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Digital City Testbed Center Lands NSF Grant to Study Climate Change Mitigation, Technology and Diverse Communities
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,…
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NSF Grant Will Support Creation of Chatbots to Gauge Pandemic’s Impact in Small Towns
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…
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Chattanooga to Explore Smart City Research with NSF Funds
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…
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Engineer with novel approach to urban mapping is first woman awarded prestigious Schnabel Award
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…
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How 3 Iowa Towns are Getting Smaller but Smarter through Iowa State Program
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…
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Shrink Smart program assists Iowa’s Shrinking Towns
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…