The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking applicants for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences. The Data Curation Fellowships will provide recent Ph.D.s with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data Curation, particularly software curation, for the sciences and social sciences. Through these fellowships, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for sound data management practice throughout the academy. Each fellowship is a two-year appointment, with a commensurate salary, plus benefits, and yearly travel and research stipends. Eligible applicants must have received a PhD after January 1, 2011 but before beginning the fellowship and be legally permitted to work in the […]
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.
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences
December 16th, 2015 / in Announcements, research horizons, Research News / by Helen Wright10 Women in Networking/Communications that you Should Know
December 15th, 2015 / in Announcements, Research News / by Helen WrightNetworking Networking Women (N2 Women), a discipline-specific community for researchers in the communications and networking research fields, has just released their inaugural list of “10 women in networking/communications that you should know”. The main goal of N2 Women is to foster connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields. N2 Women allows women to connect with other women who share the same research interests, who attend the same conferences, who face the same career hurdles, and who experience the same obstacles. From their press release: Over 150 people around the world submitted nominations for this list, and many of these people submitted several names. These nominations […]
NIH Funds Robotics Projects as Part of National Robotics Initiative
December 14th, 2015 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasThe National Institute of Health (NIH) has announced that it will fund the development of three co-robots, or robots that work cooperatively with people, as part of its fourth year of participation in the National Robotics Initiative (NRI). In addition to the NIH, the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Department of Defense are supporting the development of co-robots. The three innovative co-robots being supported by NIH are: 1. A four-legged robotic smart-walker designed to help improve the mobility and quality of life of the elderly being developed by Dr. Xiangrong Shen at the University of Alabama. The robot has two […]
Applications Open for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
December 10th, 2015 / in Announcements, NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightThe Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC) and data-intensive research using the Blue Waters supercomputer to accelerate their research. This unique program, funded by the National Science Foundation, is designed to support PhD students engaged in a program of study and research that is directly relevant to the use of Blue Waters as the fellowship provides up to 50,000 node-hours on the Blue Waters system. Blue Waters is a truly extraordinary supercomputer used by researchers across the country to gain new understanding of how viruses attack our bodies, the formation of galaxies and of […]
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
December 9th, 2015 / in Announcements, CCC / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the CCC needs truly visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work hard to see things to completion. Please help the computing community by nominating such people for the Council. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA) — representing over 220 North American academic departments, industrial research labs, and professional societies with computing research interests, the CCC provides a voice for the national computing […]
CS Education Week 2015 is in Full Swing!
December 9th, 2015 / in NSF, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightHappy Birthday, Grace Hopper! Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week), the annual program designed to engage students of all ages in computer science is here! Each year we recognize CS Ed Week around the birthday of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (December 9, 1906), a pioneer of computing. Last year, President Obama became the first President to write computer code as a part of Hour of Code at the White House and the Administration announced a host of public and private commitments to expand access to computer science education in K-12 schools. This year, to kick-off the week, the White House hosted its first ever CS Tech Jam, bringing together educators, students, and […]
