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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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/31/darpa-announces-proposers-day-for-new-perfect-program/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/30/go-viral-to-improve-health/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/27/darpa-seeking-to-develop-a-cognitive-fingerprint/#comments</comments>
		<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;Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/26/computational-thinking-a-digital-age-skill-for-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/26/computational-thinking-a-digital-age-skill-for-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE), in partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), is out with an outstanding four-minute video &#8212; Computational Thinking: A Digital Age Skill for Everyone &#8211; providing an introduction to computational thinking. It&#8217;s part of the ITSE&#8217;s recent efforts to develop an operational definition [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/24/usaid-posts-draft-rfa-with-emphasis-spanning-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/23/verisign-announces-internet-infrastructure-grant-program/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/19/surgical-robots-sensor-wristbands-advancing-health-energy/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/16/nist-seeking-submissions-to-text-retrieval-conference/#comments</comments>
		<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>NIH Institute Creates New Division for Bioinformatics, Comp Bio</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/13/nih-institute-creates-new-division-for-bioinformatics-comp-bio/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/13/nih-institute-creates-new-division-for-bioinformatics-comp-bio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), an institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) supporting basic research and research training, announced earlier this month that it would establish two new divisions &#8212; including one focused on biomedical technology, bioinformatics, and computational biology &#8211; as part of a reorganization that includes the dissolution of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Requesting Input on Data and Informatics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/12/nih-requesting-input-on-data-and-informatics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/12/nih-requesting-input-on-data-and-informatics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes&#8217; of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting input into the deliberations of its newly established Working Group on Data and Informatics, which is seeking to investigate the management, integration, and analysis of large biomedical datasets. According to the announcement: The group will gather information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Holds Smart Health and Wellbeing Webinar</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsf-holds-smart-health-and-wellbeing-webinar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsf-holds-smart-health-and-wellbeing-webinar/#comments</comments>
		<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>NSB Releases Report on NSF&#8217;s Merit Review Criteria</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsb-releases-report-on-nsfs-merit-review-criteria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/11/nsb-releases-report-on-nsfs-merit-review-criteria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following an extensive review by a task force to determine if the merit review criteria used by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to evaluate all proposals remain appropriate, the National Science Board (NSB) yesterday released its report &#8212; National Science Foundation&#8217;s Merit Review Criteria: Review and Revisions &#8211; recommending that NSF &#8220;better define the two criteria for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/10/nist-announces-2012-measurements-science-engineering-research-grants-programs/#comments</comments>
		<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>CCC Launches Undergraduate Summer Research Listing Site</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/06/ccc-launches-undergraduate-summer-research-listing-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2012/01/06/ccc-launches-undergraduate-summer-research-listing-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is unveiling a new website today allowing researchers to advertise undergraduate summer research positions and students to find such opportunities. These listings will appear from a link on the CCC&#8217;s relatively new Computer Science Research Opportunities &#38; Graduate School (CSGS) website, which has information on summer research opportunities, a Q&#38;A on [...]]]></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>Explaining Why Computing is Important</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/30/explaining-why-computing-is-important/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/30/explaining-why-computing-is-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM Fellow Grady Booch, co-creator of UML and object-oriented programming, has launched &#8220;a transmedia project&#8221; seeking to engage &#8220;audiences of all ages in the story of technology that has changed humanity.&#8221; He&#8217;s hoping to put together a multi-part television documentary, together with a book, e-book, website, app, and educational curriculum to tell the story about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CCC Blog in 2011: Our Top Posts from the Year Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/the-ccc-blog-in-2011-our-top-posts-from-the-year-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/the-ccc-blog-in-2011-our-top-posts-from-the-year-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate the holidays and get set to close the books on 2011 &#8212; a banner year for the CCC Blog, with more than twice as many page views as in any previous year &#8212; we thought we would take a quick look back at some of the most popular topics on the Blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applications Open for Google&#8217;s 2012 Policy Fellowships</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/applications-open-for-googles-2012-policy-fellowships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/23/applications-open-for-googles-2012-policy-fellowships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google is calling for applications to its 2012 Google Policy Fellowships, which offer undergraduate, graduate, and law students interested in Internet and technology policy &#8220;the opportunity to spend the summer contributing to the public dialogue on these issues, and exploring future academic and professional interests.&#8221; According to Google: Fellows will have the opportunity to work at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>NSF Rolls Out &#8220;CS Bits &amp; Bytes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/05/nsf-rolls-out-cs-bits-bytes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/05/nsf-rolls-out-cs-bits-bytes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In celebration of CSEdWeek &#8211; this week! &#8211; the National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) rolled out CS Bits &#38; Bytes this morning, a one-page biweekly newsletter highlighting innovative computer science research. The NSF CS Bits &#38; Bytes series will emphasize how computer science permeates and improves our lives and supports progress in [...]]]></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>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>Health Care Innovation Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/01/health-care-innovation-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/12/01/health-care-innovation-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services&#8217; (DHHS) Center for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Innovation &#8211; within the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) &#8212; officially rolled out its Health Care Innovation Challenge, with up to $1 billion in grant funding to those who &#8220;implement the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, [...]]]></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;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>More Stanford CS, Entrepreneurship Courses Go Online</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/22/more-stanford-cs-entrepreneurship-courses-go-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/22/more-stanford-cs-entrepreneurship-courses-go-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, Stanford launched a highly-publicized experiment in online learning, offering three of its most popular introductory computer science classes &#8212; Machine Learning, Introduction to Databases, and Introduction to Artificial Intelligence &#8212; through the Web for free. The classes, taught by Stanford faculty, are being held online in conjunction with the regular on-campus courses. And by [...]]]></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>Third Annual CSEdWeek Just Around the Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/third-annual-csedweek-just-around-the-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/21/third-annual-csedweek-just-around-the-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third annual Computer Science Education Week &#8212; CSEdWeek for short &#8212; is just around the corner! Endorsed by Congress as December 4-10, 2011, in recognition of Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper&#8217;s birthday (Dec. 9th, 1906) and her many contributions to the field of computer science, CSEdWeek is &#8220;a call to action to raise awareness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#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>Google&#8217;s Citation Tracker Kicks Off</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/18/googles-citation-tracker-kicks-off/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/18/googles-citation-tracker-kicks-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends at The Chronicle of Higher Education&#8216;s Wired Campus Blog: Anyone can now track his or her citations via Google Scholar. The free citation service is “a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time,” the company said in an announcement [Wednesday] on the Google Scholar blog. Google [had] [...]]]></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>NSF&#8217;s Cyberlearning Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/16/nsfs-cyberlearning-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/16/nsfs-cyberlearning-program/#comments</comments>
		<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>First Person: &#8220;Science is Only One Part of Policymaking&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/14/first-person-science-is-only-one-part-of-policymaking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/14/first-person-science-is-only-one-part-of-policymaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8211; together with the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Government Affairs Committee &#8211; ran its first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI). Thirty-five computing researchers from around the country came to Washington to learn about U.S. science policy. Here, one of the participants &#8212; Peter Stone, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>First Person: &#8220;In Washington the National is Local&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/first-person-in-washington-the-national-is-local/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/10/first-person-in-washington-the-national-is-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8211; together with the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Government Affairs Committee &#8211; ran its first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI). Thirty-five computing researchers from around the country came to Washington to learn about U.S. science policy. Here, one of the participants &#8211; Beki Grinter, an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>New Nanotechnology Strategy Touts Big Data, Modeling</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/new-nanotechnology-strategy-touts-big-data-modeling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/20/new-nanotechnology-strategy-touts-big-data-modeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a webinar earlier this afternoon, the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) &#8212; spanning 25 Federal agencies engaged in nanotechnology research &#8211; released its 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Research Strategy, &#8220;a comprehensive, integrated approach to produce the research data that will ensure the safe, effective, and responsible development and use of nanotechnology&#8221; in the coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Person: &#8220;One of My Most Exciting Internship Experiences&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/16/first-person-one-of-my-most-exciting-internship-experiences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/16/first-person-one-of-my-most-exciting-internship-experiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 14:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: As we’ve previously noted in this space (see here and here), the National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting applications for its 2012 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). Shwetak Patel &#8212; an Assistant Professor of Computer Science &#38; Engineering at the University of Washington who was recently named a MacArthur Fellowship &#8212; participated [...]]]></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>First Person: &#8220;EAPSI Program &#8230; an Essential Experience&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/09/first-person-eapsi-program-an-essential-experience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/09/first-person-eapsi-program-an-essential-experience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: As we&#8217;ve previously noted in this space, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is soliciting applications for its 2012 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI). Mike Stilman &#8211; an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech&#8217;s School of Interactive Computing and Director of the Humanoid Robotics Lab in the Robotics and Intelligent Machines Center &#8211; participated in the 2005 EAPSI [...]]]></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>NSF Launching &#8220;Science Across Virtual Institutes&#8221; Today</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/05/nsf-launching-science-across-virtual-institutes-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/05/nsf-launching-science-across-virtual-institutes-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down to see the latest.) At 11am EDT today, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh &#8212; joined by numerous U.S. and international researchers, government officials, and National Academy of Sciences President Ralph Cicerone &#8212; will launch Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), &#8220;an effort to facilitate collaboration among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA to Run International Space Apps Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/04/nasa-to-run-international-space-apps-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/04/nasa-to-run-international-space-apps-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last month, NASA announced that it plans to run an International Space Apps Challenge in 2012, bringing together officials from international space agencies, scientists, and citizens in an effort to use publicly-released scientific data to create, build, and invent new solutions that address challenges of global importance, from the impact of weather upon the global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>Apply for NSF&#8217;s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/23/apply-for-nsfs-east-asia-and-pacific-summer-institutes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/23/apply-for-nsfs-east-asia-and-pacific-summer-institutes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation for its East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI), providing U.S. science and engineering graduate students with unique opportunities to explore research in Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, or Taiwan. The EASPI allow U.S. graduate students to be introduced to East Asian and Pacific science and [...]]]></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>Launching a New Resource for CS Undergraduates</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/21/launching-a-new-resource-for-cs-undergraduates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/21/launching-a-new-resource-for-cs-undergraduates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium&#8217;s Research Community &#38; Student Outreach Subcommittee is pleased to announce a unique new website for undergraduates in computing fields hoping to learn more about summer research opportunities as well as the process for applying to graduate school in computer science. The website contains: A section [...]]]></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>Feds Launch Technology Fellows Program; Deadline Sept. 25</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/feds-launch-technology-fellows-program-deadline-sept-25/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/09/16/feds-launch-technology-fellows-program-deadline-sept-25/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Information Officers Council (CIOC), working closely with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has just launched the Technology Fellows Program &#8220;to help the Federal government compete more effectively with the private sector for IT talent&#8221; and ultimately &#8220;increase the Federal government&#8217;s pool of qualified IT professionals.&#8221; From the official program announcement: The Chief Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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>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>First Person: &#8220;Life as a NSF Program Director&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/24/first-person-life-as-a-nsf-program-director/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/24/first-person-life-as-a-nsf-program-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Doug Fisher, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. From July 2007 to August 2010, Doug served as a Program Director in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) within NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate. He has agreed to describe something of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Security Data for Experimentation</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/cyber-security-data-for-experimentation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/22/cyber-security-data-for-experimentation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate has issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), calling to attention the outputs of a multi-agency, invitational workshop on Cyber Security Data for Experimentation (CSDE). The workshop &#8212; which was held last year through the collaboration of the NSF, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Treasury Department, as well as other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Launches Sustainability Research Networks Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/nsf-launches-sustainability-research-networks-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/18/nsf-launches-sustainability-research-networks-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a competition for Sustainability Research Networks (SRNs) &#8211; part of the broader NSF investment in Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) &#8212; seeking to foster collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches for pursuing the fundamental science and engineering necessary to understand and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP, Google To Award &#8220;Journalism &amp; Technology Scholarships&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/17/ap-google-to-award-journalism-technology-scholarships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/17/ap-google-to-award-journalism-technology-scholarships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 13:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press and Google have teamed up to create Journalism and Technology Scholarships that foster digital and new media skills in student journalists. The scholarships will provide $20,000 to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media during the 2012-2013 academic year. Have you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Calling for &#8220;2012 Director&#8217;s New Innovators&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/16/nih-calling-for-2012-directors-new-innovators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/16/nih-calling-for-2012-directors-new-innovators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced a call for the 2012 Director&#8217;s New Innovator (DP2) Award program, an initiative created in 2007 to stimulate highly innovative research and support promising new investigators. Many new investigators have exceptionally innovative research ideas, but not the preliminary data required to fare well in the traditional NIH peer review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking Ideas for &#8220;Data Intensive Science&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/11/seeking-ideas-for-data-intensive-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/11/seeking-ideas-for-data-intensive-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 01:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has just announced a Request for Ideas (RFI) about Data Intensive Science: The increasing volume and complexity of scientific data are overwhelming current research practices, and create additional barriers to an already challenged science infrastructure, workforce and funding landscape. Many agencies and foundations are looking at ways to best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA: Automated Program Analysis for Cybersecurity</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/darpa-automated-program-analysis-for-cybersecurity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/09/darpa-automated-program-analysis-for-cybersecurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh on the heels of announcing a call for social media research, DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a solicitation for &#8220;innovative research proposals in the area of automated program analysis for cybersecurity.&#8221; From the official broad agency announcement: ﻿Automated program analysis is a fundamentally hard problem. It has been known since the work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Democracy Needs Computer Science Education</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/05/why-democracy-needs-computer-science-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/05/why-democracy-needs-computer-science-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog from Henry Kautz, Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. His research interests are in knowledge representation, satisfiability testing, pervasive computing, and assistive technology. He is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). If you have comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoD Enters National Robotics Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/dod-enters-national-robotics-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/dod-enters-national-robotics-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in mid-June, we noted the President&#8217;s announcement of a $70 million National Robotics Initiative (NRI) &#8212; a multi-agency investment spanning the NSF, NIH, NASA, and U.S. Department of Agriculture &#8211; to fund major research advances enabling next-generation robotics. This morning, the White House announced that the Department of Defense is now supporting the NRI as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mHealth Winter Institute Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/mhealth-winter-institute-announced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/03/mhealth-winter-institute-announced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NIH has just announced a Mobile Health Winter Institute &#8212; to be held in conjunction with the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington, DC, in early December. Applications for the weeklong training opportunity &#8212; specifically geared toward early-career researchers, including computer scientists &#8212; are due later this month. Here&#8217;s the full announcement/call for applications: 2011 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Online AI Course</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/30/an-online-ai-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/30/an-online-ai-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, our colleagues Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig are offering a free, online version of their popular Stanford University course, &#8220;Introduction to Artificial Intelligence&#8221;: A syllabus and more information about the Stanford course is here&#8230; &#160; The class runs from Sept 26 through Dec 16, 2011. While this class is being offered online, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live Right Now:  NSF Announcing New Innovation Corps</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/28/live-right-now-nsf-announcing-new-innovation-corps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/28/live-right-now-nsf-announcing-new-innovation-corps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) In just a few minutes, Earlier today, during a special session of the National Science Board &#8212; and before a large gathering of senior leadership from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), members of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Calling for Sustainability-Related PIREs</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/26/nsf-calling-for-sustainability-related-pires/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/26/nsf-calling-for-sustainability-related-pires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation for Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE), a Foundation-wide program that supports international activities across all NSF-funded disciplines including CISE. The focus of the this year&#8217;s PIRE RFP is on the NSF-wide investment in sustainability (Science, Engineering, and Education of Sustainability, or SEES): Recognizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA:  Learning Warfare from Social Media</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/23/darpa-learning-warfare-from-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/23/darpa-learning-warfare-from-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) has issued a new solicitation for &#8220;innovative research proposals in the area of social media in strategic communication&#8221; that will give rise to &#8220;a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the overview from the official broad agency announcement: The conditions under which our Armed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;From Big Data to New Insights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/18/from-big-data-to-new-insights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/18/from-big-data-to-new-insights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog today, Deputy Director for Policy Tom Kalil noted the Administration&#8217;s keen interest in Big Data &#8212; and singled out the CCC&#8217;s recent white papers on data analytics: &#8230;Researchers in a growing number of fields are generating extremely large data sets, commonly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE Releases Core Program Solicitations</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/06/cise-releases-core-program-solicitations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/07/06/cise-releases-core-program-solicitations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a heads up that NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate has issued solicitations for its core programs: Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) &#8212; Algorithmic Foundations, Communications and Information Foundations, and Software and Hardware Foundations. Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) &#8212; Human-Centered Computing, Information Integration and Informatics, Robust Intelligence, and Computer Graphics and Visualization. Computer and Network Systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE AD Issues Letter to the Community on Robotics Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/29/cise-ad-issues-letter-to-the-community-on-robotics-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/29/cise-ad-issues-letter-to-the-community-on-robotics-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSF/CISE Assistant Director Farnam Jahanian has issued the following letter to the community, describing the National Robotics Initiative (NRI) launched last week: Dear CISE Community, &#160; On Friday, in a speech at Carnegie Mellon University, President Obama announced the plan for major federal investments in next-generation robotics. The National Robotics Initiative (NRI) is a bold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Announces &#8220;Earth-Cube&#8221; Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/23/nsf-announces-earth-cube-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/23/nsf-announces-earth-cube-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Dear Colleague Letter issued earlier this month, the NSF&#8217;s Directorate for Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure call for &#8220;an open, adaptable, and sustainable framework (an &#8216;Earth-Cube&#8217;) to enable transformative research and education in Earth System Science&#8221;: In a new partnership, GEO and OCI recognize the multifaceted challenges of modern, data-intensive science and education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New &#8220;STEM Grand Challenge&#8221; Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/22/a-new-stem-grand-challenge-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/22/a-new-stem-grand-challenge-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent Naval STEM conference sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said,  “I have committed to doubling the Navy’s investment in STEM education over the next five years… We are going to double it in a targeted and innovative way so that we reach the maximum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DARPA Soliciting Innovative Research Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/darpa-soliciting-innovative-research-proposals-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/21/darpa-soliciting-innovative-research-proposals-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last month, DARPA&#8217;s Information Innovation Office (I2O) issued a solicitation calling for research proposals that &#8220;investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.&#8221; Among the focus areas (emphasis added): ﻿Understand: Change is pervasive and accelerating throughout all aspects of human, world and military affairs, bringing with it both opportunities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Earn $50K?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/want-to-earn-50k/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/16/want-to-earn-50k/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of very interesting prize-based competitions have been announced in the past week. The first &#8212; with Vint Cerf, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, and former Congressman Tom Davis among the judges &#8211; calls for innovative ways for IT to improve government: The Merit Awards is a new innovation contest that challenges the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AHRQ Calling for Health IT Research Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/15/ahrq-calling-for-health-it-research-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/15/ahrq-calling-for-health-it-research-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued several solicitations in recent weeks focused on health information technology R&#38;D. AHRQ appears to be taking a fairly broad view of health IT: Health IT is broadly defined as the use of information and communication technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Ignite &amp; GigU Plenaries Webcast Today &amp; Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/us-ignite-gigu-workshop-plenaries-being-webcast-today-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/us-ignite-gigu-workshop-plenaries-being-webcast-today-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) are co-sponsoring a pair of workshops on US Ignite and GigU &#8212; initiatives we&#8217;ve covered in this space before &#8212; at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, today and tomorrow. For those interested, you can watch live webcasts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Calling for &#8220;Connecting Researchers and Public Audiences&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/nsf-calling-for-connecting-researchers-and-public-audiences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/09/nsf-calling-for-connecting-researchers-and-public-audiences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation&#8217;s (NSF) Division on Research on Learning (DRL) has announced its intent to fund up to 24 Connecting Researchers and Public Audiences (CRPA) awards in the coming year, enabling the research community to share NSF research (outcomes) with the public through informal learning approaches. Researchers from all disciplines &#8212; including computer science &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Seeking Proposals With &#8220;Biological and Computing Shared Principles&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/01/nsf-seeking-proposals-with-biological-and-computing-shared-principles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/01/nsf-seeking-proposals-with-biological-and-computing-shared-principles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE and Biological Sciences (BIO) directorates have joined forces to seek interdisciplinary proposals that further the frontiers of both fields. In a recent Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) for Biological and Computing Shared Principles: The [BIO and CISE directorates] invite proposals that advance research focused on principles shared between the two disciplines. Proposals that include [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoE, With India, Calling for Building Energy Efficiency Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/30/doe-with-india-calling-for-building-energy-efficiency-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/30/doe-with-india-calling-for-building-energy-efficiency-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 14:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Energy &#8212; together with the Government of India &#8212; recently established a Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC) &#8220;designed to promote clean energy innovation by teams of scientists and engineers from India and the United States.&#8221; DoE is committing $25 million to the Center over the next five years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The View of a Researcher: &#8220;Do Something That You Really Care About&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/the-view-of-a-researcher-do-something-that-you-really-care-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/26/the-view-of-a-researcher-do-something-that-you-really-care-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of ScienceLives &#8212; an occasional NSF/LiveScience series that &#8220;puts scientists under the microscope to figure out what makes them tick&#8221; &#8212; CCC Council member Frans Kaashoek recently described what motivated him to pursue software systems research as well as the experiences he&#8217;s had as a professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get $1 Million &#8212; If You Engineer the Best Product Recommendation Algorithm</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/get-1-million-if-you-engineer-the-best-product-recommendation-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/get-1-million-if-you-engineer-the-best-product-recommendation-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;How do you get people to buy more? That&#8217;s the $1 million question &#8212; literally.&#8221; RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever RecLab Prize on Overstock.com &#8212; up to $1 million in cash to the person or team capable of building the most powerful online product recommendation engine: The Prize provides a cash award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/nih-holding-crowdsourcing-workshop-this-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/23/nih-holding-crowdsourcing-workshop-this-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 15:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on &#8220;Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,&#8221; to be held on the NIH grounds in Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2011.  The goal of the meeting is to lay the foundation for running successful challenges in biomedical and health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Visionary Papers to MIX-HS&#8217;11</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/18/call-for-visionary-papers-to-mix-hs11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/18/call-for-visionary-papers-to-mix-hs11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 19:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium is announcing today a Challenges and Visions Track at the First International Workshop on Managing Interoperability and compleXity in Health Systems (MIX-HS&#8217;11), to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 28, 2011. MIX-HS&#8217;11 will be collocated with the 20th ACM Conference on Information Knowledge and Management. This special MIX-HS&#8217;11 track is the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air Force Seeking &#8220;Transformational Computing&#8221; Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/air-force-seeking-transformational-computing-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/13/air-force-seeking-transformational-computing-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced a new funding opportunity in &#8220;transformational computing for aerospace science and engineering&#8221; &#8212; and particularly high-risk/high-payoff multidisciplinary approaches that may transform computing in the aerospace community. Awards are expected to span up to five years, with an annual investment of $1.5 million. The deadline for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NLM:  &#8220;Show Off Your Apps&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/06/nlm-show-off-your-apps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/06/nlm-show-off-your-apps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 12:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Library of Medicine has announced a software development challenge, seeking innovative software applications that use the library&#8217;s vast and free biomedical data. The goal is to further the agency&#8217;s &#8220;mission of supporting the dissemination and exchange of biomedical information to foster scientific discovery, enhance clinical care, and improve public health.&#8221; Entries are due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Summer School on Cyber Security for Smart Energy Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/02/a-summer-school-on-cyber-security-for-smart-energy-systems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/02/a-summer-school-on-cyber-security-for-smart-energy-systems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 13:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With support from the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Center &#8212; a multi-university collaboration addressing the challenge of how to protect the nation&#8217;s power grid by significantly improving the way the power grid infrastructure is built &#8212; has announced the Cyber Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIH, NSF Announce Call for mHealth White Papers</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/29/nsf-nih-announce-call-for-mhealth-white-papers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/29/nsf-nih-announce-call-for-mhealth-white-papers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF, NIH, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and McKesson Foundation announced this week a call for white papers on innovative methods to accelerate the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of mobile health technologies &#8212; in anticipation of a workshop later this year that will serve as the basis for defining a research agenda for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Looking for Your Cool Research Videos!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/27/were-looking-for-your-cool-research-videos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/27/were-looking-for-your-cool-research-videos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you working on a really exciting research project? Do you have a cool finding? Well, how about making a short video describing it &#8212; and getting paid in the process? Following up on our successful Computing Research Highlights of the Week, the CCC is announcing today a call for short videos describing exciting research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interagency Multiscale Modeling Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/25/an-interagency-multiscale-modeling-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/25/an-interagency-multiscale-modeling-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Interagency Multiscale Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) &#8212; comprising program staff from NIH, NSF, DoE, DoD, NASA, USDA, and the VA &#8212; announced earlier this month a new interagency funding opportunity to support the development of multiscale models to accelerate biological, biomedical, behavioral, environmental, and clinical research.  From the official program announcement: Multiscale models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE Seeking SI2 Proposals</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/22/cise-seeking-si2-proposals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/22/cise-seeking-si2-proposals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate, in partnership with the Office of Cyberinfrastructure and other directorates at the Foundation, has announced a call for Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2). In a Dear Colleague Letter issued this week: Software is an integral part of the computational paradigm for supporting innovation and discovery in science and engineering, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Research at the NIH:  Funding Opportunities, Tips for Applying</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/computing-research-at-the-nih-funding-opportunities-tips-for-applying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/11/computing-research-at-the-nih-funding-opportunities-tips-for-applying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a special contribution to this blog by Peter Lyster, Program Director for biological modeling and bioinformatics in the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the NIH&#8217;s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS).  Peter describes ways to find and apply for NIH funding opportunities that may well be relevant for computing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCC to Hold First-Ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/07/ccc-to-hold-first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/04/07/ccc-to-hold-first-ever-leadership-in-science-policy-institute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its mission to help nurture a next generation of computing research leaders, the Computing Community Consortium today announced a call for participants in a first-ever Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) &#8212; to be held on Monday, November 7, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The goal of the [...]]]></description>
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