NSF/CISE Assistant Director Farnam Jahanian has issued the following letter to the community describing yesterday’s FY 2015 budget rollout: Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,   President Obama delivered his Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Budget Request to Congress last Tuesday and, today, the President’s FY 2015 Budget Request for NSF was presented. At $7.3 billion, this Request supports investments in fundamental research across all scientific disciplines, engineering, and education that continue to enhance our national economy, security, and quality of life. This represents an increase of $83 million, or about 1.2 percent, over the FY 2014 NSF Estimate. For more information, see: http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2015/index.jsp.   I am pleased to let you know […]

Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director at the National Science Foundation(NSF) for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has sent the following Letter to the Computing Community: Dear Colleagues,   The National Science Foundation CISE Directorate is pleased to announce the formation of a search committee for the Director of the Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS). Keith Marzullo will finish his term as CNS Division Director in fall 2014. We greatly appreciate his expertise and leadership to the CISE community during his tenure!   Announcements for the search for his replacement can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/cise/cns/news/cns-staff.jsp and on USAJOBS at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/360791000?org=NSF.   Please feel free to contact any of the committee co-chairs, or any of the following […]

 The following is a special contribution to this blog by Keith Marzullo, division director for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS). Yesterday, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), issuing a first-ever interagency solicitation for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Leveraging years of investment in CPS science, engineering, and technology by NSF’s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Engineering (ENG), the new solicitation establishes collaborations between NSF and mission agencies to “identify basic research needs in CPS […]

Tal Rabin, Manager of the Cryptography Research Group at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center and Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, has won the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision ABIE Award for Impact. From the announcement: In 2005, The Anita Borg Institute created the Women of Vision ABIE Awards to annually recognize three distinguished women leading technology innovation around the world. These exceptional women are chosen by a panel of their peers for their contributions to technology innovation, industry leadership, and technology-driven social impact. Innovation – Dr. Tal Rabin: Her research has become part of the foundation for the future of cyber-security and protection of individual privacy. Rabin’s research focuses […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog from Douglas H. Fisher, Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, and Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University. Doug and Armando Fox of U.C. Berkeley co-chaired the Workshop on Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education last year, and recently completed the report of that workshop. In February 2013 the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the Workshop on Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education (MROE). This visioning activity explored the research opportunities at the intersection of the learning sciences, and the many areas of computing, to include human-computer interactions, social computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and modeling and […]