Brown University

The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation. The award provides flexible support to the Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Re-design (CNTR). CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all – and especially those that technology has left behind. Through its work, CNTR seeks to reframe the educational foundations of computer science to incorporate a focus on the impacts on people and society, reimagine computing research to be based on society’s needs, and refocus by engaging with people most impacted by technology policies, software and applications.

Brown University's Center for Tech Responsibility (the Center) seeks to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all – and especially those that technology has left behind. The Center, through its research and educational mission, shows how to build technology that works—for all—by ensuring a focus not on what we build, but on the people we are building for. The award supports a workshop the Center will co-host with the Computing Community Consortium titled “Realizing the Blueprint for the Al Bill of Rights.”

The mission of Brown University is to serve the community, the nation, and the world by discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry, and by educating and preparing students to discharge the offices of life with usefulness and reputation. The award supports a faculty assignment through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to help inform policy and practice around the responsible use and regulation of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on equity and justice.

To develop the Igbo Online Resources Project, a digital resource documenting Igbo dialects.

To study the relationship between compulsory savings and homeownership in Mexico (over three years).