The following is a special contribution to this blog from Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Christos co-organized the Simons Institute Visions on the Theory of Computing Symposia, which was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) this past May. Christos provides a retrospective look at each presentation from the Symposium below. You can also view all of the presentations here. “What Should a Computational Theory of Cortex Explain?” Leslie Valiant, Harvard University. Valiant started by remembering two neuroscience pioneers: Ramon y Cajal, who admired data and derided theory (except in physics); and David Marr […]
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 June, 2013
A Retrospective Report of the Simons Institute Visions on The Theory of Computing Symposium
June 28th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann DrobnisNSF Seeking Program Directors Within Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS)
June 23rd, 2013 / in NSF / by Kenneth HinesOn June 21, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a nationwide search for multiple Program Directors in the Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) within the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). From the Dear Colleague Letter: The Division of Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS), within the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) announces a nationwide search to fill multiple Program Director positions in the areas of the Information Integration and Informatics (III) core program and the multi-agency Big Data program. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Directors are in charge of specific research areas. They solicit, receive and review research and education proposals, […]
Take Our Quick Survey
June 19th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar SteedWe invite you to take a few minutes to complete a brief survey by the Computing Research Association (CRA). Your feedback is important to us and helps improve our communications. The survey deadline is Monday, July 1. If you have already completed the CRA survey, you do not need to fill it out again. This survey should take 10-15 minutes of your time. Here is the survey link: http://www.crasurveys.org/se.ashx?s=0B87D13525E548B1 If you have any questions, contact us at crnonline@cra.org Thank you, CCC Staff
Presentations from the Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing
June 18th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann DrobnisThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the Simons Institute Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing. The three-day symposium brought together distinguished speakers and participants from the Bay Area and all over the world to celebrate both the excitement of fundamental research on the Theory of Computing, and the accomplishments and promise of computational research in effecting progress in other sciences — the two pillars of the Institute’s research agenda. More than 300 people were in attendance to hear these world-renown speakers. You can view videos of the presentations here.
Computing Community Consortium Announces New Council Members and Executive Committee
June 17th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar SteedThe Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Daniela Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin – Madison Ross Whitaker, University of Utah Tal Rabin, IBM Limor Fix, Intel Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms, and a new executive committee will be formed. Susan Graham, University of California at Berkeley, will become Chair; Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University, will become Vice Chair; and Edward Lazowska, University of Washington will become Past Chair. In January 2014, Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania, will join the executive committee. […]
Moving to the Cloud Saves Energy
June 14th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ann DrobnisResearchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Northwestern University have conducted a study and found that moving common applications to the cloud can save significant amounts of energy. The study is summarized in this report. According to Scientific Computing, “The report looks at three common business applications – email, customer relationship management software, or CRM, and bundled productivity software (spreadsheets, file sharing, word processing, etc.). Moving these software applications from local computer systems to centralized cloud services could cut information technology energy consumption by up to 87 percent – about 23 billion kilowatt-hours. This is roughly the amount of electricity used each year by all the homes, businesses and industry in […]