HDR DSC: AI across the statewide curriculum

HDR DSC：全州课程中的人工智能

• 批准号: 2123440
• 负责人: Jennifer Drew
• 金额: $ 149.83万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2123440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HDR; DSC; AI; across; statewide

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the society we live in a profound manner. AI is changing how a nation protects its homeland and population, manages its natural resources and infrastructure, diagnoses and treats diseases, travel, communicates and creates artistic works, etc. AI has the potential to generate tremendous benefits for the society and people. However, the future AI workforce must represent the diversity of racial, ethnic, gender-identity and socioeconomic backgrounds reflective of the nation as a whole, otherwise, an AI-enabled future society could exacerbate existing disparities and benefit just a few, at the expense of too many. To address such a grand challenge, this DSC award is to train a diverse workforce capable of integrating AI equitably across a broad range of disciplines. The project provides unique AI training to students from any discipline using an approach that integrates classroom education in AI fundamentals, applications and ethics with real-world case studies and research experiences spanning the undergraduate curriculum with a focus on enhancing diversity. By recruiting and retaining historically underrepresented minorities in AI-related education and research, this project helps ensure that a diversity of backgrounds and opinions are included at all levels of future AI developments and applications, so the AI-enabled society can broadly benefit everyone.To achieve the goal of educating a diverse next-generation AI workforce, this project develops a vertically-integrated curriculum in which students from outside traditional computer-science fields can learn AI-related concepts, skills and AI applications to address critical emerging problems in one’s field. Over 250 undergraduate fellowships will be created to help eliminate or lessen financial barriers to education. Further, between a research university and a historically black college, a strategic partnership provides flexible avenues to engage diverse undergraduates in AI-related education and research. This project develops a core curriculum covering AI fundamentals, ethics and discipline-specific applications that can be deployed across traditional university disciplines and leverages distance-learning to enable students to participate on their own schedule from anywhere with internet. The award also provides unprecedented access to some of the most advanced computational resources in the world while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to a rapidly-changing field by providing financial assistance supporting the development of new courses and undergraduate research in academic, industry and community studies. It is expected that this approach of integrating "AI across the curriculum" will equip all interested students to equitably engage AI in their chosen discipline.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.

人工智能（AI）正在深刻地重塑我们生活的社会。人工智能正在改变一个国家如何保护其家园和人口，管理其自然资源和基础设施，诊断和治疗疾病，旅行，交流和创作艺术作品等。然而，未来的人工智能劳动力必须代表整个国家的种族，民族，性别认同和社会经济背景的多样性，否则，人工智能支持的未来社会可能会加剧现有的差距，只会使少数人受益，而牺牲太多人的利益。为了应对这样一个巨大的挑战，这个DSC奖项旨在培养一支能够在广泛的学科中公平整合人工智能的多元化员工队伍。该项目为来自任何学科的学生提供独特的人工智能培训，采用一种方法，将人工智能基础，应用和道德的课堂教育与跨越本科课程的真实案例研究和研究经验相结合，重点是增强多样性。通过在人工智能相关的教育和研究中招募和保留历史上代表性不足的少数群体，该项目有助于确保在未来人工智能开发和应用的各个层面都包含背景和观点的多样性，因此人工智能支持的社会可以广泛惠及每个人，以实现教育多元化的下一代人工智能劳动力的目标，该项目开发了一个垂直整合的课程，来自传统计算机科学领域以外的学生可以学习与人工智能相关的概念，技能和人工智能应用程序，以解决其领域中出现的关键问题。将设立250多个本科生奖学金，以帮助消除或减少教育的财政障碍。此外，在研究型大学和历史悠久的黑人大学之间，战略合作伙伴关系提供了灵活的途径，让不同的本科生参与人工智能相关的教育和研究。该项目开发了一个核心课程，涵盖人工智能基础知识，道德和学科特定的应用程序，可以在传统的大学学科中部署，并利用远程学习，使学生能够通过互联网随时随地参加自己的课程。该奖项还提供了前所未有的访问一些世界上最先进的计算资源，同时保持灵活性，以适应快速变化的领域，通过提供财政援助，支持新课程的开发和本科生研究在学术，工业和社区研究。预计这种将“人工智能融入整个课程”的方法将使所有感兴趣的学生能够公平地将人工智能融入他们所选择的学科。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。