This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $100,000 supports research at the University of California, Davis to develop tools and resources for transitioning open-source software projects to accountable community governance. The award period is from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2024. The project pursues three research questions using data science, case studies, and software engineering. Researchers will study how open-source communities define accountability systems and how these evolve with...
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 two-year, $247,596 project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the University of Washington to characterize and improve the sustainability of research software produced through prior NSF awards. The University of Washington will collect data on research software developed with NSF funding, including through surveys and...
This $264,077 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports early-stage interdisciplinary collaboration to design trustworthy and transparent information platforms. The University of Washington leads the effort to advance the development of research cyberinfrastructure enabling accelerated discovery and innovation in computing, communications, and information science. Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State...
This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to organize a multi-day "Ideas Lab" workshop that will bring together representatives from a broad array of research institutions. The goal is to ensure that the changing infrastructure, norms, and rewards promoting open science benefit the entire research landscape, not just highly resourced institutions. The workshop is intended to generate innovative research...
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 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...
Westat, Inc. was awarded a $258,832 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period November 1, 2022 through March 31, 2024. The grant funds a research project to measure the impact and diffusion of open source software innovation through analysis of contributor and project networks. Specifically, the grantee will characterize the open source software ecosystem using publicly available data on projects,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $247,818 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support collaborative research on multilingual language generation via understanding of code switching. The two-year project beginning October 1, 2021 and ending December 31, 2023 will advance development of technologies to generate natural language responses in multiple languages based on analysis of...