The Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Operating Systems (SIGOPS), together with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), today honored Maurice Herlihy, J. Eliot B. Moss, Nir Shavit, and Dan Touitou with the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize, recognizing them for their work on transactional memory in the mid-1990s that transformed parallel computing. The four received the award at the 2012 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2012) in Madeira, Portugal, this morning. According to ACM’s press release (following the link):

At a meeting of the National Science Board (NSB) yesterday, National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Farnam Jahanian announced a new Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) project that brings together teams from the U.S. and Japan to pursue fundamental advances in information technology in support of effective disaster management. The new SAVI — to be called Global Research on Applying Information Technology to Support Effective Disaster Management (GRAIT-DM) — will foster a global research collaboration focused on (following the link):

For those planning to submit CAREER proposals to NSF/CISE for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program — the CAREER deadline is Monday, July 23rd — NSF has issued the following guidance today: Important Information for SaTC CAREER Proposals!   If you are planning on submitting a CAREER proposal to the CISE Directorate for the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, you will find that SaTC is not listed as a program that accepts CAREER proposals. Please be advised that all CAREER SaTC proposals to the CISE Directorate should be submitted to the to the Trustworthy Computing (TC) program. If this procedure is followed, your CAREER proposal will be managed by SaTC staff.  

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has joined forces with George Mason University to launch the Innovation House Study, seeking to foster “radical, novel” approaches to extract meaningful content from visual and geospatial data. Teams will qualify for up to $50,000 in funding, will meet daily in Arlington, Virginia, during an intense eight-week work period, and will have access to unclassified aerial and ground-level video, high-resolution LiDAR of urban and mountainous terrain, and unstructured amateur photos and videos. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration, not competition. According to the request for proposals: The DARPA Innovation House is a study into the feasibility of effective software design and development in a short-fuse, crucible-style living […]

Organizers of the second annual symposium on Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD) — to be held in Los Angeles in mid-August — have announced a call for participation. The symposium seeks to bring together computer scientists, systems engineers, clinicians, and others “to explore the opportunities and challenges introduced by the growing abundance of digital data captured during the delivery of clinical care.” From the call for participation: Every day hospitals and clinics around the world collect data from tens of thousands of practical therapeutic experiments in electronic health care records (EHRs), and the collective experience recorded in this data has potential to revolutionize the delivery of care, drive new […]

(This post has been updated; please scroll down for the latest.) The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has announced plans for a daylong event this fall marking its 60th anniversary. The conference and exhibit — titled “A Force of Discovery: 60 Years of Air Force Basic Research” — will take place in Arlington, Virginia, on Friday, October 12th, and aims to “offer significant potential for enhanced collaboration and relationship building.” According to AFOSR (following the jump):