The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites you to attend a webinar to learn more about its recently released solicitation, Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) (see our previous blog post). The webinar is designed to describe the goals and focus of the CRII solicitation, help investigators understand its scope, and answer any questions potential PIs may have. The webinar will be held from 3pm to 4pm EDT on Monday, July 28, 2014. Questions about the solicitation can be submitted in advance or during the webinar to crii@nsf.gov. Please register by 11:59pm EDT on Thursday, July 24, 2014.
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.
CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Program Webinar
July 7th, 2014 / in NSF / by Helen WrightCCC and CRA Add New Members
July 1st, 2014 / in Announcements, CCC / by Ann DrobnisToday, July 1, new talents were added to the ranks of both the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council and the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. The CCC welcomes five new members to its Council and CRA welcomes five new members to it’s Board. Joining the CCC Council are: Lorenzo Alvisi, University of Texas, Austin Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University Debra Richardson, University of California, Irvine Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research Gregory Hager, Johns Hopkins University, is the new Chair of the CCC and Beth Mynatt, Georgia Tech, is the new Vice Chair of the CCC. The new additions to the CRA Board are: […]
The Next Generation Driverless Car
June 30th, 2014 / in NSF, Research News / by Ann DrobnisWe all have seen pictures of a driverless car, loaded with quite a bit of equipment on top of the car to help in the autonomous nature of the car. On June 24, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University brought their next generation driverless car to Washington, DC at the request of Congressman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania. This next generation car doesn’t look much like it’s predecessor, BOSS, who won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Rather, it looks more like any “ordinary” car, as its top-of-the-line radar, cameras, sensors and other technologies are built into the body of the vehicle. The car’s computers are tucked away under the floor. The goal of CMU’s researchers […]
Computing a Cure for HIV
June 27th, 2014 / in big science / by Ann DrobnisOn June 26, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a Discovery article titled Computing a Cure for HIV, written by Aaron Dubrow, Public Affairs Specialist in the Office of Legislative & Public Affairs. The article provides an overview of the disease and how it continues to afflict millions of people worldwide. Over the past decade, scientists have been using the power of supercomputers “to better understand how the HIV virus interacts with the cells it infects, to discover or design new drugs that can attack the virus at its weak spots and even to use genetic information about the exact variants of the virus to develop patient-specific treatments.” Here are 9 […]
Microsoft Researchers Use Reconfigurable Hardware (FPGAs) to Accelerate Production Web Search
June 26th, 2014 / in CCC, Research News / by Ann DrobnisThe following is a special contribution to this blog by by CCC Executive Council Member Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Times they are a changing. In the 20th century many researchers and companies innovated within a layer (or two) of the computing software-hardware stack. Today there is pressure and opportunity to innovate across layers, as argued in a 2012 CCC white paper on 21st Century Computer Architecture. A fantastic example of this cross-layer innovation was recently presented in the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) by Putman et al. “A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Large-Scale Datacenter Services” and reported in WIRED by Robert McMillan “Microsoft Supercharges Bing […]
NSF Releases Toolkit to Highlight Investments
June 25th, 2014 / in NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently released a toolkit that describes NSF’s investment in fundamental research. It has infographics, fact sheets, brochures, and a video on NSF’s merit review process. One of the infographics highlights a “Day in the Life”-how your daily activities intersect with NSF supported efforts. The following is from the NSF Press Release. “NSF’s toolkit offers a range of information about the vital work of the Foundation in a compelling way using modern communications methods,” said NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs Director Judith Gan. “We encourage the NSF community and the general public to explore the materials we’re releasing today to learn more about […]
