Collaborative Research: Conference: NSF Workshop Sustainable Computing for Sustainability

协作研究：会议：NSF 可持续计算可持续发展研讨会

• 批准号: 2334854
• 负责人: Klara Nahrstedt
• 金额: $ 0.18万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2334854&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Conference; NSF; Workshop

The motivations behind this project are two-fold. It is driven by the growing role of computing as an essential tool in devising solutions to the many major societal problems created by climate change. At the same time, it is an acknowledgment of the fact that, in spite of its positive role, computing is itself facing sustainability challenges as well as contributing to some of the factors behind climate change. Fostering the development of new initiatives addressing those problems and challenges is the main goal of this project. The project’s novelties lie in jointly addressing the dual role of computing as an enabler of solutions to climate change as well as a contributor to climate change itself, and in exploring the challenges faced by the interdisciplinary teams needed to develop effective approaches. The project’s impacts are similarly two-fold: It will help prioritize new research directions where computing can have a transformative role in developing solutions to climate change challenges and it will increase awareness of the need for computing to account for sustainability in its own development.Towards realizing the project’s goals, the investigators rely on a two-prong approach. The project’s first phase consists of an open information gathering effort conducted virtually (online) towards identifying critical, yet poorly explored sustainability problems that computing can help address. The second phase seeks to develop a concrete agenda for not only addressing those challenges, but equally importantly help build and sustain the interdisciplinary scientific community that successfully tackling them requires. This second phase is in the form of a workshop bringing together not only researchers across the required disciplines, but also researchers with expertise in building interdisciplinary teams and team science towards informing the creation and sustainability of successful teams involving participants across multiple disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的动机是两个方面。它是由计算作为为气候变化造成的许多重大社会问题设计解决方案的基本工具的日益增长的作用所驱动的。同时，这是一个事实，即，尽管其积极作用，但计算本身是面临可持续性挑战，并为气候变化背后的某些因素做出了贡献。该项目的主要目标是促进解决这些问题和挑战的新计划的发展。该项目的新颖性在于共同解决计算作为气候变化解决方案的推动者的双重作用，以及对气候变化本身的贡献，并探索开发有效方法所需的跨学科团队所面临的挑战。该项目的影响同样是两个方面：它将有助于优先考虑新的研究方向，其中计算可以在为气候变化挑战的解决方案开发解决方案中具有变革性的作用，并且将提高对计算需求的认识，以解决其自身发展中的可持续性。实现项目的目标，研究人员依赖于两项措施。该项目的第一阶段包括（在线）进行的开放信息收集工作，以识别计算可以帮助解决的关键但探索较差的可持续性问题。第二阶段试图制定一个具体议程，不仅要应对这些挑战，而且同样重要的帮助建立和维持了成功解决这些挑战的跨学科科学界。 This second phase is in the form of a workshop bringing together not only researchers across the required disciplines, but also researchers with expertise in building interdisciplinary teams and team science towards informing the creation and sustainability of successful teams involved across multiple disciplines.This Award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed honestly of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.