The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) invites you to attend Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research as part of its Frontiers in Science webinar series. The Frontiers in Science series brings ideas at the forefront of data science to the NIH and biomedical science communities. Lectures, webinars, and workshops in this series are intended to inspire biomedical data science innovation and exploration. TITLE:  Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data Driven Research DATE: Thursday, November 5, 2015, 4 – 5PM LOCATION: NIH Main Campus, Building 35A Room 620/630. The event will be broadcasted live here. SPEAKER:  Dr. Francine […]

The following is a special contribution to this blog by Doug Burger, Director of Hardware, Devices, and Experiences at Microsoft Research. I served as a panelist at the White House National Strategic Computing Initiative Workshop (NSCI) on October 20-21. I took away a number of points about the consensus of the group that I thought worth sharing with the broader community. 1) It is clear that CMOS is coming to an end.  That was a striking consensus of the group, both on per-transistor costs and scaling. The semiconductor researchers are looking for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) to come online, although they’ve been struggling with it for 10 years, still don’t have […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Nikolaus Correll, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, about his paper with University of Colorado at Boulder doctoral student Andy McEvoy on Materials that couple sensing, actuation, computation, and communication.  The Innovative Idea Advances in polymers and miniaturization of computing devices allow us to tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication into composite materials. Such “robotic materials” can sense their environment at high-bandwidth, implement high-speed feedback control to change their shape or appearance, and solve tough computing problems using distributed algorithms. Examples of such materials include a skin that triangulates and classifies textures rubbed against it, smart glass that can […]

The following is a Computing Research Policy Blog post by Peter Harsha, CRA Director of Government Affairs.  Experts from academia and government, including Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Chair Greg Hager, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program remains a crucial part of the extraordinarily productive computing research ecosystem that has made the U.S. the world leader in IT and deserves further support. The experts were witnesses at a hearing called by the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Research and Technology to review the status of the NITRD program in advance of possible reauthorization legislation from the committee. Hager, […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is seeking proposals for basic or applied research and development projects that will: (1) increase the body of knowledge to guide and inform forensic science policy and practice or (2) result in the production of useful materials, devices, systems, or methods that have the potential for forensic application. This program furthers the NIJ’s mission by sponsoring research to provide objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of criminal justice, particularly at the State and local levels. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released a community whitepaper on Video Analysis for Body-worn Cameras […]

FedScoop published a list of the thirteen coolest jobs in the federal government. Some computing-based highlights include: Buddy Bland, the Project Manager for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Energy Department. Bland is responsible for running Titan supercomputer and for evaluating proposals for groups that want to use the supercomputer. Greg Chirikijian, a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University currently on a rotation at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where he works as the Program Director of the National Robotics Initiative. Joseph Harrigan, manages the Internet connectivity and logistics of the NSF’s United States Antarctic Program. Establishing a connection, involves searching for old, polar-orbiting satellites over the poles. This gives […]