Below is a Press Release from the Columbia University School of Engineering, published September 11, 2014 about the NYC ASCENT Kick Off. Many of New York City’s most promising engineering postdocs joined leading representatives from academia and industry for the launch of NYC ASCENT, a new consortium from Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, and NYU connecting emerging engineers and computer scientists with established colleagues and mentors. Gathering at the Microsoft Technology Center on September 4, high above Times Square in midtown Manhattan, guests mingled and discussed their work over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres before taking part in a panel discussion on how postdocs can best achieve productive and satisfying careers. Nearly 30 postdocs attended […]

The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research.  CCC conducts activities that strengthen the research community, articulate compelling research visions, and align those visions with pressing national and global challenges. CCC communicates the importance of those visions to policymakers, government and industry stakeholders, the public, and the research community itself. In accordance with the mission, CCC is issuing a new call for proposals for workshops that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing. From the solicitation: Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest in those visions, mobilize support for those visions from the […]

Participate in the launch of NYC ASCENT, a professional development and career services consortium for Computer Science and Engineering postdocs at Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, and NYU. The launch event will feature a panel of individuals from industry and academia who will speak about making the most of the postdoc experience, and it will also be a great networking opportunity for CS&E postdocs! When: September 4, 2014, 5:00pm-8:00pm Where: Microsoft Technology Center, 11 Times Square, New York, NY Who: Computer Science and Engineering postdocs, faculty, researchers, and industry professionals Please visit www.nycascent.org to RSVP! You can see the event program here. NYC ASCENT is one of the NSF CCC PostDoc Best […]

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)’s Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports scientists and engineers who have received Ph.D. or equivalent degrees in the last five years (on or after 1 May 2009) and who show exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for the young investigators to recognize the United States Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. AFOSR is seeking unclassified proposals addressing the research areas of interest for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Several of […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by CCC Council Member Ran Libeskind-Hadas and CRA Board Member Susanne Hambrusch, Co-Chairs of CRA-E. The CRA Education Committee’s (CRA-E) mission is to address society’s need for a continuous supply of talented and well-educated computing researchers.  The committee’s efforts include both research on the state of the “domestic student pipeline” and developing resources to maintain its health. The fraction of Ph.D. students who are domestic (U.S. citizens or Permanent Residents) has been in decline over the last several decades from around 70% in the mid-1980’s to under 50% in recent years.  A 2013 CRA-E report shows that a small number of departments have accounted […]

The National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Core Program solicitations have been posted. There are no major changes to the solicitations, which can be found here: Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs  Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs Submission Window Date(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer’s local time): October 27, 2014 – November 10, 2014 MEDIUM Projects November 12, 2014 – November 20, 2014 LARGE Projects January 02, 2015 – January 14, 2015 (January 2 – January 14, Annually Thereafter) SMALL Projects September 02, 2015 – September 21, 2015 (September 2 – September 19, Annually Thereafter) MEDIUM […]