Periodically the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will highlight former CI Fellows to showcase their current research. The following was submitted by Dr. Ioan Raicu.  Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellow (CI Fellow), Dr. Ioan Raicu, now an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a research faculty member in the Math and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, focuses on the relatively new distributed systems paradigm called Many-Task Computing (MTC). MTC aims to bridge the gap between two predominant paradigms, namely High-Throughput Computing (HTC) and High-Performance Computing (HPC). His work has focused on defining and exploring both the theory and practical aspects of realizing […]

The National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced an initial investment of nearly $32 million for NIH’s Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative which is projected to have a total investment of nearly $656 million through 2020. The BD2K initiative, launched in 2013, is a trans-NIH program that will develop new strategies to analyze and leverage the explosion of increasingly complex biomedical data sets, referred to as Big Data. Currently, biomedical data generation is exceeding researchers’ ability to capitalize on all the available data. The BD2K awards will support the development of new approaches, software, tools, and training programs to improve access to these data and the ability to make new […]

You are invited to the Postdoc Best Practices Arizona introductory conference bringing together postdoctoral scholars from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Arizona. Featured Speakers will include: Dr. Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University Frank Stein, IBM Drs. Ramona Mellot and Meribeth Watwood, Northern Arizona University Dr. Michael Simeone, Arizona State University  For each speaker’s abstract, please click here. Friday, October 17, 2014 8:15am-6:00pm Artisan Court at the Brickyard (BYAC) 30 E. 7th Street, Tempe Saturday, October 18, 2014 Morning Social Outing Possible: Breakfast and Hike You can see the event program here. Please RSVP here by October 13.  Arizona Computing Postdoc […]

President Barack Obama has selected Mary Shaw, University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, as one of the recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Our Nation’s highest honor for achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology. Shaw, a computer science faculty member since 1971, is a leader in software engineering research whose work on software architecture helped establish it as a recognized discipline. Selecting an appropriate architecture is now recognized as a critical step in the engineering of complex software systems. She also is an educational innovator who has developed computer science curricula from the introductory to the doctoral level. The […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Vice Chair Beth Mynatt has received a 2014 Mobility Star Award, which salutes excellence and advancements in mobility. The award recognizes five mobile technology leaders who have made a substantial impact in the past year creating and advancing adoption or innovative use of mobile technology, and that have helped grow Atlanta’s mobile presence. Mynatt is the Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), a College of Computing Professor at Georgia Tech, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab. For more information click here.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has three new announcements today related to the BRAIN Initiative and NSF’s Understanding the Brain activities:   NSF 14-611  Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF-NCS) This solicitation describes the first phase of a new NSF program to support transformative and integrative research that will accelerate understanding of neural and cognitive systems. INTEGRATIVE FOUNDATIONS awards will support projects that develop foundational advances that are deeply connected to a broad scope of important research questions in cognitive and neural systems, and have significant potential for transformative advances in one or more of the FY 2015 thematic areas. CORE+ EXTENSIONS will provide additional support to projects selected for […]