REU Site: Human Communication in a Connected World

REU 网站：互联世界中的人类沟通

• 批准号: 1659886
• 负责人: Jelena Mirkovic
• 金额: $ 36万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Human; Communication; Connected

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site will offer an intellectually and socially stimulating research experience, on a vibrant and diverse set of research topics, focusing on digital communication. Increasing use of Internet in our daily lives requires research to support emerging trends in communication and information science, and education to prepare young people for rewarding careers in the decades to come. Students involved in the program will receive extensive training in research, and valuable information about research careers, working with top faculty on exciting problems. Each student will work with one mentor, but there will be many joint activities to create a cohort experience, and to support communication across parallel research projects, thereby enhancing scientific progress as well as student learning. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.There are four themes, each led by one research mentor, under the common thrust of digital connectivity: (1) The communication theme focuses on hardware and infrastructure to support communication, tackling unsolved problems of limited bandwidth and constrained protocol design in novel ways, proposing optical routers, in-network computation and extensible protocol design. (2) The cybersecurity theme focuses on securing communication from cyberattacks and damaging activities such as cyberbullying and cyberpredation, seeking solutions for several open problems, including safe malware analysis, large denial-of-service attacks, weak passwords, and the lack of privacy-safe sources of network data. (3) The information retrieval theme focuses on mining useful information from online sources, to achieve natural-language understanding and generation, using powerful new constructs, such as Abstract Meaning Representation, universal language translation, and the structure of poetry. (4) The information flow theme focuses on understanding structure and communication dynamics of social systems with a novel focus on cognitive factors and their impact on communication that has already uncovered phenomena that can change the way social networks present information to users, and the way people leverage crowdsourcing.

本科生（REU）网站的这一研究经验将在一系列充满活力和多样化的研究主题上，重点关注数字通信。在我们的日常生活中，增加互联网的使用需要研究以支持传播和信息科学的新兴趋势，以及教育，以便年轻人在未来几十年中奖励职业。 参与该计划的学生将接受广泛的研究培训，以及有关研究职业的宝贵信息，并与顶级教师讨论令人兴奋的问题。 每个学生都会与一位导师合作，但是将有许多共同的活动来创造队列经验，并支持跨平行研究项目的沟通，从而增强科学进步和学生的学习。 This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.There are four themes, each led by one research mentor, under the common thrust of digital connectivity: (1) The communication theme focuses on hardware and infrastructure to support communication, tackling unsolved problems of limited bandwidth and constrained protocol design in novel ways, proposing optical routers, in-network computation and extensible protocol design. （2）网络安全主题侧重于保护网络攻击和诸如网络欺凌和网络培训等有害活动，为几个开放问题寻求解决方案，包括安全的恶意软件分析，大型拒绝服务攻击，较弱的密码以及缺乏网络数据的隐私安全来源。 （3）信息检索主题着重于从在线来源开采有用的信息，以使用强大的新结构（例如抽象意义表示，通用语言翻译和诗歌结构）来实现自然语言的理解和生成。 （4）信息流主题着重于了解社交系统的结构和沟通动态，重点是认知因素及其对沟通的影响，这些因素已经发现了现象，这些现象可以改变社交网络向用户提供信息的方式以及人们利用众包的方式。