Subscribe in a reader

• Subscribe to this Blog

  Your email:
  

   

• Recent Posts

  • White House OSTP blog cites CCC again
  • Funding Opportunities for Ed Tech
  • PLDI’s “Fun Ideas & Thoughts”: Stimulating New Research Visions
  • DARPA a year later
  • Towards a New AP Course in Computer Science
  • Friday’s PCAST meeting: Science envoys, health IT, STEM education
  • A New Kind of Teacher
  • Peter Lee Joins Microsoft Research

• 

   
  
  

• 4D immersive holographic spaces AI in Education big data Brighton broadband CCC Council CIFellows Clean Slate Computing Innovation Fellows CRA DARPA disc distributed computing education enrollments essays funding GENI GROE highlights initiatives Internet Library of Congress MapReduce Markoff multicore multicore parallel NetSE Network Science nominations NSF parallel parallelism parallel multicore pipeline policy postdocs privacy prize robotics security Snowbird SQL workshop reports xlayer big science (6)
  CIFellows (3)
  computer history (2)
  conference reports (5)
  pipeline (5)
  policy (14)
  research horizons (33)
  resources (15)
  Uncategorized (56)
  workshop reports (17)
  

  WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck and Luke Morton requires Flash Player 9 or better.

• Archives

  Select Month July 2010  (14) June 2010  (7) May 2010  (5) April 2010  (5) March 2010  (10) February 2010  (11) January 2010  (5) December 2009  (3) November 2009  (3) October 2009  (2) September 2009  (1) August 2009  (3) July 2009  (3) June 2009  (2) May 2009  (2) April 2009  (2) March 2009  (4) February 2009  (6) January 2009  (1) December 2008  (2) November 2008  (4) October 2008  (4) September 2008  (2) August 2008  (1) July 2008  (4) June 2008  (2) May 2008  (1) April 2008  (1)

• Blogroll

  • All Things Distributed
  • Computing Research Highlights
  • Computing Research Policy Blog
  • CSDiary
  • Data Beta
  • Reed’s Ruminations
• Search for:

• Administrative Links:

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

• Enabled by

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  

In a recent blog post “Reflections on the NNI – Coordination & Partnerships” the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy again cites the CCC:

“A partnership model to effectively engage the research community in agenda-setting is the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). With support from the National Science Foundation, the CCC allows the computer science community to establish a vision for the field and quickly mobilize the community to pursue “big ideas.” Could this type of consortium work for the nanotechnology research community?”

The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Research (NCER) is seeking applications responsive to 14 long-term research programs under its Education Research Grant Programs. Some of these programs are particularly relevant for computing researchers.

For example, the RFA for NCER’s Education Technology program (RFA CDFA 84.305a) states:

To support research on education technology tools that are designed to provide or support instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, or science (including pre-reading, pre-writing, early mathematics, and early science) or to provide professional development for teachers related to instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, or science. The Institute intends to contribute to improvement of reading, writing, mathematics, and science learning by (1) developing innovative education technology tools intended to improve reading, writing, mathematics, science, or general study skills; (2) evaluating fully developed education technology tools intended to improve reading, writing, mathematics, science, or general study skills through efficacy or replication trials; (3) evaluating the effectiveness of fully developed education technology tools intended to improve reading, writing, mathematics, science, or general study skills that are implemented at scale; and (4) developing and/or validating assessments that use education technology and that can be used in instructional settings.

The long-term outcome of this program will be an array of education technology tools that have been documented to be effective for improving reading, writing, mathematics, and science achievement.

The Education Technology program — like all programs under the Education Research Grant Programs — accepts applications twice a year.

For more information about these and other funding opportunities through NCER, check out the center’s FY 2010 RFAs — http://ies.ed.gov/funding/10rfas.asp — and submit a proposal if your research is appropriately aligned.

(Contributed by Chase Hensel, CRA/CCC Tisdale Fellow)

The Computing Community Consortium is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges in computing research. Recently, the CCC has begun collaborating with conferences in computer science and sponsoring “crazy-idea” sessions with travel awards for the most exciting submissions. One such example is the Fun Ideas and Thoughts (FIT) session at the PLDI (Programming Languages Design and Implementation) conference, held on June 8, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.

In collaboration with the PLDI organizing commitee, the CCC is happy to announce the winners of the FIT session:

1) Outfoxing the Mammoths, by Marek Olszewski and Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;

2) Resource-Based Programming in Plaid, by Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University; and

3) Dualities in Programming Languages, by Martin Hirzel and Priya Nagpurkar.

These three were selected based on an online poll of registered participants of PLDI. Olszewski, Aldrich, and Hirzel will each receive travel grants. Their presentations and papers can be found on the FIT Web page.

Many thanks to the PLDI community! And please check out the presentations and comment about them below.

(Contributed by Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Next Page →