I'm delighted to announce a new NSF $5m grant on open source tools and datasets to advance urban computing—dubbed OSCUR for Open-Source Cyberinfrastructure for Urban Computing. This work is in collaboration with Professors Claudio Silva (PI), Graham Dove, and Juliana Freire at NYU, Fabio Miranda and Sybil Derrible at UIC, and myself at UW. I'm honored to be part of this important initiative and excited how we can integrate urban access tools like Project Sidewalk and BusStopCV (and future generations) into OSCUR.

The goal of OSCUR is to address two critical obstacles in urban computing: (1) the lack of documented, robust, well-engineered tools and open computing platforms and (2) the dispersed community of cross-disciplinary researchers and developers, which limits knowledge sharing and collective solutions. A core component of the project is the development of a cyberinfrastructure that integrates methods and tools for the exploration of urban data that are scalable, reusable, interoperable, and solutions to common challenges, including data discovery, cleaning, analytics, modeling, visualization, and reproducibility.

See the NYU and Allen School press releases for more details.

This award is through the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) and funded via #2411221 (NYU), #2411222 (UW), and #2411223.