Archive for August 17th, 2012

 

A French-U.S. Collaboration on Computational Neuroscience

August 17th, 2012
U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

Earlier this week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing a new international collaboration in computational neuroscience. Together with France's Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), NSF is seeking U.S.-French collaborative research projects that will advance the state of the art in computational neuroscience. The submission deadline is Nov. 2nd. Per the DCL: Rapid ...

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“On the Edge — The Future of Computing Research”

August 17th, 2012

"On the Edge -- The Future of Computing Research" was the title of a plenary session at the Computing Research Association's (CRA) biennial Conference at Snowbird last month. And it's a consistent theme of CRA's Computing Community Consortium (CCC). Here's the pitch: Our field has exhibited an ever-changing balance of "technology push" and "demand pull" over the years. ...

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