A 5-year, $37.8 million award in data science to the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and New York University from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation was announced last week at a White House event.
Video is now available of the announcement – presentations by Ed Lazowska (UW), Saul Perlmutter (Berkeley), Yann LeCun (NYU), Josh Greenberg (Sloan Foundation), and Chris Mentzel (Moore Foundation).
Additional information here.