Significant contributions to this post were provided by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Juliana Freire from NYU. When a new exciting discovery is announced in our field, can we trust it? How was it produced? What data and code was used? How accurate are the results? Can they be reproduced? Recently, Congress1 directed the National Science Foundation (NSF) to contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) to “undertake a study to assess reproducibility and replicability in scientific and engineering research and to provide findings and recommendations for improving rigor and transparency in research.” An interdisciplinary committee of fifteen members, including CCC Council Member Juliana Freire, […]

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, […]

The following is a Computing Research Association Government Affairs Blog post by CRA Policy Analyst, Brian Mosley. Mosley served as the co-chair of the report “Second Place America?” Major Report Detailing the Nation’s Declining Leadership in Research and Technology and helped organize a Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) report release event on Tuesday, May 14th. One of the speakers at the release was Computing Community Consortium (CCC) executive council member Nadya Bliss from Arizona State! On Tuesday May 14th, the Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI), an alliance of leading American companies and business associations, research university associations, and scientific societies, released a major report assessing the United States’ investment […]

The following blog is reposted from the Delta 8.7 website. You can view the original post here. Contributions by:  James Cockayne  | Project Director – Delta 8.7 Nadya Bliss  | Director, the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University Doreen Boyd  | Head of the Rights Lab’s Data Programme, University of Nottingham Hannah Darnton  | Programme Manager in Ethics, Technology and Human Rights, BSR Ann Drobnis  | Director, the Computing Community Consortium James Goulding  | Deputy Director of N-LAB, the University of Nottingham Daniel Lopresti  | Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University Anjali Mazumder  | Rutherford Fellow, the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Zoe Trodd  | Director of the Rights Lab, the University of Nottingham   Code 8.7: How […]

A new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now! In this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Keith Marzullo, the Dean of the College of Information Studies (also known as the iSchool) at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the iSchool from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he directed the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program. On the podcast, Dr. Marzullo discusses his research background, experience teaching, and his time spent in the federal government. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe to receive notifications every time a new episode is released. Part 2 of the interview with Dr. Marzullo will […]

2019 CGTC/SC3, July 10-12, 2019, Washington DC, USA. The GCTC/SC3 Expo is the prominent smart city event for technology innovators, municipal officials, and federal government officials to discuss possible areas of collaboration. We are thrilled to confirm the following mayors will join us on July 11. Mayor Lily Mei, City of Fremont, California, USA Mayor Wen-Tsan Cheng, City of Taoyuan, Taiwan Mayor Bernard Dy, City of Cauayan, Philippines Mayor Pauline Cutter, City of San Leandro, California, USA Mayor Gary McCarthy, City of Schenectady, New York, USA Mayor Eugene Grant, City of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, USA US-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP) will work with GCTC/SC3 Expo in July as a major opportunity to invite […]