This $849,964 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 support the development of an innovative artificial intelligence-based approach to ethics training. The University of California Santa Cruz will create an educational game that uses AI techniques to generate realistic interactive ethical scenarios tailored to individual player choices. This...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant, awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund a collaborative research project to study human planning and decision-making through the analysis of a massive dataset of chess games. The $562,614 award to New York University, with a project period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2026, will leverage artificial intelligence techniques to gain insights into how individuals form complex...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will develop methods for using large language models (LMs) to apply existing written guidelines, such as grading rubrics or job listings, to decision-making tasks. The $245,862 award will create datasets and annotation tools to study how humans connect guidelines to input tasks, then develop LM prompting and fine-tuning techniques to generate...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), will support the development of a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model that can be applied to planning and task-chaining problems. The $150,000 award, which runs from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027, will fund research to create a compact foundation model optimized for planning-like tasks, as an alternative to current large language models that exhibit...
This Project Grant award, totaling $299,762, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to Grinnell College in collaboration with the Computing Research Association, Swarthmore College, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The project aims to increase artificial intelligence (AI) education capacity and utilize resources from the National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot at four-year institutions. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $199,999 RAPID grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop and evaluate a generative AI-powered robot design assistant for educational robotics. The project aims to investigate the potential of a task-oriented generative AI tool to support lower-performing learners and advance educational equity in robotics. The key planned activities include the development and testing of a prototype...
This $499,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support collaborative research to investigate the theoretical foundations of compositional learning in large language models (LLMs) based on transformer architectures. The research aims to advance the understanding of how LLMs, such as GPT-4, LLAMA 2, and CLAUDE 3, can decompose complex tasks into simpler intermediate steps to...
This $149,992 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of adaptable, game-based, interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals are to: 1) Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve engagement; 2) Assess the effectiveness of these learning environments for diverse learner groups in online and in-person...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...
This Project Grant award of $161,369 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development of "META-PARTNER," an adaptive AI-assisted self-regulated learning (SRL) solution. The project aims to enhance students' self-regulation and metacognition skills for computing and AI education through close human-computer collaboration. META-PARTNER will be integrated into the existing online...