arXiv Receives $10 Mn Funding
Cornell Tech secures over $10 million in funding for arXiv, a free scholarly article distribution service, with contributions from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation. This investment will facilitate the migration of arXiv’s 2 million-plus articles to the cloud, upgrading its code for improved reliability, fault tolerance, and accessibility to researchers. Greg Morrisett, Cornell Tech’s Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost said, ““I am deeply grateful for this tremendous support from both the Simons Foundation and the NSF. The arXiv service aims to scale, broaden its user base, and enhance its support for the scientific community. Ramin Zabih, arXiv faculty director and Cornell Tech computer science professor, highlighted the generous funding’s role in arXiv’s expansion within the scientific community, enabling researchers to freely exchange findings. Modernizing the code and transitioning to the cloud strengthens arXiv’s infrastructure and its role as an innovative platform for sharing scholarly publications. Read: arXiv Doesn’t Need Ethicists’ Opinion The next phase of arXiv’s development includes the hiring of multiple software developers for modernisation. Simultaneously, the Department of Computer Science faculty, backed by NSF funding, will develop novel search and recommendation techniques, tested on the active arXiv user community, with robust privacy protections. arXiv also improves accessibility for the visually impaired, offering HTML and PDF versions of its content. The Simons Foundation’s President, David Spergel, acknowledged the arXiv’s pivotal role in research infrastructure and open science. He emphasised the foundation’s commitment, facilitated through Cornell Tech, to ensure arXiv’s modernisation and sustainability. Founded in 1991 by physicist Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos National Laboratory and now operated by Cornell Tech, arXiv serves various fields, including physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, finance, statistics, electrical engineering, systems science, and economics.
The next phase of arXiv’s development includes the hiring of multiple software developers for modernisation.
Cornell Tech secures a $10 million in funding for arXiv, with contributions from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation.
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