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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 December 14th, 2010

 

Reminder: PCAST to Release NITRD Review on Thursday

December 14th, 2010 / in policy / by Erwin Gianchandani

As previously noted in this space, on Thursday, December 16th at 2:15 p.m. EST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will release and discuss its report entitled “Designing a Digital Future:  Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology.” This Congressionally-mandated report assesses the status and direction of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program — a 14-agency, $4.3 billion enterprise that comprises the government’s unclassified networking and information technology R&D investments. An announcement of this important event for our community, along with a link to the live webcast, and, following the event, a copy of the report and a web archive of the event, can be found on […]