Written by Helen Wright, CRA-Industry In April 2022, CRA-Industry held its third roundtable event focused on Building Stronger Regional Academia-Industry-Government Computing Research Partnerships. The purpose of this roundtable was to convene partners across academia, industry, and government to understand successful approaches and to discuss the value of partnerships and best practices. The session was moderated by two members of the CRA-Industry steering committee: Mary Hall (University of Utah) and Ben Zorn (Microsoft). The panelists were Erwin Gianchandani (National Science Foundation), Charles Isbell (Georgia Institute of Technology), Greg King (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Phyllis Schneck (Northrop Grumman). In order to pinpoint success and call out specific interactions, the moderators decided […]

The Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) will be holding a webinar “Connecting the Quad” that focuses on increasing Increasing AI Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India and Japan. The seminar is a part of CSET’s seminar series that aims to bring together leaders from government and the private sector for discussions of how artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies alter the national and international security landscape. The Computing Community Consortium is a big proponent of international cooperation among the computing community in order to tackle world problems and benefit from each others’ knowledge and strengths. International participation in workshops and CCC activities is encouraged to catalyze computing […]

Last week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), announced their election results. Among the new leadership was Computing Community Consortium Council Member, Elisa Bertino. She will begin her new two-year term as ACM Vice President on July 1. Bertino is a Professor of Computer Science and research director at CERIAS at Purdue University, and a Fellow of both ACM and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She has a long standing affiliation with ACM, formerly serving as the ACM Secretary/Treasurer, a 2019–2020 ACM Athena Lecturer and served on the editorial board for the ACM Transactions on Information and System Security. In addition, she is the Secretary/Treasurer John West, […]

Neuroscientist and Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Fractal Faculty Member Stuart Firestein, will present “Ignorance, Failure, Uncertainty, and the Optimism of Science” as a SFI Community Lecture. The talk, held on May 24th at 7:30PM US Mountain Time, teaches listeners to use the unknown and uncertainty in the world as creative opportunities and motivation for progress. Lecture Abstract: Science is a fundamentally optimistic enterprise. More than a cheery disposition, it is the source of a philosophical outlook that we might call ‘optimistical’. It reliably produces fundamental and actionable knowledge about the world. We are able to take for granted, in a way even our recent ancestors never imagined, the idea of […]

The National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) released a new report, Fostering Responsible Computing Research: Foundations and Practices. The report outlines recommendations for the computing research community to ensure ethical and societal impacts are thought through and a part of the conversation from the start. The National Academics’ CSTB was created to advise the nation on technical and public policy issues pertaining to computing. This includes social and economic implications, sustaining leadership in computing innovation, and using computing in desirable and beneficial ways. The board is comprised of leading experts in the field. CCC Council Member David Danks was on one of their studies. On May 2nd, the project’s […]

Last year the Computing Research Association (CRA) launched an Opportunity Board to enable recent new PhD graduates and members of the community that are looking for postdocs to connect. This is a continuation of the Opportunity Board used to match potential postdocs and mentors during the CIFellows 2021 process. The board allows for the posting of postdoc opportunities by potential mentors and posts by those looking for a postdoc opportunity. We encourage members of the community to use this as a resource. The Opportunity Board lists four options: Find Mentor Find Postdoc Post Mentor Profile Post Postdoc Profile  You are able to search for potential postdocs and available postdoc positions […]