Dr. Dawn Xiadong Song, Associate Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley, is one of 23 recipients of the 2010 Macarthur Grants awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  An article on this year’s grants recipients appeared in today’s New York Times.

Five years ago, the National Academies published a landmark study calling for U.S. investment in science, technology, and education, warning the nation could no longer afford inaction in these areas. Yesterday, 17 of the 20 original committee members issued an updated version of that report: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category Five. The new report notes that, “in spite of the efforts of both those in government and the private sector, the outlook for America to compete for quality jobs has further deteriorated over the past five years” and “the ‘Gathering Storm’ increasingly appears to be a Category 5.” At the official unveiling of the report on […]

As part of CCC’s ongoing support of visioning workshops, Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark Oskin (University of Washington) co-organized the second workshop in a series on Advancing Computer Architecture Research. This workshop — Laying a New Foundation for Information Technology: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond — was held on the campus of the University of Washington on September 20-21, 2010. Computer Architecture Research as a Foundation for IT The degree to which information technology has impacted society cannot be understated, and computer architecture has played a foundational role in enabling that revolution. Computer architecture has been the engine for translating Moore’s Law technology improvements into […]

Today’s New York Times Sunday magazine is devoted to  the role of computing and technology in education.  The lead article is entitled Learning by Playing:  Video Games in the Classroom.  Other articles and essays includes Hacks into Hackers:  Can Journalism and Computer Science Mix?, The Eight-Year-Old Programmer, among others.