Nominations are now open for the 2021 Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship and Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. Doctoral students must be nominated by the department chair’s office in their field of study by August 14, 2020. Students will then be contacted to submit their proposals by September 21, 2020. The Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship aims to increase the pipeline of diverse talent receiving advanced degrees in computing-related fields by providing a research funding opportunity for doctoral students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, person with a disability, and/or LGBTQI+. The […]

Computing is a field with substantial interaction between academia and industry even in research. Last year, for example, CCC reported significant increases in the level of interaction between professors and companies, especially in artificial intelligence. What follows is a blog post from the computer architecture community by ACM A.M. Turing Laureate David A. Patterson, UC Berkeley and Google, reporting on an effort to increase industrial product papers in a flagship conference of the discipline, further enhancing academia-industry synergies Problem: The Disappearance of Product Papers from ISCA Industry research groups in computer architecture (like at IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA) have as much support for architectural exploration and publication as academic groups, but product groups […]

The Herbert A. Simon Award is presented to researchers who have made important lifetime contributions to the field of complex systems science. It is named in memory of Herbert A. Simon for his pioneering work on complex systems, artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, and organization theory. The award ceremony is held during the International Conference on Complex Systems. In 2020, the Award will be presented to Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Melanie Mitchell for her prolific contributions to complex systems science and artificial intelligence. Prof. Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Computer Science (currently on leave) at Portland State University. Her […]

The following is a guest blog from the BPC Plan Workshop Steering Committee.  We are pleased to announce the Workshop Series on Writing Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans. As part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s (CISE) commitment to broaden participation in computing (BPC), a number of NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) programs now require PIs to have a meaningful broadening participation in computing (BPC) plan at time of award. Computing departments are encouraged to develop departmental BPC plans that faculty can use in their proposals submitted to these NSF programs. To support departments developing […]

Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is happy to announce that Liz Bradley from the University of Colorado-Boulder is the new Chair and Dan Lopresti from Lehigh University is the Vice Chair. Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the Chair Emeritus. The CCC Chair and Vice Chair both serve two-year terms; at the culmination of the two years, the Vice Chair typically becomes the new Chair. The CCC also welcomes seven new council members, nominated by colleagues in the computing research community, who began their three-year terms today: Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University William D. Gropp, University […]

The following is a letter from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hello: Tonight the Computing Community Consortium transitions leadership and members, including me stepping down as Chair. Congratulations to the new CCC Chair Liz Bradley, Vice Chair Dan Lopresti, and new members Kathleen Fisher, William D. Gropp, Brian LaMacchia, Melanie Moses, Helen Nissenbaum, and Holly Yanco. I look forward to great accomplishments! Thanks to all the current and former CCC members who have contributed to CCC’s continued successes these last several years, especially those rotating off the council: Juliana Freire, Keith Marzullo, Greg Morrisett, Jen Rexford, and Ben Zorn. Thanks to the staff who enable […]