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.

这个本科生研究经验（REU）网站将提供一个智力和社会刺激的研究经验，在一个充满活力和多样化的研究课题，重点是数字通信。在我们的日常生活中越来越多地使用互联网，需要研究支持通信和信息科学的新兴趋势，需要教育为年轻人在未来几十年的职业生涯做好准备。参与该计划的学生将接受广泛的研究培训，并获得有关研究职业的宝贵信息，与顶级教师一起研究令人兴奋的问题。每个学生将与一位导师一起工作，但将有许多联合活动来创造一种队列体验，并支持并行研究项目之间的交流，从而促进科学进步和学生的学习。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作提供支持。在数字连接的共同推动下，有四个主题，每个主题由一位研究导师领导：(1)通信主题侧重于支持通信的硬件和基础设施，以新颖的方式解决有限带宽和约束协议设计的未解决问题，提出光路由器，网络内计算和可扩展协议设计。(2)网络安全主题侧重于保护通信免受网络攻击和破坏性活动，如网络欺凌和网络掠夺，寻求解决几个开放问题，包括安全恶意软件分析，大规模拒绝服务攻击，弱密码和缺乏隐私安全的网络数据源。(3)信息检索主题侧重于从在线资源中挖掘有用信息，通过使用强大的新结构，如抽象意义表示、通用语言翻译和诗歌结构，实现自然语言的理解和生成。(4)信息流主题侧重于理解社会系统的结构和传播动态，并新颖地关注认知因素及其对传播的影响，这些因素已经揭示了可以改变社交网络向用户呈现信息的方式以及人们利用众包的方式的现象。