From our friends at The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus Blog: Anyone can now track his or her citations via Google Scholar. The free citation service is “a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time,” the company said in an announcement [Wednesday] on the Google Scholar blog. Google [had] announced a limited-release test of the service in July.
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.
USAID, ED Seeking to Tap Technology to Teach Children
November 18th, 2011 / in policy, research horizons, resources / by Erwin GianchandaniAt 10am EST this morning, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — together with its Australian counterpart AusAID, World Vision U.S., and World Vision Australia, and the U.S. Department of Education (ED) — will launch a $20 million initiative to “focus global attention on finding ground-breaking, scalable innovations that improve early grade reading outcomes for all children in poor countries during the first three years of primary education.” Called “All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development,” the program will provide catalytic seed grant funding through a competitive selection process to support “pioneering thinking that offers sustainable and scalable solutions for early grade reading.” The initiative will focus on groundbreaking solutions for two […]
What the DARPA Network Challenge Showed
November 16th, 2011 / in research horizons, Research News / by Erwin GianchandaniAs we’ve previously noted in this space, in December 2009, 10 red balloons were deployed from locations throughout the U.S. as part of the DARPA Network Challenge — a competition to “explore the roles the Interent and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.” The challenge: to be the first to submit the coordinates of the 10 8-foot red weather balloons. And the winning team — a group of MIT students — received a $40,000 prize. At the time, according to DARPA, “a senior analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency characterized the problem as impossible” using traditional intelligence-gathering methods. […]
NSF’s Cyberlearning Program
November 16th, 2011 / in research horizons, resources / by Erwin GianchandaniEarlier this fall, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) issued a new solicitation for FY 2012 for its Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, providing three different research categories of funding. The deadline for the first category — Exploratory Projects — is December 15. From the solicitation: Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to: better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology; better use technology for collecting, analyzing, sharing, and managing data to […]
“Today, the Internet — Tomorrow, the Internet of Things?”
November 15th, 2011 / in research horizons, Research News / by Erwin GianchandaniAn feature in Computerworld last week takes an in-depth look at the “widely predicted Internet of Things (IoT), where anything with intelligence (including machines, roads, and buildings) will have an online presence, generating data that could be put to uses currently unimagined.” From the article: Dave Evans, chief futurist at Cisco… predicts 50 billion connected devices by 2020, and social networks to connect them. “In the coming years, anything that has an on-off switch will be on the network,” he says. “I foresee it in just about every industry and stream of life.” The deluge has already begun. “There are several industries where [the Internet of Things] is happening, and some […]
Reminder: CCC Council Nominations Due Tomorrow
November 14th, 2011 / in CCC / by Erwin GianchandaniA reminder that the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is seeking nominations for individuals to serve on the CCC Council beginning January 2012. The deadline for nominations, to be e-mailed to ccc-nominations@cra.org, is tomorrow — Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011 — at 11:59pm EST. The call for nominations is reproduced below in its entirety. The Computing Community Consortium Seeks Nominations for Council Members What questions shape our intellectual future? What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new generation? What are the next big computing ideas — the ones that will define the future of computing, galvanize the very best students, and catalyze research investment and public support? The Computing Community Consortium […]
