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 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $258,469 to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to host a workshop on "Designing Accountable Software Systems". The workshop aims to assess the current state of research under the NSF's Designing Accountable Software Systems (DASS) program and explore the emergence of DASS-related issues in fields such as cyber-physical systems...
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 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,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $208,000 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). The grant funds the COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CCRI: NEW: WORLD OF CODE (WOC): THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURATED CODE RESOURCE TO SUPPORT RESEARCH IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING project. This project aims to develop a curated code resource to support...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The grant funds a 3-year research project focused on developing logical and semantic foundations for compositional assurance reasoning about the safety, reliability, and security of software systems when heterogeneous analysis methods are applied. The project aims to create reasoning principles...
Carnegie Mellon University was awarded a $350,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, which supports investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the grant will fund research into foundations and constructions for securely executing...
This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research at Carnegie Mellon University from May 2022 to April 2026 to develop foundations for end-to-end verified secure sandboxed systems. The researchers will design novel type systems and formal foundations to characterize confidentiality, integrity, and availability requirements for securely sandboxing third-party code. They will develop...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems supports research to improve collaborative practices for enhancing software accessibility for people with disabilities. The $174,607 award to Bucknell University, a private university, aims to study the software development process, identify best practices, and provide guidance to improve tools and organizational structures to promote software accessibility. The research involves...
This $206,542 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Indiana University will fund research to address privacy accountability challenges in the mobile software supply chain. The key objectives are: 1) understanding privacy accountability risks in third-party mobile code modules, 2) designing a privacy-accountable disclosure framework, and 3) continuously enforcing privacy accountability during...
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 interviews, surveys, and statistical modeling to develop a framework for understanding accountability within open-source communities and ecosystems. This work aligns with the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, which supports research and education across computing, communications, and information science fields. The project will run from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026. No subawards are planned.