Apto: collaborative research: global observatory and virtual laboratory for science and technology advance
Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- 2404109
- Recipient
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The University Of Chicago UEI ZUE9HKT2CLC9
- Awarding agency
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National Science Foundation
- Obligated
- $11,005,288
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 47.084 NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships
- Completion date 47% complete
- Place of performance
- Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Award details come from USAspending.gov.
Description
- Abstract
- Over the past half-century, the global geopolitical balance of scientific, technological, and economic leadership has shifted, with china?S meteoric rise and the ascendance of new powers including korea and india. Technological leadership requires driving advances and setting standards that catalyze the future of global productivity. To understand pathways that enhance U.S. Competitiveness in critical technology capacity, production, and use, this project will create a global observatory and virtual laboratory for U.S. Science and technology in the context of global advancement. IT will produce data sets and technology outcome models that capture the complex and emergent interdependencies among technologies; the funders, resources, researchers, and universities that catalyze and invent them; the workforces and organizations that produce them; and the markets that consume them. Drawing upon the power of deep neural network ?transformer? Architectures, the project will then build a deep-learned, chronologically trained, large language model (LLM) to function as a data-driven ?digital double? Of the global techno-scientific system. The LLM will embed research artifacts (e.g., articles, patents, products, related news, and their rich meta-data) in a high-dimensional space, mapping them to quantitative metrics of technology capability, production, and use. The project team will fine-tune our llms to capture changes in key metrics as corresponding trajectories within embedding space, and thus enable them to function as 1) a global observatory for technology catalysis, capacity, production, and use; and 2) a virtual laboratory for simulated experiments that can guide 3) causal estimation of relationships among policy levers (funding, competition, immigration), technology performance, and global leadership. They will also tune the llms and related models to enable customized extraction, structuring, and disambiguation of data on research, products, funding, and policy from novel sources to enrich modeled observations and predictions, which will enable the continuous incorporation of additional data and extraction of insight. Finally, they will use the models as resources for scientists and policymakers by building dashboards to provide funding agencies, policymakers, and researchers with the situational awareness required to improve the quality and diversification of their technology development portfolios. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.- subawards are planned for this award.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment | $3,000,545 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Amendment | $4,006,512 | |
| Amendment | $0 | |
| Original award | $3,998,231 |
Subawards
| Subrecipient | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Rector & Visitors Of The University Of Virginia | $327,631 | |
| Project Syntropy Inc. | $378,429 | |
| National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. | $30,208 | |
| The Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence | $2,758,451 | |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. | $152,499 | |
| Northwestern University | $311,109 | |
| Trustees Of Indiana University | $242,601 |
Quick answers
Who received award 2404109?
2404109 was awarded to The University Of Chicago by National Science Foundation on July 1, 2024.
How much is award 2404109 worth?
$11,005,288 has been obligated on 2404109.
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