The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The Ohio State University on September 15, 2023. This project, titled "POSE: PHASE II: ADVOCATE LED LONG-TERM GAMEPLAN FOR OPEN ONDEMAND (ALL GOOD)", aims to build an open-source ecosystem around the NSF-funded Open OnDemand web portal, which provides global access to high-performance computing resources. Key activities include...
This $738,226 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program aims to establish an open-source ecosystem (OSE) that will revolutionize machine learning (ML) for scientific discovery. The project, led by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, will leverage the existing MLCommons community to develop and apply foundation models for science. Key objectives include creating benchmarks, datasets,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $267,268 to the University of South Alabama to scope the creation of an open-source ecosystem (OSE) consisting of the Pretext and Runestone software applications. The goal is to support accessible science, technology, engineering, and mathematics open educational resources (STEM OER) through an infrastructure exceeding alternatives. Key products include curating methods for multifaceted, accessible, interactive STEM content...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Pennsylvania State University a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to support the "POSE: Phase I: A Path to Sustaining a New Open-Source Ecosystem for Materials Science" project. The grant will fund the development and execution of a strategic plan to establish a sustainable open-source ecosystem for computational thermodynamics tools, including the PyCalphad and ESPEI libraries. This...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) $900,000 "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SHF: MEDIUM: NATURAL LANGUAGE MODELS WITH EXECUTION DATA FOR SOFTWARE TESTING" Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to develop natural language processing (NLP) models to simplify the development and maintenance of software tests. Key objectives include test generation, completion, update, and migration across programming languages, targeting...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,697 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for the "POSE: PHASE I: AN OPEN-SOURCE APPROACH TO MEASURE AND ANALYZE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS SECURITY" project. This project aims to create an open-source ecosystem (OSE) for the measurement and analysis of embedded systems security, based on the existing open-source ChipWhisperer project. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 4-year, $252,007 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to Northeastern University. The grant supports the development and testing of AI-based programming tools to assist social and natural scientists with computer programming tasks. The research team is developing large language models and associated tools to support programming languages commonly used in the sciences, such as MATLAB and R, in order to make programming easier...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Notre Dame for the "POSE: PHASE I: HARMONY: HARMONIZING THE HIGH PERFORMANCE PYTHON WORKFLOW ECOSYSTEM" project. This 1-year effort seeks to harmonize Python-based workflow management, build sustainability, and better support complex computational workflows in research and commercial environments. The...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,737 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley. The grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will fund a scoping project to explore developing an open-source ecosystem (OSE) that catalyzes the creation of robust statistical software for the Python programming language. The project aims to establish better...