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STARKVILLE, Miss.—An interdisciplinary team led by Mississippi State researchers is receiving a $1.7 million grant to better equip emergency planners and other stakeholders to reduce the vulnerability of disadvantaged communities to the impacts of…

Tom Sanchez, professor of urban affairs and planning, and Chris North, professor of computer science and associate director of the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics, have been awarded a planning grant from the…

Portland State University’s Digital City Testbed Center (DCTC) recently received a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s “Smart and Connected Communities” program to explore why diverse communities — including people with disabilities,…

An interdisciplinary research team has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to design and test a new generation of AI-driven conversational agents, or chatbots, for public data collection, with the goal of understanding the impact of the…

Using a National Science Foundation grant, the city will expand on its connected transportation test bed. Chattanooga, Tenn., has already carved out a place for itself as a smart city focused on providing broadband connectivity to all of its…

BROOKLYN, New York, Weekday, February 23, 2022 – The Geo Institute (G-I) of the American Society of Civil Engineers is awarding one of its highest honors to a researcher at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering whose innovative approach…

A handful of Iowa communities and a group of Iowa State University researchers are trying to demonstrate that less can be more, and small can be vibrant. If you’re smart about it. In an outgrowth of community surveys begun a quarter century ago, ISU…

A handful of Iowa communities and a group of Iowa State University researchers are trying to demonstrate that less can, in fact, be more, and small can, in fact, be vibrant. If you’re smart about it. In an outgrowth of community surveys begun a quarter…

Hosted by the Standardization Administration of the People’s Republic of China (SAC), the workshop will be held virtually, on March 14-16, 2022, and June 22-24, 2022. The two sessions will be complemented by additional online correspondence and…

The Civic Innovation Challenge is a multi-agency, federal government research and action competition that aims to fund ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects that have the potential for scalable, sustainable, and transferable impact on…

The NSF S&CC program, started in 2016, supports foundational research to solve complex challenges faced by communities in the 21st century. It focuses on fostering deep collaborations between researchers, local governments, industry, and community…

This workshop series explores provisions in existing and planned smart city deployments and addresses the challenges critical to integrating humans, physical components and computers in cyber-physical systems at smart city scale.