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 September 21st, 2011

 

LIVE Soon: Congressional Hearing on the NITRD Program

September 21st, 2011 / in policy / by Erwin Gianchandani

(This post has been updated; please see below for the latest.) Updated at 5:11pm EDT: At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convened a hearing about the Federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), seeking “to review the NITRD program to ensure U.S. leadership in networking and information technology and to discuss priorities for the future.” The hearing will included testimony from CCC Council Chair Ed Lazowska and member Bob Sproull, along with the director of the NITRD National Coordination Office (NCO) George Strawn and chair of ACM’s CS Education Policy Committee Bobby Schnabel. Watch the hearing live archived webcast here. And check […]

Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates

September 21st, 2011 / in CS education, pipeline, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique new website for undergraduates in computing fields hoping to learn more about summer research opportunities as well as the process for applying to graduate school in computer science. The website contains: A section on what graduate school in computer science is all about (including frequently-asked-questions with answers by current graduate students and faculty); Information, advice, and insights on how to apply to graduate school in computer science (including another set of FAQs with answers by students who have just been through the process as well as faculty); and The […]