The National Science Foundation is awarding three projects a total of $36 million under the NSF Expeditions in Computing program, an initiative that seeks to finance research that can accelerate innovation in various science and engineering domains.
The first project seeks to reduce the environmental impact of computer systems. Under the leadership of Harvard University, the five-year research initiative could result in a more sustainable way of manufacturing computer systems, the NSF said Thursday.
The second project seeks to develop computational decarbonization, a new field that aims to reduce the lifecycle of carbon emissions emanating from complex computing and societal infrastructure systems. The project is being led by University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The third project seeks to incorporate machine learning into operating systems in order to enable more dynamic hardware resource management. The project is being led by The University of Texas at Austin.
Regarding the awards, Dilma Da Silva, acting assistant director for the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, said, “Congratulations to these pioneering teams whose research will forge new pathways in computational decarbonization and in revolutionizing operating system design with machine learning.”
