The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected 120 new members- including a record number of women- and 30 foreign members. Five computing researchers are among those elected this year. They include Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal), Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania), Anna Karlin (University of Washington), Yann LeCun (New York University), and Linda Petzold (University of California, Santa Barbara). Michael Kearns has participated in many Computing Community Consortium (CCC) workshops including Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing in 2015 and Fair Representations and Fair Interactive Learning in 2018. Anna Karlin is a former CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-EP) Board Member. She has been active in several CRA-WP activities including Grad Cohort, Virtual […]

The NSF Convergence Accelerator issued a new funding opportunity (NSF-21-572) focused on two research track topics; the Networked Blue Economy and Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems.  Launched in 2019, the NSF Convergence Accelerator brings together multiple disciplines, expertise, and cross-cutting partnerships to develop solutions through a convergence research approach and innovation processes. The Trust & Authenticity in Communication Systems (Track F) might be particularly interesting for our research community.  “Modern life is dependent on access to communications systems that offer trustworthy and accurate information. Economic growth and opportunity depend on dynamic innovation and transaction networks to connect American families, communities, and businesses to a range of goods and services […]

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters recently announced the award of the 2021 Abel Prize going to matematician László Lovász (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Eötvös Loránd University) and computer scientist Avi Wigderson (Princeton University) “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics.”   Starting in 2003, the Abel Prize is a distinguished award given to members of the scientific community to recognize outstanding work and contributions to the field of mathematics. Nominations are reviewed by the ‘Abel Committee’ consisting of five mathematicians to determine a winner. Lovász and Wigderson’s award-winning work […]

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 foreign members. Several computing researchers are among those elected this year. They include National Science Foundation Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering Margaret Martonosi for “contributions to power-aware and power-efficient computer architectures and mobile systems” and Stanford University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Kunle Olukotun for “contributions to on-chip multiprocessor architectures and advancement to commercial realization.” Martonosi was Computing Community Consortium (CCC)’s 2018 Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role visioning workshop organizer as well as a former Computing Research Association (CRA) Board Member and CRA-Widening Participation Co-Chair. Olukotun was CCC’s […]

The Herbert A. Simon Award is presented to researchers who have made important lifetime contributions to the field of complex systems science. It is named in memory of Herbert A. Simon for his pioneering work on complex systems, artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, and organization theory. The award ceremony is held during the International Conference on Complex Systems. In 2020, the Award will be presented to Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Melanie Mitchell for her prolific contributions to complex systems science and artificial intelligence. Prof. Mitchell is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Computer Science (currently on leave) at Portland State University. Her […]

Applications are now open for the Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Program for 2020. This program recognizes the significant disruption to the academic job search caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic uncertainty and aims to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent and soon-to-be PhD graduates in computing. The goal of the CIFellows program is to create career growth opportunities that support maintaining the computing research pipeline. Computing research is defined as any area included under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. This effort takes inspiration from CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs with cohorts starting 2009, 2010, and […]