THE COMPUTING COMMUNITY CONSORTIUM SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS The CCC’s Nominating Committee invites nominations (including self-nominations) for members to serve on the CCC Council for the next three years. Please send nominations, together with the information below, to ccc-nominations@cra.org by 11:59pm EDT on Monday, March 11, 2013. The subcommittee’s recommendations will serve as input to the Computing Research Association (CRA) and National Science Foundation (NSF), who will make the final selection. What is the CCC and why are these nominations important? The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to answer critical questions such as, “What questions shape our intellectual future?” […]

The following is an article published in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News. If you would like receive CRN via email, you can sign up here. Computer Science Postdocs: Best Practices By Anita Jones, University of Virginia, and Erwin Gianchandani, CRA/CCC (now at NSF) The Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Board of Directors has approved a Best Practices Guide, providing guidance to graduate students, postdocs, advisors and mentors, and departments and institutions on how to have a positive postdoctoral experience within computer science and engineering.  We encourage our colleagues throughout the community to take a look at the document — the latest in a series of white papers about the recent increase in postdocs in the field […]

The following is an article published in the January 2013 edition of Computing Research News. If you would like receive CRN via email, you can sign up here. The Computing Community Consortium:  A Force Multiplier for CRA By Ed Lazowska, CCC Chair, University of Washington The Computing Community Consortium, like CRA-W, is a committee of CRA that serves as a “force multiplier” for a particular aspect of CRA’s mission.  CCC’s role is to work with the computing research community, the White House, Federal agencies, and others, to create momentum for visionary research themes that address major technical, national, and global challenges. CCC has recently secured a new 4-year award from NSF, and is transitioning from […]

Microsoft is taking steps to position itself as a cutting-edge technology provider by offering services that can analyze big data. That type of technology is being developed by Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s advanced research arm. In Monday’s issue of the New York Times, CCC Council member, Eric Horvitz, who is a distinguished scientist and deputy managing director at Microsoft Research in Redmond, offered his perspective. Since Horvitz joined Microsoft Research 20 years ago, his goal has been “to build predictive software that could continually get smarter.” In the coming months, Horvitz will see that goal realized and shared with the public with the release of updated versions of Excel, which will […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog from the Gregory Hager (Johns Hopkins University) and Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Tech), co-chairs of the Computing Community Consortium’s visioning workshop on health information technology – Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions– held last month in Bethesda, Maryland. The committee summarizes some of the highlights of the workshop. Computing and Healthcare have been receiving a great deal of attention in recent years. For example the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Healthcare has issued a series of reports, the most recent of which, “Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to  Continuously Learning Healthcare in America.” provides a list of recommendations, many […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding agencies. It has provided an immediate online mechanism for community-wide dissemination, discussion, and debate of visioning concepts. Today, we are proud to announce that the blog has reached over 300,000 views!  Much of the blog’s success is due to the dedication of Erwin Gianchandani. When Erwin became Director of the Computing Community Consortium in April of 2010; the blog averaged 83 hits per day, when Erwin departed last month, the blog averaged 571 hits per day – an increase of over 500%. Here are a few of our […]