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		<title>Talk to your DARPA Program Manager!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/11/19/talk-to-your-darpa-program-manager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 15, seven University of Washington faculty members from Biology, Bioengineering, and Computer Science &#38; Engineering were privileged to share a 2-hour breakfast in Seattle with DARPA Director Regina Dugan, Deputy Director Ken Gabriel, IIO Office Director Dan Kaufman, IIO Program Manager Ben Cutler, and U.S. Marines Operational Liaison Col. Robert Durkin. One message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yes, Computer Scientists Are Hypercritical&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/10/07/yes-computer-scientists-are-hypercritical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve talked about the notion of hypercriticality in computer science in this space before (see here and here), and now Jeannette M. Wing &#8211; the former National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and current Department Head of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University &#8212; has written about it with some hard numbers over on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE Names Deputy Assistant Director</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/26/cise-names-deputy-assistant-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF&#8217;s CISE Directorate today announced the appointment of Cynthia Dion-Schwarz as the Deputy Assistant Director, effective Sept. 12: Dr. Dion-Schwarz will be joining us from the Department of Defense (DoD), where she served as the Director of Information Systems &#38; Cyber Security Research in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford AI Course Goes Online</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/08/16/stanford-ai-course-goes-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times reports on a Stanford AI course that will be available online and has already attracted nearly 60,000 students.]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Liskov receives an honorary degree from Northwestern &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/06/18/barbara-liskov-receives-an-honorary-degree-from-northwestern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and a shout-out early in Stephen Colbert&#8217;s hilarious commencement address. Congratulations Barbara!  Watch Colbert&#8217;s remarks here.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rescue Robots Don’t Replace People or Dogs, but People and Dogs Can’t do it All by Themselves&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/31/rescue-robots-don%e2%80%99t-replace-people-or-dogs-but-people-and-dogs-can%e2%80%99t-do-it-all-by-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 12:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been interacting with the international press quite a bit with the spate of disasters in Japan and here in the US. I’m thrilled with the “where are the robots?” questions for a couple of reasons. First, there’s the Sally Fields effect- they like robots! Finally, I was getting tired of hearing about the Terminator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Spammers and Their Bankers&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/29/spammers-and-their-bankers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 18:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s unusual for computing research to be featured in an editorial in the New York Times, but it happened today:   An editorial in today&#8217;s New York Times follows up on an article ten days ago describing an end-to-end analysis of the spam value chain which determined that 95% of spam-advertised pharmaceutical, replica and software products [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jeff Naughton&#8217;s ICDE 2010 Keynote</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/16/jeff-naughtons-icde-2010-keynote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/16/jeff-naughtons-icde-2010-keynote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Naughton, a top database researcher from the University of Wisconsin &#8211; Madison, has made available a superb keynote that he gave at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.  It will be worth your time to read and think about Jeff&#8217;s slides &#8211; &#8220;We guarantee it!&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>What is the CCC?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/03/what-is-the-ccc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/05/03/what-is-the-ccc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 21:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bit of shameless self-promotion: I&#8217;ve been asked many questions about the Computing Community Consortium in the past year &#8212; and we&#8217;ve recently put together a two-page flyer that attempts to address the most common ones. Please click on the image to the right to open the PDF version &#8212; for what we hope is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Go for Computer Science&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/21/go-for-computer-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CCC Council chair Ed Lazowska is one of eight columnists featured in a New York Times &#8220;Room for Debate&#8221; essay series on education.  Lazowska says: &#8220;There are a few facts about education, employability and economic growth that we should keep in mind. &#8220;A balanced education serves you best &#8230; &#8220;The further out you are from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Software Progress Beats Moore&#8217;s Law&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/09/software-progress-beats-moores-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/09/software-progress-beats-moores-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times picks up on a point made in the recent report of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology assessing the Federal Networking and Information Technology R&#38;D program:  “performance gains in doing computing tasks that result from improvements in software algorithms often far outpace the gains attributable to faster processors.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Rush Holt beats Watson at Jeopardy!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/01/congressman-rush-holt-beats-watson-at-jeopardy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/03/01/congressman-rush-holt-beats-watson-at-jeopardy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey &#8211; the only physicist in Congress, one of the staunchest Congressional supporters of science, recipient of this year&#8217;s Philip Hauge Abelson Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a five-time Jeopardy! champion &#8211; has defeated IBM&#8217;s Watson AI system at Jeopardy! As much as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video games&#8230; interactive designs&#8230; and traffic reports</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/21/video-games-interactive-designs-and-traffic-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/02/21/video-games-interactive-designs-and-traffic-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting news items in the past week: &#8220;The Art of Video Games&#8221; The Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s American Art Museum will debut on March 16 an exhibition titled The Art of Video Games &#8211; exploring &#8220;the 40-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects, the creative use of new technologies, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/01/26/state-of-the-union/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Innovation&#8221; and &#8220;Internet&#8221; are on the rise.  More broadly, the President echoes recommendations of the President&#8217;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology regarding research investments in Networking and Information Technology, Energy, and K-12 STEM education.]]></description>
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		<title>Leroy Hood wins NAE Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/01/12/leroy-hood-wins-nae-fritz-j-and-delores-h-russ-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2011/01/12/leroy-hood-wins-nae-fritz-j-and-delores-h-russ-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leroy Hood, President of Seattle’s Institute for Systems Biology and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science &#38; Engineering at the University of Washington, will receive the National Academy of Engineering’s Fritz J. and Delores H. Russ Prize.  The Russ Prize – a $500,000 biennial award “recognizing a bioengineering achievement that significantly improves the human condition” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for CCC Council Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/29/call-for-ccc-council-nominations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/11/29/call-for-ccc-council-nominations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium today issued a call for nominations for individuals to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years.  The deadline for nominations is December 15.  See complete details &#8212; including nominating instructions &#8212; below. What questions shape our intellectual future? What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farnam Jahanian to be CISE AD</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/10/04/farnam-jahanian-to-be-cise-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/10/04/farnam-jahanian-to-be-cise-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Farnam Jahanian, Professor and Chair of Computer Science &#038; Engineering at the University of Michigan, today was named the next Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at NSF, effective February 1, 2011. Jahanian will assume the position that Jeannette Wing successfully held for three years before returning to CMU in early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Gathering Storm&#8221; is Approaching Category 5 Status</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/09/24/the-gathering-storm-is-approaching-category-5-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/09/24/the-gathering-storm-is-approaching-category-5-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago, the National Academies published a landmark study calling for U.S. investment in science, technology, and education, warning the nation could no longer afford inaction in these areas. Yesterday, 17 of the 20 original committee members issued an updated version of that report: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category Five. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Magazine Features Technology in Education</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/09/20/new-york-times-magazine-features-technology-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times Sunday magazine is devoted to  the role of computing and technology in education.  The lead article is entitled Learning by Playing:  Video Games in the Classroom.  Other articles and essays includes Hacks into Hackers:  Can Journalism and Computer Science Mix?, The Eight-Year-Old Programmer, among others.]]></description>
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		<title>Simons Foundation to Fund New Institute for the Theory of Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/30/simons-foundation-to-fund-new-institute-for-the-theory-of-computing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Simons Foundation will provide up to $6 million/year in funding for a new Institute for the Theory of Computing. The call for applications recognizes the deep importance of the study of computation to society. Computation (and its abstract form, the algorithm) has not only revolutionized science, technology, and society, but also is among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Research in Astronomy&#8217;s Decadal Survey</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/27/computing-research-in-astronomys-decadal-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/27/computing-research-in-astronomys-decadal-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every 10 years, U.S. astronomers come together to generate what has become a highly influential report recommending which astronomy and astrophysics projects should be funded by Federal agencies in the following decade. This year’s &#8220;decadal survey&#8221; – assimilated from 9 appointed panels, 17 town hall meetings, and 324 white papers – was released by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P != NP ?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/09/p-np/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/09/p-np/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet is abuzz with stories about a purported proof that the class P is not equal to the class NP.  The author of the proof is Dr. Vinay Deolalikar, a Principal Research Scientist at HP Lab.  Professor Richard Lipton&#8217;s blog provides some interesting comments and reflections on this manuscript.]]></description>
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		<title>NSF&#8217;s BPC Program a Success, AAAS Says</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/02/nsfs-bpc-program-a-success-aaas-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/08/02/nsfs-bpc-program-a-success-aaas-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced a new report titled &#8220;Telling the Stories of the BPC Alliances&#8221;. This report describes how the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) program has had tremendous success in boosting participation of underserved students in computer science. The BPC program funds 11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House OSTP blog cites CCC again</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/30/white-house-ostp-blog-cites-ccc-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/30/white-house-ostp-blog-cites-ccc-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post &#8220;Reflections on the NNI – Coordination &#38; Partnerships&#8221; the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy again cites the CCC: &#8220;A partnership model to effectively engage the research community in agenda-setting is the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). With support from the National Science Foundation, the CCC allows the computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding Opportunities for Ed Tech</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/28/funding-opportunities-for-ed-tech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/28/funding-opportunities-for-ed-tech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Education’s National Center for Education Research (NCER) is seeking applications responsive to 14 long-term research programs under its Education Research Grant Programs. Some of these programs are particularly relevant for computing researchers. For example, the RFA for NCER&#8217;s Education Technology program (RFA CDFA 84.305a) states: To support research on education technology tools [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Kind of Teacher</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/16/a-new-kind-of-teacher/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/16/a-new-kind-of-teacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, the New York Times Magazine published the fourth installment in its &#8220;Smarter Than You Think&#8221; series, this one titled &#8220;Students, Meet your New Teacher, Mr. Robot.&#8221; The article highlights the use of robots as teachers of young students. Imbued with boundless patience and ability to recall facts, robots hold promise as effective teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Lee Joins Microsoft Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/15/peter-lee-joins-microsoft-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/15/peter-lee-joins-microsoft-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Lee, a past member of the CCC Council and the PI of the first CIFellows Project, today was named the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Redmond, effective this fall. In joining Microsoft Research, Peter departs DARPA, where he has been the Director of the agency’s Transformational Convergence Technology Office (TCTO) for the past year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technological and Societal Trends</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/08/technological-and-societal-trends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/08/technological-and-societal-trends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to compile a list of major technological and societal trends that influence computing research.  Here&#8217;s my list.  Please post your own suggestions! Recent technological and societal trends Ubiquitous connectivity, and thus true mobility Massive computational capability available to everyone, through the cloud Exponentially increasing data volumes – from ubiquitous sensors, from higher-volume sensors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Now in Instruction-Level Parallelism Research?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/08/what-now-in-instruction-level-parallelism-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/08/what-now-in-instruction-level-parallelism-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A workshop entitled &#8220;What Now in Instruction-Level Parallelism Research?&#8221; will be held on September 20-21, 2010 in Seattle, WA.  While we encourage you to submit a position paper to this workshop, you are also encouraged to post your thoughts right here on this blog! Historically, the computing industry has been driven by a set of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Interface between Computer Science and Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/06/at-the-interface-between-computer-science-and-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/06/at-the-interface-between-computer-science-and-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSF/CISE has just announced a new program at the Interface between Computer Science and Economics &#038; Social Science (ICES): Computational thinking has the potential to change the types of questions considered by social and economic scientists. For example, Nash (and other) equilibria lie at the heart of theories about the behavior of economic agents. Computational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Provide input to the PCAST review of the NITRD program!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/05/provide-input-to-the-pcast-review-of-the-nitrd-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/05/provide-input-to-the-pcast-review-of-the-nitrd-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 03:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress mandates periodic assessments of the federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program &#8212; the program under which 14 federal agencies coordinate their investments in order to maintain America’s leadership in information technology. The history of these assessments goes back to the Brooks/Sutherland National Academies study in 1995, and includes several reviews [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama highlights computer science</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/02/obama-highlights-computer-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/07/02/obama-highlights-computer-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his major address on immigration policy on July 1, President Barack Obama noted: &#8220;And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moshe Vardi on &#8220;Hypercriticality&#8221; in CACM</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/27/moshe-vardi-on-hypercriticality-in-cacm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/27/moshe-vardi-on-hypercriticality-in-cacm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I notice that CACM Editor-in-Chief Moshe Vardi&#8217;s letter in the July 2010 issue of CACM speaks to what he calls &#8220;Hypercriticality,&#8221; and cites my post of May 4 here on the CCC Blog. (You can find Moshe&#8217;s letter in CACM vol. 53, no. 7, p. 5; if you are logged into the CACM website, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watson:  The Next Ken Jennings?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/17/watson-the-next-ken-jennings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/17/watson-the-next-ken-jennings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Jennings, the man known for his record-breaking streak of 74 consecutive wins and $2.52 million in earnings on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy! back in 2004, may have some competition on his hands. This Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Magazine contains an incredibly fascinating expose about &#8220;Watson,&#8221; an advanced &#8220;question answering&#8221; machine that IBM researchers have been busy developing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CISE&#8217;s Smart Health &amp; Wellbeing Program</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/14/cises-smart-health-wellbeing-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/14/cises-smart-health-wellbeing-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[funding opportunity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please see the new NSF/CISE FY11 cross-cutting program, Smart Health and Wellbeing, which we announced on Friday, June 11: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10575/nsf10575.htm. We are looking for your great ideas for how advances in computer and information science and engineering can transform the nature and conduct of healthcare and wellness as we know it today. (Contributed by Jeannette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clarity and Charity in Reviewing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/09/clarity-and-charity-in-reviewing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/09/clarity-and-charity-in-reviewing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Gianchandani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 4 I posted a short message titled &#8220;Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews.&#8221;  That was an effort to focus attention on an issue.  This post provides a suggestion for computing researchers when dealing with work that seems unfamiliar or difficult to understand. Computing is a &#8220;general purpose&#8221; phenomenon.  It can be applied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSTP blogs about CCC!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/03/ostp-blogs-about-ccc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/06/03/ostp-blogs-about-ccc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is a variety of mechanisms through which the research community can participate in agenda-setting. One model I have found to be very valuable is exemplified by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) &#8230; &#8220;CCC has played an important role in identifying and promoting exciting &#8220;visions&#8221; for the future of Information Technology (IT) research — ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DoD support of university research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/28/dod-support-of-university-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/28/dod-support-of-university-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 21:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attached is a new DoD directive, reinforcing and clarifying the role of fundamental research at universities.  Roughly speaking, the new DARPA policies governing fundamental research at universities are now being adopted across all of DoD.  This means no pre-publication reviews, no export controls, and no issues with foreign researchers, except in &#8220;rare and exceptional circumstances.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A great run at NSF CISE!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/09/a-great-run-at-nsf-cise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/09/a-great-run-at-nsf-cise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three quick notes &#8230; First, I can&#8217;t believe that there weren&#8217;t more comments on John King&#8217;s terrific post,  &#8220;Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews.&#8221;  This is serious business.  And it&#8217;s not &#8220;new news&#8221; &#8212; CISE has had the lowest average proposal scores in NSF for years.  We are killing ourselves in a misguided effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 17:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine from Field X once served as a program officer at a major research funding agency. (Names changed to protect the innocent.) As part of a quality assurance scheme, he was asked to review the proposal process for Field Y. He was surprised that every proposal he looked at, whether funded or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qinghai Quake and Robots</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/15/qinghai-quake-and-robots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/15/qinghai-quake-and-robots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it with disasters? They’re coming fast and furious. Here’s the 411 on robots at the China quake. The Qinghai quake is the latest of the series of tragedies. Prof. Bin Li at the Shenyang Institute of Automation and an active member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Safety Security Rescue Robots, contacted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More re DARPA</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/13/more-re-darpa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/13/more-re-darpa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Markoff had an extremely interesting profile of DARPA Director Regina Dugan in today&#8217;s NY Times.  Be sure to read it, here. This follows on the heels of Dr. Dugan&#8217;s impressive and heartening House Armed Services Committee testimony, blogged here, and a Computing Research News article by Lazowska and Patterson describing &#8220;New Directions at DARPA,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GENI Experimenters Workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/01/geni-experimenters-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/04/01/geni-experimenters-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who haven&#8217;t taken a look at the GENI project in the last year or two need to do so. The name is the same, but the project is totally different, and totally right-headed.  Teams of top researchers are building a diverse suite of tools and technologies that will allow a broad range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wondering whether DARPA has changed?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/27/wondering-whether-darpa-has-changed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/27/wondering-whether-darpa-has-changed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is any doubt in your mind (or even if there is not!), read the testimony delivered by Regina Dugan to the House Armed Services Committee on March 23.  It&#8217;s here.  Mind-blowing!]]></description>
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		<title>OSTP proposes initiative for student-led innovations in broadband apps</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/25/ostp-proposes-initiative-for-student-led-innovations-in-broadband-apps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/25/ostp-proposes-initiative-for-student-led-innovations-in-broadband-apps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House Office of Science &#38; Technology Policy seeks comments on a proposed initiative for student-led innovations in broadband applications. In doing so, OSTP leads with CCC&#8217;s &#8220;Landmark Contributions by Students in Computer Science&#8220;: &#8220;Students have contributed some of the most important advances in information and communications technologies—including data compression, interactive computer graphics, Ethernet, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Searching for Assistant Director for CISE</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/19/nsf-searching-for-assistant-director-for-cise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/19/nsf-searching-for-assistant-director-for-cise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation is commencing a national search for the NSF&#8217;s Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and seeks your assistance in the identification of candidates. The Assistant Director for CISE leads a directorate comprised of three divisions: Computing and Communication Foundations; Computer and Network Systems; and Information and Intelligent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT&#8217;s Subra Suresh reportedly to be nominated as new Director of NSF</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/16/mits-subra-suresh-nominated-as-new-director-of-nsf/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/16/mits-subra-suresh-nominated-as-new-director-of-nsf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several sources report that MIT&#8217;s Dean of Engineering, Subra Suresh, is to be nominated to be the new Director of NSF.  Previously, Dr. Suresh was chair of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering.]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Brewer wins ACM &#8211; Infosys Foundation Award</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/15/eric-brewer-wins-acm-infosys-foundation-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/15/eric-brewer-wins-acm-infosys-foundation-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Brewer has won the ACM &#8211; Infosys Foundation Award &#8220;for his contributions to the design and development of highly scalable Internet services.&#8221;  Brewer&#8217;s work was a key reason for the success of Inktomi, a search engine pioneer that Brewer co-founded in 1995 and was purchased by Yahoo in 2003. The ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, established [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuck Thacker wins Turing Award</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/15/chuck-thacker-wins-turing-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/15/chuck-thacker-wins-turing-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Thacker has won the ACM A.M. Turing Award (quoting ACM) &#8220;for his pioneering design and realization of the Alto, the first modern personal computer, and the prototype for networked personal computers.  Alto incorporated bitmap displays, which enable modern graphical user interfaces, including What You See Is What You Get editors.  Thacker&#8217;s design, which he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOCUS identifies &#8220;The Best Jobs in America&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/12/focus-identifies-the-best-jobs-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/12/focus-identifies-the-best-jobs-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<title>NRC Prize for Cyberdeterrence</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/11/nrc-prize-for-cyberdeterrence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/11/nrc-prize-for-cyberdeterrence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the request of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Research Council (NRC) is undertaking a project entitled “Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy. ” The project is aimed at fostering a broad, multidisciplinary examination of strategies for deterring cyberattacks on the United States and the possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Making the Case for Computing Research&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/11/making-the-case-for-computing-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/03/11/making-the-case-for-computing-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CACM &#8220;Viewpoints&#8221; column by Cameron Wilson (ACM) and Peter Harsha (CRA), inspired by the Transition Team white papers commissioned by the Computing Community Consortium. &#8220;While the history of computing-related contributions to shaping our world is a compelling topic, future opportunities in computing—where the field might go and what problems it might tackle—are perhaps even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want a Job?  Major in CS.</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/25/want-a-job-major-in-cs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/25/want-a-job-major-in-cs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes in Network World that undergraduate enrollments in computer science are rising significantly at some of the nation&#8217;s large CS departments.   For example, in comparison to last year,  UIUC,  CMU, and Georgia Tech  report increases in applications of 26%, 14%, and 5%, respectively.  Stanford reports that 20% more students are taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARPA-E&#8217;s Arun Majumdar on Energy Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/23/arpa-es-arun-majumdar-on-energy-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/23/arpa-es-arun-majumdar-on-energy-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arun Majumdar, the Director of ARPA-E, spoke at the University of Washington on February 18th regarding the energy challenges facing our nation. While his talk was not specifically oriented towards computer scientists, it is inspirational, and it is obvious that a broad range of advances in computer science are essential to creating a sustainable future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Science and America’s Priorities</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/23/computer-science-and-america%e2%80%99s-priorities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/23/computer-science-and-america%e2%80%99s-priorities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeannette Wing, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, addressed the CRA Computing Leadership Summit in Washington DC on February 22. Wing noted that NSF&#8217;s CISE and ENG Directorates fared particularly well in the President’s FY2011 budget request.  She attributed this to two factors: These fields drive innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Members of the National Academy of Engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/17/new-members-of-the-national-academy-of-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/17/new-members-of-the-national-academy-of-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Academy of Engineering has announced the Members of the Class of 2010.  In Section 5 (Computer Science &#38; Engineering), the newly-elected Members are: Andrei Broder, Yahoo! Irene Greif, IBM Bill Gropp, UIUC Laura Haas, IBM Mike Jordan, UC Berkeley Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Tom Mitchell, CMU Larry Peterson, Princeton Ben Shneiderman, University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Engineer Barbie!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/13/computer-engineer-barbie-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/13/computer-engineer-barbie-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As noted in a previous post, Mattel has been running a web-based contest to choose Barbie&#8217;s next career. The results are in!  &#8220;You voted!  We listened!!&#8221;  (Even if  &#8220;you&#8221; is a bot &#8230;)  The winner of the popular vote is &#8230; Computer Engineer Barbie! The New York Times reports:  &#8220;Barbie has come a long way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nominations Sought for Extraordinary Student Stories Award</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/06/nominations-sought-for-extraordinary-student-stories-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/06/nominations-sought-for-extraordinary-student-stories-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is sponsoring an award for K-12, undergraduate,  graduate students, and recent graduates who have done something remarkable to  address the Grand Challenges our world faces.   The National Academy of Engineering has identified 14 specific NAE Grand Challenge problem areas in Sustainability, Health, Vulnerability, Joy of Living.  Many of these problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Lee on the future of DARPA, and the Transformational Convergence Technology Office</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/04/peter-lee-on-the-future-of-darpa-and-the-transformational-convergence-technology-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/02/04/peter-lee-on-the-future-of-darpa-and-the-transformational-convergence-technology-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five months ago, Peter Lee took a leave of absence as Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University to begin a stint at DARPA as the Director of the new Transformational Convergence Technology Office (DARPA/TCTO).  TCTO is re-establishing basic research programs in a broad range of rapidly emerging computing-enabled technology areas such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman on Innovation and National Lab Day</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/24/tom-friedman-on-innovation-and-national-lab-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/24/tom-friedman-on-innovation-and-national-lab-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Friedman has a wonderful op-ed in today&#8217;s New York Times.  Read it here.  Then go to the National Lab Day website, here, and register! &#8220;What the country needs most now is not more government stimulus, but more stimulation. We need to get millions of American kids, not just the geniuses, excited about innovation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Kobe to Haiti</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/19/from-kobe-to-haiti/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/19/from-kobe-to-haiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, January 17th, is the anniversary of the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake which killed over 6,000 people. I am in Japan, ironically, accepting the Motohiro Kisoi Award for academic contributions to rescue engineering.  I am thinking about Haiti, what is and what might have been. My Japanese hosts at the International Rescue Systems institute are sanguine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Research that Changed the World:  Reflections and Perspectives</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/13/computing-research-that-changed-the-world-reflections-and-perspectives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/13/computing-research-that-changed-the-world-reflections-and-perspectives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New material has been posted on the website for the Library of Congress symposium hosted by CCC in spring 2009.  Each of the 13 talks now includes slides, a YouTube video, a video download, and (new!) a one-page summary.]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Engineer Barbie!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/12/computer-engineer-barbie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/12/computer-engineer-barbie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbie has had over 120 careers!  What do you think her next job should be?  Vote for your favorite, then check back to find out what Barbie will be next. Environmentalist Surgeon Architect News Anchor Computer Engineer Get out the vote! http://www.barbie.com/vote/]]></description>
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		<title>Where the jobs are &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/04/where-the-jobs-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2010/01/04/where-the-jobs-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every second year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a ten-year forecast of job growth in all fields of employment.  The most recent forecast, released in November 2009 and covering the period 2008-2018, may be found here (pdf).  Among the highlights: Among the 10 major BLS occupational groups, the &#8220;Professional and related&#8221; category (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Exponentials R Us” –  Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/12/24/%e2%80%9cexponentials-r-us%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-seven-computer-science-game-changers-from-the-2000%e2%80%99s-and-seven-more-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/12/24/%e2%80%9cexponentials-r-us%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-seven-computer-science-game-changers-from-the-2000%e2%80%99s-and-seven-more-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An end-of-year, end-of-decade article in the Xconomy tech blog by CCC&#8217;s Ed Lazowska.  Read the complete post here. Forty years ago, in 1969, Neil Armstrong left footprints on the surface of the moon.  It was an extraordinary accomplishment. Also in 1969, with much less fanfare and at much less expense, Len Kleinrock’s programmer Charley Kline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solicitation of Nominations for the Council of the Computing Community Consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/11/26/solicitation-of-nominations-for-the-council-of-the-computing-community-consortium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/11/26/solicitation-of-nominations-for-the-council-of-the-computing-community-consortium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deadline:  December 11, 2009 What questions shape our intellectual future? What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new generation? What are the next big computing ideas – the ones that will define the future of computing, galvanize the very best students, and catalyze research investment and public support? The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Report from the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/10/08/a-report-from-the-grace-hopper-celebration-of-women-in-computing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/10/08/a-report-from-the-grace-hopper-celebration-of-women-in-computing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran Libeskind-Hadas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ninth Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing took place in Tucson, Arizona from September 30-October 3.   For those who attended the 1600-person, sold-out conference, it is difficult to believe gender equity in computer science is not right around the corner.  Every year The Grace Hopper Celebration packs an astounding amount of talent and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Alan T. Waterman Award</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/05/29/nsf-alan-t-waterman-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/05/29/nsf-alan-t-waterman-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 22:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes one extraordinary young scientist or engineer annually.   Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be 35 years of age or younger or not more than 7 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree by December 31 of the year in which they are nominated.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a &#8220;Better Internet&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/15/what-is-a-better-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/15/what-is-a-better-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[research horizons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ellen Zegura is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She writes to us today in her role as chair of the NetSE Council. What is a &#8220;better Internet&#8221;? The current Internet has been a remarkable success, providing a platform for innovation that far exceeds its original vision as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on CCC Robotics</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/11/update-on-ccc-robotics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/11/update-on-ccc-robotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew McCallum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CCC-sponsored initiative in robotics, led by Henrik Christensen, has made great progress and provided a model example of a CCC initiative.  Having finished their series of workshops and developed a roadmap, they are now bringing targeted portions of that roadmap to NSF, NIST, DARPA, NIH and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.  They are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Today&#8217;s Research is Tomorrow&#8217;s Infrastructure&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/09/todays-research-is-tomorrows-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2009/02/09/todays-research-is-tomorrows-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[research horizons]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An op-ed by the University of Washington&#8217;s Ed Lazowska and Sun Microsystems&#8217; Bob Sproull appears today on the website of Scientists and Engineers for America.  They write: &#8220;Congress is now debating the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Included in this package is over 10 billion dollars for science facilities, research, and instrumentation. &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Defense S&amp;T video</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/12/01/department-of-defense-st-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/12/01/department-of-defense-st-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This new DoD S&#38;T video is absolutely worth 4:56 of your time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lLDNosedHk It&#8217;s inspirational. &#8211; Ed Lazowska]]></description>
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		<title>Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research &#8212; Followup</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/30/game-changing-advances-from-computing-research-followup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/30/game-changing-advances-from-computing-research-followup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a November 4 post, we asked your help in identifying game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years.  We primed the pump with four examples: The Internet and the World Wide Web as we know them today Search technology &#8211; Where once we filed, today we search Cluster computing The transformation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Computer Science Outside The Box</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/12/computer-science-outside-the-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/12/computer-science-outside-the-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Lazowska</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about computing research is that, despite our incredible track record of game-changing advances, we’re always looking for ways to make the field even more vibrant.  In this vein, on Monday I attended “Computer Science Outside The Box,” a workshop of 44 leaders from academia and industry (mostly department heads) convened [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Game-Changing Advances from Computing Research</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/04/game-changing-advances-from-computing-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/11/04/game-changing-advances-from-computing-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’d like your help with a brainstorming exercise: Identify about a dozen game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years. Here’s what we mean: The advance needs to be &#8220;game changing,&#8221; in the sense of dramatically altering how we think about computing and its applications. The importance of the advance needs to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>56</slash:comments>
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		<title>CCC at the 2008 CRA Conference at Snowbird</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/25/ccc-at-the-2008-cra-conference-at-snowbird/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/25/ccc-at-the-2008-cra-conference-at-snowbird/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Computing Community Consortium was programmed as the closing plenary session at the 2008 CRA Conference at Snowbird &#8212; a once-every-two-years gathering of the heads of CRA&#8217;s member organizations. Interest was strong &#8212; more than 125 department chairs and lab directors attended the 90-minute session, more than 3X as many as have stuck around for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCC Web Site Design Snafu</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/14/ccc-web-site-design-snafu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/07/14/ccc-web-site-design-snafu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few hours we&#8217;ve learned that the main CCC web site design, which was modeled on an issue of A List Apart, was used without appropriate permission. It was certainly never the intention of the CCC to violate copyright and we have taken immediate steps to discontinue use of the design. We&#8217;ve conveyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCC Robotics Connects with Industry and Government</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/06/10/ccc-robotics-connects-with-industry-and-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/06/10/ccc-robotics-connects-with-industry-and-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew McCallum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CCC-sponsored robotics initiative kicks off next week with the first of four workshops covering the impact, applications and emerging technologies of robotics. Robotics research and development have already transformed our lives in many ways: they perform nearly all the welding and painting on the cars we drive; they enable telerobotic surgery resulting in more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Welcome to the CCC Blog!</title>
		<link>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/04/30/welcome-to-the-ccc-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cccblog.org/2008/04/30/welcome-to-the-ccc-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the weblog for the Computing Community Consortium! In its founding documents, the CCC describes its goals as follows: The challenge for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions [...]]]></description>
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