As noted in this space last week, the National Science Foundation and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) are co-sponsoring a Workshop on Building a Smarter Health and Wellness Future at NSF today & tomorrow.  This workshop is reviewing how new technological developments — including high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, etc. — can provide unique and unprecedented opportunities for addressing the health and wellness challenges of our aging society.  A specific goal is to identify priorities for an international research and policy agenda in this space, all the while stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.  We’ll be blogging about the meeting in real-time today.  Keep checking back […]

Several items of interest this Monday morning:

President’s FY 2012 Budget Unveiled

President Obama will reveal his budget request for FY 2012 at 10:30am ET this morning. For live coverage, check your favorite news source. Later today, there will be budget briefings by Federal funding agencies, notably the National Science Foundation — including the CISE Directorate — and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Our colleagues at CRA’s Policy Blog will have complete coverage of the President’s anticipated $3.7 trillion request — and specifically what it says about Federal funding for R&D.

The NSF’s CISE Directorate and the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) are co-sponsoring what promises to be a terrific workshop on Building a Smarter Health and Wellness Future outside Washington, DC, next Tuesday & Wednesday.  This invitation-only event will review how new technological developments — including high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, etc. — can provide unique and unprecedented opportunities for addressing the health and wellness challenges of our aging society.  A specific objective will be to identify priorities for an international research and policy agenda in this space, all the while stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.  Over 120 attendees are expected. A […]

About 60 leading researchers, program managers, and others gathered in Washington, DC, last Thursday and Friday to discuss new fundamental CSE research opportunities that will meet important enabling needs as the nation and world seek long-term sustainable technologies and behaviors. This two-day meeting, co-sponsored by NSF’s CISE Directorate and the Computing Community Consortium, sought to go beyond routine uses of information technology to identify high-risk, high-reward research directions in sustainability that may not yet have received adequate attention or funding. The workshop comprised three sessions with plenary talks followed by breakout discussions and report-backs, as well as a fourth session that served as an integration/wrap-up period.  The NSF’s Tim Killeen […]

As part of CCC’s ongoing support of visioning workshops, Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark Oskin (University of Washington) co-organized the second workshop in a series on Advancing Computer Architecture Research. This workshop — Laying a New Foundation for Information Technology: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond — was held on the campus of the University of Washington on September 20-21, 2010. Computer Architecture Research as a Foundation for IT The degree to which information technology has impacted society cannot be understated, and computer architecture has played a foundational role in enabling that revolution. Computer architecture has been the engine for translating Moore’s Law technology improvements into […]

Thirty researchers met August 11-13 to discuss the future of interactive systems. This workshop was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium, ACM/SIGCHI and Canada’s GRAND initiative. The interactive systems architecture is the foundation of what is feasible when people interact with computing technologies. An interactive architecture creates an ecosystem within which diverse user experiences can be developed. UNIX introduced the idea that software modules could be interactively “piped” together. X-Windows laid the foundation of distributed interaction. The Macintosh put graphical interaction in the hands of the masses and the Web distributed interaction around the world. The researchers gathered at this workshop in Jackson, WY, envision a world where information and […]