The South Big Data Hub’s next Data Science Roundtable called The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts will be held Thursday, April 12th from Noon – 1:15 PM EST. As technological innovation rapidly continues to accelerate, skill requirements for workers are changing even more quickly. These evolving skill requirements are having disruptive effects on higher education and training programs, which are struggling to catch up to the needs of both workers and industries. In this session, the panelists will expire some of the many important questions related to the future of work, training, education, and technology. Speakers: Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University Gordon Freedman, President, National Laboratory for Education Transformation Ioana Marinescu, Faculty Research Fellow, Bureau of Economic Research Shade Shutters, Global […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University will present “Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture series on April 4th, from 2:00PM to 3:00PM ET. Jennifer Rexford is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and the Chair of Computer Science at Princeton University. Before joining Princeton in 2005, she worked for eight years at AT&T Labs—Research. Jennifer received her BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 1996. She is co-author of the […]

Mozilla is currently seeking proposals for research funding to support its mission: to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. These grants include topics directly relevant to current research, as well as topics that fit more broadly with their vision for improving the internet and implementing the principles of their manifesto. Mozilla funds research in a wide variety of ways, including building new technologies, improving existing technologies, and studying how people use technology. Their research domains include Emerging Technologies’ four core areas: Open Web Platform, such as Rust, Servo and Daala. We recently funded projects testing the Rust and bindgen compilers, and implementing Typed WebAssembly. Mixed Reality, […]

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).   Dear CISE Community, Much has happened since our email (regarding the President’s FY 2019 Budget Request for the National Science Foundation) last month, and so we wanted to provide an update below. FISCAL YEAR 2018 First and foremost, as you’ve probably read in the media, Congress passed a spending bill for FY 2018 (the current fiscal year, ending on September 30, 2018) this past week, which was signed into law on Friday by the President. Under this FY 2018 budget,  NSF’s funding will […]

CCC Chair Beth Mynatt provided contributions to this post. How do you successfully accomplish human-centered computing research and design? Focus on users who are not you. Figure out someone else’s computing technology barriers and try to address them. Use these insights as the force that drives your research. Just some words of advice from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair, Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), College of Computing Distinguished Professor, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab, Beth Mynatt who was recently interviewed by her former student, Andrew Miller, for ACM’s Future of Computing Academy Computing Across Disciplines podcast. Beth talked about her work in advancing technology in […]

The NSF CAREER Coordinating Committee is hosting a webinar to answer participants’ questions about development and submission of proposals to the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) on May 15th, 2018 from 1:00-3:00PM ET. The webinar will give participants the opportunity to interact with members of the NSF-wide CAREER Coordinating Committee in a question-and-answer format. In preparation for the webinar, participants are strongly encouraged to consult material available on-line concerning the CAREER program. In particular, the CAREER program web page has a wealth of current information about the program, including: the CAREER program solicitation NSF 17-537; frequently asked questions about the CAREER program; and slides from a CAREER program overview. Additionally, there is a video […]