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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>DARPA Announces Proposers Day for New PERFECT Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/31/darpa-announces-proposers-day-for-new-perfect-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency&#8217;s (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has announced a Proposers Day for a new program &#8212; Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) &#8212; to introduce the research community to the PERFECT vision and goals, and to facilitate interaction and coordination among prospective PIs and technology developers. The Proposers Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Go Viral to Improve Health&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/30/go-viral-to-improve-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have partnered to launch the &#8220;Go Viral to Improve Health&#8221; Health Data Collegiate Challenge, designed to spur undergraduate and graduate students to create health-related apps. The contest is aimed at students pursuing degrees in health, engineering, and computer science. And the prize for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Seeking to Develop a &#8220;Cognitive Fingerprint&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/27/darpa-seeking-to-develop-a-cognitive-fingerprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is out this month with a broad agency announcement soliciting &#8220;innovation research proposals in support of the development of new software-based biometric modalities&#8221; that go beyond the current focus of passwords for identity validation: The current standard method for validating a user’s identity for authentication on an information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The New Era of Computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/25/the-new-era-of-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting interview with Alex Szalay, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University &#8211; about data-intensive computing &#8212; in Datanami this week: When it comes to thought leadership that bridges the divides between scientific investigation, technology and the tools and applications that make research possible &#8230; Szalay is one of the first scientists that springs to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USAID Posts Draft RFA with Emphasis Spanning Analytics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/24/usaid-posts-draft-rfa-with-emphasis-spanning-analytics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USAID is launching what it calls &#8220;an exciting and ambitious&#8221; program to engage universities and research institutes in novel ways to improve the agency&#8217;s (and larger development community&#8217;s) ability to define and solve large development challenges. Computing appears poised to play an important role here, as key goals of the program are &#8220;to advance evidence-based analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verisign Announces Internet Infrastructure Grant Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/23/verisign-announces-internet-infrastructure-grant-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verisign has announced its 2012 Internet Infrastructure Award Program, seeking proposals that pursue &#8220;research that has the potential to improve the availability and security of Internet access in all parts of the world.&#8221; Expanding on a program first launched in 2010, this year&#8217;s program seeks to emphasize research that &#8221;advances security and stability, encourages Internet deployment, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surgical Robots, Sensor Wristbands Advancing Health, Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/19/surgical-robots-sensor-wristbands-advancing-health-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last year, we&#8217;ve described many opportunities at the intersection of computing and healthcare as well as computing and sustainability &#8212; and there are a couple great examples in the press this week. Researchers at the University of Washington have engineered Raven II, a new surgical robot with wing-like arms predicated on an open [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIST Seeking Submissions to Text REtrieval Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/16/nist-seeking-submissions-to-text-retrieval-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) &#8212; which recently posted a solicitation containing opportunities for computing researchers &#8212; is now out with a call for submissions to its 21st annual Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), &#8220;the premier experimental effort in the field to encourage research in information retrieval and related applications&#8221; by providing a large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magnetic Memory Miniaturized to Just 12 Atoms</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/12/ibm-determines-magnetic-memory-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of an article to be published in tomorrow&#8217;s Science, IBM Research today announced the development of the world&#8217;s smallest magnetic memory bit by its Almaden research staff. At low temperatures, the magnetic storage approach requires only 12 magnetic atoms &#8212; making it at least 100 times denser than today&#8217;s hard disk drive and solid state memory chips &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Holds Smart Health and Wellbeing Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsf-holds-smart-health-and-wellbeing-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments ago, the National Science Foundation (NSF) wrapped up an informational webinar about its new multi-disciplinary Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) program. Expanding on a solicitation first issued in spring 2011 by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), the new program spans NSF&#8217;s CISE, Engineering (ENG), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorates &#8212; and calls for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qualcomm Announces $10 Million Tricorder X Prize for Revolutionizing Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/10/qualcomm-announces-10-million-x-prize-for-revolutionizing-healthcare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/10/qualcomm-announces-10-million-x-prize-for-revolutionizing-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last May, the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm announced that they were joining forces to develop a competition to enhance integrated digital health. Earlier today, in his keynote at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV, Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs announced the $10 million competition &#8211; with the aim of stimulating innovation and creating a new category of consumer device [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIST Announces 2012 Measurement Science &amp; Engineering Research Grants Programs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/10/nist-announces-2012-measurements-science-engineering-research-grants-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced its FY 2012 Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Programs, with an emphasis on a number of areas of computing, including cyber-physical systems, intelligent systems, and systems integration. A key domain for NIST is energy and the environment, including the smart grid. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Person: &#8220;The Man Who Wants to Translate the Web&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/09/first-person-the-man-who-wants-to-translate-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Luis von Ahn is featured in CNN.com&#8217;s TEDTalk Tuesdays this week for his Duolingo project, which seeks to provide a free way to learn languages and translate the World Wide Web. Check out Luis&#8217;s write-up for CNN.com below, and video of his TED Talk after the jump. I want to translate the Web into every major [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/09/new-dod-strategy-puts-focus-on-technological-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<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>NSF to Hold Webinar on Smart Health &amp; Wellbeing Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/06/nsf-to-hold-webinar-on-smart-health-wellbeing-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/06/nsf-to-hold-webinar-on-smart-health-wellbeing-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; scroll down for the latest.) As we&#8217;ve previously reported in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently issued a cross-directorate solicitation on Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB), calling for interdisciplinary proposals addressing &#8221;fundamental technical and scientific issues that would support much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Your Connected Vehicle is Arriving&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/05/your-connected-vehicle-is-arriving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a great piece in MIT&#8217;s Technology Review this week &#8212; written by Thilo Koslowski, Vice President and head of the Automotive, Vehicle ICT &#38; Mobility Practice at Gartner &#8211; describing how cars are becoming networked, to the Internet and to one another, and how this new trend will redefine transportation as a whole in the next decade. Some excerpts: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Digging Into Data Challenge&#8221; Winners Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/04/digging-into-data-challenge-winners-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/04/digging-into-data-challenge-winners-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last March, we noted that the National Science Foundation (NSF), together with 7 other international funders, was launching the second round of an international grant competition designed to spur cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences. Called Digging Into Data, the challenge specifically sought to promote large-scale, international and interdisciplinary analysis of large data [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Low-Cost Robots Could Transform Science&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/03/low-cost-robots-could-transform-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/03/low-cost-robots-could-transform-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, everyone! As we kick off 2012, here&#8217;s an interesting story &#8211; in the December Communications of the ACM &#8211; about how low-cost robots stand to impact science moving forward: A new generation of inexpensive robots could make the machines ubiquitous, opening up robotics to new areas of research, says James McLurkin, assistant professor of computer science and director of the robotics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011: &#8220;The Year the Device in Your Pocket&#8221;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/29/2011-the-year-the-device-in-your-pocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/29/2011-the-year-the-device-in-your-pocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;became &#8220;the center of your world.&#8221; So says technology writer/editor Joshua Topolsky &#8212; founding editor-in-chief of The Verge and former editor-in-chief of Engadget &#8212; in an year-end technology review for The Washington Post. It&#8217;s worth a quick read (emphasis added below): As far as years in technology go, 2011 was one for the record books. &#160; It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Top 11 Scientific Twists from 2011&#8243;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/28/top-11-scientific-twists-from-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/28/top-11-scientific-twists-from-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[msnbc.com&#8217;s Cosmic Log is out with its list of the top 11 scientific twists from 2011 this morning: The past year brought us the supercomputer that trounced flesh-and-blood champions on the &#8220;Jeopardy&#8221; TV show &#8230; genetic discoveries that showed us the tangles in humanity&#8217;s family tree &#8230; a tsunami that shouldn&#8217;t have been as catastrophic as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Unique You to Build a Better Password&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/27/the-unique-you-to-build-a-better-password/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/27/the-unique-you-to-build-a-better-password/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times published a two items last Friday about computer security research efforts to supplement, and perhaps one day eliminate, passwords. From the print edition: Passwords are a pain to remember. What if a quick wiggle of five fingers on a screen could log you in instead? Or speaking a simple phrase? &#160; Neither idea is far-fetched. Computer scientists in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s BlueHat Prize: $200K for the Next Security Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/22/microsofts-bluehat-prize-200k-for-the-next-security-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/22/microsofts-bluehat-prize-200k-for-the-next-security-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking to motivate the development of novel solutions to serious computer security threats, Microsoft Corp. has launched an inaugural BlueHat Prize contest, offering a grand prize of $200,000 to the most innovative submission. In particular, Microsoft aims &#8220;to challenge security researchers to design a novel runtime mitigation technology designed to prevent the exploitation of memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM&#8217;s &#8220;Five in Five&#8221; for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/22/ibms-five-in-five-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/22/ibms-five-in-five-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM is out with its sixth annual &#8220;Five in Five&#8221; list, specifying five technology innovations that have the potential to change the way we live, work, and play over the next five years. It&#8217;s a list that has met with some success over the years &#8212; for example, a 2007 prediction that &#8220;cell phones will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Announces 2012 Young Faculty Award Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/darpa-announces-2012-young-faculty-award-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/darpa-announces-2012-young-faculty-award-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced its Young Faculty Award (YFA) program for 2012, seeking to &#8220;identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions [i.e., untenured Assistant or Associate Professors within five years of appointment to a tenure-track position] in academia and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) needs.&#8221; Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Data-driven Methods for Understanding Climate Change&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/data-driven-methods-for-understanding-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/21/data-driven-methods-for-understanding-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent example of how novel data-driven methods can advance science and society: In February 2012, the journal Nature Climate Change will publish a paper on rainfall extremes in India by principal investigator Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota&#8217;s computer science and engineering department and co-principal investigator Auroop Ganguly of the civil and environmental engineering department at Northeastern University in Boston, members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>&#8220;Scaling Up&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/20/scaling-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/20/scaling-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 2011 Communications of the ACM, CCC Council member and MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering &#38; Computer Science Frans Kaashoek discusses multicore computing, security, and OS design: Kaashoek has &#8230; conducted wide-ranging research in computer systems, including operating system design, software-based network routing, and distributed hash tables, which revolutionized the storage and retrieval [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Internet Gets Physical&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/18/the-internet-gets-physical/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/18/the-internet-gets-physical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times&#8217; Sunday Review, technology writer Steve Lohr pens a story all about the &#8220;Internet of Things,&#8221; noting how &#8220;low-cost sensors, clever software, and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution.&#8221; From the article: The concept has been around for years, sometimes called the Internet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIXHS11 Challenges &amp; Visions Session a Success</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/16/mixhs11-challenges-visions-session-a-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/16/mixhs11-challenges-visions-session-a-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog from Cui Tao and Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, the organizing chairs of the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and compleXity in Health Systems, which was held in October 2011 in Scotland (U.K.). We were delighted to host a successful Vision and Challenge Track at the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Humans, Computers Each Have Their Place&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/15/humans-computers-each-have-their-place/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/15/humans-computers-each-have-their-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Washington Post yesterday: Modern technological advances have sparked many concerns that supercomputers, robots and other sophisticated machinery will soon erase the need for skilled workers, especially in industries like manufacturing and construction, perhaps driving the nation’s unemployment rate even higher in the years ahead. &#160; Similarly, Americans’ increasing dependence on technology, ranging from constant computer use to around-the-clock [...]]]></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>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>NY Times Keeps Talking Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/08/ny-times-keeps-talking-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/08/ny-times-keeps-talking-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to Tuesday&#8217;s special Science Times describing the future of computing, The New York Times has featured several other articles this week about cutting-edge work in the field. For instance, yesterday, the Times covered University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Professor Oren Etzioni&#8217;s electronics price prediction startup Decide &#8211; which utilizes data mining and machine learning over electronics prices to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Times&#8216; Tuesday Science Section All About the Future of Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/07/ny-times-tuesday-science-section-all-about-the-future-of-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/07/ny-times-tuesday-science-section-all-about-the-future-of-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already, be sure to check out the Science Times in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times &#8212; devoted entirely to &#8220;the future of computing&#8221;: What&#8217;s next? If we had a supercomputer that could predict the future, we would tell you. Then again, if the past is any guide, the predictions would certainly be wrong. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Unveils Cybesecurity R&amp;D Roadmap</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/06/white-house-unveils-cybesecurity-rd-roadmap/</link>
		<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>NSF Holds Secure and Trustworthy Computing (SaTC) Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/02/nsf-holds-secure-and-trustworthy-computing-satc-webinar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/02/nsf-holds-secure-and-trustworthy-computing-satc-webinar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this afternoon, the National Science Foundation (NSF) held an informational webinar about its new multi-disciplinary Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program. Replacing NSF&#8217;s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) program this year, SaTC expands cybersecurity research support within the Foundation beyond the Computer &#38; Information Science &#38; Engineering (CISE) Directorate for the first time, to include the directorates for Social, Behavioral, &#38; Economic Sciences (SBE) and Mathematical and Physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Return of the Human Computers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/02/return-of-the-human-computers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/02/return-of-the-human-computers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece about the future of human computing in the print edition of The Economist tomorrow &#8211; and it features the thinking of CCC Council member Eric Horvitz along with several others: &#8230;Over the past few years, human computing has been reborn. The new generation of human computers carry out different tasks, but they mirror their predecessors in many other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cybersecurity at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/01/cybersecurity-at-the-air-force-office-of-scientific-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/01/cybersecurity-at-the-air-force-office-of-scientific-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) will host the CCC Council&#8217;s very own Fred Schneider at 1pm EST today as part of its 60th Anniversary Commemorative Seminar Series. In a talk titled &#8220;Cybersecurity: Technology and Policy,&#8221; Fred will describe his research supporting &#8220;the construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBUT, Gig City™: Pushing the Envelope With Prize-Based Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/30/debut-gig-city%e2%84%a2-pushing-the-envelope-with-prize-based-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/30/debut-gig-city%e2%84%a2-pushing-the-envelope-with-prize-based-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two relevant challenges announced recently that are placing emphasis on prize-based innovation: DEBUT Challenge (for undergraduate students): The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has announced a competition &#8212; called the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge &#8211; for undergraduate students to foster the design and development of innovative diagnostic and therapeutic devices and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA May Pursue Crowdsourced Software Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/29/darpa-may-pursue-crowdsourced-software-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/29/darpa-may-pursue-crowdsourced-software-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency&#8217;s (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O) announced last week its intention to issue, perhaps in December, a solicitation for Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV), with the goal of investigating &#8220;innovative approaches that automatically create games capable of transforming formal verification problems into compelling games for end users to play.&#8221; From the official notification: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Google, Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/28/google-microsoft-talk-artificial-intelligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/28/google-microsoft-talk-artificial-intelligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) MIT&#8217;s Technology Review has an in-depth interview with Peter Norvig, Google&#8217;s Director of Research, and Eric Horvitz, a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research (and a member of the CCC Council), about their optimism for the future of AI: Google and Microsoft don&#8217;t share a stage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Recap of Supercomputing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/25/a-recap-of-supercomputing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/25/a-recap-of-supercomputing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in Seattle a record attendance of more than 11,000 people from throughout the world met at the Seattle Convention Center for SC11 &#8211; the largest international supercomputing conference focusing on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis through a large industrial and research exhibition and a highly peer reviewed technical program (which was attended by almost 5,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Quantified Health&#8221;: Larry Smarr Discusses His 10-Year Quest</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/quantified-health-larry-smarr-discusses-his-10-year-quest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/quantified-health-larry-smarr-discusses-his-10-year-quest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the 10 world-changing ideas we featured earlier today is the &#8220;forever health monitor,&#8221; i.e., the ability to exploit today&#8217;s technology to quickly, easily, and fairly inexpensively monitor our own vital signs in real time, so that we may pinpoint the first signs of trouble as they arise. It turns out one man &#8211; Internet pioneer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific American&#8216;s 10 World-Changing Ideas for 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/scientific-americans-10-world-changing-ideas-for-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/23/scientific-americans-10-world-changing-ideas-for-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 2011 issue of Scientific American: Revolutions often spring from the simplest of ideas. When a young inventor named Steve Jobs wanted to provide computing power to &#8220;people who have no computer experience and don’t particularly care to gain any,&#8221; he ushered us from the cumbersome technology of mainframes and command-line prompts to the breezy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Launches Secure &amp; Trustworthy Cyberspace Program; Webinar Scheduled</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/22/nsf-launches-secure-webinar-scheduled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/22/nsf-launches-secure-webinar-scheduled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a new multi-disciplinary program &#8212; Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) &#8211; seeking proposals that address cybersecurity needs. SaTC replaces NSF&#8217;s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) program, expanding support within the Foundation to include, in addition to the Directorate for Computer &#38; Information Science &#38; Engineering (CISE), the directorates for Social, Behavioral, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Computing and AI for a Sustainable Future&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/computing-and-ai-for-a-sustainable-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/computing-and-ai-for-a-sustainable-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following last month&#8217;s focus on smart health and wellbeing, IEEE Intelligent Systems is inaugurating the Department of AI and Sustainability &#8212; another area of national importance! &#8212; in its forthcoming November/December 2011 issue. Doug Fisher, a Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University who recently served as a Program Director at the National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Emerging Challenges of Data-Intensive Scientific Computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/19/emerging-challenges-of-data-intensive-scientific-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/19/emerging-challenges-of-data-intensive-scientific-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computing in Science and Engineering is out with a special issue for November/December 2011 focused on Big Data &#8212; and the significant research opportunities emerging from a growing wealth of scientific data. As guest editors Francis Alexander (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Adolfy Hoisie (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University) write in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>What the DARPA Network Challenge Showed</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/16/what-the-darpa-network-challenge-showed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/16/what-the-darpa-network-challenge-showed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve previously noted in this space, in December 2009, 10 red balloons were deployed from locations throughout the U.S. as part of the DARPA Network Challenge &#8212; a competition to &#8220;explore the roles the Interent and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF&#8217;s Cyberlearning Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/16/nsfs-cyberlearning-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this fall, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) issued a new solicitation for FY 2012 for its Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, providing three different research categories of funding. The deadline for the first category &#8212; Exploratory Projects &#8212; is December 15. From the solicitation: Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Today, the Internet &#8212; Tomorrow, the Internet of Things?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/15/today-the-internet-tomorrow-the-internet-of-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/15/today-the-internet-tomorrow-the-internet-of-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An feature in Computerworld last week takes an in-depth look at the &#8220;widely predicted Internet of Things (IoT), where anything with intelligence (including machines, roads, and buildings) will have an online presence, generating data that could be put to uses currently unimagined.&#8221; From the article: Dave Evans, chief futurist at Cisco&#8230; predicts 50 billion connected devices by 2020, [...]]]></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>NSF Unveils Cross-Cutting Smart Health &amp; Wellbeing Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/nsf-unveils-cross-cutting-smart-health-wellbeing-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/nsf-unveils-cross-cutting-smart-health-wellbeing-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), Engineering (ENG), and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) have joined forces to co-sponsor a new, interdisciplinary Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) program for FY 2012. The solicitation just out today broadens a program first implemented by CISE in spring 2011 &#8212; and is consistent with an outline in last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Inventing the Future of Computing&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/09/inventing-the-future-of-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/09/inventing-the-future-of-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who may have missed it, an article in last week&#8217;s Bloomberg Businessweek &#8211; under the heading &#8220;creating chips that learn and respond as they gain experience&#8221; &#8212; described recent and ongoing advances in AI, cognition, and human-computer interaction: In a windowless room deep inside IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, scientists are teaching a computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Presenting New &#8220;CREATIV&#8221; Grant Mechanism Today</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/09/nsf-presenting-new-creativ-grant-mechanism-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/09/nsf-presenting-new-creativ-grant-mechanism-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 11am EST today, key officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF), led by NSF Director Subra Suresh, will present a live webcast about the Foundation&#8217;s new Creative Research Awards for Transformative Interdisciplinary Ventures (CREATIV) &#8212; a &#8220;pilot grant mechanism under the Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) initiative, to support bold interdisciplinary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenges &amp; Visions Track a Centerpiece of SSRR 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/08/successful-challenges-visions-track-a-centerpiece-of-ssrr-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/08/successful-challenges-visions-track-a-centerpiece-of-ssrr-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium&#8217;s (CCC) latest Challenges &#38; Visions track was held Nov. 3 at the 9th Annual IEEE Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) in Kyoto, Japan. The &#8220;outrageous visions for computing in rescue robotics&#8221; track was a success, expanding the awareness of computing for a less traditionally computational group &#8212; roboticists. (Previous tracks [...]]]></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>GEC12: &#8220;Jumpstarting Application Development&#8221; with US Ignite</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/04/gec12-jumpstarting-application-development-with-us-ignite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/04/gec12-jumpstarting-application-development-with-us-ignite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:58:04 +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.) Nearly 300 researchers, entrepreneurs, infrastructure providers, city managers, and others from around the country are gathered in Kansas City, MO, this week for the GENI Engineering Conference (GEC) &#8212; the twelfth in a series of conferences since the GENI Project was first funded by the National Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Reconstruct Shredded Documents?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/02/can-you-reconstruct-shredded-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/02/can-you-reconstruct-shredded-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the question being posed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which recently announced the DARPA Shredder Challenge &#8211; a competition for computer scientists and puzzle enthusiasts alike to piece together a series of shredded documents. The goal is &#8220;to identify and assess potential capabilities that could be used by our warfighters operating in war zones, but might [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/28/keys-to-biomedical-innovation-data-mining-information-sharing/#comments</comments>
		<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>Pushing the &#8220;Humble Thermostat Into the Digital Age&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/25/pushing-the-humble-thermostat-into-the-digital-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/25/pushing-the-humble-thermostat-into-the-digital-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting example in today&#8217;s New York Times about computing in sustainability: &#8230;The humble household thermostat. &#160; A boring wall fixture and an unlikely target for innovation? Not to [Tony] Fadell [a former Apple executive who led iPod and iPhone development from 2001 to 2009], his team of 100 computer hardware and software experts and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;When Disaster Strikes, New Tech Saves Lives&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/when-disaster-strikes-new-tech-saves-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/when-disaster-strikes-new-tech-saves-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&#38;M University (and a member of the CCC Council), and Mary Fernández, Executive Director of Distributed Computing Research at AT&#38;T Research, are among several computing researchers featured on msnbc.com&#8217;s Future of Technology website this afternoon &#8212; as part of a series of wide-ranging videos about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Cyborg in Everyone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/the-cyborg-in-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/24/the-cyborg-in-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We blogged about brain-computer interfaces early last week &#8212; and it turns out there was a related talk later in the week by Gerwin Schalk, a Research Scientist at the Wadsworth Center, during MIT&#8217;s 2011 Emerging Technologies Conference. Schalk described his lab&#8217;s pioneering methods for controlling computers with thoughts instead of fingers: [In 1968], Doug Engelbart actually showed for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;YouPivot&#8221;: Contextual Search Goes Digital</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/youpivot-contextual-search-goes-digital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/youpivot-contextual-search-goes-digital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s IEEE Spectrum: Imagine if you could conjure up a key piece of knowledge you had forgotten by having a computer summon everything you were seeing, hearing, and doing at the time to help jog your memory. Researchers in Illinois are now developing such technology, which will help people relive the past to search [...]]]></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>Interbot&#8217;s Robot Takes Top Honors at the First RoboBowl</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/19/interbots-robot-takes-top-honors-at-the-first-robobowl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/19/interbots-robot-takes-top-honors-at-the-first-robobowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interbots&#8217; consumer robot for autism therapy took the top prize last Thursday at the nation&#8217;s first-ever next-generation robotics venture competition. The event, called RoboBowl Pittsburgh (it was held at Carnegie Mellon University), was co-sponsored by the Robotics Technology Consortium and Innovation Accelerator, and sought &#8220;to find and foster startup and early-stage companies seeking to develop products and services that address unmet and underserved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;How Google&#8217;s Self-Driving Car Works&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/18/how-googles-self-driving-car-works/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/18/how-googles-self-driving-car-works/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun and Google engineer Chris Urmson &#8212; the brains behind Google&#8217;s autonomous vehicle project &#8211; explained how the self-driving cars work and showed off videos of successful road tests during a recent keynote at the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco. According to IEEE Spectrum, which has complete coverage of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Improving Brain-Computer Interfaces&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/improving-brain-computer-interfaces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/improving-brain-computer-interfaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Science Nation story published today describes a public-private partnership funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that is attempting to link mind and machine to ultimately improve the living conditions of those with &#8220;locked-in syndrome&#8221; &#8212; a malady in which people with normal cognitive brain activity suffer severe paralysis, often from injuries or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administration Seeking Input on National Bioeconomy Blueprint</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/17/administration-seeking-input-on-national-bioeconomy-blueprint/</link>
		<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>NSF/CISE Holds Webinar on Sustainability RFPs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/11/nsfcise-holds-webinar-on-sustainability-rfps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/11/nsfcise-holds-webinar-on-sustainability-rfps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This entry has been updated. Please scroll down for the latest.) Earlier this afternoon, the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) held the first of two webinars to provide an overview of the various Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) solicitations in FY 2012 &#8212; with a particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Healthcare Robotics Ideas to Appear in First RoboBowl</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/11/five-healthcare-robotics-ideas-to-appear-in-first-robobowl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/11/five-healthcare-robotics-ideas-to-appear-in-first-robobowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this week, five teams from across the country will compete before a blue-ribbon panel of judges &#8211; and officials from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) &#8211; in the inaugural RoboBowl venture competition. RoboBowl Pittsburgh, as it&#8217;s being called (the competition will take place on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminder: Visioning Proposals Due Oct. 14</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/07/reminder-visioning-proposals-due-oct-14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/07/reminder-visioning-proposals-due-oct-14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that proposals responsive to the Computing Community Consortium&#8217;s (CCC) call for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research are due by 5pm EDT next Friday, Oct. 14th. From the official solicitation: Successful [workshop] programs will ultimately articulate and mobilize community support for a research vision(s), with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Government Opportunities to Harness Big Data&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/06/government-opportunities-to-harness-big-data/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/06/government-opportunities-to-harness-big-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<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>U.S., China Collaborations in Computing and Sustainability</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/03/u-s-china-collaborations-in-computing-and-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/03/u-s-china-collaborations-in-computing-and-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special contribution to this blog by Fred Roberts, director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), and Stephen Greenfield, Professor of Mathematics and a member of the Graduate Faculty, at Rutgers. The pair organized a workshop entitled &#8220;U.S.-China Collaborations in Computer Science and Sustainability,&#8221; bringing together 45 U.S. and Chinese computer scientists, mathematicians, [...]]]></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>&#8220;Ten Disruptive Technologies&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/30/ten-disruptive-technologies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/30/ten-disruptive-technologies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this month&#8217;s Communications of the ACM: The next decade will bring 10 technological changes that will transform the world, says Dave Evans, Cisco&#8217;s chief futurist. In his opinion, they are: The Internet Of Things. Evans predicts the number of Internet-connected &#8220;things&#8221; will reach 50 billion &#8212; more than six devices fore very person on Earth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Today: Life According to Twitter</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/trending-today-life-according-to-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/trending-today-life-according-to-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new study out in tomorrow&#8217;s Science magazine that&#8217;s generating lots of buzz &#8212; trending, if you will &#8211; this afternoon: researchers have mined two years&#8217; worth of Twitter data, from over 2.4 million users, to study the daily, weekly, and seasonal variations in the mood of people from 84 countries around the world. As one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoE&#8217;s Quadrennial Review Emphasizes IT R&amp;D</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/29/does-quadrennial-review-emphasizes-it-rd/</link>
		<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>&#8220;Remaking American Medicine&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/28/remaking-american-medicine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/28/remaking-american-medicine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s Communications of the ACM features a great piece about improving &#8212; and transforming &#8212; our nation&#8217;s healthcare system through the development of an information technology ecosystem: &#8230;[Health] information technology need not be limited to doctor&#8217;s visits and lab tests. [A report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) last December] envisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Mining for Global Change: Furthering Science, Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/26/data-mining-for-global-change-furthering-science-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/26/data-mining-for-global-change-furthering-science-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Karsten Steinhaeuser, a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota involved with a National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing on Understanding Climate Change: A Data Driven Approach and the Planetary Skin Institute. Karsten describes the Expeditions effort here. Climate change is a defining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF&#8217;s SEES Initiative: Key Roles for Computing Researchers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/26/nsfs-sees-initiative-key-roles-for-computing-researchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/26/nsfs-sees-initiative-key-roles-for-computing-researchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Krishna Kant, a Program Director in the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) within the National Science Foundation&#8217;s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Krishna is CISE&#8217;s point person for the Foundation-wide Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative. Here he provides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent IARPA, DARPA, NIH RFPs Require Computational Expertise</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/22/recent-iarpa-darpa-nih-rfps-require-computational-expertise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/22/recent-iarpa-darpa-nih-rfps-require-computational-expertise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have issued solicitations in recent days with computational elements: IARPA&#8217;s Open Source Indicators (OSI) Announcement: IARPA is seeking novel approaches for aggregating publicly available data for use in predicting future events. According to the broad agency announcement: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling for Proposals: Envisioning Frontiers of Computing Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/20/calling-for-proposals-envisioning-frontiers-of-computing-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/20/calling-for-proposals-envisioning-frontiers-of-computing-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8212; a standing committee of CRA that seeks to catalyze and empower the computing research community to pursue audacious, high-impact research &#8212; has issued a call for proposals for workshop programs that will define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research. From the solicitation: Successful [workshop] programs will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Launches &#8220;Digital Promise,&#8221; a National Learning Center</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/white-house-launches-digital-promise-a-national-learning-center/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/white-house-launches-digital-promise-a-national-learning-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Moments ago at the White House, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Deputy Director Tom Kalil, Congressman John Yarmouth (D-Ky.), Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and a bright young 11-year-old from New York City launched Digital Promise &#8211; a new national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Seeking Proposals at the Interface of Computing, Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/15/nsf-seeking-proposals-at-the-interface-of-computing-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/15/nsf-seeking-proposals-at-the-interface-of-computing-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation&#8217;s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) have issued a joint solicitation for interdisciplinary research and education projects that develop new knowledge at the interface of between computer science and economics &#38; social sciences. From the RFP: An important research interaction has emerged at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF/CISE to Hold Sustainability Webinars</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/nsfcise-to-hold-sustainability-webinars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/nsfcise-to-hold-sustainability-webinars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve previously reported in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently issued a series of solicitations as part of its multi-year Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative. Today the NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate announced that it will be holding a pair of webinars later this month and early next month to provide an overview of these solicitations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing-Room Only at a VLDB Challenges &amp; Visions Session</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/standing-room-only-at-a-vldb-challenges-visions-session/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/13/standing-room-only-at-a-vldb-challenges-visions-session/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attendees of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2011) &#8211; a premier annual international forum for data management and database researchers, vendors, practitioners, application developers, and users &#8212; stretched into the hallway outside the meeting room during the first of two Challenges and Visions sessions held in Seattle, WA, in late August. According to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing&#8230; at the Frontiers of Disaster Response</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/12/computing-at-the-frontiers-of-disaster-response/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/12/computing-at-the-frontiers-of-disaster-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we noted in this space yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) published a special report on disaster research last week, as part of National Preparedness Month and the events surrounding the tenth anniversary of 9/11. The report highlights the fundamental research impacting and enabling policymakers and disaster responders to better predict, prepare for, and respond to significant hazards affecting life, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On 9/11 Anniversary, &#8220;Lessons from the Tragedy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/11/on-911-anniversary-lessons-from-the-tragedy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/11/on-911-anniversary-lessons-from-the-tragedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As our nation pauses today to remember and reflect upon this tenth anniversary of 9/11, we recall the heroic efforts of ordinary citizens in the aftermath of that horrific day &#8212; as well as the lessons that were learned as a result. From a research standpoint, the National Science Foundation noted in a special report on disaster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIPS 2011 Calling for &#8220;Big Learning&#8221; Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/10/nips-calling-for-big-learning-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/10/nips-calling-for-big-learning-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Foundation&#8217;s 2011 Conference (NIPS 2011) has announced a special two-day workshop on parallel and large-scale machine learning called Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale. The workshop, collocated with NIPS 2011 in Granada, Spain, aims &#8220;to bring together parallel system builders in industry and academia, machine learning algorithms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Seeking US Ignite White Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/30/nsf-seeking-us-ignite-white-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/30/nsf-seeking-us-ignite-white-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:15:45 +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.) The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate has issued a call for white papers for the new US Ignite initiative: The National Science Foundation invites white papers from individuals and organizations (e.g., academic, non-profit, industry, associations, government agencies) that want to express particular interest in the US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSTD 2011 Vision &amp; Challenge Track Winners Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/27/sstd-2011-vision-challenge-track-winners-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog from Shashi Shekhar and Mohamed Mokbel, faculty in the Department of Computer Science &#38; Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The pair organized the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases in Minneapolis, MN, this week. We were delighted to host a successful Vision and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forecasting Hurricane Irene</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/26/forecasting-hurricane-irene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:16:38 +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.) Despite some slight weakening over the last few hours, Hurricane Irene is being called the &#8220;storm of a lifetime&#8221; &#8212; on its current path, it will affect over 65 million people in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S. over the next 72 hours. Packing winds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEV 2012 Calling for Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/23/dev-2012-calling-for-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organizers of the second annual symposium on Computing for Development (DEV 2012) &#8212; to be colocated with the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2012) in Atlanta, GA, March 10-11, 2012 &#8212; have issued a call for papers: DEV 2012 provides an international forum for research in the design and implementation [...]]]></description>
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