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: 2334853
• 负责人: Roch Guerin
• 金额: $ 18.51万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 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=2334853&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.

该项目背后的动机有两个：计算作为解决气候变化造成的许多重大社会问题的重要工具的作用日益增强。尽管它发挥着积极作用，但计算本身也面临着可持续性挑战，并导致气候变化背后的一些因素。促进制定解决这些问题和挑战的新举措是该项目的主要目标。共同解决计算的双重角色气候变化解决方案的推动者以及气候变化本身的贡献者，以及探索开发有效方法所需的跨学科团队所面临的挑战。该项目的影响同样有两重：它将有助于优先考虑新的研究方向。计算可以在开发应对气候变化挑战的解决方案方面发挥变革性作用，并将提高人们对计算在自身发展中考虑可持续性的必要性的认识。为了实现该项目的目标，研究人员采用了双管齐下的方法。第一阶段包括公开信息收集虚拟（在线）的努力，以确定计算可以帮助解决的关键但尚未深入探讨的可持续发展问题。第二阶段旨在制定具体议程，不仅用于应对这些挑战，而且同样重要的是帮助建立和维持跨学科科学界。第二阶段以研讨会的形式成功地进行了谈判，不仅聚集了所需学科的研究人员，还聚集了具有建立跨学科团队和团队科学专业知识的研究人员，为涉及跨学科的成功团队的创建和可持续性提供了信息。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，该项目被认为值得支持。