Collaborative Research: Conference: NSF Workshop Sustainable Computing for Sustainability

这个项目背后的动机是双重的。它是由计算机作为设计解决气候变化造成的许多重大社会问题的基本工具而发挥的日益重要的作用推动的。与此同时，它也承认了这样一个事实，即尽管计算机发挥了积极的作用，但它本身也面临着可持续发展的挑战，并对气候变化背后的一些因素做出了贡献。促进解决这些问题和挑战的新举措的发展是这个项目的主要目标。该项目的新颖之处在于共同解决计算作为气候变化解决方案的推动者和气候变化本身的贡献者的双重角色，并探索开发有效方法所需的跨学科团队所面临的挑战。该项目的影响同样是双重的：它将有助于确定新的研究方向，在这些方向上，计算可以在开发应对气候变化挑战的解决方案中发挥变革性作用；它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。该项目的第一阶段包括一个公开的信息收集工作，通过虚拟（在线）进行，以确定关键的，但尚未充分探索的可持续性问题，计算可以帮助解决这些问题。第二阶段寻求制定一个具体的议程，不仅解决这些挑战，而且同样重要的是帮助建立和维持成功解决这些挑战所需的跨学科科学共同体。第二阶段的形式是研讨会，不仅汇集了所需学科的研究人员，还汇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，旨在为涉及多学科参与者的成功团队的创建和可持续性提供信息。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

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.