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 26th, 2014

 

White House Announces New Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

February 26th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

This week, President Barack Obama announced two new public-private Manufacturing Innovation Institutes and launched the first of four new Manufacturing Innovation Institute Competitions. The institutes will boost advanced manufacturing in the United States and increase high-quality jobs. One of the public-private institutes, the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDI) is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and spearheads a consortium of 73 companies, universities, nonprofits, and research labs. The partnership between world-leading manufacturing experts and cutting-edge software companies will develop enhanced digital capabilities to design and test new products, and reduce costs in manufacturing processes across multiple industries. From the White House website: “The country that gets new products to market faster […]

CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop

February 26th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) will hold a one-day CAREER proposal writing workshop March 31, 2014 in Arlington, VA.  In addition to past programs that accepted CAREER proposals, this year, the STEM-CP: CE21 program is also accepting CAREER proposals. The goal of this workshop is to enable junior CAREER-eligible faculty to prepare competitive proposals for the NSF CAREER program.  Faculty members will have the opportunity to improve their skills in proposal writing, experience mock panel reviews, and interact with NSF program directors from the CISE divisions (ACI, CCF, CNS, and IIS), as well as with recent NSF CAREER awardees. The workshop is being hosted by the Computer […]