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 April 3rd, 2012

 

NSF Announces New Expeditions in Computing Awards

April 3rd, 2012 / in big science, research horizons, Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) today announced four new Expeditions in Computing awards, providing each selected project team up to $10 million in funding over five years to pursue “ambitious fundamental research” that will shape “the future of computing and information technologies for decades to come.” Established in 2008, Expeditions from “the centerpiece of the directorate’s award portfolio”; they represent the single largest investments made by the directorate in basic computing research. The four awards announced today “contribute to the program’s rich intellectual portfolio,” according to NSF, “by adding two projects in robotics and smart systems, one project focused on new […]

“The World According to DARPA”

April 3rd, 2012 / in policy, Research News, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

Our colleagues over at IEEE have published a great piece by G. Pascal Zachary, a professor of practice at Arizona State University, opining on the legacy of recently-departed Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director Regina Dugan: The most famous name in American innovation today isn’t Apple or Google. Nor is it Facebook, Boeing, or Intel.   The iconic American innovator is a government agency that neither earns a profit nor sells a single consumer product. That DARPA … runs with the big dogs of commercial innovation reflects the importance of science and technology to national security. War, not necessity, is the mother of invention.
..   Since its inception as the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the late […]