The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $262,300 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program to Iowa State University of Science and Technology. This 3-year grant, which began on March 1, 2024, will fund research to address the critical issue of replicability and reproducibility in scientific research involving randomized computations. The project aims to: (1) define and formalize new concepts of replicability across computational...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded New York University $180,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support the Repeto Project from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The project aims to foster practical reproducibility in experimental computer science research through community-driven efforts. Key deliverables include the development of teaching methods for packaging experiments for...
The National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure awarded the University of Chicago a $390,000 project grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to establish the Repeto Project from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The Repeto Project will foster reproducibility practices in experimental computer science research and education. It aims to understand the costs and benefits of reproducibility, barriers to...
This three-year National Science Foundation Project Grant of $287,995 provides funding for collaborative research on weak derandomizations in time and space complexity. The grant is awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of Nebraska from October 2021 through September 2024. As the prime awardee, the University of Nebraska will work with researchers to advance understanding of computational complexity theory through investigating...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 in funding to Northeastern University from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027. The primary objective of this research project is to advance the understanding of randomness in computation, with the goal of improving the performance and security of everyday technology. Key areas of investigation include pseudorandom...
The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $250,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to Stanford University from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The project grant funding will support research aimed at advancing statistical methods to measure replicability of scientific findings across multiple environments and populations. Specifically, the grantee will develop new approaches leveraging techniques such as...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $224,999 in funding to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to support research on new directions in data streaming models and algorithms. The key research themes include: Initiating a study of a new "right to forget" data stream model to address privacy concerns and the explosive growth of data generation. Exploring the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $249,591 Project Grant to the University System of New Hampshire's Office of Sponsored Research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award beginning May 1, 2022 will support the development of resource-efficient, strongly consistent replication technologies for cloud computing environments. As the prime awardee, the University System of New Hampshire will deliver replication...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $155,000 Project Grant under the Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, doing business as the University of Nebraska, for research in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. The project focuses on three areas: symbolic powers of ideals and higher-order polynomial interpolation, homological properties of symmetric ideals, and the algebraic Lefschetz property. The research...
This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to develop artificial intelligence approaches for sequential collective decision-making to address societal challenges. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the three-year award beginning September 2023 aims to establish theoretical and algorithmic foundations for responsible and equitable AI that makes fair tradeoffs over time across objectives in...