As part of efforts to improve scientific integrity, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Scientific Integrity Task Force are organizing a series of three virtual listening sessions on July 28-30 to hear from individual members of the public who produce, communicate, and use scientific and technical information. To help the Task Force understand how to strengthen the integrity of Federal Science, please sign-up to make a brief oral comment sharing your thoughts. Each of three virtual listening sessions will be organized around a particular theme as described below: Session 1: Communications – Effective policies and practices to improve the communication of scientific and technological information, […]

This past spring, the Computing Research Association (CRA) and its Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced funding for a cohort of Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) for 2021, with strong support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The program sponsors two-year postdoctoral research positions in computing, as well as career development and cohort building activities, to provide a career-enhancing bridge experience for recent Ph.D. graduates. The program aims to address the continued disruption in hiring practices at academic institutions due to COVID-19. This effort was inspired by the CRA/CCC’s NSF-funded Computing Innovation Fellows Programs with cohorts starting 2009, 2010, and 2011, CRA’s Best Practices Memo on Computer Science Postdocs, and the Computing […]

The following National Science Foundation (NSF) Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) program has an upcoming deadline of July 28, 2021, and might be of interest to those in our computer science research community. This solicitation supports fundamental research to enable transformative change in our ability to detect, disrupt and disable illicit supply networks that traffic in persons, and tangible and virtual goods. These transformations will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that complement long-standing law-enforcement, victim-centric, and trafficking domain-focused research efforts with fundamental, innovative, and high-risk research that draws from multiple domains of engineering, computer and information science, and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Major goals of NSF’s D-ISN Solicitation […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the government, academic, and private sector representatives who will serve on the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force as directed by Congress in the “National AI Initiative Act of 2020.” The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and its parent organization the Computing Research Association (CRA) provided significant input to policymakers drafting provisions for the National AI Initiative Act of 2020. In 2018-2019, the CCC brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California) and Bart Selman (Cornell University) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. Fei Fei Li (Stanford University), […]

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced that former Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research Association- Widening Participation (CRA-WP) Board Member and current National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Assistant Director Margaret Martonosi is the recipient of the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award. Martonosi is the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. In 2018, she led the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) effort to understand the next steps in Quantum Computing for computer science. The Eckert-Mauchly Award is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. Martonosi was cited […]

This month marks the 35th anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. CISE was founded on May 1, 1986, and it continues to support “investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computer and information science and engineering,” including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), which CISE funds through a cooperative agreement with the Computing Research Association.  Highlighted in their May newsletter, “One of CISE’s key early investments in information technology was the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). This initiative provided global, multilingual repositories of data, knowledge, sound, and images. Through the DLI, NSF supported a project that would ultimately result in the creation of Google.”    The National […]