National Science Foundation Awards Grant for W&M Software Policy Program
On July 28, 2022 it was announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded W&M research program “DASS: Enabling Interactive and Comprehensive Open Source Software License Compliance” a $750,000 grant. This program, headed by Denys Poshyvanyk, Computer Science, and supported by Oscar Chaparro, Computer Science, and Laura Heymann, School of Law, aims to bring researchers in computer and information sciences and engineering together with researchers in law, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences to jointly develop rigorous and reproducible methodologies for understanding the drivers of social goals for software and for designing, implementing, and validating accountable software systems.
The DASS program solicits research proposals that will make fundamental contributions towards understanding and formalizing the bi-directional relationship between software systems and the complex legal and social environment in which they arise and must operate, with an emphasis on designing software systems that are demonstrably accountable to law, regulation, and/or public policy.
