The following is a guest blog from the BPCnet.org Steering Committee. To the computing community, With this particularly challenging academic year coming to an end, and the upcoming NSF CISE program submissions, it is a good time to update everyone on the NSF CISE Pilot Program for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans. All Medium and Large CISE Core Programs, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) project proposals require an approved BPC Plan by the time of award. CRA and NCWIT have led an effort to develop the BPCnet.org portal as a resource for the community to assist in developing Departmental BPC Plans and Individual BPC Plans. New Resources on BPCnet.org: […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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June 23rd, 2020 / in Announcements, CRA, pipeline, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCatalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 24 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 2)
June 22nd, 2020 / in CCC, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr. Erik Verlage, a research scientist at MIT who creates digital learning tools for photonics education. He is developing 3-D virtual lab environments that allow users to interact with micron-scale photonic circuit components, enabling self-directed learning for the emerging photonics workforce. His research areas include integrated photonics, photovoltaic materials, and photoelectrochemistry. In this episode, Erik continues to discuss building educational games and using games, virtual reality, and augmented reality for job training. If you’re interested in playing one of the games mentioned on the podcast, you can reach […]
Upcoming NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop for the CISE Community
June 19th, 2020 / in Announcements, NSF / by Helen WrightBy Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online meeting on Friday, September 18th from 1pm – 5pm EST. This event is intended for PIs working in CISE-relevant research areas planning on submitting an NRT proposal for the fiscal year 2021 competition. The NSF CISE Directorate would like to increase the number of NRT proposals that advance CISE research training focus of graduate students and CISE disciplines and support the aim of the NRT program. Since the NRT program is unique at NSF, the requirements of the program are often not fully understood by the submitting PIs. The workshop […]
CCC Wide-Area Data Analytics Workshop Report Released
June 18th, 2020 / in workshop reports / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop report. The workshop was organized by Rachit Agarwal (Cornell University) and CCC Council Member Jen Rexford (Princeton University) to identify challenges and opportunities in data analytics and related research given that modern datasets are often distributed across many locations. In some cases, datasets are naturally distributed because they are collected from multiple locations, such as sensors spread throughout a geographic region. In other cases, datasets are distributed across different data centers to improve scalability or reliability, or to reduce cost; these distributed locations could be a mix of public clouds, private data centers, and edge computing sites. “The […]
SCIENCE Article on Driving Computer Performance After Moore’s Law
June 16th, 2020 / in Announcements, CCC, research horizons, Research News, resources, workshop reports / by Helen WrightThe following is a guest blog from CCC Member Tom Conte of Georgia Tech. A recent article in SCIENCE, authored by Charles E. Leiserson, Neil Thompson, Joel Emer, Bradley Kuszmaul, Butler Lampson, Daniel Sanchez and Tao Schardl, entitled “There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?” discusses the way forward after the end of technology scaling. (The title is a play on Richard Feynman’s 1959 address to the American Physical Society, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” wherein Feynman observed that miniaturization would lead to what we now call Moore’s Law.) So, what comes after Moore’s Law? The article discusses improvements in […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 23 – Game-Based Learning and Photovoltaics with Erik Verlage (Part 1)
June 15th, 2020 / in podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. Khari Douglas interviews Erik Verlage, a research scientist at MIT who creates digital learning tools for photonics education. He is developing 3-D virtual lab environments that allow users to interact with micron-scale photonic circuit components, enabling self-directed learning for the emerging photonics workforce. His research areas include integrated photonics, photovoltaic materials, and photoelectrochemistry. In this episode we discuss building educational games and using games, virtual reality, and augmented reality for job training. You can stream the episode in the embedded player below or find it on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube. Download the episode transcript here. If you are interested […]
