The following was submitted by Farnam Jahanian, NSF Assistant Director for CISE. Dear Colleagues, CISE is pleased to announce the formation of a search committee for the Director of the Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF). Dr. Susanne Hambrusch will be finishing her term as CCF Division Director at the end of this summer – we greatly appreciate her leadership and service to the CISE community over the last three years! Announcements for the search for her replacement can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/cise/news/2013-CCF-Annoucement.jsp and on USAJOBS at https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/338606700?org=NSF. Please feel free to contact any of the following search committee members to nominate candidates; self-nominations are also invited: · Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sadve@illinois.edu, Co-chair […]
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 Directorate Launches Search Committee for CCF Division Director
March 12th, 2013 / in NSF / by Shar SteedDARPA Grant to Carnegie Proves Seriousness of Cyber-Security Efforts
March 5th, 2013 / in awards, Research News / by Kenneth HinesPresident Barack Obama, during his State of the Union address, discussed education and the revolution of industry, bringing it back to America. President Obama also discussed high school curriculum reform to better prepare students for tech jobs; in an effort to create more classes that focus on STEM, he mentioned rewarding schools which partner with higher education institutions and industry to create such classes. President Obama went on to discuss the importance of funding cyber-security research, especially regarding the security of our critical infrastructure. President Obama stated: We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies […]
NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program
March 1st, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Shar SteedThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program solicitation. “The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease. … The need for a significant healthcare transformation has been recognized by numerous organizations including the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), National Research Council (NRC), Institute of Medicine (IOM), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and the National Academy of Engineering.” The NSF solicitation also cited the […]
CCC Sponsored Workshop on Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA)
February 28th, 2013 / in CCC / by Kenneth HinesThe following is a special contribution to this blog from Patrick H. Madden, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Binghamton University. In this blog entry Patrick highlights the CCC-sponsored visioning activity on Extreme Scale Design Automation; the first of a series of three workshops on the topic will be held next week. The CCC-sponsored Workshop for Extreme Scale Design Automation (ESDA) convenes Thursday and Friday of next week (March 7-8) at the University of Pittsburgh. A group of about 35 academic and industry participants, and many observers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and elsewhere, will discuss a set of challenges facing the design automation research community. Over the past decade, the difficulty of […]
Your ideas needed: Coding is to computer science as X is to Y
February 28th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaYesterday we posted a link to a terrific new video by code.org extolling the virtues of learning to program. Despite the “learn to code” rhetoric, code.org is really about “computer science is cool” and “let’s make AP computer science universally available.” “Coding” is used as a proxy for this. And indeed, “coding” is a critical component of computer science / computational thinking, and it’s also the “hands-on inquiry-based vehicle” for teaching computer science / computational thinking. But it’s not the entire story: computer science / computational thinking is much more than coding. What’s your best analogy? For example: Coding is to computer science as cinematography is to filmmaking. Probably not […]
Coding is cool! Code.org urges students to learn to code with resources + terrific new video
February 26th, 2013 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaPlease bring the Code.org website and GREAT new inspirational video to the attention of all students, teachers, and parents you’re able to reach through your organization’s K-12 outreach efforts! The video features some of the top names from technology and the world at large – from Bill Gates to will.i.am.
