Collaborative Research: Conference: NSF Workshop Sustainable Computing for Sustainability

这个项目背后的动机有两个。这是由于计算机作为一种基本工具在为气候变化造成的许多重大社会问题制定解决方案方面发挥着越来越大的作用。与此同时，这是对这样一个事实的承认，即尽管计算发挥了积极作用，但它本身也面临着可持续性挑战，并导致了气候变化背后的一些因素。促进制定解决这些问题和挑战的新举措是该项目的主要目标。该项目的创新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，以及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的优先顺序，在这些方向上，计算可以在制定气候变化挑战的解决方案方面发挥变革性的作用，它将提高人们对计算需求的认识，以考虑到自身发展的可持续性。为了实现该项目的目标，研究人员依赖于双管齐下的方法。该项目的第一阶段包括虚拟(在线)进行的公开信息收集工作，以确定计算机可以帮助解决的关键但探索不足的可持续性问题。第二阶段寻求制定一个具体的议程，不仅是为了应对这些挑战，而且同样重要的是，帮助建立和维持成功应对这些挑战所需的跨学科科学界。第二阶段是研讨会的形式，不仅聚集了所需学科的研究人员，而且还聚集了在建立跨学科团队和团队科学方面具有专业知识的研究人员，以告知成功团队的创建和可持续性，涉及多个学科的参与者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.