The National Science Foundation awarded $800,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, San Diego from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project grant funding will support the development of lifelong learning algorithms using hyperdimensional computing, a brain-inspired framework for distributed computing. Specifically, the awardee will advance algorithms for similarity search, density estimation, and clustering as building blocks for lifelong machine learning. The algorithms will be implemented in hardware on a network of low-power sensors and evaluated in an application involving air quality sensing. If successful, the work could enable more flexible and energy-efficient artificial intelligence systems capable of handling changing environments. The sub-awardee, the State of California Controllers Office, will assist in administering the grant funds.