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 February, 2013

 

CCC Sponsored Workshop on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA)

February 28th, 2013 / in CCC / by Kenneth Hines

The following is a special contribution to this blog from Patrick H. Madden, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Binghamton University. In this blog entry Patrick highlights the CCC-sponsored visioning activity on Extreme Scale Design Automation; the first of a series of three workshops on the topic will be held next week. The CCC-sponsored Workshop for Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) convenes Thursday and Friday of next week (March 7-8) at the University of Pittsburgh. A group of about 35 academic and industry participants, and many observers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and elsewhere, will discuss a set of challenges facing the design automation research community. Over the past decade, the difficulty of […]

Your ideas needed: Coding is to computer science as X is to Y

February 28th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

Yesterday we posted a link to a terrific new video by code.org extolling the virtues of learning to program. Despite the “learn to code” rhetoric, code.org is really about “computer science is cool” and “let’s make AP computer science universally available.”  “Coding” is used as a proxy for this.  And indeed, “coding” is a critical component of computer science / computational thinking, and it’s also the “hands-on inquiry-based vehicle” for teaching computer science / computational thinking.  But it’s not the entire story:  computer science / computational thinking is much more than coding. What’s your best analogy?  For example: Coding is to computer science as cinematography is to filmmaking. Probably not […]

Coding is cool! Code.org urges students to learn to code with resources + terrific new video

February 26th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

Please bring the Code.org website and GREAT new inspirational video to the attention of all students, teachers, and parents you’re able to reach through your organization’s K-12 outreach efforts! The video features some of the top names from technology and the world at large – from Bill Gates to will.i.am.

New NSF INSPIRE Solicitation Issued

February 25th, 2013 / in research horizons, Research News / by Kenneth Hines

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation – Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) – that aims to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines. It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process, and is appropriate for any proposal that do not fit existing award mechanisms.  Applications are now being sought for Track 1 awards under this solicitation. Proposals that are responsive to this track will be eligible for awards of up to $1,000,000 without requiring […]

OSTP mandates free public access to publications

February 23rd, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has directed that the published results of federally funded research (final peer-reviewed manuscripts or final published documents) be freely available to the public within one year of publication, and that researchers better account for and manage the digital data resulting from federally funded scientific research. Nice knowin’ ya, Springer and Elsevier … The OSTP blog post, with the new policy memorandum linked, is available here.

Nominations sought for CCC Council

February 22nd, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

The Computing Community Consortium is governed by an 18-member Council, with members on 3-year staggered terms. The CCC’s Nominating Committee invites nominations (including self-nominations) for members to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years. Please send nominations, together with the information below, to ccc-nominations@cra.org by 11:59pm ET on Monday, March 11, 2013. The committee’s recommendations will serve as input to the Computing Research Association and National Science Foundation, who will make the final selection. Nominations must include the following information: Name, affiliation, and email address of the nominee. Research interests. Previous significant service to the research community and other relevant experience, with years it occurred (no more […]