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		<title>OSTP Studying Benefits of Video Games</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/02/03/ostp-studying-benefits-of-video-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA TODAY is out this week with an interesting article featuring the work of MacArthur Foundation Fellow Constance Steinkuehler, an Assistant Professor in the Educational Communications &#38; Technology program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison &#8212; who&#8217;s on assignment for 18 months as a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The New Era of Computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/25/the-new-era-of-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting interview with Alex Szalay, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University &#8211; about data-intensive computing &#8212; in Datanami this week: When it comes to thought leadership that bridges the divides between scientific investigation, technology and the tools and applications that make research possible &#8230; Szalay is one of the first scientists that springs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIST Seeking Submissions to Text REtrieval Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/16/nist-seeking-submissions-to-text-retrieval-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) &#8212; which recently posted a solicitation containing opportunities for computing researchers &#8212; is now out with a call for submissions to its 21st annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), &#8220;the premier experimental effort in the field to encourage research in information retrieval and related applications&#8221; by providing a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Holds Smart Health and Wellbeing Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsf-holds-smart-health-and-wellbeing-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments ago, the National Science Foundation (NSF) wrapped up an informational webinar about its new multi-disciplinary Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) program. Expanding on a solicitation first issued in spring 2011 by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), the new program spans NSF&#8217;s CISE, Engineering (ENG), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorates &#8212; and calls for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualcomm Announces $10 Million Tricorder X Prize for Revolutionizing Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/10/qualcomm-announces-10-million-x-prize-for-revolutionizing-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last May, the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm announced that they were joining forces to develop a competition to enhance integrated digital health. Earlier today, in his keynote at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs announced the $10 million competition &#8211; with the aim of stimulating innovation and creating a new category of consumer device [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF to Hold Webinar on Smart Health &amp; Wellbeing Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; scroll down for the latest.) As we&#8217;ve previously reported in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently issued a cross-directorate solicitation on Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB), calling for interdisciplinary proposals addressing &#8221;fundamental technical and scientific issues that would support much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Digging Into Data Challenge&#8221; Winners Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/04/digging-into-data-challenge-winners-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last March, we noted that the National Science Foundation (NSF), together with 7 other international funders, was launching the second round of an international grant competition designed to spur cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences. Called Digging Into Data, the challenge specifically sought to promote large-scale, international and interdisciplinary analysis of large data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM&#8217;s &#8220;Five in Five&#8221; for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/22/ibms-five-in-five-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM is out with its sixth annual &#8220;Five in Five&#8221; list, specifying five technology innovations that have the potential to change the way we live, work, and play over the next five years. It&#8217;s a list that has met with some success over the years &#8212; for example, a 2007 prediction that &#8220;cell phones will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Announces 2012 Young Faculty Award Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/darpa-announces-2012-young-faculty-award-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its Young Faculty Award (YFA) program for 2012, seeking to &#8220;identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions [i.e., untenured Assistant or Associate Professors within five years of appointment to a tenure-track position] in academia and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs.&#8221; Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Data-driven Methods for Understanding Climate Change&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/data-driven-methods-for-understanding-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent example of how novel data-driven methods can advance science and society: In February 2012, the journal Nature Climate Change will publish a paper on rainfall extremes in India by principal investigator Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota&#8217;s computer science and engineering department and co-principal investigator Auroop Ganguly of the civil and environmental engineering department at Northeastern University in Boston, members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Internet Gets Physical&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/18/the-internet-gets-physical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times&#8217; Sunday Review, technology writer Steve Lohr pens a story all about the &#8220;Internet of Things,&#8221; noting how &#8220;low-cost sensors, clever software, and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution.&#8221; From the article: The concept has been around for years, sometimes called the Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times Keeps Talking Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/08/ny-times-keeps-talking-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to Tuesday&#8217;s special Science Times describing the future of computing, The New York Times has featured several other articles this week about cutting-edge work in the field. For instance, yesterday, the Times covered University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Professor Oren Etzioni&#8217;s electronics price prediction startup Decide &#8211; which utilizes data mining and machine learning over electronics prices to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times&#8216; Tuesday Science Section All About the Future of Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/07/ny-times-tuesday-science-section-all-about-the-future-of-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to check out the Science Times in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times &#8212; devoted entirely to &#8220;the future of computing&#8221;: What&#8217;s next? If we had a supercomputer that could predict the future, we would tell you. Then again, if the past is any guide, the predictions would certainly be wrong. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Unveils Cybesecurity R&amp;D Roadmap</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/white-house-unveils-cybesecurity-rd-roadmap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a new report &#8212; Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program &#8211; specifying an agenda for game-changing cybersecurity R&#38;D. As U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt noted in a blog post, the report provides &#8221;a roadmap to ensuring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Holds Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/02/nsf-holds-secure-and-trustworthy-computing-satc-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this afternoon, the National Science Foundation (NSF) held an informational webinar about its new multi-disciplinary Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. Replacing NSF&#8217;s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) program this year, SaTC expands cybersecurity research support within the Foundation beyond the Computer &#38; Information Science &#38; Engineering (CISE) Directorate for the first time, to include the directorates for Social, Behavioral, &#38; Economic Sciences (SBE) and Mathematical and Physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Google, Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/28/google-microsoft-talk-artificial-intelligence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) MIT&#8217;s Technology Review has an in-depth interview with Peter Norvig, Google&#8217;s Director of Research, and Eric Horvitz, a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research (and a member of the CCC Council), about their optimism for the future of AI: Google and Microsoft don&#8217;t share a stage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Quantified Health&#8221;: Larry Smarr Discusses His 10-Year Quest</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/quantified-health-larry-smarr-discusses-his-10-year-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the 10 world-changing ideas we featured earlier today is the &#8220;forever health monitor,&#8221; i.e., the ability to exploit today&#8217;s technology to quickly, easily, and fairly inexpensively monitor our own vital signs in real time, so that we may pinpoint the first signs of trouble as they arise. It turns out one man &#8211; Internet pioneer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific American&#8216;s 10 World-Changing Ideas for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/scientific-americans-10-world-changing-ideas-for-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 2011 issue of Scientific American: Revolutions often spring from the simplest of ideas. When a young inventor named Steve Jobs wanted to provide computing power to &#8220;people who have no computer experience and don’t particularly care to gain any,&#8221; he ushered us from the cumbersome technology of mainframes and command-line prompts to the breezy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Launches Secure &amp; Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Webinar Scheduled</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/22/nsf-launches-secure-webinar-scheduled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a new multi-disciplinary program &#8212; Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) &#8211; seeking proposals that address cybersecurity needs. SaTC replaces NSF&#8217;s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) program, expanding support within the Foundation to include, in addition to the Directorate for Computer &#38; Information Science &#38; Engineering (CISE), the directorates for Social, Behavioral, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Emerging Challenges of Data-Intensive Scientific Computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/19/emerging-challenges-of-data-intensive-scientific-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computing in Science and Engineering is out with a special issue for November/December 2011 focused on Big Data &#8212; and the significant research opportunities emerging from a growing wealth of scientific data. As guest editors Francis Alexander (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Adolfy Hoisie (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University) write in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can Computer Science Save Healthcare?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/11/can-computer-science-save-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/11/can-computer-science-save-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Following on the heels of yesterday&#8217;s announcement of the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) new, interdisciplinary Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) program, we thought this would be an appropriate time to highlight a series of articles about health IT R&#38;D in the September/October 2011 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems. From the abstract: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EarthCube: A Community Experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/05/earthcube-a-community-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Amy Apon, Chair of the Computer Science Division at Clemson University&#8217;s School of Computing. Apon attended the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) EarthCube Charette this week, and she recounts her experiences below. Earlier this week, the EarthCube community met at the first-ever EarthCube Charette in Washington, DC. EarthCube is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Cyborg in Everyone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/the-cyborg-in-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We blogged about brain-computer interfaces early last week &#8212; and it turns out there was a related talk later in the week by Gerwin Schalk, a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, during MIT&#8217;s 2011 Emerging Technologies Conference. Schalk described his lab&#8217;s pioneering methods for controlling computers with thoughts instead of fingers: [In 1968], Doug Engelbart actually showed for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrating the Role of Fundamental Computing Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/19/illustrating-the-role-of-fundamental-computing-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Tom Kalil and Senior Advisor Kumar Garg have highlighted the role of fundamental computing research in many of the breakthrough technologies we now use on a daily basis &#8211; using as an example Siri, the powerful new tool that Apple has deployed in its latest handset, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How Google&#8217;s Self-Driving Car Works&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/18/how-googles-self-driving-car-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/18/how-googles-self-driving-car-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun and Google engineer Chris Urmson &#8212; the brains behind Google&#8217;s autonomous vehicle project &#8211; explained how the self-driving cars work and showed off videos of successful road tests during a recent keynote at the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco. According to IEEE Spectrum, which has complete coverage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/improving-brain-computer-interfaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Science Nation story published today describes a public-private partnership funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is attempting to link mind and machine to ultimately improve the living conditions of those with &#8220;locked-in syndrome&#8221; &#8212; a malady in which people with normal cognitive brain activity suffer severe paralysis, often from injuries or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administration Seeking Input on National Bioeconomy Blueprint</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/administration-seeking-input-on-national-bioeconomy-blueprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the President announced plans to develop a National Bioeconomy Blueprint, describing government-wide steps &#8220;to harness biological research innovations to address national challenges in health, food, energy, and the environment.&#8221; And earlier this month, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information (RFI), seeking input on how best to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/11/nsfcise-holds-webinar-on-sustainability-rfps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This entry has been updated. Please scroll down for the latest.) Earlier this afternoon, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) held the first of two webinars to provide an overview of the various Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) solicitations in FY 2012 &#8212; with a particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Visioning Proposals Due Oct. 14</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/07/reminder-visioning-proposals-due-oct-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/07/reminder-visioning-proposals-due-oct-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that proposals responsive to the Computing Community Consortium&#8217;s (CCC) call for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research are due by 5pm EDT next Friday, Oct. 14th. From the official solicitation: Successful [workshop] programs will ultimately articulate and mobilize community support for a research vision(s), with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Government Opportunities to Harness Big Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/06/government-opportunities-to-harness-big-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/06/government-opportunities-to-harness-big-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of buzz this week about &#8220;Big Data,&#8221; and particularly the opportunities for government in this space. Our friend and colleague, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) President Rob Atkinson, has written a great blog post over on the Innovation Policy Blog arguing for the utility of &#8220;Big Data&#8221;/analytics in the public sector: Recently more attention has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA to Run International Space Apps Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/04/nasa-to-run-international-space-apps-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last month, NASA announced that it plans to run an International Space Apps Challenge in 2012, bringing together officials from international space agencies, scientists, and citizens in an effort to use publicly-released scientific data to create, build, and invent new solutions that address challenges of global importance, from the impact of weather upon the global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Today: Life According to Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/trending-today-life-according-to-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new study out in tomorrow&#8217;s Science magazine that&#8217;s generating lots of buzz &#8212; trending, if you will &#8211; this afternoon: researchers have mined two years&#8217; worth of Twitter data, from over 2.4 million users, to study the daily, weekly, and seasonal variations in the mood of people from 84 countries around the world. As one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoE&#8217;s Quadrennial Review Emphasizes IT R&amp;D</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/does-quadrennial-review-emphasizes-it-rd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At an event in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) released results of its first Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR) &#8211; launched earlier this year at the recommendation of the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to help the Department identify a set of priorities for its energy technology R&#38;D activities. As Energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Remaking American Medicine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/28/remaking-american-medicine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Communications of the ACM features a great piece about improving &#8212; and transforming &#8212; our nation&#8217;s healthcare system through the development of an information technology ecosystem: &#8230;[Health] information technology need not be limited to doctor&#8217;s visits and lab tests. [A report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) last December] envisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Mining for Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/26/data-mining-for-global-change-furthering-science-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Karsten Steinhaeuser, a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota involved with a National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing on Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach and the Planetary Skin Institute. Karsten describes the Expeditions effort here. Climate change is a defining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent IARPA, DARPA, NIH RFPs Require Computational Expertise</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/22/recent-iarpa-darpa-nih-rfps-require-computational-expertise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have issued solicitations in recent days with computational elements: IARPA&#8217;s Open Source Indicators (OSI) Announcement: IARPA is seeking novel approaches for aggregating publicly available data for use in predicting future events. According to the broad agency announcement: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/20/calling-for-proposals-envisioning-frontiers-of-computing-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8212; a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious, high-impact research &#8212; has issued a call for proposals for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research. From the solicitation: Successful [workshop] programs will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Gamers Solve Molecular Puzzle That Baffled Scientists&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/18/gamers-solve-molecular-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From msnbc.com&#8217;s Cosmic Log: Video-game players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years, and those scientists say the accomplishment could point the way to crowdsourced cures for AIDS and other diseases. &#160; &#8220;This is one small piece of the puzzle in being able to help with AIDS,&#8221; Firas Khatib, a biochemist at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Launches &#8220;Digital Promise,&#8221; a National Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/white-house-launches-digital-promise-a-national-learning-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/white-house-launches-digital-promise-a-national-learning-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Moments ago at the White House, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Tom Kalil, Congressman John Yarmouth (D-Ky.), Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and a bright young 11-year-old from New York City launched Digital Promise &#8211; a new national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing&#8230; at the Frontiers of Disaster Response</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/12/computing-at-the-frontiers-of-disaster-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/12/computing-at-the-frontiers-of-disaster-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we noted in this space yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a special report on disaster research last week, as part of National Preparedness Month and the events surrounding the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The report highlights the fundamental research impacting and enabling policymakers and disaster responders to better predict, prepare for, and respond to significant hazards affecting life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIPS 2011 Calling for &#8220;Big Learning&#8221; Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/10/nips-calling-for-big-learning-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/10/nips-calling-for-big-learning-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation&#8217;s 2011 Conference (NIPS 2011) has announced a special two-day workshop on parallel and large-scale machine learning called Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale. The workshop, collocated with NIPS 2011 in Granada, Spain, aims &#8220;to bring together parallel system builders in industry and academia, machine learning algorithms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Rise of Mobile Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/the-rise-of-mobile-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/the-rise-of-mobile-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Madden, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT&#8217;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), delivered a great talk about &#8220;The Rise of Mobile Data&#8221; at the &#8220;Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything&#8221; symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration earlier this year. Madden described his work in the area of sensor data analytics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future Internet Architecture: Content-Centric Networking</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/19/future-internet-architecture-content-centric-networking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/19/future-internet-architecture-content-centric-networking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next month, a little more than a year after the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program, 100 researchers will gather in Palo Alto, CA, to discuss the progress in &#8220;content-centric networking&#8221; (CCN) &#8211; a new direction for organizing Internet traffic that aims to provide greater security and faster connectivity. Content-centric networking represents a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mind-Powered Chip&#8221;: Emulating the Brain&#8217;s Cognitive Powers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/mind-powered-chip-emulating-the-brains-cognitive-powers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/mind-powered-chip-emulating-the-brains-cognitive-powers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a multi-year cognitive computing initiative funded by DARPA and involving academic collaborators, Dharmendra Modha and his colleagues at IBM Research &#8211; Almaden have designed an experimental computer chip that emulates the brain&#8217;s cognitive powers. It&#8217;s a revelation that&#8217;s got the popular press abuzz today. From the IBM press release: In a sharp departure from traditional concepts in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/nsf-launches-sustainability-research-networks-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/nsf-launches-sustainability-research-networks-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a competition for Sustainability Research Networks (SRNs) &#8211; part of the broader NSF investment in Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) &#8212; seeking to foster collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches for pursuing the fundamental science and engineering necessary to understand and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Calling for &#8220;2012 Director&#8217;s New Innovators&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/16/nih-calling-for-2012-directors-new-innovators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/16/nih-calling-for-2012-directors-new-innovators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced a call for the 2012 Director&#8217;s New Innovator (DP2) Award program, an initiative created in 2007 to stimulate highly innovative research and support promising new investigators. Many new investigators have exceptionally innovative research ideas, but not the preliminary data required to fare well in the traditional NIH peer review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Robot That Bakes Cookies</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/15/a-robot-that-bakes-cookies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever tried baking &#8212; yes, baking &#8212; and found it challenging? Well, try teaching it to a robot. That&#8217;s just what a group of researchers at MIT&#8217;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have done. Graduate student Mario Bollini, a member of Daniela Rus&#8217;s Distributed Robotics Lab, has spent the past several months programming the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Turing Lecture</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/14/the-turing-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Valiant, the winner of the 2010 A.M. Turing Award for his &#8220;transformative contributions to the theory of computation,&#8221; delivered the Turing Lecture at the 2011 Federated Computing Research Conference, held in San Jose, CA, in early June. Valiant&#8217;s lecture &#8212; titled &#8220;The Extent and the Limitations of Mechanistic Explanations of Nature&#8221; &#8212; is now online (after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: Watson&#8217;s Lead Developer: &#8220;Deep analysis, speed, and results&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/12/update-watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/12/update-watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, I blogged about David Ferrucci&#8217;s excellent keynote at this year&#8217;s Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) in San Jose, CA &#8212; noting how Ferrucci stepped through the creation of Watson, from conception of the &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8220; challenge in 2004 to the supercomputer&#8217;s nationally televised victory earlier this year. Well, now, ACM has made Ferrucci&#8217;s talk &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Ideas for &#8220;Data Intensive Science&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/11/seeking-ideas-for-data-intensive-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/11/seeking-ideas-for-data-intensive-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has just announced a Request for Ideas (RFI) about Data Intensive Science: The increasing volume and complexity of scientific data are overwhelming current research practices, and create additional barriers to an already challenged science infrastructure, workforce and funding landscape. Many agencies and foundations are looking at ways to best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCAST Sustainability Report Emphasizes &#8220;Informatics Technologies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/10/pcast-sustainability-report-emphasizes-informatics-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/10/pcast-sustainability-report-emphasizes-informatics-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report titled Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and Economy, calling for improved accounting of ecosystem services and greater protection of environmental capital. The report notes the importance of the nation&#8217;s ecosystems and biodiversity to the overall economy, and recommends that the Federal government institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/darpa-automated-program-analysis-for-cybersecurity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/darpa-automated-program-analysis-for-cybersecurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh on the heels of announcing a call for social media research, DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a solicitation for &#8220;innovative research proposals in the area of automated program analysis for cybersecurity.&#8221; From the official broad agency announcement: ﻿Automated program analysis is a fundamentally hard problem. It has been known since the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Awards CS-Led Health, Robotics Research Center</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/nsf-awards-cs-led-health-robotics-research-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/nsf-awards-cs-led-health-robotics-research-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new five-year, $18.5 million Engineering Research Center (ERC) that will pursue interdisciplinary research and education in areas of health and robotics: The NSF ERC for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (ERC/SNE) will create devices to restore or augment the body&#8217;s capabilities for sensation and movement. The foundation for the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 Years Later, &#8220;Search Needs a Shake-Up&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/08/20-years-later-search-needs-a-shake-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/08/20-years-later-search-needs-a-shake-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Comment in the Aug. 4 issue of Nature &#8212; coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the public release of the World Wide Web &#8211; Oren Etzioni, Professor and Director of the Turing Center at the University of Washington, calls on the computing research community to &#8220;think outside the keyword box and improve Internet&#8221; search. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Q&amp;A with David Ferrucci&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/06/a-qa-with-david-ferrucci/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/06/a-qa-with-david-ferrucci/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated.) David Ferrucci, the lead researcher for IBM&#8217;s Watson, was recently selected by Slate Magazine as one of &#8220;five American technology gurus&#8221; &#8212; for being &#8220;both wildly inventive and incredibly practical.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the official writeup. As part of the honor, Ferrucci was interviewed by Slate&#8217;s Farhad Manjoo. Among the questions: Do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;To Fly Like a Bird&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/04/to-fly-like-a-bird/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of mankind&#8217;s oldest dreams is to fly like a bird. And now, thanks to a team of German researchers, we&#8217;ve moved one step closer with SmartBird &#8212; the first ultralight artificial bird capable of flying like a real bird. Inspired by the herring gull, SmartBird is capable of taking off and rising in the air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gigabit in the Home</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/04/gigabit-in-the-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve covered the US Ignite and Gig.U initiatives on this blog over the course of the past few months, and now we&#8217;ve been pointed to a great video that explains, in fairly concrete terms, exactly what high-capacity networking means for everyday consumers. The video was produced by our friends at the Australian National Broadband Network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/dod-enters-national-robotics-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/dod-enters-national-robotics-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in mid-June, we noted the President&#8217;s announcement of a $70 million National Robotics Initiative (NRI) &#8212; a multi-agency investment spanning the NSF, NIH, NASA, and U.S. Department of Agriculture &#8211; to fund major research advances enabling next-generation robotics. This morning, the White House announced that the Department of Defense is now supporting the NRI as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could the Next Big Thing &#8220;Take Longer to Arrive&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/02/could-the-next-big-thing-take-longer-to-arrive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/02/could-the-next-big-thing-take-longer-to-arrive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not everyday the national news media envisions computing research. But it happened on Sunday, when New York Times&#8216; writer John Markoff penned a story about the future of computer architecture &#8212; picking up on a paper presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2011) earlier this year that forecast a 24-fold gap from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Right Now:  NSF Announcing New Innovation Corps</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/28/live-right-now-nsf-announcing-new-innovation-corps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/28/live-right-now-nsf-announcing-new-innovation-corps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) In just a few minutes, Earlier today, during a special session of the National Science Board &#8212; and before a large gathering of senior leadership from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The March of Technology&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/25/the-march-of-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/25/the-march-of-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration, Stanford President John Hennessy stepped through the history of computer architecture, with an eye toward the future &#8212; including multicore and multithreading (fine-grained vs. simultaneous). I&#8217;m going to try to both take a look backward and then a look forward and talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA:  Learning Warfare from Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/23/darpa-learning-warfare-from-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/23/darpa-learning-warfare-from-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a new solicitation for &#8220;innovative research proposals in the area of social media in strategic communication&#8221; that will give rise to &#8220;a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the overview from the official broad agency announcement: The conditions under which our Armed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;From Big Data to New Insights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/18/from-big-data-to-new-insights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/18/from-big-data-to-new-insights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog today, Deputy Director for Policy Tom Kalil noted the Administration&#8217;s keen interest in Big Data &#8212; and singled out the CCC&#8217;s recent white papers on data analytics: &#8230;Researchers in a growing number of fields are generating extremely large data sets, commonly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In Search of Robots More Like Us&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/12/in-search-of-robots-more-like-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/12/in-search-of-robots-more-like-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s New York Times&#8216; weekly &#8220;Science Times,&#8221; science writer John Markoff pens a feature about the state of robotics research &#8212; including the many challenges to enabling robots to mimic humans&#8217; basic capabilities of motion and perception. The robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks often begins speeches by reaching into his pocket, fiddling with some loose change, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pixar Senior Scientist on Computer Animation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/07/pixar-senior-scientist-on-computer-animation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another great talk &#8212; by Tony DeRose, Senior Scientist and head of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios &#8212; at the recent “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration. DeRose stepped through the 80-year history of computer animation, with examples from Beauty and the Beast, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE AD Issues Letter to the Community on Robotics Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/29/cise-ad-issues-letter-to-the-community-on-robotics-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/29/cise-ad-issues-letter-to-the-community-on-robotics-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSF/CISE Assistant Director Farnam Jahanian has issued the following letter to the community, describing the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) launched last week: Dear CISE Community, &#160; On Friday, in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama announced the plan for major federal investments in next-generation robotics. The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) is a bold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Engineers of the New Millennium&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/28/engineers-of-the-new-millennium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/28/engineers-of-the-new-millennium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation and IEEE Spectrum Radio have partnered to produce a terrific series of reports describing the frontiers of engineering research: These researchers are investigating new phenomena, devising new capabilities and designing new technologies. Innovations in engineering can help us overcome challenges in sustainability, launch whole industries and help people enjoy happier and healthier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Professor&#8217;s &#8220;Dream of Robots&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/27/mit-professors-dream-of-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/27/mit-professors-dream-of-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh on the heels of Friday&#8217;s big announcement about a new National Robotics Initiative, I thought now would be a great time to feature a recent talk by MIT CSAIL Professor Leslie Pack Kaelbling. Speaking at the “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything” symposium commemorating MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration back in April, Kaelbling described the emerging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Person: &#8220;A Very Impressive Group of People&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/first-person-a-very-impressive-group-of-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very impressive group of people came to CMU’s National Robotics Engineering Center for the announcement of the Advanced Manufacturing Program by President Barack Obama. I saw among the group: College Presidents: CMU, MIT, Georgia Tech, U Michigan, and RPI; US Senator: Bob Casey, Jr. (Pennsylvania); Government officials: Directors of DARPA and NIST, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robotics Research a Pillar of New $500M Advanced Manufacturing Partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/robotics-research-a-pillar-of-new-500m-advanced-manufacturing-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/robotics-research-a-pillar-of-new-500m-advanced-manufacturing-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) In just a few minutes, President Obama will announce the launch of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) in a speech on U.S. innovation and competitiveness at Carnegie Mellon University, saying his administration will provide $500 million to encourage the Federal government, industry, and academia to work together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Announces &#8220;Earth-Cube&#8221; Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/23/nsf-announces-earth-cube-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/23/nsf-announces-earth-cube-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Dear Colleague Letter issued earlier this month, the NSF&#8217;s Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure call for &#8220;an open, adaptable, and sustainable framework (an &#8216;Earth-Cube&#8217;) to enable transformative research and education in Earth System Science&#8221;: In a new partnership, GEO and OCI recognize the multifaceted challenges of modern, data-intensive science and education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Soliciting Innovative Research Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/darpa-soliciting-innovative-research-proposals-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/darpa-soliciting-innovative-research-proposals-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last month, DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) issued a solicitation calling for research proposals that &#8220;investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.&#8221; Among the focus areas (emphasis added): ﻿Understand: Change is pervasive and accelerating throughout all aspects of human, world and military affairs, bringing with it both opportunities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ITA Software&#8217;s Co-Founder Discusses Travel Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/18/ita-softwares-co-founder-discusses-travel-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/18/ita-softwares-co-founder-discusses-travel-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the electronic reservation system that you used to book your summer vacation this year? Well, in all likelihood, it was powered by information technology from ITA Software &#8212; the 450-person, Cambridge, MA-based company that was recently bought by Google for $700 million. ITA Software&#8217;s innovative travel tool &#8212; QPX &#8212; powers some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Earn $50K?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/want-to-earn-50k/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/want-to-earn-50k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of very interesting prize-based competitions have been announced in the past week. The first &#8212; with Vint Cerf, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, and former Congressman Tom Davis among the judges &#8211; calls for innovative ways for IT to improve government: The Merit Awards is a new innovation contest that challenges the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akamai Chief Scientist Talks Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/10/akamai-chief-scientist-talks-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/10/akamai-chief-scientist-talks-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few weeks, we&#8217;ve been highlighting on this blog several of the excellent talks from the “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything&#8221; symposium held at MIT earlier this year. The symposium &#8212; part of MIT&#8217;s 150th anniversary celebration &#8212; described how computer science is changing the world. This week, we showcase another talk, this one by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watson&#8217;s Lead Developer:  &#8220;Deep analysis, speed, and results&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/07/watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/07/watsons-lead-developer-deep-analysis-speed-and-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Ferrucci&#8217;s official title is &#8220;IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM&#8217;s T.J. Watson Research Center.&#8221; But to the world, he&#8217;s the genius behind Watson, the question-answering supercomputer system that bested two humans in a nationally televised broadcast of the popular game show Jeopardy! earlier this year. And not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Computation Has Transformed Practically Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/computation-and-the-transformation-of-practically-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/computation-and-the-transformation-of-practically-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve noted in this space before, MIT &#8212; as part of its 150th anniversary celebration &#8212; recently sponsored a series of symposia exploring key interdisciplinary research questions and directions. One that&#8217;s of particular interest was titled “Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,&#8221; and touched on how computer science is changing the world: Computation and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get $1 Million &#8212; If You Engineer the Best Product Recommendation Algorithm</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/get-1-million-if-you-engineer-the-best-product-recommendation-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/get-1-million-if-you-engineer-the-best-product-recommendation-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How do you get people to buy more? That&#8217;s the $1 million question &#8212; literally.&#8221; RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever RecLab Prize on Overstock.com &#8212; up to $1 million in cash to the person or team capable of building the most powerful online product recommendation engine: The Prize provides a cash award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Biology as Information&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/biology-as-information/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/biology-as-information/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 21:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, MIT sponsored a series of symposia this spring exploring key interdisciplinary research questions and directions. One of these, titled &#8220;Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything,&#8221; took place April 11-12, and features over two dozen phenomenal talks about how computer science is changing the world: Computation and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Force Seeking &#8220;Transformational Computing&#8221; Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/air-force-seeking-transformational-computing-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/air-force-seeking-transformational-computing-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced a new funding opportunity in &#8220;transformational computing for aerospace science and engineering&#8221; &#8212; and particularly high-risk/high-payoff multidisciplinary approaches that may transform computing in the aerospace community. Awards are expected to span up to five years, with an annual investment of $1.5 million. The deadline for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Announces Round Two of Its &#8220;Digging Into Data Challenge&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/25/nsf-announces-round-two-of-its-digging-into-data-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/25/nsf-announces-round-two-of-its-digging-into-data-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday, the NSF announced the second round of an international grant competition designed to spur cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences.  Called the &#8220;Digging into Data Challenge,&#8221; the competition specifically promotes large-scale, international and interdisciplinary analysis of large data sets in these fields. The competition asks interested scholars to design methods and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data as a Driver for Scientific Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/04/data-as-a-driver-for-scientific-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/04/data-as-a-driver-for-scientific-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t seen it already, the February 11 issue of Science magazine is worth a look.  It contains a special section &#8212; titled &#8220;Dealing with Data&#8221; &#8212; that describes the challenges and opportunities arising from the wealth of scientific data being generated. As the staff of Science writes in the overview piece: If we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidential Early Career Awards&#8230; The Value of a CS Education&#8230; and More</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/12/presidential-early-career-awards-the-value-of-a-cs-education-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/12/presidential-early-career-awards-the-value-of-a-cs-education-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of interesting stories this past week of relevance to the field: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers On Tuesday, the White House announced the names of 85 early-career researchers who will receive the government’s highest honor for young scientists and engineers &#8212; the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Computing Community Consortium At Three &#8211; A Quick Self-Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/16/the-computing-community-consortium-at-three-a-quick-self-assessment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/16/the-computing-community-consortium-at-three-a-quick-self-assessment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 04:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium was launched three years ago –- in the Spring of 2007. The “long version” of what we’ve been up to is detailed in a formal self-assessment submitted to NSF in the Summer of 2009. The “PowerPoint version” is contained in an overview slideset. Here, I’m going to focus on just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metagenomics and the Computing Challenges of Microbial Communities</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/11/06/metagenomics-and-the-computing-challenges-of-microbial-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/11/06/metagenomics-and-the-computing-challenges-of-microbial-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cccblog.org/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should you care about microbial communities? Except for viruses, they are the most abundant life on Earth and have an overwhelming effect on our environment and our lives. Consider that about half the carbon dioxide on Earth is processed through microbes that live in the oceans. Then consider that the most modern climate models [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inducing Innovation with Prizes</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/09/25/inducing-innovation-with-prizes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/09/25/inducing-innovation-with-prizes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cccblog.org/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The awarding of the $1 million Netflix Prize this week reopens an interesting bigger question:  Are prizes a viable mechanism for encouraging research in the computing fields?  From Netflix&#8217;s perspective, the answer is almost certainly yes.  Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is quoted telling the New York Times (probably tongue-in-cheek) &#8220;You&#8217;re getting Ph.D.&#8217;s for a dollar [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/08/23/cross-layer-reliability-visioning-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/08/23/cross-layer-reliability-visioning-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kapilendra Patnaik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Study Group met July 8-9, 2009 in Los Alamos, NM.  This was the second of three scheduled meetings focused on how to address the growing challenges imposed by changes in device technology, system sizes, and application requirements.  A major goal of the Visioning process is to reach some consensus on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Better Security Depend on a Better Internet?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/21/does-better-security-depend-on-a-better-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/21/does-better-security-depend-on-a-better-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clean Slate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GENI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Markoff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the New York Times printed an article by John Markoff entitled, Do We Need a New Internet? In the article, Markoff states, &#8220;&#8230;there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LSST Science Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/06/17/lsst-science-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/06/17/lsst-science-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSF has an account for Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC), to support the development of very large research instruments. Typically, the goal of these instruments, which may cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and tens of millions of dollars annually to operate, is to find answers to some of the most [...]]]></description>
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