The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a new solicitation for the Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program.  The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) 2012 White Paper “21st Century Computer Architecture” was a key driver for the development of this program. The Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability (XPS) program aims to support groundbreaking research leading to a new era of parallel computing. Achieving the needed breakthroughs will require a collaborative effort among researchers representing all areas– from services and applications down to the micro-architecture– and will be built on new concepts, theories, and foundational principles. New approaches to achieve scalable performance and usability need new abstract models and algorithms, new programming models and languages, new […]

Update January 6, 2014: This event has been cancelled due to weather.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Monday, January 6, 2014 at 12:00 pm (EST) titled Designing Disruptive Learning Technologies.  This lecture is sponsored by the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education Working Group. Professor Tom Moher of the University of Illinois at Chicago, will showcase his designs for using “embedded phenomena” to bring the field into the classroom and foster learning from those experiences. Using RoomQuake, 4th and 5th graders experience earthquakes, find their epicenters, and calculate their magnitude and intensity. RoomBugs and WallScopes simulate dynamic […]

On December 30, 2013, John Markoff wrote an article in The New York Times, titled Viewing Where the Internet Goes.  He takes a brief look back at what happened with the internet in 2013, primarily related to Edward Snowden and asks the two creators of the internet, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn for their views of how the internet might change going forward. The contrasts of the internet and related policies are stated clearly, It was, for example, the Internet’s global reach that made classified documents available to Mr. Snowden — and made it so easy for him to distribute them to news organizations. Yet the Internet also made possible […]

The National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications is sponsoring a workshop on Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data, hosted by the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council of the National Academies. What are the key principles of a big data curriculum? How can big data courses serve an interdisciplinary audience? What are the best resources for students?   These and other questions will be addressed in a series of presentations and discussions. You can view the proposed workshop agenda here.  The workshop will be held April 11-12, 2014 in Washington, DC and is free and open to the public, both in person and […]

On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 10 am EST, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Mark Hill will be delivering a Distinguished Lecture at the National Science Foundation (NSF).  Hill is the Gene M. Amdahl Professor of Computer Sciences and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Hill’s talk will have two parts.  First, he will discuss possible directions for computer architecture research, including architecture as infrastructure, energy first, impact of new technologies, and cross-layer opportunities. This is based on a 2012 CCC whitepaper effort led by Hill. In the second part, Hill will discuss an example of the cross-layer research advocated in the first part. From the […]

As part of Computer Science Education Week, Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director of The National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), share their thoughts on the White House blog about the importance of computer science for all students and what the government is doing about it. This week, we’re celebrating Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week), which highlights the importance of computer science in our education system.  To recognize CS Ed Week this year, we encourage everyone to participate in the Hour of Code. It’s an easy way […]