The following is a guest post from Heather Wright, Associate Director of the Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) at the Computing Research Association. The Computing Research Association (CRA) invites the academic computing community to complete a brief survey about the broadening participation in computing (BPC) plans required for proposals submitted to some programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Specifically, we are interested in learning whether your academic department has created, or plans to create, a Departmental BPC Plan to assist faculty PIs submitting Medium and Large CISE Core Programs, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) project proposals, […]

Past Computing Community Consortium Council member Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been appointed to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The council provides advice to the White House on topics critical to U.S. security and the economy, including policy recommendations on the future of work, American leadership in science and technology, and the support of U.S. research and development. “I’m grateful to be able to add my perspective as a computer scientist to this group at a time when so many issues involving AI and other aspects of computing raise important scientific and policy questions for […]

Yesterday, the President released his FY2021 budget request. The request includes a significant increase in nondefense AI R&D compared to the FY 2020 Budget and a commitment to double nondefense AI R&D by 2022. If enacted, it would bring spending for AI R&D and interdisciplinary research institutes at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to more than $830 million, which represents a more than 70 percent increase over the FY 2020 budget. This increase would map well to A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, which was released by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the computing research community in late 2019. The roadmap, led by Yolanda Gil […]

The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee. The program associate works closely with the CCC Director, Staff, and Council Members to ensure that CCC’s mission objectives are achieved in a timely and high-quality fashion. The program associate provides support for the CCC by handling administrative and logistical matters, such as planning for meetings, visioning workshops, outreach activities, committee support, etc. He or she also interacts with key constituents, including members of the research community, and policy makers, to further enrich the awareness of CRA, its committees, its mission, and its services. The position receives […]

The following is a message to the community from the Computing Research Association (CRA) Executive Director Andrew Bernat.  Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce that CRA’s Career Mentoring Workshop will take place February 27-28, 2020, in Washington, DC. The application link is here. The deadline to apply (for guaranteed attendance for CRA member institution participants) is October 31st. Appropriate participants from CRA-member institutions are automatically accepted (until we run out of physical space); we will accept participants from non-CRA member institutions if there is space (at a higher registration fee).If you have attended or know someone who has, then you know that this workshop gets raves as a kickstart […]

The following is a guest blog post by the Computing Research Association (CRA) Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha. It was originally posted on CRA’s Computing Research Policy Blog.  Every two years as part of it’s mission to develop the next generation of leaders in the computing research community, CRA’s Computing Community Consortium, in partnership with CRA’s Government Affairs Committee, holds the Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI) workshop, intended to educate computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works. We’re seeking nominations for participants for this year’s workshop, scheduled for November 21-22, 2019, in Washington DC. LiSPI features presentations and discussions with science policy experts, […]