Workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems

该奖项资助了一个远景研讨会，旨在汇集计算系统（架构、操作系统、语言/编译器）的主要研究人员和实践者，反思这三个领域重叠领域的研究进展，并讨论这些领域面临的重大挑战，以便它们能够在协同作用下满足现代计算的需求。研讨会将重点讨论四个重要的应用领域：物联网(IoT)/基础设施、增强人类能力/人工智能、安全和隐私以及复杂性管理/环境。它将讨论计算系统的跨学科研究如何帮助应对这些领域的重大挑战，例如缺乏可靠有效地支持物联网设备和人类的大型异构集成的原则和技术，人工智能部署面临的安全和效率障碍，以及威胁破坏安全和隐私的硬件和软件漏洞。主要研究人员和研讨会参与者将共同撰写一份详细的研讨会报告，该报告将概述计算系统跨学科研究进一步发展的重大挑战和有希望的方向。该报告将通过互联网以及专业期刊和杂志向公众提供。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。

This award funds a visioning workshop with the goal of bringing together leading researchers and practitioners in computing systems (architecture, operating systems, languages/compilers) to reflect on the research progress in the overlapped areas of the three fields and to discuss the grand challenges for the fields so that they can rise to meet the demands of modern computing in synergy.The workshop will have focused discussions in the context of four important application domains: Internet of Things (IoT)/infrastructure, augmenting Human Abilities/Artificial Intelligence, security and privacy, and complexity management/environment. It will discuss how inter-disciplinary research in computing systems could help meet the grand challenges in these domains, such as the lack of principles and techniques that reliably and efficiently support large and heterogeneous ensembles of IoT devices and humans, the safety and efficiency barriers facing the deployment of Artificial Intelligence, and the vulnerabilities in both hardware and software that threaten to undermine security and privacy.The principal investigators, along with workshop participants, will produce a detailed workshop report that will outline the grand challenges and promising directions for the further development of inter-disciplinary research in computing systems. The report will be made be publicly available through the internet as well as professional journals and magazines.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.