The following is a special contribution to the CCC blog by Peter Z. Revesz, 2012-14 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense. Do you want to have an impact in how Congress and Federal Agencies make laws and decisions regarding issues such as software patents, regulating the Internet, stem cell research, climate change, environmental pollution, STEM education, and funding basic research? Consider an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship (http://fellowships.aaas.org) which provides you with an opportunity to learn and help influence federal government decision making and make a positive impact on science-related policy. Beginning with the 2014-15 fellowship year, AAAS will be offering new fellowships in […]

This week, ScienceCareers named “Three Can’t Miss Science Careers,”  and Ph.D. computer scientist was on the list along with geoscientist, and physician scientist. According to the article, “Despite frequently made claims in the national news media, and from university and industry officials, the job market for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals as a whole is not booming. A decade of flat funding by federal agencies, declines in in-house research programs in industry, and an academic research culture that relies upon an ever-increasing number of trainees to execute research have flooded the market with highly trained scientists competing for few permanent positions that would utilize their skills. There are, however, […]

Last month, Google announced the recipients of its Summer 2013 Research Awards, and two former Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) were among the winners: Mohit Tiwari and Katrina Ligget. These awards are made to researchers in computer science which cover tuition for graduate students and provide the opportunity to work with Google scientists and engineers. Ligget was a 2009-2010 CIFellow at Cornell University.  She is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology.  Her research award is for work on understanding how to price private information, and on the mechanisms for eliciting such information.  This work is an outgrowth of the privacy and game […]

Every year, AAAS administers the Science & Technology Policy Fellowship program, which brings over 200 scientists and engineers to DC each year to work for the federal government. The goal of the Fellowship is to educate scientists on how the government works and to explore the intersection where policy and science meet. AAAS has recently launched a Big Data & Analytics track in the Fellowship program to focus on the analytical skills necessary for using big data to tackle the most pressing policy issues of the day such as infrastructure, security, and health care. They would love to see more representation from the computer science community! Applicants must have a doctorate in a scientific, medical, or […]

The following is an article published in the August 2013 edition of Computing Research News.  Computing Researchers Get ‘Schooled’ on Science Policy at LiSPI 2013 By Peter Harsha, CRA Director of Government Affairs and Fred Schneider, Cornell University and CCC Council Member As part of its mission to develop a next generation of leaders in the computing research community, the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium recently held its second Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI). This one and a half-day workshop was intended to educate a cadre of computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works. Participants heard candid and “off the […]

The following is an article published in the August 2013 edition of Computing Research News.  Ideas Lab Fostering Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning: Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning By Andrew Bernat, CRA Executive Director NSF has announced a new funding opportunity to explore using large data sets to improve STEM teaching and learning environments (RFP 13-565) that will be of interest to many CRN readers. But this new activity includes a radically different funding mechanism – participation in an Ideas Lab workshop which is designed to foster novel, transformative, multidisciplinary approaches (and proposals). Participants in the Ideas Lab workshop will build interdisciplinary teams solely eligible to submit proposals […]