Stanford University, in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK) with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), is hosting a Transatlantic Data Science Workshop. This two-day workshop will be held on March 1-2, 2016 at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. The objectives of this workshop are: To facilitate the development of novel computational approaches to health; To guide computer scientists, data scientists, statisticians, computational scientists, and mathematicians in discovering and accessing US and UK health datasets; and To support early stage researchers in establishing interdisciplinary, international collaborations. The first day of the workshop will be devoted to exploring […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Cyrus Shahabi, Liyue Fan, and Luciano Nocera from the University of Southern California, Li Xiong from Emory University, and Ming Li from University of Arizona. Their Privacy-Preserving Inference of Social Relationships from Location Data paper was one of the winners at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored Blue Sky Ideas Track Competition at the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems 2015 (SIGSPATIAL 2015) in Seattle, Washington. The Innovative Idea Social relationships between people, e.g., whether they are friends with each other, can be inferred by observing their behaviors in the real world. Thanks to the popularity of GPS-enabled mobile devices or online services, a large amount of high-resolution […]

Does your research generate, analyze, and/or visualize data using advanced digital resources? CADENS (The Centrality of Advanced Digitally ENabled Science) is looking for scientific data to visualize or existing data visualizations to weave into larger documentary narratives in a series of fulldome digital films and TV programs aimed at broad public audiences. Visualizations of your work could reach millions of people, amplifying its greater societal impacts! The deadline to submit your application for the next documentary production has been extended to January 15, 2016. It’s easy—just answer a few questions on the web form found here. All disciplines are encouraged to submit. Medicine, health, and biomedicine data is especially sought […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has released its 2016 list of newly elevated fellows. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is given to a IEEE member with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest by the Board of Directors. This year’s list features a number of impressive computer scientist, including CCC Council member Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin, for contributions to reliable distributed systems; Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines and who serves on the CRA-W and CRA Board of Directors, for contributions to wireless networking; and Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University, for contributions to privacy engineering. Congratulations to all the recipients for […]

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking applicants for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences. The Data Curation Fellowships will provide recent Ph.D.s with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data Curation, particularly software curation, for the sciences and social sciences. Through these fellowships, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy. Each fellowship is a two-year appointment, with a commensurate salary, plus benefits, and yearly travel and research stipends. Eligible applicants must have received a PhD after January 1, 2011 but before beginning the fellowship and be legally permitted to work in the […]

Networking Networking Women (N2 Women), a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking research fields, has just released their inaugural list of “10 women in networking/communications that you should know”. The main goal of N2 Women is to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. N2 Women allows women to connect with other women who share the same research interests, who attend the same conferences, who face the same career hurdles, and who experience the same obstacles. From their press release: Over 150 people around the world submitted nominations for this list, and many of these people submitted several names. These nominations […]