{"id":14796,"date":"2018-09-21T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=14796"},"modified":"2018-09-21T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:48:08","slug":"bu-aiem-nsf-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2018\/09\/21\/bu-aiem-nsf-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"BU AIEM Awarded $1M NSF Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>BU researchers from the\u00a0<\/span><span>Hariri-housed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/aiem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media (AIEM)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0team have received a grant from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1838193&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Science Foundation<\/a> to fund their project &#8220;BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span>Led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/centers-initiatives-labs\/air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AIR)<\/a> Core Faculty member\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bu.edu\/~betke\/\">Margrit Betke<\/a><span>, members of the awarded group include\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dwijaya.org\/\">Derry Wijaya,<\/a>\u00a0<span>Assistant Professor in Computer Science<\/span><span>, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/lei-guo\/\">Lei Guo,<\/a>\u00a0<span>Assistant Professor in the College of\u00a0<\/span><span>Communications, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/prakash-ishwar\/\">Prakash Ishwar<\/a>,\u00a0<span>Professor in the College of Engineering.\u00a0<\/span>The project\u00a0will incorporate\u00a0machine learning and deep learning techniques to develop analytical tools that will be useful for social scientists when evaluating data around international patterns of\u00a0communication.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/2018\/09\/11\/bu-team-awarded-1000000-nsf-grant-to-analyze-public-communication\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article on BUCS News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU researchers from the\u00a0Hariri-housed\u00a0Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media (AIEM)\u00a0team have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to fund their project &#8220;BIGDATA: IA: Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages&#8221;. Led by Artificial Intelligence Research Initiative\u00a0(AIR) Core Faculty member\u00a0Margrit Betke, members of the awarded group include\u00a0Derry Wijaya,\u00a0Assistant Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11791,11716],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14796"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14813,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14796\/revisions\/14813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}