Stanford University

2024 (2 years)

$500,000

Technology in the Public Interest

Stanford Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Research (STAIR) works to develop the principles and practice of trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) to inform public and policy discourse on the opportunities, risks, and impacts of AI. The award supports the launch of STAIR’s Evaluation and AI Governance project, which seeks to develop rigorous approaches for studying generative AI models from a public interest perspective to inform policymaking, practice, and public understanding of AI. The work will include research that seeks to elicit the values and biases of generative AI models, understand the limitations of generative AI models, and establish guidelines for generative AI model evaluations that reflect public interest considerations. The Evaluation and AI Governance project will produce a mix of academic papers, guidance and analysis for policymakers, and public commentary based on the research that is undertaken.

2015 (4 years 6 months)

$150,000

Human Rights

The Stanford Cyber Initiative is an interdisciplinary academic center, drawing on Stanford University’s strengths in computer science, law, public policy, and other relevant disciplines. The award supports the creation of an Intergovernmental Personnel Act mobility program fellow within the Cyber Initiative that will provide guidance within the federal government on three key policy areas related to free expression and privacy: 1) federal debates about whether the government should mandate access to plaintext versions of encrypted information; 2) ongoing reforms related to U.S. government surveillance activities; and, 3) reforming federal policies that are hostile towards digital security research.

2012 (1 year)

$275,000

Digital Media & Learning

Stanford University’s School of Education focuses on shaping educational practices, their conceptual underpinnings, and the teaching and learning professions. Professor Roy Pea conducts research on how innovations in computing and communications technologies and related educational practices influence learning, thinking, and educational systems. In collaboration with the Gates Foundation, he will use this grant to develop a set of planning activities to help build a new field of learning analytics and educational data-mining, and, ultimately, create the infrastructure--tools, practices and a cadre of experts--to capture, derive meaning from, and use the extensive educational data generated by learners using digital learning tools.

2010 (2 years)

$600,000

Digital Media & Learning

To develop a digital assessment system for learning (over two years).

2007 (1 year)

$200,000

For the Digital Vision Program to support the development and testing of Frontline SMS, an application that allows nonprofit organizations in developing countries to manage mobile phone text messaging.

2002 (1 year)

$200,000

Digital Media & Learning

To support a book and conference for the Research Network on Teaching and Learning.

1995 (1 year)

$509,000

To develop a research network: The Human Side of Economic Analysis: Economic Environments and the Formation of Preferences and Social Norms.

1993 (1 year)

$180,000

To support research on the biology of parasitic diseases

1992 (1 year)

$240,000

To support participation in the Consortium on the Biology of Parasitic Diseases.

1991 (1 year)

$300,000

To support participation in the Consortium on the Biology of Parasitic Diseases.

1991 (1 year)

$25,000

For research on the effect of psychological interventions on health.

1991 (1 year)

$25,000

To support the centennial symposium "Equity, Ethnicity, and the Environment."

1989 (1 year 3 months)

$750,000

To support participation in the Consortium on the Biology of Parasitic Diseases.

1988 (1 year 1 month)

$200,000

To support the Department of Philosophy, for activities in philosophy and computer science with the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow (over two years).

1987 (4 years)

$1,000,000

To support the Center for International Security and Arms Control, for institutional fellowships in peace and security studies and related research and support activities (over five years).

1987 (1 year 10 months)

$60,000

For the research project "America and Awful Weaponry in World War II: Morality, Deterrence, and First Use," by Barton J. Bernstein.

1987 (1 year 1 month)

$24,919

To support the project Literacy for the Year 2000.

1987 (1 year 1 month)

$83,968

For the research project "Crisis Management: Theory and Practice" (over two years).

1987 (1 year)

$114,669

To support the research project The New Interdependence in the Americas (over two years).

1986 (1 year 1 month)

$50,000

For "U.S. Insider's Account of the Negotiation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty," by George Bunn.

1984 (1 year)

$161,000