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 May 15th, 2012

 

NSF, NIH Holding Second Big Data Webinar May 21st

May 15th, 2012 / in big science, research horizons, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

For those who missed last Tuesday’s webinar about the Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA) program — the centerpiece of the Administration’s $200 million Big Data R&D Initiative — the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that they will hold a second webinar next Monday, May 21st at 11am EDT. Registration for the May 21st webinar (click here) will remain open until 11:59pm PDT on Sunday, May 20th. Questions about the solicitation may be e-mailed to bigdata@nsf.gov before or during the webinar. As we’ve reported before, the BIGDATA solicitation aims (following the link):

DoE Seeking “Smart” Home Photovoltaic System

May 15th, 2012 / in research horizons, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

As part of its recently announced SunShot Initiative — “a collaborative national initiative to make solar energy cost competitive with other forms of energy by the end of the decade” — the Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for “transformational solar technologies and systems utilizing a Plug and Play concept.” In particular, with this FOA, EERE plans to support up to $25 million in research pursuing “radically new designs and frameworks for the next generation of solar panels and photon-to-electron conversion technologies” — and there are key opportunities for computer science. Letters of intent are due to DoE by 5pm […]