We often hear about the dearth of women in computer science and engineering fields. Many organizations are working hard to attract and retain women in these fields. In an article titled 22 Most Powerful Women Engineers In the World, Business Insider showcases powerful women engineers.  From the article: There’s a huge push these days to encourage more girls to learn to code and to hire more women engineers once they graduate. The tech industry knows it can’t fill all the jobs it has while discouraging half the population from joining the industry. It also knows that it can’t do a good job of designing new tech products for women if women aren’t part of the […]

Today, July 1, new talents were added to the ranks of both the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council and the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors.  The CCC welcomes five new members to its Council and CRA welcomes five new members to it’s Board. Joining the CCC Council are: Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas, Austin Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University Debra Richardson, University of California, Irvine Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University, is the new Chair of the CCC and Beth Mynatt, Georgia Tech, is the new Vice Chair of the CCC. The new additions to the CRA Board are: […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Times they are a changing. In the 20th century many researchers and companies innovated within a layer (or two) of the computing software-hardware stack. Today there is pressure and opportunity to innovate across layers, as argued in a 2012 CCC white paper on 21st Century Computer Architecture. A fantastic example of this cross-layer innovation was recently presented in the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) by Putman et al. “A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services”  and reported in WIRED by Robert McMillan “Microsoft Supercharges Bing […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark Hill and workshop organizers Luis Ceze, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, and James Larus, Full Professor and Head of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.  Luis Ceze and Jim Larus organized a DARPA ISAT workshop on Approximate Computing in February, 2014. The goal was to discuss how to obtain 10-100x performance and similar improvements in MIPS/watt out of future hardware by carefully trading off accuracy of a com putation for these other goals. The focus was not the underlying […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring another track in its Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track series at the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), November 16-22, 2014 in Hong Kong. This track emphasizes visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in software engineering research that are outside of current mainstream topics of the field. The submissions to this track will be judged on the extent to which they expand the possibilities and horizons of the field or challenge existing assumptions prevalent in the field.  The CCC will sponsor three Best Paper Awards in this special track, which will be selected out of the accepted papers based on evaluations by the program committee. Papers […]

The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas at Austin Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University Debra Richardson, University of California—Irvine Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms, and a new executive committee will be formed. Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University, will become Chair; Elizabeth Mynatt, Georgia Tech, will become Vice Chair; and Susan Graham, University of California, Berkeley, will become Chair Emeritus. The new executive committee includes the Chair […]