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 21st, 2012

 

“Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers”

May 21st, 2012 / in policy, Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

The New York Times has posted an interesting story to its website this evening — authored by John Markoff — describing researchers’ access to personal data collected by companies: When scientists publish their research, they also make the underlying data available so the results can be verified by other scientists.   At least that is how the system is supposed to work. But lately social scientists have come up against an exception that is, true to its name, huge.   It is “big data,” the vast sets of information gathered by researchers at companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft from patterns of cellphone calls, text messages and Internet clicks by millions of users around the world. Companies often refuse to make such […]

CS URGE: A Resource for Undergraduates

May 21st, 2012 / in CS education, pipeline, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has developed a new website for undergraduates seeking summer research opportunities as well as advice and tips on applying for graduate school. The website is called CS URGE (CS Undergraduate Research and Graduate Education), and the URL is http://cra.org/ccc/csurge. We URGE you to promote CS URGE with your students and place a link to the site from your departmental website. In addition to sections on “What is CS Research” and “Why Go to Graduate School?”, the site contains links to many undergraduate summer research programs (e.g., NSF REU, CRA-W, and many others) as well as a free service where researchers can post summer research opportunities […]