The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $323,388 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of California, Davis. The grant, titled "Collaborative Research: Designing Smart Environments to Augment Collective Learning & Creativity," aims to examine how technological enhancements can optimize group learning, effectiveness, and decision-making. The research will develop large-scale online experiments and...
This federal Project Grant award of $225,974 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund research at Cornell University to investigate how technological augmentations can be optimized to enhance the learning and effectiveness of work teams, community groups, classrooms, and other collectives. The research aims to explore the parameters that drive group-directed learning in the areas of cooperative behavior, collective...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $106,000.00 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to augment collective learning and creativity. The 3-year project, beginning September 1, 2024, will develop large-scale online experiments and computational models to understand how technological mechanisms can...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,410 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a collaborative learning framework for dynamic and diverse computing environments, particularly focused on edge devices. The grant, under NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to innovate model-parallel collaborative learning by designing unique model architectures and efficient algorithms, facilitate practical on-device training and...
The University of Texas at Austin received a three-year, $250,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the development of an interdisciplinary global network focusing on aspects of learning, development, and culture to address global education needs. Key activities include leveraging technology, social science, and data science to...
This $111,984 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support a collaborative research project focused on mapping the state of AI ethics education across diverse higher education institutions in the United States. The project aims to: (a) comprehensively survey current and planned AI ethics education interventions, (b) develop a framework to understand how faculty perceive and conceptualize AI ethics...
This Project Grant award for $100,000 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research to explore future technological changes, identify skills with high expected future payoffs, and develop effective educational technologies and instructional approaches to enable worker reskilling and upskilling. The award will be used by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit research organization, to leverage...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,993 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports a collaborative research project on the "Foundations of Few-Round Active Learning" in supervised machine learning. The key objectives are to advance active learning algorithms and improve understanding of their capabilities in scenarios with limited interaction rounds. The research aims...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $445,554 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Arizona. The 5-year grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, supports a research project investigating how international politics and competition influence the global field of academic artificial intelligence (AI) research. The project employs social network analysis, natural language processing, and survey experiments to examine how...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Office of Research Administration. The grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: III: MEDIUM: VIRTUALLAB: INTEGRATING DEEP GRAPH LEARNING AND CAUSAL INFERENCE FOR MULTI-AGENT DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS", will fund the development of a virtual laboratory framework to model and predict the...