2020 NSF CISE-SBE Workshop on Harnessing the Computational and Social Sciences to Solve Critical Societal Problems

该奖项资助了2020年NSF CESE-SBE关于利用计算和社会科学解决关键社会问题的研讨会。这次仅限受邀参加的为期三天的会议将由国家科学基金会计算机与信息科学与工程理事会(CEISE)和社会、行为与经济科学理事会(SBE)联合召开。越来越明显的是，我们的社会健康、繁荣和安全所依赖的许多系统既不是纯粹的社会系统，也不是纯粹的技术系统。相反，它们是社会技术系统。例如，工作场所关系、媒体市场、医疗保健系统和刑事司法组织的特点都越来越复杂，一方面是人类行为者和机构，另一方面是数字平台和算法。因此，设计、管理、审计并最终改进这些系统以造福社会的努力是计算科学和社会行为科学的交叉点。这次研讨会将汇集来自国家公认机构的专家，包括来自学术界、工业界、政府和慈善机构的不同利益攸关方和观点，讨论计算科学和社会行为科学交叉领域的三个核心主题。近年来，这一交叉领域一直是越来越多的研究兴趣和创新领域，在学术界和工业界都创造了新的会议、资金机会和就业机会。然而，为了为现实世界的社会技术问题找到切实的解决方案，必须克服一些挑战，这些挑战需要新的资金流，也需要计算科学和社会行为科学之间以及学术界、政府和工业界之间的新合作模式。研讨会围绕三个核心实质性主题组织，每个主题都对应于当今社会广泛关注的一个问题：增加所有美国人的机会，同时减少有害的差距；改善信息生态系统的可信度；增强熟练技术劳动力的能力除了为每个实质性领域拟定研究议程外，研讨会还将重点关注四个交叉挑战：为研究目的建立大规模共享数据基础设施；围绕共同感兴趣的问题与工业界合作；促进CISE和SBE研究人员之间的合作；这一奖项反映了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。

This award funds the 2020 NSF CISE-SBE Workshop on Harnessing the Computational and Social Sciences to Solve Critical Societal Problems. This invitation-only three-day meeting will be to be jointly convened by the National Science Foundation Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). It is increasingly apparent that many of the systems on which our society depends for its health, prosperity, and security are neither purely social nor purely technical ones. Rather, they are socio-technical systems. For example workplace relationships, media markets, health delivery systems, and criminal justice organizations are all increasingly characterized by a complex mixture of human actors and institutions on the one hand, and digital platforms and algorithms on the other hand. Efforts to design, manage, audit, and ultimately improve these systems to the benefit of society therefore lie at the intersection of the computational sciences and the social-behavioral sciences. This workshop will bring together experts from nationally recognized institutions comprising a diverse range of stakeholders and perspectives drawn from academia, industry, government, and philanthropy to discuss three core themes at the intersection of the computational and social-behavioral sciences. This intersection has been an area of increasing research interest and innovation in recent years, generating new conferences, funding opportunities, and jobs, both in academia and industry. In order to generate practical solutions to real-world socio-technical problems, however, a number of challenges must be overcome that will require new streams of funding and also new models of collaboration, between the computational and social-behavioral sciences, and also among academia, government and industry. The workshop is organized around three core substantive themes, each of which corresponds to a contemporary societal concern of widespread interest: increasing opportunity for all Americans, while reducing harmful disparities; improving the trustworthiness of the information ecosystem; and empowering the skilled technical workforceIn addition to sketching out a research agenda for each of these substantive areas, the workshop would also focus attention on four cross-cutting challenges: building large-scale, shared data infrastructures for research purposes; partnering with industry around problems of shared interest; fostering collaborations between CISE and SBE researcher; and developing training and educational programs.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.