Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) welcomed the eight newly appointed National Science Board (NSB) Members to NSF headquarters to identify issues critical to NSF’s future. NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan and members of NSB meet to discuss their shared strategic vision five times a year. In last week’s meeting they discussed how they were going to use the historic 9.9 billion investment provided in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations set by Congress to achieve NSF’s three major priorities: strengthening established NSF, inspiring the “Missing Millions,” and accelerating technology and innovation. There is a particular focus on strengthening the research enterprise at speed and scale — in a time of […]
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 Welcomes Newly Appointed National Science Board Members
February 20th, 2023 / in Announcements, NSF / by Maddy HunterNITRD Publishes a Request for Information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
February 16th, 2023 / in NITRD, Security / by Maddy HunterOn behalf of Federal agencies and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Cyber Security and Information Assurance Interagency Working Group, the National Coordination Office (NCO) for NITRD just published a request for information on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. Pursuant to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, Federal agencies must update the Federal cybersecurity research and development (R&D) strategic plan every four years. The NITRD NCO seeks public input for the 2023 update of the Federal cybersecurity R&D strategic plan. The updated plan will be used to guide and coordinate federally funded research in cybersecurity, including cybersecurity education and workforce development, and the […]
NSF Partners with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to Support Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing
February 15th, 2023 / in Announcements, NSF / by Maddy HunterLate last month, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a partnership with Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Samsung to support the manufacturing and design of the next generation of semiconductors. The nearly $50 million partnership aims to invest in projects that encourage science and engineering researchers to apply a holistic, “co-design” approach to the way they develop semiconductors. Co-design approaches simultaneously consider the device/system performance, manufacturability, recyclability, and impact on the environment. Taking this design approach forces researchers to think of the whole lifecycle of a new technology, converging essential elements of the process into a single integrated process. This program will hopefully alleviate the skyrocketing costs of cars and other […]
New Members Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
February 13th, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe National Academy of Engineering (NAE) just elected 106 new members and 18 international members. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature” and to “the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.” Among the new members are Fu Cheng (Columbia University) and Stefan Savage (University of California, San Diego), who have previously collaborated with the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research […]
Former Council Member Melanie Mitchell on Detecting AI Generated Text
February 9th, 2023 / in AI, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterAI generative models have recently taken the world by storm creating digital art, music and prose. Among these innovations is a new language model called ChatGPT on openai.com. Using this tool, users can ask ChatGPT anything ranging from answering homework questions to identifying potential research directions. Something that sets ChatGPT apart from other language models is its ability to create more natural and accurate language when answering questions and requests. ChatGPT’s answers are extremely similar if not identical to human responses. This has presented a multitude of concerns over plagiarism and misinformation. Something that could help curb these concerns is a means of detecting text generated by language models. Former […]
CCC is Accepting Visioning Proposals from the Community
February 6th, 2023 / in Announcements / by Maddy HunterThe mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. The CCC accepts proposals for visioning activities from the community to catalyze innovative research at the frontiers of computing. Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest in those visions, mobilize support for those visions from the computing research community, government leaders, and funding agencies, and encourage broader segments of society to participate in computing research and education. You can find out more about visioning proposals and how to construct them on the CCC website. Past examples of visioning activities can be found […]
