Eminent computer scientist Bill Wulf, who has been a leader by example for so many years in so many ways, has resigned from the University of Virginia to protest the recent conduct of the UVa Board of Visitors in removing President Teresa Sullivan. Wulf’s letter to newly-appointed Interim President Carl P. Zeithaml, reported in the Washington Post, states: “By this email I am submitting my resignation, effective immediately … A BOV that so poorly understands UVa, and academic culture more generally, is going to make a lot more dumb decisions … frankly, I think you should be ashamed to be party to this debacle! “I urge my fellow faculty to […]
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.
Bill Wulf resigns from the University of Virginia in protest
June 19th, 2012 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaNational Academies’ Report Calls for Cyberinfrastructure Investment
June 18th, 2012 / in pipeline, policy, research horizons, resources / by Erwin GianchandaniLast week, the National Academies released a report chartered by Congress — “Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation’s Prosperity and Security” — assessing the competitive position of the nation’s research universities, and responding to the following question: What are the top 10 actions that Congress, the Federal government, state governments, research universities, and others can take to assure the ability of the American research university to maintain the excellence in research and doctoral education needed to help the United States compete, prosper, and achieve national goals for health, energy, the environment, and security in the global community of the 21st century? The report […]
ACM Webcasting Turing Centenary Celebration Today, Saturday
June 15th, 2012 / in computer history, conference reports, research horizons, resources, videos / by Erwin GianchandaniThe Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is holding its A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco, CA, today and Saturday — marking the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth by bringing together 33 living Turing Award winners for the first time, and raising awareness of Turing, reflecting on his contributions, and discussing the fundamental importance of computing and computer science. The event, which kicks off at 12pm EDT this afternoon, will be streamed live via the web. Over 1,000 in-person attendees are expected. As Vint Cerf, the General Chair for the celebration and himself the 2004 ACM Turing Award winner, writes (following the link):
OMB, OSTP Specify Priorities for FY 2014
June 14th, 2012 / in policy, research horizons / by Erwin GianchandaniAround this time every year, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) typically issue a joint guidance memo to Federal agencies describing the Administration’s R&D priorities for the next budget cycle. This year’s memo — specifying priorities for the FY 2014 budget — was released last week. It encourages agencies to focus on ambitious “grand challenges,” and directs agencies to prioritize research investments over development activities. Because of the crucial government role in supporting research, in general agencies should give priority to funding for research above funding for development activities. Within research portfolios, agencies are encouraged to identify and pursue “Grand Challenges” — ambitious goals […]
Live Webcast: Launching the US Ignite Broadband Initiative
June 14th, 2012 / in big science, policy, research horizons, Research News, resources, videos / by Erwin GianchandaniAs we described in this space yesterday, this morning at an event at the White House, the Obama Administration will formally launch the US Ignite Broadband Initiative, an at-scale, nationwide innovation ecosystem for developing and deploying public sector applications and services on ultra-high-speed, software-defined networks. The announcement will be streamed live beginning at 9am EDT — and we’ll cover it below (more after the jump…).
Administration Announcing US Ignite Broadband Initiative
June 13th, 2012 / in big science, policy, research horizons, Research News, resources / by Erwin Gianchandani(This post has been updated; scroll down for the latest.) At a White House event Thursday morning, the Administration will formally announce new steps to expand and improve access to next-generation broadband technologies and applications — including the launch of US Ignite, a new public-private partnership spanning more than 100 members that will seek to bring together computing researchers, software and application developers, broadband carriers, and broadband users so that they can take advantage of ultra-high-speed, programmable broadband networks. The US Ignite partnership is being largely convened by the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the support of other Federal agencies, industry, non-profits, and local communities. Its key mission will be to leverage NSF’s […]
