A bit of shameless self-promotion:

I’ve been asked many questions about the Computing Community Consortium in the past year — and we’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 — for what we hope is a quick read detailing the CCC’s history, objectives, and principal activities.

And while we’re on the subject, a few shameless plugs:

Below are key activities the CCC is leading right now. I encourage you to e-mail me if you’re interested in getting involved with, or participating in, any of these.

• Research Frontiers sessions at major conferences, exploring out-of-the-box research ideas for the field
• Videos of exciting CS research (projects/outcomes/breakthroughs/etc.) that encourage undergraduates to pursue computing
• Community visioning activities that bring together members of the community to coalesce around research visions.
• A Leadership in Science Policy Institute, to be held for the first time this fall with the goal of educating a small cadre of computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works. Deadline: May 15, 2011.

Finally, please let me know what you think about this blog. What do you like (dislike)? What are things that you’d like to see more of (less of)? Comment in the space below — or simply e-mail me.

Thank you!

(Contributed by Erwin Gianchandani, CCC Director)