Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Yeah, so it's an interesting question because it's really different at every university.

um so we our ospo started like in a kind of around when the sloan foundation funded like a small cohort of ospos academic ospos in the us to sort of like start trying to answer this question of like what what is an open source program office at the university what can it do etc and now there's many more of these it's like really grown a ton in the time that i've been in this space So I guess the short answer is like we're still figuring it out.

And depending on the university, the Ospo might be based in the library.

It might be based in computer science.

So so, yeah, we're all doing different stuff.

We all talk to each other.

Also, the Sloan Foundation has funded like a collaborative working group.

So we're all like sharing notes constantly, which is like super open source and cool.

National Science Foundation, postdoctoral fellowship competition winner in between 1993 and 1997.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation comes up a lot in a lot of these people who are big movers and shakers in mathematics.

Principal investigator on research grants supporting research into gauge theory and intertemporal theory.

economics co-principal investigator with Professor Richard Freeman of Harvard University and the National Bureau for Economic Research on a research grant supporting research on the analysis of scientific labor markets.

It's all of it.

So I'm pointing out that fellowship because this year we're going to co-convene in the summer with a Sloan Foundation fellowship that is on meta science that's funding a postdoc and early career folks who are in the social sciences who want to learn about AI and a group from Northeastern that brings philosophers who are learning about AI together.

So to me, the answer is anybody who has any seniority should be clearing the path so that it's not a thousand miles away for you to get between where they are now and here.

I'll say that to every more senior person and more established scholar is clear the path so that people who are earlier career can find their way to each other, create the forums for that to happen.

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