Feb
6
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is sponsoring an award for K-12, undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates who have done something remarkable to address the Grand Challenges our world faces. The National Academy of Engineering has identified 14 specific NAE Grand Challenge problem areas in Sustainability, Health, Vulnerability, Joy of Living. Many of these problems potentially have a significant computational component.
If you know of a student has already made a special contribution in one of these areas, please nominate them!Nominations may REUSE existing materials such as videos, essays, articles, business plans, posters, presentations, photo essays or can be newly created.
- Nominations are due 1 March 2010.
- There are $15,000 in cash prizes and trip to Boston Summit on the Educational Implications of the NAE Grand Challenges.
- All submitted stories will be celebrated at http://www.grandchallengestories.org/stories.
- Visit: http://www.grandchallengestories.org/ for more information
- To nominate a story: http://www.grandchallengestories.org/stories/nominate.php
- Boston Summit April 21: http://grandchallengesummit.olin.edu/
Feb
4
Peter Lee on the future of DARPA, and the Transformational Convergence Technology Office
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Five months ago, Peter Lee took a leave of absence as Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University to begin a stint at DARPA as the Director of the new Transformational Convergence Technology Office (DARPA/TCTO). TCTO is re-establishing basic research programs in a broad range of rapidly emerging computing-enabled technology areas such as social media, synthetic biology, high-performance computing, and networking, as well as employing a diverse range of innovation strategies including broad community programs, competitions/challenges, and crowd sourcing.
Peter spoke on DARPA and TCTO at the University of Washington on February 2. The talk is inspiring and informative. Watch the streaming video here.
Feb
2
The New York Times reports that President Obama’s proposed budget includes substantial increases for science research, including an 8% increase for the National Science Foundation from last year’s budget, rising to $7.4 billion. The Department of Education is also targeted for an increased discretionary budget to $49.7 billion from $46.2 billion in 2010.
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