Last month, we noted that eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf had taken the unprecedented step of resigning from the University of Virginia to protest the ousting of UVa president Teresa Sullivan by the university's Board of Visitors. The Board reinstated Sullivan as president a week later, and since then, many in our community have wondered ...
The following is a special contribution to this blog by Louiqa Raschid, a professor in the School of Business, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, Department of Computer Science, and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, and H.V. Jagadish, Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at ...
![The 2012 Botskers [image courtesy Robot Film Festival]](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/robot5-300x199.jpg "The 2012 Botskers [image courtesy Robot Film Festival]")
Earlier this month, another huge crowd of roboticists, artists, and filmakers converged on Manhattan for the second annual Robot Film Festival, a daylong celebration of robots on film. Founded by Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot and Carnegie Mellon University and co-organized by Marek Michalowski of Beatbots, the festival's goal is "to highlight innovation, explore frontiers before technically feasible and investigate the impact ...
![Dan Kaufman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [image courtesy the Computer History Museum].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/kaufman-90x90.png "Dan Kaufman, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [image courtesy the Computer History Museum].")
Dan Kaufman, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O), was interviewed on Tuesday evening by New York Times‘ tech writer John Markoff -- the first in a series of conversations with "amazing people at research labs" being produced this summer by the Computer History Museum. During the hourlong interview, Kaufman -- Markoff describes him as ...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI), "seeking ideas and input from the public ... on successful strategies and remaining challenges in the creation of health IT-enabled quality measure development and reporting." Comments are due by Aug. 20th. Among the ...
![Brian David Johnson, Intel Corporation [image courtesy EuroScience Open Forum via ScienceNOW].](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sn-johnson-90x90.jpeg "Brian David Johnson, Intel Corporation [image courtesy EuroScience Open Forum via ScienceNOW].")
Following a talk at the Euroscience Open Forum earlier this month, Intel principal engineer and futurist Brian David Johnson sat down with ScienceNOW to discuss his forecasts about "the interaction between humans and computers." Noting he's focused on the year 2020, Johnson had the following to say as part of the Q&A: Q: You study the interaction ...
