As part of CCC’s ongoing support of visioning workshops, Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mark Oskin (University of Washington) co-organized the second workshop in a series on Advancing Computer Architecture Research. This workshop — Laying a New Foundation for Information Technology: Computer Architecture for 2025 and Beyond — was held on the campus of the University of Washington on September 20-21, 2010. Computer Architecture Research as a Foundation for IT The degree to which information technology has impacted society cannot be understated, and computer architecture has played a foundational role in enabling that revolution. Computer architecture has been the engine for translating Moore’s Law technology improvements into […]
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.
The Future of Computer Architecture Research
September 23rd, 2010 / in workshop reports / by Erwin GianchandaniNew York Times Magazine Features Technology in Education
September 20th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Ran Libeskind-HadasToday’s New York Times Sunday magazine is devoted to the role of computing and technology in education. The lead article is entitled Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom. Other articles and essays includes Hacks into Hackers: Can Journalism and Computer Science Mix?, The Eight-Year-Old Programmer, among others.
Interactive Systems Architectures
August 31st, 2010 / in workshop reports / by Erwin GianchandaniThirty researchers met August 11-13 to discuss the future of interactive systems. This workshop was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium, ACM/SIGCHI and Canada’s GRAND initiative. The interactive systems architecture is the foundation of what is feasible when people interact with computing technologies. An interactive architecture creates an ecosystem within which diverse user experiences can be developed. UNIX introduced the idea that software modules could be interactively “piped” together. X-Windows laid the foundation of distributed interaction. The Macintosh put graphical interaction in the hands of the masses and the Web distributed interaction around the world. The researchers gathered at this workshop in Jackson, WY, envision a world where information and […]
Simons Foundation to Fund New Institute for the Theory of Computing
August 30th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Erwin GianchandaniThe Simons Foundation will provide up to $6 million/year in funding for a new Institute for the Theory of Computing. The call for applications recognizes the deep importance of the study of computation to society. Computation (and its abstract form, the algorithm) has not only revolutionized science, technology, and society, but also is among the most important scientific concepts discovered and developed in the 20th century. This scientific discipline has enabled numerous technological advances and has forged many connections to mathematics and other sciences, providing fruitful insights and new problems. It has impacted not only computer science and technology, but also parts of mathematics, physics, biology, economics and sociology. Meanwhile, […]
Computing Research in Astronomy’s Decadal Survey
August 27th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Erwin GianchandaniEvery 10 years, U.S. astronomers come together to generate what has become a highly influential report recommending which astronomy and astrophysics projects should be funded by Federal agencies in the following decade. This year’s “decadal survey” – assimilated from 9 appointed panels, 17 town hall meetings, and 324 white papers – was released by the National Research Council (NRC) on Aug. 13. Unlike previous decadal surveys that have been defined by lengthy “wish lists,” the 2010 report unveiled just 8 projects, all focused on the study of dark matter and dark energy. And for the first time, the survey included independently vetted estimates of project costs. (See http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/329/5995/1002 and http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100818/full/466910a.html […]
P != NP ?
August 9th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Ran Libeskind-HadasThe internet is abuzz with stories about a purported proof that the class P is not equal to the class NP. The author of the proof is Dr. Vinay Deolalikar, a Principal Research Scientist at HP Lab. Professor Richard Lipton’s blog provides some interesting comments and reflections on this manuscript.
