The Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund was announced on February 6, 2014 as a partnership between the Mozilla Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and US Ignite.  The Community Fund will support local innovators in Chattanooga and Kansas City as they build real-life open source applications for gigabit networks to foster the creation of next generation networks. “We are thrilled that the Gigabit Community Fund is bringing together  practitioners and innovators from public and private sectors to enable novel gigabit applications for learning and workforce development. These new apps will have the potential to boost productivity and safety — starting as an experiment in these two communities and growing across the U.S.” – Farnam Jahanian, Assistant […]

On February 4, 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the launch of the DARPA Open Catalog, a website that brings together source code and other data sets for public DARPA-funded projects. DARPA sponsors programs in fundamental and applied research to aid in its mission of creating breakthrough technologies for national security.  The research and development community has been asking about the availability of DARPA results and until now, most of that information has been unavailable.  DARPA has created the Open Catalog to share project resources and outcomes so that researchers can more easily build off of past results. From the announcement: “Making our open source catalog available […]

This year the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at AAMAS, the Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MutliAgent Systems. AAMAS is the largest and most prestigious international conference in its area, which covers all aspects of research in the areas of agents and multiagent systems, ranging from theoretical aspects to innovative applications. AAMAS typically draws around 650 attendees, with a truly international participation of researchers from the USA and Canada, multiple countries in Europe, Australia, Japan and other countries in Asia, and South America. The goal of this track is to generate out-of-the-box thinking and encourage researchers to present visionary concepts that can lead to future […]

In May of 2013, we reported that the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), facilitating a partnership on research in networking technology and systems enabling future Internet/new-generation networks.  The first round of awards through the Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity (JUNO) program have been announced. From the Press Release: The seven awards aim to explore fundamental aspects of next-generation computer networks, investigating how to scale these networks to support trillions of network-connected devices and objects. 2014 JUNO Awards Virtual Mobile Cloud Network for Realizing Scalable, Real-Time Cyber Physical Systems Principal Investigator: Dipankar Raychaudhuri; Co-Principal Investigator: Ivan Seskar, Yanyong […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, February 5, 2014 at 12:00 pm (EST) titled Designing Embedded Phenomena:Technologies for Making Believe and Building Understanding.  This lecture is sponsored by the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education Working Group as part of the new Distinguished Lecture Series titled Designing Disruptive Learning Technologies, which will showcase cyberlearning projects funded across NSF’s programs that focus on imaginative ways that technology can be used to change the way we help people learn.. Professor Tom Moher of the University of Illinois at Chicago, will showcase his designs for using “embedded phenomena” to bring the field into […]

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) announced that it will hold a one-day CAREER proposal writing workshop March 31, 2014 in Arlington, VA. The goal of this workshop is to enable junior CAREER-eligible faculty to prepare competitive proposals for the NSF CAREER program.  Faculty members will have the opportunity to improve their skills in proposal writing, experience mock panel reviews, and interact with NSF program directors from the CISE divisions (ACI, CCF, CNS, and IIS), as well as with recent NSF CAREER awardees. The workshop is being hosted by the Computer Science Department at George Mason University.  For more information about the workshop and to register, please […]