The Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grant Recipients for Spring 2024 have been announced and include two Dietrich School Faculty.
Gayle Rogers, an Andrew W. Mellon Professor and Chair of the Dietrich School’s Department of English has received a grant with Lorraine Li and Diane Litman from the School of Computing and Information, for their project, Building Socially Responsible Machine Writing Tutors. From the team: this project will build a language model-based writer tutor to analyze college student writing. The tool is designed to more accurately correspond to the judgments and advice of professional instructors and the needs of actual students. The tool will also pay particular attention to ESL learners and writers to create a culturally and cross-linguistically responsive system.
Jennifer Keating, a senior lecturer, and writing in the discipline’s specialist in the Institute for Writing Excellence in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences also received a grant for a project she is working on with Eleanor Mattern from the School of Computing and Information. The Project, Hemispheric Headspace: Interrogation and Exploration of the Influence of AI and the Digital Sphere on Real Life, Work, Education, and Political Realities in the Global South and the Global North will “bring faculty across disciplines and from universities in Pittsburgh and the Western Cape of South Africa together to explore the implications of current and recent developments in AI and digital tools that increasingly shape our lived experiences.”
For more information on projects being funded through the Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants Program, you can click here.