The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, Assistant Director, and Erwin Gianchandani, Deputy Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE). Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, As many of you know, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a long history of investing in education and workforce development across all areas of science and engineering, including CISE areas. For example, you may recall that last fall we highlighted one such opportunity – the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. You […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
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.
NSF CISE Letter to the Community- Sources of Support for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Education
July 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightGreat Innovative Idea: Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties
July 17th, 2019 / in Announcements, CCC, Great Innovative Idea, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following great innovative idea is from Ouri Wolfson, the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Ouri was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL ’18 for his paper called Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties. The Idea The human brain is probably the most complex object in the universe, and also one of the least understood. For example, how the brain produces the mind and consciousness is a complete mystery. Nevertheless, the brain is amenable to measurements of various kinds that produce lots of data. It is […]
Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research
July 16th, 2019 / in Announcements, pipeline, policy, research horizons, Research News, workshop reports / by Helen WrightCCC Council member Ben Zorn provided contributions to this post. Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a new industry report called the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, which was organized by Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research and chair of the CCC Industry Working Group. The working group started in 2018 with a mission to see if the environment described by the 2015 CCC industry round table report called The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations had changed at all. Turns out it has and a lot! Since then several important trends in computing research have emerged. This new report considers how these trends impact the interaction between academia […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 13 – Interview with Dan Lopresti Part 1
July 15th, 2019 / in Announcements, podcast / by Khari DouglasIn this episode, Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Daniel Lopresti who serves as the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the Data X strategic initiative at Lehigh University. In this episode Dr. Lopresti discusses his work applying computer science to molecular biology, pattern recognition, and voting machine security. Stream in the embedded player below or find the podcast on iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | iHeartRadio | Youtube. If you are interested in appearing in an episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast or want to contribute a guest post to the CCC blog, please complete this survey through Google Forms. If you listen to the podcast, […]
Blue Sky Ideas- AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track Open
July 9th, 2019 / in Announcements, Blue Sky / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. SMPT has two subtracks for submissions, which include summary talks and Blue Sky Ideas talks. The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting […]
Request for Public Input on Strategic Computing R&D Goals
July 8th, 2019 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightIn support of the Administration’s R&D priorities in strategic computing, National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) is requesting public input to the update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches. These goals and approaches will help ensure continued U.S. leadership and support the advanced networking and IT capabilities for America. Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions in the responses to the RFI: What are emerging and future scientific and technical challenges and opportunities that are central to ensuring American leadership in SC, and […]
