The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blog, which was created in 2008, has served as a means for exchanging information between the research community and funding agencies. It has provided an immediate online mechanism for community-wide dissemination, discussion, and debate of visioning concepts. Today, we are proud to announce that the blog has reached over 300,000 views! Much of the blog’s success is due to the dedication of Erwin Gianchandani. When Erwin became Director of the Computing Community Consortium in April of 2010; the blog averaged 83 hits per day, when Erwin departed last month, the blog averaged 571 hits per day – an increase of over 500%. Here are a few of our […]
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 Awards $21 Million to Enable Use of Big Data
October 15th, 2012 / in awards, big science, Research News / by Kenneth HinesLast week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded $21.6 million to 34 institutions across the country through the foundation’s Campus Cyberinfrastructure-Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) program. The projects will seek to improve U.S. University and college computer networks that are necessary for movement of the large data sets required for data-intensive scientific research. The awards to the 34 institutions across 23 states support two categories of awards: Network Integration and Applied Innovation awards provide support of up to $1 million for up to two years. These awards address the challenges of achieving end-user network performance across complex, distributed research and education environments. They seek to integrate existing and new technologies with applied innovations by […]
“Redefining Medicine With Apps and iPads”
October 9th, 2012 / in research horizons, Research News / by Kenneth HinesTechnology and society writer Katie Hafner published an article yesterday on the use of technology as clinical tools in The New York Times: Dr. Alvin Rajkomar was doing rounds with his team at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center when he came upon a puzzling case: a frail, elderly patient with a dangerously low sodium level. As a third-year resident in internal medicine, Dr. Rajkomar was the senior member of the team, and the others looked to him for guidance. An infusion of saline was the answer, but the tricky part lay in the details. Concentration? Volume? Improper treatment could lead to brain swelling, seizures or even death. Dr. Rajkomar had been on […]
The Importance of Federal Funding to Research
October 6th, 2012 / in policy / by Kenneth HinesSteve Lohr from the New York Times published an article today titled, “The Seeds That Federal Money Can Plant,” which explains the importance of federal funding to scientific research and development. The article highlights Luis Von Ahn‘s online service Duolingo. Duolingo, which has over 100,000 users, allows individuals to learn languages via crowdsourcing and seeks to “…translate the entire web into every major language”. The service, which has attracted $15 million in venture capital, was initially supported by a five-year $120,000 per year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. The article mentions findings in a report published earlier this year by the National Research Council (NRC): That pattern has been repeated countless times […]
Computer Science Projects Among Popular Mechanics’ Breakthrough Awardees
October 4th, 2012 / in awards, Research News / by Kenneth HinesPopular Mechanics, the American Magazine which features regular articles on science and technology, released their annual breakthrough awardees earlier this week. These awards highlight innovations that have the potential to make the world smarter, safer and more efficient. A total of ten awards were announced and at least four of the awardees feature computer science research. Four of these projects are featured below, all awardees are listed on Popular Mechanics’ webpage. MABEL, Teaching Robots to Walk – Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Jonathan Hurst, Oregon State University Walking, that fundamental human activity, seems simple: Take one foot, put it in front of the other; repeat. But to […]
Still Accepting Entries for our “Computing Research in Action” Series
October 4th, 2012 / in CCC, Research News / by Kenneth HinesA few weeks ago, we blogged about our new “Computing Research in Action” series, which is an expanded version of our “Highlight of the Week” feature. We’ve received several entries so far and will announce our first winner later this month. As a reminder, selected research projects will receive a $1500 travel award from the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to cover conference travel to present the featured work. If you are working on an exciting research project, and would like to submit an entry for consideration, it’s not too late! Please go to our Computing Research in Action website to fill out a short entry form.
