Today, January 17th, is the anniversary of the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake which killed over 6,000 people. I am in Japan, ironically, accepting the Motohiro Kisoi Award for academic contributions to rescue engineering. I am thinking about Haiti, what is and what might have been. My Japanese hosts at the International Rescue Systems institute are sanguine about the long delays in getting new technologies from the labs and into the hands of the responders, agencies, and the victims themselves. It takes time, they say. They are patient; it took 5 years to rebuild Kobe with the resources of one of the great nations of the world. During my visit this week and […]
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.
Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives
January 13th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaNew material has been posted on the website for the Library of Congress symposium hosted by CCC in spring 2009. Each of the 13 talks now includes slides, a YouTube video, a video download, and (new!) a one-page summary.
Computer Engineer Barbie!
January 12th, 2010 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaBarbie has had over 120 careers! What do you think her next job should be? Vote for your favorite, then check back to find out what Barbie will be next. Environmentalist Surgeon Architect News Anchor Computer Engineer Get out the vote! http://www.barbie.com/vote/
Where the jobs are …
January 4th, 2010 / in pipeline, resources, Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaEvery second year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a ten-year forecast of job growth in all fields of employment. The most recent forecast, released in November 2009 and covering the period 2008-2018, may be found here (pdf). Among the highlights: Among the 10 major BLS occupational groups, the “Professional and related” category (which includes computer science occupations) is projected to grow by the largest percentage between now and 2018 — by 16.8%. (The average growth projected across all occupations is 10.1%.) Focusing in on the “Professional and related” occupations, of the 8 occupational clusters that are included, “Computer and mathematical” occupations are projected to grow by the largest […]
“Exponentials R Us” – Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come
December 24th, 2009 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaAn end-of-year, end-of-decade article in the Xconomy tech blog by CCC’s Ed Lazowska. Read the complete post here. Forty years ago, in 1969, Neil Armstrong left footprints on the surface of the moon. It was an extraordinary accomplishment. Also in 1969, with much less fanfare and at much less expense, Len Kleinrock’s programmer Charley Kline sent the first message over ARPANET. (The message was “lo” – the first two letters of “login.” Then the system crashed.) With forty years of hindsight, which of these events has had the greater impact? Unless you’re really big into Tang and Velcro, the answer is clear. From four computers in 1969, the Internet has […]
A Report on the Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Study Group
December 18th, 2009 / in workshop reports / by Ran Libeskind-HadasThe Cross-layer Reliability Visioning Study Group met October 29-30 at the IBM Austin Research Center in Austin, Texas. This was the third of three scheduled meetings focused on the growing challenges imposed by changes in device technology, system sizes, and application requirements. A major goal of the Cross-layer Reliability Visioning process is to reach some consensus on how to achieve reliable computing using unpredictable components across different layers that dictate system reliability (i.e., device technology, design, architecture, software). While the first two meetings focused on defining the multi-dimensional cross-layer reliability design space and presented cross-layer challenges as viewed from a range of application domains (e.g., consumer electronics, space/avionics, etc.), the […]
