The National Science Foundation is currently seeking nominations for the National Medal of Science (NMS), the highest recognition the nation can bestow on scientists and engineers. In 1959, the 86th Congress established the NMS as a Presidential Award, given to individuals “deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.” The award has since been expanded to include social and behavioral scientists.  A committee of scientists and engineers appointed by the President evaluate the nominees taking into consideration scientific and engineering achievement along with broader impacts in promoting scientific advancements and in societal benefits. So far 506 scientists and […]

Final call for CCC Council Member Nominations. Nominations are due at 11:59pm EST on Friday, February 11, 2022. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed vision for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC seeks visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to the advancement of science for societal good. Each year AAAS holds an Annual Meeting featuring lectures, flash talk sessions, e-poster presentations and international exhibit hall to bring together experts form a broad range of disciplines to discuss new research and developments in science, technology and policy. This year’s annual meeting is completely virtual and will be held online February 17th-20th. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and hosted sessions since 2013. This year we will host the following sessions: Robotics: Empowering not Replacing People– Feb 18th, 1-1:45 PM ET Intelligent Infrastructure For […]

On Wednesday, February 2nd at 11am EST The Networking Channel will stream a panel “How can we improve diversity and inclusion in the systems and networking community?” Organized by Jim Kurose (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Matt Caesar (University of Illinois), the panel will feature Margaret Martonosi (National Science Foundation), the Computing Research Association’s incoming Director Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines and CRA), Mythili Vutukuru (IIT Bombay, India), Ahmed Elmokashfi (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway), Craig Partridge (Colorado State University), and Manuel Perez-Quinones (University of North Carolina Charlotte). The panel will address how to improve diversity and inclusion in the Computer Science field. Panel Description: Many of us would agree […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) recently announced the 2022 newly elevated Fellows. Among them are two individuals involved with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) – Sujata Banerjee and Tim Sherwood. Sujata Banerjee for leadership in programmable and energy efficient networks CCC Council and Executive Committee Member       Tim Sherwood for contributions to computer system security and performance analysis Co-Organizer of the upcoming CCC workshop on Mechanism Design for Hardware Security.       Also among the new elevated Fellows were Behçet Açikmeşe and Brian Blake who have been involved in Computing Research Association activities. You can see the orginal post on the CRA Bulletin here. IEEE […]

On Thursday, December 2nd, a virtual celebratory event was held for the 30th anniversary of the  Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. The event was organized by NITRD National Coordination Office (NCO) with support from Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to highlight and reflect on the impact federal investment in the network information technology research and development has had on society over the past three decades. The event began with opening remarks from the Director of NITRD, Kamie Roberts, and featured guest speakers from the founding agencies Michael Huerta (National Institute of Health), Steve Binkley (Department of Energy), Eugene Tu (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), […]