AI Institutes Leadership Summit and Development of a Virtual Organization

在这个项目中，加州大学戴维斯分校和杜克大学组织了一系列年度领导峰会，并构建了一个虚拟组织。这些相互支持的活动通过促进学术界、政府和工业界的协调、合作和社区建设，为国家人工智能（AI）研究所计划及其资助机构提供支持。会议和支持组织旨在将人工智能研究社区扩展为一个由研究机构和合作者组成的紧密联系的网络。这些努力通过建立一个收集点和协作平台，实现资源、项目、专业知识和最佳实践的共享，为人工智能研究所项目资助的研究人员社区提供服务。该项目还旨在通过使人工智能研究所的方案和人员更容易获得，传播研究所的成果，并促进人工智能研究所对更广泛社区感兴趣的活动，加强人工智能研究所与更广泛公众之间的协调和传播。领导峰会和面向公众的虚拟组织的综合效应将使许多研究人员在一个大型而深远的多部门国家战略人工智能计划中联系起来。这些活动对于实现和转变人工智能创新以及创建未来人工智能就绪的劳动力队伍至关重要，超越了单个研究所的努力范围，并为美国在人工智能领域的领导地位做出了重大贡献。领导峰会是PI会议的风格，但更恰当地命名为包括更广泛的研究所关键人员。这些会议以及人工智能研究所和更广泛社区之间的长期协调和合作将通过建立一个用于共享和传播内容的协作内容管理系统以及一个面向公众的门户网站来实现。所有人工智能研究所都有一个共同的总体目标，即推进人工智能研究，培养下一代人才，并作为合作努力的联系点。关键人员的年度会议和持久的虚拟组织旨在建立有效和持久的协作联系。虚拟组织及其支持门户网站的初步开发侧重于向公众提供信息的内容，并将感兴趣的合作者引导到正确的研究所人员，促进研究所活动，成果和事件，并传播研究所产生的资源和机会。年度领导峰会为持续评估和加强这些社区建设工作提供了理想的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this project, UC Davis and Duke University organizing a series of annual leadership summits and constructing a virtual organization. These mutually supporting activities support the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Program and its funding agencies by facilitating coordination, collaboration, and community-building across academia, government, and industry. The meetings and supporting organization aim to broaden the AI research community into a richly connected network of institutes and collaborators. These efforts serve the community of researchers funded by the AI Institutes program by establishing a collection point and collaboration platform enabling sharing of resources, programs, expertise, and best practices. The project also seeks to enhance coordination and dissemination between AI Institutes and the broader public by making the AI Institutes programs and personnel more accessible, disseminating institute outcomes, and promotion of AI Institute activities of interest to the broader community. The combined effect of leadership summits and a public-facing virtual organization will connect many researchers across a large and far reaching multisector national strategic AI initiative. These activities are central to achieving and transitioning AI innovations and creating a future AI-ready workforce beyond the confines of individual institute efforts and contribute significantly to U.S. leadership in AI.Leadership summits are in the style of a PI meeting, but more aptly named to include institute key personnel more broadly. These meetings and the longer term coordination and collaboration among AI Institutes and the broader community are to be enabled by the establishment of a collaborative content management system for the sharing and dissemination of content and a public-facing web portal for access and broader engagement. All AI Institutes share the overarching goals to advance research in AI, nurture the next generation of talent, and serve as nexus points for collaborative efforts. The annual meetings of key personnel and the enduring virtual organization are aimed at creating effective and lasting collaborative connections. Initial development of the virtual organization and its supporting portal focuses on content that informs the public and directs interested collaborators to the right institute personnel, promotes institute activities, outcomes, and events, and disseminates resources and opportunities arising from the institutes. Annual leadership summits provide the ideal opportunity for continuous evaluation and enhancement of these community building efforts.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.