The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Chicago. The grant will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem around the Gen3 data platform, which enables researchers to manage, analyze, and share large scientific datasets. The project aims to expand the reach of Gen3 to smaller research organizations, making it easier to set up, maintain, and contribute to the...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) will create a Global Observatory and Virtual Laboratory for Science and Technology. The $3,998,231 project, running from July 2024 to June 2029, will develop data sets, technology outcome models, and deep-learned language models to map the complex interdependencies among global research, technologies, production, and markets. The models will...
This $198,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of Chicago. The grant supports the development of methodologies and programming frameworks for designing and implementing data-sharing market systems. The technical activities include designing and implementing a data-sharing programming framework, analyzing constraints and invariants of data flow control to aid...
The $499,998 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the University of Chicago's "A SECURE HUB FOR ACCESS, RELIABILITY, AND EXCHANGE OF DATA (SHARED)" project. The SHARED platform serves as a centralized data management resource to facilitate data-driven research and collaboration across diverse disciplines, including cosmology, particle physics, linguistics, and psychology. The...
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to build a next-generation genomic data processing system that incorporates state-of-the-art systems design principles. The key innovations include: (1) improving cluster scheduling policy using workload characterization and an execution time predictor, (2) developing machinery for independently-scheduled genomic tasks with...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1,384,726.00 to develop an open-source ecosystem for nucleic acid nanotechnology modeling. The goal is to create sophisticated modeling tools and an online platform to enable researchers to design and validate complex DNA/RNA-based nanodevices for applications ranging from biomaterials to diagnostics and therapeutics. The award...
This $600,000 two-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support the development of a first-of-its-kind open-source measurement infrastructure platform. The University of Chicago will design, develop, and deploy this platform to enable new classes of research on digital infrastructure access across U.S. populations. Specifically, the platform aims to facilitate studies on the national digital divide challenge by...
This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the establishment of an open-source ecosystem for the Interdisciplinary Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE) model. IN-CORE is an open-source modeling environment that can comprehensively model a community's physical, social, and economic systems and their complex interdependencies. This Phase I award will support initial focus group...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,499,999 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to the University of Pittsburgh. This Phase II grant, awarded on June 15, 2024, will strengthen the open-source Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) platform used globally for open data, open government, and open science initiatives, including the U.S. government's Data.gov portal. The funding supports efforts to enhance community...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of Pittsburgh under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The grant funds the development of a plan to strengthen the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) open-source data management software to continue providing an effective platform for open data, open government, and open science initiatives. Specifically, the University of Pittsburgh will map the current CKAN...