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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 November 11th, 2013

 

The Hour of Code – CSEdWeek on steroids!

November 11th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

Code.org is putting CSEdWeek on steroids this year! My department, like many of yours, has traditionally run a programming contest and an open house in conjunction with Computer Science Education Week – the week of Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday each year. This year, Code.org has established a new, audacious goal:  have every student – every American, in fact – spend one hour learning to code!   A phenomenal new programming environment has been created to make this possible – students will learn about flow of control, etc., using a drag-and-drop interface, not by writing C or Java. This is a GREAT OPPORTUNITY for you to get involved with K-12 institutions in […]

White House OSTP “Big Data” event – webcast Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT

November 11th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed Lazowska

Check out the webcast of the White House OSTP “Big Data” event, November 12, 2013 beginning at 1 p.m. ET, 10 a.m. PT. Webcast here: http://live.science360.gov/1/ Agenda (pdf) is linked from that page, but also here: http://tinyurl.com/OSTP-BD