The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. 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 needs visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed of 20 researchers representing the breadth […]

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Full Proposal Window: January 25, 2021 DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. MGI recognizes the importance of materials science and engineering to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to “deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.” MGI integrates materials discovery, development, property optimization, and systems design with a shared computational framework. Learn more here.  EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 25, 2021 The Established Program to Stimulate […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is broadening its commitment to young scientists through a new Information Innovation Office (I2O) PostDoc Fellowship Program focused on postdoctoral researchers in the field of computer science with grants sized to support each fellow for up to two years.  Participation is open to individuals who are U.S. Citizens or U.S. Permanent Residents (1) who received a PhD degree no earlier than June 2019; or (2) will receive a PhD prior to the start date of this award; and (3) will be appointed to a postdoctoral position at a U.S. institution of higher education during the 2021-22 academic year. This I2O RA is specifically […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) invites proposals for visioning activities that will catalyze and enable innovative research at the frontiers of computing. Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest, mobilize support from the computing research community, government leaders, and funding agencies, and encourage broader segments of society to participate in computing research and education. Past examples can be found here. A best practices guide can be found here.   The majority of visioning activities have been in-person workshops, but this should not be considered a hard-and-fast limitation (i.e. think also of roundtables, online meetings, etc.). Given the current uncertainty of widespread vaccination rates and the timing of a […]

The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Liz Bradley.  The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), like the rest of the world, had to shift our focus and restructure our activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some highlights from the year are described below; please see our website for more details, as well as plans and opportunities for new activities. In May, CCC—along with its parent organization the Computing Research Association (CRA), and with strong support from the National Science Foundation—launched the CIFellows 2020 program. The goal of this effort is to provide career-enhancing bridge experiences for recent PhD graduates and combat hiring disruptions due to COVID. The 2020 CIFellows […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. 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 needs visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed […]