Project Grant 2426352
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $300,000 to the Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia to improve the sustainability of the smartphone ecosystem. The project aims to develop new software systems that extend smartphone usage lifetimes, mitigate the environmental impact of aging smartphones, and integrate sustainable computing concepts into computer science curricula....
- This federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to repurpose old smartphones as sustainable, battery-free sensors for environmental monitoring. The project will develop hardware platforms, algorithms, and methods to transform discarded smartphones into a long-lived, maintenance-free remote sensing system for monitoring tree phenotyping and river dynamics. The research focuses on...
- This $100,000 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 fund research at the Rochester Institute of Technology towards developing a methodology for designing sustainable software systems. Over the one-year period from September 2022 to August 2023, the researchers will conduct an empirical study of software applications in sustainability-relevant...
- This $100,001 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), supports the University of South Carolina in developing a methodology for software-driven sustainability. Over the one-year period from September 2022 to August 2023, the University will conduct an empirical study of sustainability challenges in emerging software domains like cyber-physical systems...
- This $570,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of DELPHI, an end-to-end framework that prioritizes environmental impact while considering user experience, performance, and efficiency when designing edge computing devices like wearables, phones, and sensors. The project aims to enable sustainable technological growth by allowing software and hardware designers to reduce...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $258,001 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University, to conduct collaborative research aimed at extending the lifetimes of partially broken computing equipment. The goal is to improve the sustainability of computing hardware by finding ways to repurpose and utilize components of devices that would...
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, CFDA #47.070, provides $600,000 to Duke University to develop a hardware/software co-design framework for sustainable computing systems. The framework aims to generate optimal hardware and algorithm designs that meet constraints of functionality, performance, sustainability, and other requirements. It will guide future sustainable hardware design and establish a holistic...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $299,994 to Clemson University's Division of Research is focused on developing a framework for sustainable revitalization of computing systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during industry expansion. The project aims to establish robust methods for optimizing the migration and lifecycle management of smart computing devices in order to minimize their...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program grant awarded $929,354 to Cornell University to develop the "DELPHI" framework - an end-to-end system that prioritizes environmental impact while designing sustainable edge computing devices like wearables, cameras, and sensors. Through this 4-year project, the researchers will: 1) quantify the environmental impact of edge device components and develop new carbon models, 2) create...
- This $150,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the CFDA Program 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering". The award, effective July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024, supports collaborative research on safeguarding the emerging "miniapp" paradigm within mobile "super apps". The research aims to investigate new security and privacy threats, design secure miniapp APIs, and...
This $300,000 Project Grant was awarded on July 15, 2025 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the CFDA program "Computer and Information Science and Engineering." The grant supports a collaborative research project at the State University of New York at Binghamton to improve the sustainability of the smartphone ecosystem. Key product deliverables include: Developing a new operating system principle that continuously measures, accounts for, and rewards the sustainability impact of software activities on smartphones. Creating new runtime systems to identify, circumvent, and survive software activities that may cause erratic smartphone shutdowns due to aging batteries. Designing cross-stack system architectures to repurpose legacy smartphones for application-specific uses and assemble multiple broken smartphones with complementary hardware. The research aims to extend smartphone usage lifetimes, mitigate the environmental impact of aging smartphones, and incorporate sustainable computing concepts into the computer science curriculum at the participating institutions. No sub-awards are planned under this award.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 7/16/25 |