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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>OSTP Posts Comments to Public Access RFIs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/02/02/ostp-posts-comments-to-public-access-rfis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued two Requests for Information (RFI) soliciting broad public input about &#8220;the long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of Federally-funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.&#8221; Now this week, OSTP has posted the comments that it received &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Institute Creates New Division for Bioinformatics, Comp Bio</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/13/nih-institute-creates-new-division-for-bioinformatics-comp-bio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting basic research and research training, announced earlier this month that it would establish two new divisions &#8212; including one focused on biomedical technology, bioinformatics, and computational biology &#8211; as part of a reorganization that includes the dissolution of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Requesting Input on Data and Informatics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/12/nih-requesting-input-on-data-and-informatics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes&#8217; of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting input into the deliberations of its newly established Working Group on Data and Informatics, which is seeking to investigate the management, integration, and analysis of large biomedical datasets. According to the announcement: The group will gather information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSB Releases Report on NSF&#8217;s Merit Review Criteria</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsb-releases-report-on-nsfs-merit-review-criteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following an extensive review by a task force to determine if the merit review criteria used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to evaluate all proposals remain appropriate, the National Science Board (NSB) yesterday released its report &#8212; National Science Foundation&#8217;s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions &#8211; recommending that NSF &#8220;better define the two criteria for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New DoD Strategy Puts Focus on Technological Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/09/new-dod-strategy-puts-focus-on-technological-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama, together with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and members of the Armed Forces, rolled out a new military strategy in a much-publicized event at the Pentagon last week. What&#8217;s interesting is that the strategy calls for an increased investment on technological innovation, including in areas of cybersecurity and intelligence systems. As the President penned in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applications Open for Google&#8217;s 2012 Policy Fellowships</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/applications-open-for-googles-2012-policy-fellowships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/applications-open-for-googles-2012-policy-fellowships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is calling for applications to its 2012 Google Policy Fellowships, which offer undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy &#8220;the opportunity to spend the summer contributing to the public dialogue on these issues, and exploring future academic and professional interests.&#8221; According to Google: Fellows will have the opportunity to work at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPTO Seeking Text Recognition, Image Analysis Algorithms</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/20/uspto-seeking-text-recognition-image-analysis-algorithms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/20/uspto-seeking-text-recognition-image-analysis-algorithms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), together with the recently created Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (COECI), launched the USPTO Innovation Challenge last week, offering $50,000 in prizes for specialized algorithms that can &#8220;help bring the 7 million patents presently in the patent archive into the digital age.&#8221; In particular, the USPTO Innovation Challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosaic Report: Synergies Between CS, Social Sciences</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/14/mosaic-report-synergies-between-cs-social-sciences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/14/mosaic-report-synergies-between-cs-social-sciences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) released a new report &#8211; Rebuilding the Mosaic: Fostering Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation in the Next Decade &#8211; representing the results of a year-long visioning process assessing the directorate&#8217;s existing research investments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF: Slight Increase in Ph.D.s in the Computer Sciences;CS Experienced &#8220;Fastest Growth&#8221; in Past Decade</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/13/nsf-slight-increase-in-ph-d-s-in-the-computer-sciencescs-experienced-fastest-growth-in-past-decade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/13/nsf-slight-increase-in-ph-d-s-in-the-computer-sciencescs-experienced-fastest-growth-in-past-decade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IARPA Seeking Machine Learning Breakthroughs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/08/iarpa-seeking-machine-learning-breakthroughs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/08/iarpa-seeking-machine-learning-breakthroughs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is out with a request for information (RFI) this month, seeking input on &#8220;a possible future IARPA investment (such as a program or grand challenge)&#8221; in automatic machine learning: Machine learning (ML) is used extensively in application areas of interest to IARPA including speech, language, vision, sensor processing, [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/white-house-unveils-cybesecurity-rd-roadmap/#comments</comments>
		<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>NIH:  &#8220;Looking at the Potential of mHealth to Solve Long-standing Problems&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/nih-looking-at-the-potential-of-mhealth-to-solve-long-standing-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/nih-looking-at-the-potential-of-mhealth-to-solve-long-standing-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over 3,600 officials spanning government, industry, and academia are gathered at the third annual mHealth Summit just outside Washington, DC, this week, &#8220;to advance collaboration in the use of wireless technology to improve health outcomes in the U.S. and abroad.&#8221; Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius kicked off the conference on Monday morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Annual CSEdWeek Just Around the Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/third-annual-csedweek-just-around-the-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/third-annual-csedweek-just-around-the-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third annual Computer Science Education Week &#8212; CSEdWeek for short &#8212; is just around the corner! Endorsed by Congress as December 4-10, 2011, in recognition of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper&#8217;s birthday (Dec. 9th, 1906) and her many contributions to the field of computer science, CSEdWeek is &#8220;a call to action to raise awareness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID, ED Seeking to Tap Technology to Teach Children</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/18/usaid-ed-seeking-to-tap-technology-to-teach-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/18/usaid-ed-seeking-to-tap-technology-to-teach-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 10am EST this morning, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) &#8212; together with its Australian counterpart AusAID, World Vision U.S., and World Vision Australia, and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) &#8212; will launch a $20 million initiative to &#8220;focus global attention on finding ground-breaking, scalable innovations that improve early grade reading outcomes for all children in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Person: &#8220;Science is Only One Part of Policymaking&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/14/first-person-science-is-only-one-part-of-policymaking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/14/first-person-science-is-only-one-part-of-policymaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8211; together with the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Government Affairs Committee &#8211; ran its first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI). Thirty-five computing researchers from around the country came to Washington to learn about U.S. science policy. Here, one of the participants &#8212; Peter Stone, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science [...]]]></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>First Person: &#8220;In Washington the National is Local&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/first-person-in-washington-the-national-is-local/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/first-person-in-washington-the-national-is-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8211; together with the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Government Affairs Committee &#8211; ran its first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI). Thirty-five computing researchers from around the country came to Washington to learn about U.S. science policy. Here, one of the participants &#8211; Beki Grinter, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agencies Seek Input on Public Access to Scientific Data</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/08/agencies-seek-input-on-public-access-to-scientific-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/08/agencies-seek-input-on-public-access-to-scientific-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:06:20 +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 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued two Requests for Information (RFI) soliciting broad public input about &#8220;the long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of Federally-funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.&#8221; Some background: OSTP has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute Kicks Off</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/07/first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute-kicks-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/07/first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute-kicks-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments ago in downtown Washington, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) convened its inaugural Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI), a daylong workshop intended to educate a small cadre of computing researchers about U.S. science policy. Throughout the day, the 35 participants &#8212; selected through an open nomination process earlier this year &#8212; will be attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EarthCube: A Community Experiment</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/05/earthcube-a-community-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/05/earthcube-a-community-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<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>DoE, ONR Announce Materials Genome Solicitations</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/01/doe-onr-announce-materials-genome-solicitations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/01/doe-onr-announce-materials-genome-solicitations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June, the Administration announced a $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership (AMP) to stimulate the development of new technologies to spur high-tech manufacturing. A key focus was a $70 million commitment to research in next-generation robotics. But there&#8217;s another component of the AMP that also warrants some of our attention: called the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keys to Biomedical Innovation: &#8220;Data Mining &amp; Information Sharing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/28/keys-to-biomedical-innovation-data-mining-information-sharing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month at an event in Washington, DC, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Ph.D., released a blueprint &#8212; titled &#8220;Driving Biomedical Innovation: Initiatives for Improving Products for Patients&#8221; &#8212; for spurring biomedical innovation and improving human health. Stemming from &#8220;a review of FDA&#8217;s current policies and practices, as well as months of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS Secretary Talks Cybersecurity Innovation, Workforce</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/27/dhs-secretary-talks-cybersecurity-innovation-workforce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/27/dhs-secretary-talks-cybersecurity-innovation-workforce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before a packed room of leading government officials, technologists, and journalists in downtown Washington this morning, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano stressed the need for a new public-private partnership framework that enables innovation and workforce development in cybersecurity in order to adequately protect our nation&#8217;s interests from cyber attacks. The event &#8211; Cybersecurity Breakfast: Protecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;7 Big Problems for 7 Billion People&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/27/7-big-problems-for-7-billion-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/27/7-big-problems-for-7-billion-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime on Halloween &#8212; yes, Halloween &#8212; the world&#8217;s population is projected to hit 7 billion. In anticipation of the numerical milestone, msnbc.com has published an article this week calling on leading experts in many different disciplines to weigh in on the challenges caused by the burgeoning world population, noting: How we respond now will determine whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Nanotechnology Strategy Touts Big Data, Modeling</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/new-nanotechnology-strategy-touts-big-data-modeling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/new-nanotechnology-strategy-touts-big-data-modeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a webinar earlier this afternoon, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) &#8212; spanning 25 Federal agencies engaged in nanotechnology research &#8211; released its 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Research Strategy, &#8220;a comprehensive, integrated approach to produce the research data that will ensure the safe, effective, and responsible development and use of nanotechnology&#8221; in the coming [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/19/illustrating-the-role-of-fundamental-computing-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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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>Administration Seeking Input on National Bioeconomy Blueprint</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/administration-seeking-input-on-national-bioeconomy-blueprint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/administration-seeking-input-on-national-bioeconomy-blueprint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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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>&#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>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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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>NSF Launching &#8220;Science Across Virtual Institutes&#8221; Today</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/05/nsf-launching-science-across-virtual-institutes-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/05/nsf-launching-science-across-virtual-institutes-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down to see the latest.) At 11am EDT today, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh &#8212; joined by numerous U.S. and international researchers, government officials, and National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone &#8212; will launch Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), &#8220;an effort to facilitate collaboration among [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/04/nasa-to-run-international-space-apps-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<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>Solar Decathlon Winner Relies Upon Computing Advances</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/02/solar-decathlon-winner-relies-upon-computing-advances/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/02/solar-decathlon-winner-relies-upon-computing-advances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks, the National Mall in Washington, DC, has been transformed into a neighborhood of futuristic homes, with 20 teams from five countries spanning four continents competing in the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s annual Solar Decathlon &#8211; an award-winning program that challenges collegiate students from around the world &#8220;to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/does-quadrennial-review-emphasizes-it-rd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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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>LIVE Soon: Congressional Hearing on the NITRD Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/21/live-soon-congressional-hearing-on-the-nitrd-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/21/live-soon-congressional-hearing-on-the-nitrd-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please see below for the latest.) Updated at 5:11pm EDT: At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convened a hearing about the Federal government&#8217;s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), seeking &#8220;to review the NITRD program to ensure U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCAST Reviews Health IT Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/17/pcast-reviews-health-it-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/17/pcast-reviews-health-it-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rounding out a busy Friday in Washington, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spent time during its meeting yesterday reviewing the Federal government&#8217;s investment in modernizing the nation&#8217;s healthcare system. The discussion took place about 9 months after PCAST unveiled a report on health information technology, in which it argued for the need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds Launch Technology Fellows Program; Deadline Sept. 25</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/feds-launch-technology-fellows-program-deadline-sept-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/feds-launch-technology-fellows-program-deadline-sept-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Information Officers Council (CIOC), working closely with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has just launched the Technology Fellows Program &#8220;to help the Federal government compete more effectively with the private sector for IT talent&#8221; and ultimately &#8220;increase the Federal government&#8217;s pool of qualified IT professionals.&#8221; From the official program announcement: The Chief Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging in Public Service</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/13/engaging-in-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/13/engaging-in-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three men in the image on the right have something in common: Rush Holt, who defeated IBM&#8217;s Watson at Jeopardy! earlier this year, Bill Foster, and Vern Ehlers have all served in the United States Congress. That makes them a fairly unique bunch. But they also have one other thing in common: they&#8217;re all scientists (physicists [...]]]></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>Why Democracy Needs Computer Science Education</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/05/why-democracy-needs-computer-science-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/05/why-democracy-needs-computer-science-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog from Henry Kautz, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. His research interests are in knowledge representation, satisfiability testing, pervasive computing, and assistive technology. He is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). If you have comments [...]]]></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>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>PCAST Discusses Future of Scientific Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/21/pcast-discusses-future-of-scientific-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/21/pcast-discusses-future-of-scientific-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a public session last Friday, the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) spent time discussing the future of scientific research in the U.S. &#8212; hearing from Keith Yamamoto, Executive Vice Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, and Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Professor of Technology and Public Policy at Harvard. The pair spoke about [...]]]></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>Agencies, National Science Board Seeking Input</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/09/agencies-national-science-board-seeking-input/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/09/agencies-national-science-board-seeking-input/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last month, the White House announced a request for feedback on &#8220;Circular A-21&#8243; &#8212; a 7-year-old document that specifies key principles for determining costs applicable to grants, contracts, and other agreements between the Federal government and educational institutions. The goal is to identify a set of revisions that will revise and clarify the circular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Lander and Larry Summers Talk Innovation, R&amp;D</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/05/eric-lander-and-larry-summers-talk-innovation-rd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/05/eric-lander-and-larry-summers-talk-innovation-rd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Brookings Institution last week, Larry Summers, former head of the National Economic Council, and Eric Lander, co-chair of the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), discussed the role of government in fostering innovation &#8212; as well as the impact of science and technology R&#38;D on the economy. Among the highlights, Lander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google:  Green Tech Innovation as a Way Forward</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/01/google-green-tech-innovation-as-a-way-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/01/google-green-tech-innovation-as-a-way-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Google released a new report on energy innovation, in which it imagined a number of different possible energy scenarios for the U.S. Google concluded that energy innovation can grow the U.S. economy by $155 billion/year, create 1.1 million new net jobs, and save consumers almost $1000/year, while simultaneously reducing our oil consumption by 1.1 [...]]]></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>CCC Council to Meet in Washington on July 15</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/28/ccc-council-to-meet-in-washington-on-july-15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/28/ccc-council-to-meet-in-washington-on-july-15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CCC Council is scheduled to meet in Washington, DC, on Friday, July 15, and will be discussing the role of fundamental computing research in Smart Health &#38; Wellbeing as well as Sustainability. Here&#8217;s a formal announcement for the public portion of the meeting &#8212; which is open to anyone: You are invited to the [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/first-person-a-very-impressive-group-of-people/#comments</comments>
		<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>Presidential Event on Innovation, Competitiveness This Morning</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/presidential-event-on-innovation-competitiveness-this-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/24/presidential-event-on-innovation-competitiveness-this-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is scheduled to address the nation from the campus of Carnegie Mellon University at 11am EDT today. The President&#8217;s speech is expected to focus on American innovation and competitiveness: The president will be highlighting the importance of manufacturing to the U.S. economy, as well as key steps that government, industry and universities will take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH:  Talking Trustworthy Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/22/watch-talking-trustworthy-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/22/watch-talking-trustworthy-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you in the Washington, DC, area, the NSF is hosting a series of talks about trustworthy computing. It&#8217;s called the Washington Area Trustworthy Computing Hour (WATCH): Today we are regularly obliged to trust a cyberinfrastructure that is in fact untrustworthy. Transforming today’s infrastructure into one that can meet society’s growing demands is major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Role of the Cloud in the Smart Grid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/the-role-of-the-cloud-in-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/the-role-of-the-cloud-in-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended a panel discussion on &#8220;The Role of the Cloud in the Smart Grid&#8221;, sponsored by Microsoft&#8217;s Innovation &#38; Policy Center and the Digital Energy Solutions Campaign (DESC). The discussion &#8212; which featured leading government and industry officials &#8212; ranged widely from privacy implications to efficiency benefits, but there were a few key takeaway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Policy Framework for 21st Century Grid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/a-policy-framework-for-21st-century-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/a-policy-framework-for-21st-century-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new National Science and Technology Council report released Monday &#8211; titled A Policy Framework for 21st Century Grid &#8212; describes ways to speed development of a smart grid that reduces energy consumption, efficiently delivers power from renewable sources, and decreases the frequency and length of blackouts. What&#8217;s most interesting &#8212; to us, anyway &#8212; is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Computer Science&#8217;s &#8216;Sputnik Moment&#8217;?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/15/computer-sciences-sputnik-moment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/15/computer-sciences-sputnik-moment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 01:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up on an article about rising enrollments in computer science this past Saturday, The New York Times has just published a fabulous Room for Debate essay series titled &#8220;Computer Science&#8217;s &#8216;Sputnik Moment&#8217;?&#8220;: Computer science is a hot major again. It had been in the doldrums after the dot-com bust a decade ago, but with the social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hollywood Spurs Surge in Computer Science Majors&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/11/hollywood-spurs-surge-in-computer-science-majors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/11/hollywood-spurs-surge-in-computer-science-majors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great article in today&#8217;s New York Times describing the recent rise in enrollments in computer science &#8212; spurred in part by &#8220;Hollywood&#8217;s portrayal of the tech world, as well as celebrity entrepreneurs like Steven P. Jobs of Apple and [Mark] Zuckerberg [of Facebook] who make products that students use every day.&#8221; On the rise in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Ignite &amp; GigU Plenaries Webcast Today &amp; Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/us-ignite-gigu-workshop-plenaries-being-webcast-today-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/us-ignite-gigu-workshop-plenaries-being-webcast-today-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are co-sponsoring a pair of workshops on US Ignite and GigU &#8212; initiatives we&#8217;ve covered in this space before &#8212; at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, today and tomorrow. For those interested, you can watch live webcasts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Nation&#8217;s Elite Army of Futuristic Techno-Geeks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/08/the-nations-elite-army-of-futuristic-techno-geeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/08/the-nations-elite-army-of-futuristic-techno-geeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calling her colleagues the &#8220;best-in-class scientists and engineers [who] come to serve their country,&#8221; DARPA Director Regina Dugan described in a recent interview at the D9 Conference how her agency is driving technological innovations that better enable our nation&#8217;s military to &#8220;create and prevent strategic surprise.&#8221; Among the topics she discussed was cybersecurity: One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Testimony, CISE AD Describes Research Contributions</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/06/in-testimony-cise-ad-describes-research-contributions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/06/in-testimony-cise-ad-describes-research-contributions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farnam Jahanian, the Assistant Director for CISE, testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on May 25th. The hearing, convened jointly by the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation and the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, examined Federal agency efforts to improve our nation&#8217;s cybersecurity and prepare the future cybersecurity talent needed for preserving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/30/doe-with-india-calling-for-building-energy-efficiency-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/30/doe-with-india-calling-for-building-energy-efficiency-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy &#8212; together with the Government of India &#8212; recently established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) &#8220;designed to promote clean energy innovation by teams of scientists and engineers from India and the United States.&#8221; DoE is committing $25 million to the Center over the next five years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recapping the US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/24/recapping-the-us-ignite-gigabit-applications-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/24/recapping-the-us-ignite-gigabit-applications-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 20:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you do with a 1 Gbps, layer 2 programmable, sliceable network? That’s the central question underlying the US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop, a daylong meeting co-hosted by the NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) early last week. The workshop &#8212; supported by several other Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/nih-holding-crowdsourcing-workshop-this-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/nih-holding-crowdsourcing-workshop-this-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on &#8220;Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,&#8221; to be held on the NIH grounds in Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2011.  The goal of the meeting is to lay the foundation for running successful challenges in biomedical and health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS PostDoc Numbers Surge Again, Recent Data Show &#8212; We Need Your Input!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/12/cs-postdoc-numbers-surge-again-recent-data-show-we-need-your-input/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/12/cs-postdoc-numbers-surge-again-recent-data-show-we-need-your-input/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 19:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Research Association recently published the results of its annual Taulbee Survey, and the numbers of PostDocs rose to record levels, continuing a trend that we have witnessed for more than a decade &#8212; and bringing new meaning to the CRA&#8217;s PostDoc white paper effort. Background As we have blogged here before, CRA &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/29/nsf-nih-announce-call-for-mhealth-white-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/29/nsf-nih-announce-call-for-mhealth-white-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and McKesson Foundation announced this week a call for white papers on innovative methods to accelerate the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of mobile health technologies &#8212; in anticipation of a workshop later this year that will serve as the basis for defining a research agenda for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Federal Health IT Strategic Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/15/a-federal-health-it-strategic-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/15/a-federal-health-it-strategic-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) &#8212; which last year announced four $60 million Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) &#8212; is seeking public comment on its Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for 2011-2015: The Plan starts in 2011, the year when medical care entered a new era &#8212; the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robots and Disasters:  The Last 10 Years, The Next 2 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/robots-and-disasters-the-last-10-years-the-next-2-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/robots-and-disasters-the-last-10-years-the-next-2-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just returned from Japan advising the “Mt. Fuji” team on UAVs for the Fukushima nuclear situation and I’ll be going back next week with a team of experts and robots to assist several prefectures with tsunami damage inspection and the grim task of underwater victim recovery.  (Read more about this in The New York Times.)  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Research at the NIH:  Funding Opportunities, Tips for Applying</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/computing-research-at-the-nih-funding-opportunities-tips-for-applying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/computing-research-at-the-nih-funding-opportunities-tips-for-applying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Peter Lyster, Program Director for biological modeling and bioinformatics in the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the NIH&#8217;s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).  Peter describes ways to find and apply for NIH funding opportunities that may well be relevant for computing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCC to Hold First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/07/ccc-to-hold-first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/07/ccc-to-hold-first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its mission to help nurture a next generation of computing research leaders, the Computing Community Consortium today announced a call for participants in a first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) &#8212; to be held on Monday, November 7, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The goal of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless Research for Intelligent Transport</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/05/wireless-research-for-intelligent-transport-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/05/wireless-research-for-intelligent-transport-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the heels of a speech by President Obama last week touting a public-private partnership seeking to &#8220;help large fleets reduce diesel and gasoline use by incorporating electric vehicles, alternative fuels, and fuel-saving measures&#8221; including mobile applications, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra yesterday described a variety of Federal research programs aimed at deploying new and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Science Board Talks &#8220;Big Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/29/national-science-board-talks-big-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/29/national-science-board-talks-big-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Board (NSB) held an Expert Panel Discussion on Data Policies at the National Science Foundation yesterday &#38; today, exploring the opportunities and challenges of a future rooted in data-intensive science and engineering.  Organized by the NSB&#8217;s Task Force on Data Policies, the meeting included leading figures in the scientific enterprise across the U.S., the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS PostDocs:  What is the &#8220;one-year technique&#8221; for CS that fits into a PostDoc training program?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/20/cs-postdocs-what-is-the-one-year-technique-for-cs-that-fits-into-a-postdoc-training-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/20/cs-postdocs-what-is-the-one-year-technique-for-cs-that-fits-into-a-postdoc-training-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Council member Stephanie Forrest.  She reports on her department&#8217;s opinions about PostDocs in computer science.  We welcome your thoughts about Stephanie’s summary &#8212; as well as the broader PostDoc issue &#8212; below or at http://cra.org/postdocs.  (More information about the CRA-facilitated conversation on CS PostDocs is available here.) The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/14/monday-morning-roundup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/14/monday-morning-roundup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several items of interest this Monday morning:

President's FY 2012 Budget Unveiled

President Obama will reveal his budget request for FY 2012 at 10:30am ET this morning.  For live coverage, check your favorite news source.  Later today, there will be budget briefings by Federal funding agencies, notably the National Science Foundation -- including the CISE Directorate -- and the Department of Energy's Office of Science.  Our colleagues at CRA's Policy Blog will have complete coverage of the President's anticipated $3.7 trillion request -- and specifically what it says about Federal funding for R&#038;D.
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		<title>White House White Board: Austan Goolsbee on the National Wireless Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/13/white-house-white-board-austan-goolsbee-on-the-national-wireless-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/13/white-house-white-board-austan-goolsbee-on-the-national-wireless-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You gotta love having geeks in the White House!  In this short video, Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, explains the National Wireless Initiative, which includes a significant research component.  Watch the video here.  Learn more about the National Wireless Initiative here.]]></description>
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		<title>CRA Launches Effort to Understand Opinions About Recent PostDoc Surge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/02/cra-launches-effort-to-understand-opinions-about-recent-postdoc-surge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/02/cra-launches-effort-to-understand-opinions-about-recent-postdoc-surge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Research Association &#8212; the umbrella organization of the CCC &#8212; today launched an effort to engage the computing research community in a conversation about PostDocs, at a time when a growing number of recent PhDs in computer science and allied fields are pursuing postdoctoral fellowships. According to data from CRA&#8217;s annual Taulbee Survey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More About PCAST&#8217;s NITRD Report</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/01/03/more-about-pcasts-nitrd-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/01/03/more-about-pcasts-nitrd-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we blogged in this space a few weeks back, the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued a report on the nation&#8217;s $4.3 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program in mid-December.  The report calls for new multi-agency NIT R&#38;D initiatives that support high-risk/high-reward research in areas of particular importance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computational Photography… PhD Students… &#8220;Watson&#8221; v. Jennings</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/20/computational-photography%e2%80%a6-phd-students%e2%80%a6-watson-v-jennings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/20/computational-photography%e2%80%a6-phd-students%e2%80%a6-watson-v-jennings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few interesting news stories in the past week: What is &#8220;Watson&#8221;? Word came on Tuesday that &#8220;Watson,&#8221; an IBM supercomputer system, will take on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter &#8212; the two most successful players in &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221; history &#8212; on three episodes of the show slated for broadcast Feb. 14-16, 2011. As we’ve previously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder:  PCAST to Release NITRD Review on Thursday</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/14/reminder-pcast-to-release-nitrd-review-on-thursday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/14/reminder-pcast-to-release-nitrd-review-on-thursday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As previously noted in this space, on Thursday, December 16th at 2:15 p.m. EST, the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will release and discuss its report entitled &#8220;Designing a Digital Future:  Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology.&#8221; This Congressionally-mandated report assesses the status and direction of the Federal Networking and Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Forget CSEdWeek!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/10/dont-forget-csedweek/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/10/dont-forget-csedweek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been lots of coverage elsewhere, but just a reminder that it&#8217;s CSEdWeek.  Congress declared Dec. 5-11, 2010, as Computer Science Education Week &#8220;to recognize the critical role of computing in today&#8217;s society and the imperative to bolster computer science education at all levels.&#8221;  Several planned events and activities are taking place throughout the nation to &#8220;illustrate how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PCAST Releases Health IT Report&#8230; NITRD Review to be Rolled Out Next Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/10/pcast-releases-health-it-report-nitrd-review-to-be-rolled-out-next-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/12/10/pcast-releases-health-it-report-nitrd-review-to-be-rolled-out-next-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on Wednesday released a report on health information technology titled “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans:  The Path Forward.”  The report “calls for adoption of a universal exchange language to mobilize data, improve healthcare, enhance privacy, and cut [...]]]></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>A Review of NITRD</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/04/a-review-of-nitrd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/04/a-review-of-nitrd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:44:39 +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) today unanimously approved a draft report reviewing the 14-agency, $4 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. The 14-person working group that assisted with the biannual review, completed this summer, was co-chaired by Ed Lazowska (full disclosure: Ed is Chair of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>K-12 CS Education is &#8220;Running on Empty&#8221;&#8230; And &#8220;Computing in the Core&#8221; Aims to Change That</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/10/06/k-12-cs-education-is-running-on-empty-and-computing-in-the-core-aims-to-change-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/10/06/k-12-cs-education-is-running-on-empty-and-computing-in-the-core-aims-to-change-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our colleagues at ACM today announced a landmark report that presents, for the first time, a state-by-state breakdown of current K-12 standards for computer science education, including specific high school graduation requirements: http://www.acm.org/runningonempty. At the same time, a new non-partisan coalition of associations, corporations, scientific societies, and other non-profits was unveiled. Computing in the Core, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA a year later</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/21/darpa-a-year-later/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/21/darpa-a-year-later/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ken Gabriel, the deputy director of DARPA, delivered a plenary address at CRA’s biannual Snowbird Conference on Monday morning &#8212; one day short of the one-year anniversary of the arrival of DARPA’s new leadership, including new DARPA director Dr. Regina Dugan. Gabriel spoke about DARPA’s incredible transformation over the past 12 months, including its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s PCAST meeting:  Science envoys, health IT, STEM education</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/18/fridays-pcast-meeting-science-envoys-health-it-stem-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/18/fridays-pcast-meeting-science-envoys-health-it-stem-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) held its July 2010 meeting at the National Academies in Washington, DC, on Friday. The hearing began with a session on &#8220;Science, Technology, and Diplomacy&#8221; that featured the three founding members of the Science Envoys program – Bruce Alberts, Elias Zerhouni, and Ahmed Zewail – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking on Healthcare:  The Time is Now</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/14/taking-on-healthcare-the-time-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium recently prepared a white paper titled, &#8220;Information Technology Research Challenges for Healthcare: From Discovery to Delivery,&#8221; as a follow-on to the Discovery and Innovation in Health IT Workshop that the CCC co-sponsored with various Federal agencies in October 2009. The paper describes basic research opportunities that can catalyze transformations in healthcare [...]]]></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>A Report from the Visions and Grand Challenges Conferences</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/22/a-report-from-the-visions-and-grand-challenges-conferences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/22/a-report-from-the-visions-and-grand-challenges-conferences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your faithful correspondent recently attended the paired ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 and UKCRC Grand Challenges conferences at Edinburgh University.  (Due to volcanic ash and the resulting travel snarls, this correspondent&#8217;s stay in the UK has been extended longer than expected!) The Visions conference was designed to highlight research visions for the future and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Proposed Budget Increases Spending in Science and Education</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/02/obamas-proposed-budget-increases-spending-in-science-and-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/02/obamas-proposed-budget-increases-spending-in-science-and-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports that President Obama&#8217;s proposed budget includes substantial increases for science research, including an 8% increase for the National Science Foundation from last year&#8217;s budget, rising to $7.4 billion.  The Department of Education is also targeted for an increased discretionary budget to $49.7 billion from $46.2 billion in 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>National Computer Science Education Week</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/11/21/national-computer-science-education-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress has resolved that the week of December 7 will be designated as &#8220;National Computer Science Education Week.&#8221;  Organizations such as the ACM, CRA, and NCWIT, along with industrial partners, are planning to use this week to promote awareness of computer science education. The NSF has invested in a number of programs that seek to  [...]]]></description>
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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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		<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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		<title>The Computing Community Consortium:  An Update</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/07/23/the-computing-community-consortium-an-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/07/23/the-computing-community-consortium-an-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A GENI Engineering Conference presentation by CCC Chair Ed Lazowska describing major activities since the last GEC in October 2008, including: Transition Team white papers (see them here) Library of Congress symposium (transparencies and videos here) Computing Innovation Fellows project (blog post here) NetSE Research Agenda (blog post here) See the presentation here (pdf).]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World&#8221; &#8211; VIDEOS!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/06/07/computing-research-that-changed-the-world-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/06/07/computing-research-that-changed-the-world-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 25th, the Computing Community Consortium organized a spectacular daylong symposium at the Library of Congress:  &#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives.&#8221; Videos of the presentations (as well as slides) are now available on the symposium website.  See http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php for the complete agenda with individual links, or see our YouTube channel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unleashing Waves of Innovation&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/04/27/unleashing-waves-of-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/04/27/unleashing-waves-of-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After leading the world in telecommunications research innovations, the United States now trails several dozen other nations in the availability of broadband to consumers.  The Obama administration&#8217;s broadband stimulus initiative represents an extraordinary opportunity to re-gain the lead. The Computing Community Consortium, working with a remarkable coalition of all the major groups involved in cyberinfrastructure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress symposium slides are up!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/04/01/library-of-congress-symposium-slides-are-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium &#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives&#8221; are now available: http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php Videos of all talks will be available soon. Previous posts describing the symposium are available here and here. Many thanks to our speakers for preparing and delivering such wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on &#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/03/29/more-on-computing-research-that-changed-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Graham provided a great overview in a post a few days ago of the Computing Community Consortium&#8217;s March 25th day-long Library of Congress symposium, &#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives.&#8221;  I thought I&#8217;d provide a few additional details &#8212; as well as a reminder that all materials (slides, videos, a summary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Day at the Library of Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/03/26/my-day-at-the-library-of-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/03/26/my-day-at-the-library-of-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A contribution from Susan Graham, the Pehong Chen Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-chair of the CCC Council: I’ve just returned from the CCC-organized Symposium on &#8220;Computing Research that Changed the World.&#8221; (http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium.php) It was a marvelous experience. There were 12 wonderful 15-minute talks that highlighted major achievements [...]]]></description>
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