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 Trustees of Indiana University were awarded a $499k Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the period of November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. The grant funds the "Designing Autonomy-Preserving Interactions in Intelligent Assistants for Older Adults" project being conducted in Indianapolis, Indiana. The project aims to develop intelligent assistant technologies that preserve user...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) supports research into probing the inner workings of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and comparing them to human cognition during speech recognition. The $50,000 award to the University of Southern California (USC) will fund the development of novel mathematical models and experimental methods to examine how AI...
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, 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...
This $432,656 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to explore ways of aligning how artificial intelligence (AI) language models and humans process language. The goal is to better understand the reasons for the discrepancy between how AI and humans handle temporary semantic ambiguity in language comprehension. Specifically,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve data and artificial intelligence (AI) literacy among liberal arts students through curriculum interventions. The $399,999 award to the Trustees of Indiana University will fund research activities to: 1) define data science and AI literacy for liberal arts curricula, 2) investigate alignment of AI and data science...
This Project Grant award, valued at $134,992 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to develop energy-efficient and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The key objectives are to leverage dynamic connectivity to reduce redundancy in AI models, provide architectural support for elastic processing through heterogeneous computing,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $268,428 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Colorado. The grant, titled "EAGER: AI for All: Engaging the Public with Collaborative Student-Led AI Education," will engage interdisciplinary groups of college students in creating educational artificial intelligence (AI) content for social media. The goal is to cultivate communication skills in undergraduates and...
This Project Grant award of $43,823 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a collaborative effort to accelerate research on artificial and natural intelligences. The project, titled "ACCELNET-DESIGN: Accelerating Research Collaboration on Artificial and Natural Intelligences (ARCANI)," aims to build dialogue between major disciplines studying natural and artificial intelligence, produce a roadmap for advancing this interdisciplinary field, and train a cohort of early career researchers. Key objectives include establishing theoretical foundations, leveraging data to redesign the study of cognition, and developing naturalistic approaches to AI and robotics. The awardee, Trustees of Indiana University, will lead this effort to link research networks in ethology, complexity science, neuroscience, and other relevant domains. The project will run from October 2024 through June 2025.