This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ethical framework to guide research on online communities. Awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year project will engage representatives from five online communities to create actionable guidelines. A team of researchers will follow a participatory process with community members and organizers to...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $240,900, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award, with an effective date of September 1, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2027, is for a collaborative research project titled "Developing Educational Resources for the Ethical Use of Pervasive Data." The project aims to address the ethical issues...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the CFDA program "Office of International Science and Engineering", provides $174,075 to the University of Maryland, College Park from April 1, 2023 through March 31, 2026. The funding supports qualitative case studies and analysis of historical and ongoing ethics governance projects within the field of computer science research. The goals are to characterize, evaluate 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 was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award will support the planning of a large-scale proposal to study the risks and benefits of generative AI-based systems for security and privacy. The goal is to develop a fully realized proposal that addresses the scientific questions, team and partnerships, and social impacts to be addressed. The research team will conduct...
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)...
This $191,532 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations will fund research at San Francisco State University on early career engineers' views of ethics and social responsibility. The grant is part of NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program, which supports basic research to strengthen scientific understanding of human behavior and decision-making. Specifically, the university will conduct a collaborative study...
This $311,529 federal Project Grant award, issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to develop mechanisms for safely using legacy unsafe software libraries in critical computer systems. The project explores techniques to encapsulate and isolate unsafe code, combining hardware-based and language-based approaches to secure interactions between legacy software components and the overall system....
This $849,964 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of an innovative artificial intelligence-based approach to ethics training. The University of California Santa Cruz will create an educational game that uses AI techniques to generate realistic interactive ethical scenarios tailored to individual player choices. This...
This $292,844 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund the development of a new organizational structure for envisioning new research directions in CISE that is informed by representatives across various disciplines. The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), a non-profit research organization, will lead this effort by conducting interviews and workshops to elicit...