This National Science Foundation project grant of $150,000 supports research at the University of Washington from July 2022 to June 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program. The research aims to advance understanding of open-source software project governance transitions to accountable community models through three main efforts. First, using data science to explore how accountability systems in open-source communities evolve with code and contributors. Second,...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations provides $499,995 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for research on "Collaborative Research: DASS: Accountable Open Source Infrastructure." The project aims to investigate the extent to which open-source software maintainers are accountable to different user groups, and how this accountability emerges and varies over time. The research will use qualitative...
The University of Pittsburgh has been awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070, "Computer and Information Science and Engineering") to conduct collaborative research on "DASS: Accountable Open Source Infrastructure." The goal of this 3-year project is to investigate the extent to which maintainers of open-source software are accountable to different user groups, and how this...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Social and Economic Science, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $100,000 to the College of William & Mary for a project titled "Enabling Comprehensive and Interactive Open Source Software License Compliance." The project aims to improve software accountability with respect to intellectual property law and open source licensing by developing an...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 project grant to Fordham University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will support research investigating new methods and tools to design software accounting for legal and regulatory requirements. Specifically, the university researchers will develop integrated methods aligning legal and engineering considerations from project inception. They will prototype collaboration tools...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research by the University of Colorado to assess the accountability of tax preparation software systems. The project aims to: 1) Explicate metamorphic relations from U.S. tax law requirements to enable automated testing of software compliance and accuracy, 2) Develop artifacts for formally verifying tax software's adherence to tax law,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award for $544,082 supports research to examine the structural barriers and facilitators for translating academic research to inform public policy. The study will elicit problem definitions and recommendations from decision-makers at public universities and research-funding philanthropies regarding how to improve the development of university-based infrastructure for research...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $134,432, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The award supports a collaborative research project that aims to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The researchers will use a novel mixed-method approach, combining empirical analysis of the scientific record with agent-based simulation models, to investigate both...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,737 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will fund a scoping project to explore developing an open-source ecosystem (OSE) that catalyzes the creation of robust statistical software for the Python programming language. The project aims to establish better...
This $389,385 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on June 15, 2025, aims to develop methods and tools to help online community leaders facilitate audience engagement and information sharing in real-time social media platforms. The 5-year project has two main goals: 1) create tools to support hosts in modeling audience behaviors and guiding...