On March 26, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic published an article titled Which College – and Which Major – Will Make You Richest?  The article provides the full methodology and explanations of the study done by PayScale.  What we found most interesting is the information on degrees.  Nine of the top 10 degrees with the highest return on investment are computer science programs.     …no degree in America is more valuable than a computer-science major at Stanford, Columbia, or Berkeley. Notably, the most valuable non-computer-science major in the country is also at Stanford: economics.

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 […]

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 […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 11:00 am (EST) by Owen Astrachan and Amy Briggs titled AP Computer Science Principles.  Astrachan is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Computer Science and Professor of the Practice at Duke University where he has taught in four decades and two millennia. In addition to teaching computer science, he builds curricula and approaches to teaching intended for broad adoption and adaptation.  Briggs is Professor of Computer Science at Middlebury College in Vermont where she teaches undergraduate courses in introductory computer science, data structures, theory of computation, discrete […]

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering(CISE) will hold a one-day CAREER proposal writing workshop March 31, 2014 in Arlington, VA.  In addition to past programs that accepted CAREER proposals, this year, the STEM-CP: CE21 program is also accepting CAREER proposals. The goal of this workshop is to enable junior CAREER-eligible faculty to prepare competitive proposals for the NSF CAREER program.  Faculty members will have the opportunity to improve their skills in proposal writing, experience mock panel reviews, and interact with NSF program directors from the CISE divisions (ACI, CCF, CNS, and IIS), as well as with recent NSF CAREER awardees. The workshop is being hosted by the Computer […]