The following is a cross-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on stimulating research related to one the NSF’s 10 Big Ideas called Navigating the New Arctic (NNA). It invites proposals in FY 2018 that will advance NNA research through convergent approaches to emerging scientific, engineering, societal, and education challenges. This includes the critically important research on sensor oriented data analytics, such as developing and deploying new sensor-cyber systems that can withstand extreme Arctic conditions and provide continuous analysis and interpretation of Arctic change. February 22, 2018 Dear Colleague: In summer 2017, the first ship to traverse the Arctic Northern Sea Route without assistance from ice-breaking vessels completed its journey. That transformational […]
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 DCL: Stimulating Research Related to Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
April 10th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons / by Helen WrightSouth Big Data Hub Roundtable- The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts
April 9th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe South Big Data Hub’s next Data Science Roundtable called The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Social Impacts will be held Thursday, April 12th from Noon – 1:15 PM EST. As technological innovation rapidly continues to accelerate, skill requirements for workers are changing even more quickly. These evolving skill requirements are having disruptive effects on higher education and training programs, which are struggling to catch up to the needs of both workers and industries. In this session, the panelists will expire some of the many important questions related to the future of work, training, education, and technology. Speakers: Kevin Crowston, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University Gordon Freedman, President, National Laboratory for Education Transformation Ioana Marinescu, Faculty Research Fellow, Bureau of Economic Research Shade Shutters, Global […]
NSF Distinguished Lecture – Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking
March 29th, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, NSF / by Helen WrightComputing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member Jennifer Rexford from Princeton University will present “Hitting the Nail on the Head: Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Networking,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture series on April 4th, from 2:00PM to 3:00PM ET. Jennifer Rexford is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering and the Chair of Computer Science at Princeton University. Before joining Princeton in 2005, she worked for eight years at AT&T Labs—Research. Jennifer received her BSE degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1991, and her PhD degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan in 1996. She is co-author of the […]
Mozilla Currently Accepting Research Grants
March 28th, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightMozilla is currently seeking proposals for research funding to support its mission: to ensure the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. These grants include topics directly relevant to current research, as well as topics that fit more broadly with their vision for improving the internet and implementing the principles of their manifesto. Mozilla funds research in a wide variety of ways, including building new technologies, improving existing technologies, and studying how people use technology. Their research domains include Emerging Technologies’ four core areas: Open Web Platform, such as Rust, Servo and Daala. We recently funded projects testing the Rust and bindgen compilers, and implementing Typed WebAssembly. Mixed Reality, […]
NSF DCL- FY18, FY19 Budget Update
March 27th, 2018 / in Announcements, NSF, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightThe 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 CISE Community, Much has happened since our email (regarding the President’s FY 2019 Budget Request for the National Science Foundation) last month, and so we wanted to provide an update below. FISCAL YEAR 2018 First and foremost, as you’ve probably read in the media, Congress passed a spending bill for FY 2018 (the current fiscal year, ending on September 30, 2018) this past week, which was signed into law on Friday by the President. Under this FY 2018 budget, NSF’s funding will […]
CCC Chair Beth Mynatt ACM Computing Across Disciplines Interview
March 23rd, 2018 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCCC Chair Beth Mynatt provided contributions to this post. How do you successfully accomplish human-centered computing research and design? Focus on users who are not you. Figure out someone else’s computing technology barriers and try to address them. Use these insights as the force that drives your research. Just some words of advice from Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair, Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT), College of Computing Distinguished Professor, and the Director of the Everyday Computing Lab, Beth Mynatt who was recently interviewed by her former student, Andrew Miller, for ACM’s Future of Computing Academy Computing Across Disciplines podcast. Beth talked about her work in advancing technology in […]
