Cooperative Agreement 90NWPG0011

This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...

This Project Grant award, valued at $147,947, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Loyola University of Chicago. The award period runs from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The objective of this project is to develop techniques to improve the energy efficiency of software for data centers, which currently consume approximately 2% of the U.S. energy use. The key products and services to be delivered include: A framework for automated...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a study at Georgetown University to develop an evaluation methodology for measuring the impacts of implementing large language model (LLM)-based tools to assist human experts working in federal, state, and local government programs. The project will compare the performance of LLM-only, human-only, and human-LLM hybrid responses across key metrics...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $149,976 to Purdue University from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project aims to explore the use of large language models (LLMs) to develop energy-efficient software solutions for data centers, which currently consume around 2% of the U.S. energy use. The key objectives are to: 1) Create a framework for automated energy optimization of software using targeted LLM prompts and...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop a holistic benchmarking infrastructure for evaluating large language models used in software engineering. The key activities include: Conducting surveys and interviews with the software engineering and machine learning research communities to gather requirements and understand barriers in evaluating large language models for code....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under CFDA Program #47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering", provides $300,000 to the University of Illinois to develop natural language processing (NLP) models that can simplify the development and maintenance of software tests (NLP4TEST). The key objectives are to create NLP models for tasks such as test generation, completion, update, and...

This $300,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at Northwestern University to enhance the retrofitting capabilities of emerging learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (LE-CPSS). The project aims to develop a cross-layer framework called "FLEX" that will make LE-CPSS architectures more extensible and their functionality more adaptive, enabling existing electronic...

Criticality Sciences, Inc. will develop the NetResilience software tool under a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology. The award falls under NIST's Science, Technology, Business and/or Education Outreach program (CFDA 11.620), which aims to stimulate technological innovation. NetResilience will provide scalable, cost-informed resilience metrics and mitigation guidance for networked infrastructure against catastrophic...

This $646,191 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDAⓇ 47.075) program supports the development and enhancement of the NewsScribe media analysis platform at Northeastern University. NewsScribe is an open-source software system that collects, organizes, and provides search capabilities for over 1.5 billion global online news articles, adding approximately 500,000 new stories daily. The project aims to modernize the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to integrate the study of software performance throughout the computer science (CS) curriculum. The project, titled "Integrating Software Performance Analysis into CS Education," will develop an education-centric software platform called "EduPerf" to help students and instructors assess software performance and write efficient code. The total funding for...