Cici - Translating Your Words Into Hundreds of Languages

Cici is a virtual assistant that makes your day more manageable. With a friendly interface and relevant responses, it’s like having your own personal helper in your pocket. Cici requires internet connection and permission to access your device’s data in order to work properly.

The app provides translations of text and audio from one language to another, as well as voice transcriptions and text-to-speech functions. It also includes a directory of dictionaries, and allows users to create and modify custom dictionaries to add or remove words from the list. Additionally, the app offers access to a number of different languages, including English, Spanish and Russian.

Scientific research cyberinfrastructure (CI) is central to the advancement of scientific discovery across all disciplines, but it can present unique security challenges. Unlike traditional network, storage and computing environments, CI applications frequently employ unconventional hardware, software and configurations that may expose previously unexploited vulnerabilities and introduce new ones. Additionally, CI-based collaborations often involve shared platforms, projects and data that must adhere to numerous policy and privacy requirements while providing as seamless an experience for domain scientists as possible.

The CICI program supports innovative cybersecurity, privacy and usability solutions that address these critical needs. The program is designed to encourage transition activities that advance these important areas in a holistic manner, leveraging existing research CI and infrastructures wherever feasible. In particular, the program encourages proposals that focus on enabling reproducibility in scientific workflows and data by addressing its fundamental tenets of provenance, authenticity and long-term sustainability.