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 $299,994 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under their Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), aims to integrate the principles and practices of emerging technology laws into computer science (CS) curriculum. The University of Iowa will lead this 2-year effort to develop a layered educational plan that (1) starts with prerequisite-free foundation lectures and seminars, (2) infuses law into core CS coursework, and (3)...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,703 Project Grant to the Trustees of Boston University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025 to develop methods for integrating legal and technical approaches to privacy in the design of sociotechnical software systems. Specifically, the project aims to establish technical interpretations of legal privacy concepts that...
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...
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $299,990 Project Grant to Columbia University to develop a prototype system using large language models to assist in the review process for releasing government records. The project aims to determine the additional data and training required to achieve acceptable levels of accuracy in using large language models to identify information that is already in the public domain, in order to streamline the document review process. The iterative system...
This $250,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) with a period of performance from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2026. The grant supports collaborative research by a team of legal and engineering experts at The Johns Hopkins University to develop an automatic framework using machine learning and program analysis techniques to systematically...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,124,598.00 to fund the "REDDDOT PHASE 2: THE DIGITAL GOVERNANCE DESIGN PROJECT" over the period of October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The project supports the development of an interdisciplinary education model, the Digital Governance Design Clinic, which provides practical experience for doctors and lawyers in designing...
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 Division of Social and Economic Science awarded New York University a $545,000 Project Grant from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). This funding supports collaborative research on agent-based modeling at the boundary of law and software. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and information sciences research and education. This...
This $194,999 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to enforce expressive security policies using trusted execution environments. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building secure systems by automatically placing security-critical application components within secure enclaves, reducing the programming challenges. The work includes developing a...