Lots of interesting stories this past week of relevance to the field: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers On Tuesday, the White House announced the names of 85 early-career researchers who will receive the government’s highest honor for young scientists and engineers — the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE awards were established in 1996 and are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Awardees are selected on the basis of their pursuit of innovative research at the frontiers of science and technology as well as their commitment to community service as demonstrated through scientific leadership, public education, or community outreach. […]

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) today unanimously approved a draft report reviewing the 14-agency, $4 billion Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. The 14-person working group that assisted with the biannual review, completed this summer, was co-chaired by Ed Lazowska (full disclosure: Ed is Chair of the CCC Council) and PCAST member David Shaw. In their summary of the major findings during a public session of PCAST in Washington, DC, this morning, Ed and David noted how networking and information technology (NIT) has greatly enhanced our nation’s economic competitiveness, all the while significantly accelerating the pace of discovery in all fields. They […]

“Today is a very exciting day for GENI,” Chip Elliott, Director of the GENI Project Office (GPO), said as he kicked off the 9th GENI Engineering Conference this morning in Washington, DC. Before a hotel ballroom packed with research faculty, students, and Federal agency representatives, the nation’s best young researchers in networking and distributed systems showed off the first-ever set of research experiments on GENI, illustrating the future of network science and engineering — and what it means for our society at large. The set of live demos — with participants from around the country — were simply incredible. As background, the Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) Project was […]

The CCC is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges. To do so, the CCC has been collaborating with conferences in computer science and sponsoring vision (sometimes called “crazy ideas”) sessions with travel awards for the most exciting submissions. Following the success at PLDI’s “Fun Ideas and Thoughts” session (see a prior blog entry), the CCC sponsored the Research Vision session at the 9th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), held Oct 4-6, 2010, in Vancouver. In collaboration with the OSDI committee, the CCC is happy to announce the winners of the Research Vision session at OSDI: 1. SIGOPS to SIGARCH: “Now it’s our […]

The Computing Community Consortium is interested in stimulating the development of new research visions and challenges in computing research. Recently, the CCC has begun collaborating with conferences in computer science and sponsoring “crazy-idea” sessions with travel awards for the most exciting submissions. One such example is the Fun Ideas and Thoughts (FIT) session at the PLDI (Programming Languages Design and Implementation) conference, held on June 8, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. In collaboration with the PLDI organizing commitee, the CCC is happy to announce the winners of the FIT session: 1) Outfoxing the Mammoths, by Marek Olszewski and Saman Amarasinghe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 2) Resource-Based Programming in Plaid, by Jonathan […]

Dr. Ken Gabriel, the deputy director of DARPA, delivered a plenary address at CRA’s biannual Snowbird Conference on Monday morning — one day short of the one-year anniversary of the arrival of DARPA’s new leadership, including new DARPA director Dr. Regina Dugan. Gabriel spoke about DARPA’s incredible transformation over the past 12 months, including its renewed commitment to academic research. Specifically, Gabriel started by highlighting five key changes that have occurred at DARPA in the past year: – “Go/no-go” is gone. – Contracting has been simplified. The process is as clear, simple, and fast as the law allows. – More realistic conflict of interest rules have been applied to people […]