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 […]
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 22nd, 2013
Nominate students for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award!
February 22nd, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar SteedThe Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research. Eligible nominees are enrolled as undergraduates in a North American college or university throughout the academic year September 2012 to May 2013. They must be nominated by two faculty members and recommended by the chair of their home department. No more than two male and two female candidates can be recommended by the same department chair in the same year. A cash prize of $1,000 will be awarded to each of two undergraduate students, one female and one male. A small […]
Research Questions About MOOCs
February 22nd, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar SteedIn a Communications of the ACM blog post, Mark Guzdial raises some probing “Research Questions About MOOCs.” He points to recent articles that explore the impact of MOOCs, such as “Will MOOCs destroy academia?” by Moshe Vardi and “In the Year of Disruptive Education” by Paul Hyman, both published in CACM, and then offered his perspective as a computing education researcher: What will be the impact of MOOCs on diversity in computing? Computing (encompassing computer science, information systems, information technology, computer engineering, and software engineering) is predominantly white or Asian and male. The percentage of women in computing continues to decline. Only 11.7% of Bachelor’s degrees in CS went to women in 2011. … Are […]
