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 May, 2014

 

New Funding Opportunity to Support Early-Career CISE Researchers

May 28th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

The following is a special contribution to the blog from Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering Community, It is my pleasure to let you know that NSF is offering a new opportunity, CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII), to support early-career researchers in our discipline.  This program reaffirms CISE’s commitment to the support and growth of future generations of computer and information scientists and engineers and complements our investments in the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program. The goal of CRII is to contribute to the growth and development of future generations of scientists and engineers who will dedicate their careers […]

2014 Computing Innovation Fellows Workshop: Research, Innovation, Impact

May 27th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

The Computing Innovation Fellows (CI Fellows) project, was a program that granted short-term postdoctoral fellowships to help keep recent graduates in the field during the economic downturn. Between 2009 and 2011, 127 PhD graduates in computer science and related fields were awarded  CI Fellowships. The program has ended and the former CI Fellows are now in the early years of their formal careers.   Computing Innovation Fellows (CI Fellows) from all three cohorts (2009, 2010, 2011) assembled on May 22-23 in San Francisco, CA to reflect on the success of the program and absorb information and advice from leaders in computing research. This was the first gathering of all three […]

DARPA Highlights Innovative Approaches to Information Technology Superiority at their 2014 Demo Day

May 21st, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O) hosted Demo Day 2014 to highlight DARPA’s ongoing contributions to preserving and expanding Information Technology superiority on May 21. The Pentagon event showcased the span of DARPA projects designed to change how the nation addresses growing national security challenges posed by the Information Revolution and by the increasing global availability of sophisticated information technologies.  Some of the projects on display were: DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC): CGC, to be launched this summer, will be the first-ever tournament for testing fully automatic network defense systems. The competition’s goal is to vastly improve the speed, scale and effectiveness of IT security against escalating cyber threats. High-Assurance […]

Supporting Scientific Discovery through Norms and Practices for Software and Data Citation and Attribution

May 20th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Shar Steed

The following announcement is a special contribution from the National Science Foundation. Dear Colleague: How scientific research is conducted across all science disciplines is changing. One important direction of change is toward more open science, often driven by projects in which the output is purely digital, i.e., software or data. Scientists and engineers who develop software and generate data for their research spend significant time in the initial development of software or data frameworks, where they focus on the instantiation of a new idea, the widespread use of some infrastructure, or the evaluation of concepts for a new standard. Despite the growing importance of data and software products the effort […]

Visions 2025 – Interactions: Our Future with Social, Cognitive and Physical Intelligent Assistants

May 16th, 2014 / in Uncategorized / by Ann Drobnis

  The following is a special contribution to this blog by Limor Fix.  Limor recently retired from Intel, where she was the director of University Collaborative Research (UnCoR). UnCoR is the primary university-facing division of Intel Labs.  Limor is a member of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council.  This week, in Washington DC, an exciting and highly energetic workshop focused on “Computing Visions 2025: Interacting with the Computers All Around Us”. This workshop was the first among several workshops planned for 2014, organized by a steering group of computing leaders drawn from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee (CISE AC) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC).  Successful […]

CCC Welcomes Helen Vasaly

May 12th, 2014 / in Announcements, CCC / by Shar Steed

Computing Research Association is pleased to announce the hire of Helen Vasaly as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium. In her current role, Helen interacts with members of the research community and policy makers to organize meetings, workshops, and outreach activities. Previously, she was a Science Education Analyst at the National Science Foundation working on promoting excellence in undergraduate STEM education for the Education and Human Resources Directorate. Helen organized and participated in a number of outreach events and conferences for many programs including the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Program,whose goal is to increase the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation’s economy. She holds a bachelor’s of science in […]