Every 10 years, U.S. astronomers come together to generate what has become a highly influential report recommending which astronomy and astrophysics projects should be funded by Federal agencies in the following decade. This year’s “decadal survey” – assimilated from 9 appointed panels, 17 town hall meetings, and 324 white papers – was released by the National Research Council (NRC) on Aug. 13. Unlike previous decadal surveys that have been defined by lengthy “wish lists,” the 2010 report unveiled just 8 projects, all focused on the study of dark matter and dark energy. And for the first time, the survey included independently vetted estimates of project costs. (See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/329/5995/1002 and http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100818/full/466910a.html […]
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 August 27th, 2010
