One of the great things about computing research is that, despite our incredible track record of game-changing advances, we’re always looking for ways to make the field even more vibrant.  In this vein, on Monday I attended “Computer Science Outside The Box,” a workshop of 44 leaders from academia and industry (mostly department heads) convened by NSF CISE, CCC, and CRA. The workshop vastly exceeded my expectations – 8 hours of brainstorming about strategies and best practices, in four areas: ·     “Go Outside Your Box” – what strategies can we adopt to increase collaboration across subfields and with other fields? ·     “The World Needs Us” – how to contribute to the solution of […]

We’d like your help with a brainstorming exercise: Identify about a dozen game-changing advances from computing research conducted in the past 20 years. Here’s what we mean: The advance needs to be “game changing,” in the sense of dramatically altering how we think about computing and its applications. The importance of the advance needs to be obvious and easily appreciated by a wide audience. There needs to be a clear tie to computing research (or to infrastructure initiatives that build upon research and were sponsored by computing research organizations). We’re particularly interested in highlighting the impact of federally-funded university-based research. We’re focusing on work carried out in the past 20 […]

The Computing Community Consortium was programmed as the closing plenary session at the 2008 CRA Conference at Snowbird — a once-every-two-years gathering of the heads of CRA’s member organizations. Interest was strong — more than 125 department chairs and lab directors attended the 90-minute session, more than 3X as many as have stuck around for any previous final session at Snowbird. Ed Lazowska, Susan Graham, Richard Ladner, Randy Bryant, and Chip Elliott presented. All presentation materials are on the web here. A 20-minute Q&A session followed the presentations. Several highlights for me: CCC’s “Data-Intensive Scalable Computing” initiative, led by Randy Bryant and Thomas Kwan, has really taken off:  two new […]

In the last few hours we’ve learned that the main CCC web site design, which was modeled on an issue of A List Apart, was used without appropriate permission. It was certainly never the intention of the CCC to violate copyright and we have taken immediate steps to discontinue use of the design. We’ve conveyed our apologies to Jeffery Zeldman, the original designer, and apologize for any disruption the site redesign may cause.