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CCC Launches Undergraduate Summer Research Listing Site

January 6th, 2012

CCC Launches Undergraduate Summer Research Listing SiteThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is unveiling a new website today allowing researchers to advertise undergraduate summer research positions and students to find such opportunities.

These listings will appear from a link on the CCC’s relatively new Computer Science Research Opportunities & Graduate School (CSGS) website, which has information on summer research opportunities, a Q&A on “why do research,” and links to many recurring summer programs (e.g., NSF REUs, CRA-W, CREUC Canada, among others). The site also has information and advice on applying to graduate school in computing fields (with Q&As with faculty from around the country as well as current Ph.D. students) and a “Day in the Life” Blog where a few graduate students are sharing their experiences as they proceed through grad school. Ultimately, the objective of the CSGS website is to help promote a healthy pipeline of talented young people into careers in computing research.

We’re writing to ask you to please let your colleagues know about this resource. Instructions for faculty (and other research supervisors) on how to post a summer research opportunity are provided below (after the jump).  There is no charge for this service.

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NSF: Slight Increase in Ph.D.s in the Computer Sciences;
CS Experienced “Fastest Growth” in Past Decade

December 13th, 2011

NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates [image courtesy NSF].The National Science Foundation (NSF) is out with a brief overview of the results of its annual Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) for 2010, finding that the numbers of Ph.D.s in the computer sciences increased by 3.5 percent that year, more than in any other discipline. (The total number of doctorates awarded by U.S. academic institutions declined for the first time since 2002 — and NSF notes that reclassification of degrees and discontinuation of data collection in certain areas contributed at least in part to this drop.)

According to the NSF InfoBrief:

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CS Experienced “Fastest Growth” in Past Decade

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Third Annual CSEdWeek Just Around the Corner

November 21st, 2011

2011 Computer Science Education Week [image courtesy CSEdWeek.org].The third annual Computer Science Education Week — CSEdWeek for short — is just around the corner! Endorsed by Congress as December 4-10, 2011, in recognition of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper’s birthday (Dec. 9th, 1906) and her many contributions to the field of computer science, CSEdWeek is “a call to action to raise awareness of computer science education and computing careers for students, educators, and the public.”

There are numerous events and activities planned throughout the nation to illustrate how computer science education is essential to exposing students to critical thinking and problem solving; instilling an understanding of computational thinking for success in the digital era; and preparing students to attack the world’s most challenging problems from a computational perspective.

Help us spread the word about CSEdWeek – and computer science education and computing careers more generally:

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