The University of Washington was awarded a $316,356 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop novel algorithms and tools that empower individuals who are blind to safely manage private visual content. The goal is to advance computing and information sciences research...
The University of Washington was awarded a two-year, $165,949 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support collaborative research on natural language (variety) processing from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2023. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication sciences and technologies through...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $581,783 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "CAREER: NEW APPROACHES TO MANAGING LIFECYCLES OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the University of Washington's investigation into new techniques for managing the lifecycles of digital materials shared...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $198,607 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation (Georgia Tech) to conduct collaborative research on understanding and combatting impersonation attacks and data leakage risks in online advertising networks. The project aims to: 1) define and enumerate a new class of privacy threats from ad networks' cross-device user tracking efforts, 2) develop...
The University of Washington was awarded a $549,843 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "CAREER: KNOWLEDGE-RICH NEURAL TEXT COMPREHENSION AND REASONING" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2026. This Project Grant will support the development of new natural language processing techniques focused on enabling computers to comprehend and reason about text at a deeper level through the...
New York University will receive $333,708 from the National Science Foundation under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) for a project grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: METHODS AND TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE, AUDITABLE, AND INTERPRETABLE ONLINE AD TRANSPARENCY." Over a four year period from May 2022 to April 2026, NYU researchers will map current online advertising transparency mechanisms, develop methodologies to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $499,945 project grant to the University of Washington from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research investigating lower bounds on the complexity of concrete computational problems. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communication sciences and engineering. This award furthers that goal by...
This $700,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this 5-year project is to enable computer science researchers to better identify and mitigate potential undesirable consequences of their innovations. The research team will develop a web-based system to allow researchers to: (a) document case studies of negative...
The University of Washington was awarded a three-year, $599,995 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CNS CORE: MEDIUM: RECONFIGURABLE KERNEL DATAPATHS WITH ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS" to be conducted between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2024. Specifically, the University will investigate...
The University of Washington was awarded a $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RI: MEDIUM: SUBMODULAR INFORMATION FUNCTIONS WITH APPLICATIONS TO MACHINE LEARNING" from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The project aims to advance the development of submodular information functions and their applications to machine learning, as...