The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is sponsoring a two-day Proposers Day event to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of the anticipated Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Office-wide Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) releasing sometime in June 2015. The goals of this event are to: (1) familiarize participants with DSO’s mission; (2) promote understanding of the anticipated Office-wide BAA; and (3) facilitate discussions with potential performers and program managers. Some areas of interest among the current program managers include: Computationally accelerated discovery Alternative computational substrates Geometry, graphics, modeling and design Novel sensor systems, imaging and optics technologies and algorithms This free event will be held on […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has named Robert (“Bobby”) Schnabel executive director and CEO effective November 1, 2015. Schnabel joins ACM after eight years as professor and dean of the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Mathematics, Schnabel earned his Master’s degree and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is also a former Computing Research Association (CRA) Board Member and co-chaired the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellowships (CI Fellows) 2014 workshop. From ACM’s Press Release: As ACM’s most senior staff member, Schnabel will work with ACM’s volunteer community to provide strategic vision and to develop sustainable business […]

The White House has kicked off the National Week of Making, which lasts from June 12 to June 18. The event includes announcements and progress updates on the President’s call to action to create a “Nation of Makers.”

  The following blog post is from the National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs on improving science communication.  A new interactive resource available through NSF’s website will help NSF-funded principal investigators and their institution public information officers understand better the process for creating communications tools, such as videos and feature stories, so that NSF more effectively communicates the science it funds. This user-friendly resource, which is essentially a decision tree that shows examples of all of NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) capabilities, is located with NSF’s communications resources along with a text-only version. (Click on “Science Communication Toolkit for Principal Investigators.”)  In addition to showcasing all […]

The next WATCH Talk, called Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE), is Thursday, June 18, 12:00-1:00 PM EST. The presenter is Bret Hartman, the Vice President & Security Chief Technical Officer at Cisco Systems, Inc. Bret is responsible for defining the corporate security technology strategy for Cisco, as implemented by the Security Business Group. Bret has over thirty years of experience building information security infrastructures, including cloud, virtualization, SOA, Web Services, policy development and management, and security modeling and analysis. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from MIT and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland. Abstract   The next wave of the Internet […]

National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following letter to the community describing the change to NSF CISE core and SaTC proposal submission dates: Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, I’m writing to highlight an important change that will affect proposal submissions to a number of  CISE programs this coming fall.  Specifically, CISE has revised the submission windows for its core programs as well as the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program for the 2015-16 academic year. These changes were announced in a recent Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 15-079), and have been reflected in […]