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’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Krishna is CISE’s point person for the Foundation-wide Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) initiative. Here he provides guidance to the computing research community about the various SEES solicitations NSF has released in recent weeks. If you have questions or comments, post them below or e-mail Krishna directly. Sustainability has been defined as the ability to meet the needs of current and future generations while preserving earth’s ecosystems. Meeting this challenge requires a […]

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 engineering in the context of a research setting, while simultaneously initiating scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts. All institutes, except Japan, last approximately 8 weeks from June to August (Japan lasts approximately 10 weeks). According to NSF, the EAPSI provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering: first-hand research experience in […]

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’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: Many significant societal events are preceded and/or followed by population-level changes in communication, consumption, and movement. Some of these changes may be indirectly observable from publicly available data, such as web search queries, blogs, micro-blogs, internet traffic, financial markets, traffic webcams, Wikipedia edits, and many others. Published research has found that some of these data […]

(This post has been updated; please see below for the latest.) Updated at 5:11pm EDT: At 2pm EDT today, the House Science Committee’s Subcommittee on Research and Science Education will convened a hearing about the Federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), seeking “to review the NITRD program to ensure U.S. leadership in networking and information technology and to discuss priorities for the future.” The hearing will included testimony from CCC Council Chair Ed Lazowska and member Bob Sproull, along with the director of the NITRD National Coordination Office (NCO) George Strawn and chair of ACM’s CS Education Policy Committee Bobby Schnabel. Watch the hearing live archived webcast here. And check […]

We’re launching something brand new today! The Computing Community Consortium’s Research Community & 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 on what graduate school in computer science is all about (including frequently-asked-questions with answers by current graduate students and faculty); Information, advice, and insights on how to apply to graduate school in computer science (including another set of FAQs with answers by students who have just been through the process as well as faculty); and The […]

Congratulations to Shwetak Patel, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, who has just been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow for his “exceptional creativity [and] promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment”: Shwetak Patel is a computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life through a broad range of applications. Much of his work to date has focused on the development of low-cost and easy-to-deploy devices that can detect and measure household energy consumption without an elaborate network of expensive instruments. To […]