This post was originally published by Helen Wright in the CRA-Industry Blog. On February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC, the Computing Research Association (CRA) held the Accessible Technology for All Workshop. The workshop was attended by over 40 participants from academia, industry, and government and 20 remote participants. The purpose of this workshop was to frame the state of the art of accessible technology, identify forces shaping the evolution of accessible technology, and develop an understanding of implications for the next wave of computer science research in accessibility. By the end of the workshop, important areas of future research were identified and the need for tech-informed policy were highlighted by the participants. A workshop report will […]
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.
CRA Accessible Technology for All Workshop Summary
March 9th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA-I / by Maddy HunterCCC Submits Response to the OSTP Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development
March 8th, 2023 / in CCC, NITRD, NSF, resources / by Catherine GillOn Friday of last week, the CCC submitted a response to the Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development, which was released in January by the OSTP and NSF’s interagency Fast Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Digital Assets Research and Development. The RFI aims to inform a holistic government approach to understanding and regulating digital assets and distributed ledger technology. The response was written by Hank Korth (Lehigh University), Rajmohan Rajaraman (Northeastern University), Catherine Gill (Computing Community Consortium), and Ann Schwartz (Computing Community Consortium). The term “digital assets” implies a financial application of the term, but digital assets actually have a much broader meaning. Digital assets refer […]
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series: Programming Uncertain Computations by Michael Carbin
March 7th, 2023 / in CIFellows, NSF / by Maddy HunterCIFellows Mentor, Michael Carbin is holding a lecture on “Programming Uncertain Computations” as a part of the NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will take place online on March 23 from 11am-12:30pm ET. Carbin was a 2020 CIFellows Mentor to Yi Ding at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Talk Abstract: Computer systems must increasingly operate in the presence of uncertainty in their execution environment in that new applications and hardware platforms require our software systems to model and compute with objects that are inherently uncertain in that their behaviors are only given by noisy measurements. This reality presents many new questions about how to interpret, debug, validate, verify, and optimize these […]
Dear Colleague Letter: Request for Information on Future Directions for the NSF Secure & Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
March 2nd, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Margaret Martonosi (CISE), James L. Moore III (STEM Education (EDU)), Susan S. Margulies (Engineering (ENG)) Sean L. Jones (Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)), and Sylvia Butterfield (Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE)). The letter calls for input from the community on possible topics and future directions for cybersecurity and privacy research. You can read the original on the NSF website here. March 1, 2023 Dear Colleagues: OVERVIEW For over a decade, the National Science Foundation’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program has been NSF’s flagship cybersecurity and privacy research program, supporting approximately $1 […]
Applications Are Open for the 2023 Departmental BPC Plan Workshop: March 19 Deadline
February 27th, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterBy Roohia Meer, CERP Program Associate Applications are now open for the 2023 Departmental Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan Workshop. This year’s workshop will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 30th– June 1st in collaboration with Morehouse College. In this workshop, departments will have the opportunity to learn more about BPC efforts from the National Science Foundation (NSF), how to create a Departmental BPC Plan, and how to best support faculty PIs submitting NSF proposals that require a BPC Plan. Consultants from BPCnet.org will be available to answer questions and provide real-time feedback about your department’s BPC Plan during the workshop. Please check out the workshop website for […]
Dear Colleague Letter: Bioinspired Design Collaborations to Accelerate the Discovery-Translation Process (BioDesign)
February 22nd, 2023 / in NSF / by Maddy HunterThe following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from three Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Simon Malcomber (Directorate for Biological Sciences), Susan S. Margulies (Directorate for Engineering) and Erwin Gianchandani (Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships). The letter calls for proposals and supplemental funding requests for bioinspired designs grounded in foundational and use-inspired research. You can read the original on the NSF website here. February 15, 2023 Dear Colleagues: As stated in the National Science Board’s Vision 2030 report, “[The U.S.] must do more to ensure that discoveries are translated into innovations.”1 Bioinspired design is a powerful means of addressing this imperative which also aligns with Strategic Goal 2 – […]
