On May 4 I posted a short message titled “Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews.” That was an effort to focus attention on an issue. This post provides a suggestion for computing researchers when dealing with work that seems unfamiliar or difficult to understand. Computing is a “general purpose” phenomenon. It can be applied to many things, which brings heterogeneous communities to the discussion. The computing research field has porous boundaries, making it an intellectual watering hole. This offers stimulation and excitement, but it can cause problems. People from different fields follow different conventions for doing or explaining their work. Philipe van Parijs has addressed this as Clarity and […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for June 9th, 2010
