summarized much of the work of his predecessors before moving boldly to the frontier of research.
From languages designed specifically for robots to forms of communication based on colour recognition the president of the Language Creation Society says conlangs are on the frontier of research into how we define what language really is.
John McCarthy, a computer scientist who helped design the foundation of today's Internet-based computing and who is widely credited with coining the term for a frontier of research he helped pioneer, Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., died on Monday at his home in Stanford, Calif.
Accumulation of both real-time surface and subsurface geophysical data will help open a new frontier of research on the dynamic behavior of subduction zones.
A new frontier of research in the area of computational nanomechanics is to study the behavior of structures at very small length scales.
Every summer a university campus somewhere in the UK is besieged for one week by hundreds of visitors hungry for the latest news from the frontiers of research.
This approach makes perfect sense to me in fields on the frontiers of research where actual products or procedures are many years, at best, from entering practice.
COMPUTERS may come in all shapes and sizes these days, but on the frontiers of research they are becoming more esoteric than is easy to imagine.
So say scientists at the frontiers of research on the eternal question of what women find erotic, the latest answer to which seems to be: not naked guys, or at least not simply naked guys.
He knows the personal histories and anecdotes of his field, the obstacles that had to be overcome to reach our present state of knowledge, and the substantial uncertainties that dominate the frontiers of research.
