At this week’s GENI Engineering Conference in Seattle, Ellen Zegura rolled out the Network Science & Engineering (NetSE) Research Agenda, an extensive effort of CCC’s NetSE Council, which Ellen chaired. Over the past forty years, computer networks, and especially the Internet, have gone from research curiosity to fundamental infrastructure. However, this is no time to rest on the successes of the past. To meet society’s future requirements and expectations the Internet will need to be better: more secure, more accessible, more predictable and more reliable. In 2008, the Computing Community Consortium charged the NetSE Council with developing a comprehensive research agenda that would support the development of a better Internet. […]
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.
Network Science & Engineering Research Agenda
July 22nd, 2009 / in research horizons, resources, workshop reports / by Ed LazowskaCIFellows Status Report
June 27th, 2009 / in CIFellows, resources / by Peter LeeLess than six weeks ago we launched the Computing Innovation Fellows Project. In that short time, more than 1,200 people announced their interest in hosting a CIFellow on our mentor website, and 526 applications for CIFellowships were completed and forwarded to the Selection Committee for review. The website for submitting applications was taken down on schedule at midnight on June 9, and the reviewing process commenced two days later. We’ve been very busy reviewing ever since, assigning each application to multiple reviewers, to guarantee a minimum of three reviews for each awardee. We are targeting July 10 for completing the review and decision process. The 526 applications come from 415 […]
“Computing Research that Changed the World” – VIDEOS!
June 7th, 2009 / in computer history, policy, research horizons, resources / by Ed LazowskaOn March 25th, the Computing Community Consortium organized a spectacular daylong symposium at the Library of Congress: “Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives.” Videos of the presentations (as well as slides) are now available on the symposium website. See http://www.cra.org/ccc/locsymposium_slides.php for the complete agenda with individual links, or see our YouTube channel, http://www.youtube.com/computingresearch. Talks at the Symposium included: Introductory Session Ed Lazowska (University of Washington), “Changing the World” Session 1: The Internet and the World Wide Web Alfred Spector (Google), “Why We’re Able to Google” Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley), “The Magic of the ‘Cloud’: Supercomputers for Everybody, Everywhere” Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Mellon University), “Human Computation” Session […]
NSF Alan T. Waterman Award
May 29th, 2009 / in Uncategorized / by Ed LazowskaThe NSF Alan T. Waterman Award recognizes one extraordinary young scientist or engineer annually. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be 35 years of age or younger or not more than 7 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. degree by December 31 of the year in which they are nominated. Nominations are due in early December. In the 30+ year history of this award, fewer than a half dozen computer scientists have been recognized. A principal reason is we don’t nominate many people. Let’s change that! It’s too early to submit nominations, but it’s not too early to start thinking about who you’d be willing […]
CCC, CRA Launch New “CIFellows” Opportunity for New PhDs
May 15th, 2009 / in pipeline, resources / by Peter LeeThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation, are pleased to announce an opportunity for new PhD graduates in computer science and closely related fields to obtain one-to-two year positions at host organizations including universities, industrial research laboratories, and other organizations that advance the field of computing and its positive impact on society. The Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project will fund as many as 60 such positions. Applications are due very soon: June 9, 2009. Awards are expected to be announced by July 10. Positions will commence in Autumn 2009. Go to http://cifellows.org to apply to be a CIFellow. Also: […]
“Unleashing Waves of Innovation”
April 27th, 2009 / in policy / by Ed LazowskaAfter leading the world in telecommunications research innovations, the United States now trails several dozen other nations in the availability of broadband to consumers. The Obama administration’s broadband stimulus initiative represents an extraordinary opportunity to re-gain the lead. The Computing Community Consortium, working with a remarkable coalition of all the major groups involved in cyberinfrastructure for research and education, has been weighing in heavily on broadband strategy. This week, the Chronicle of Higher Education featured this group’s position paper, “Unleashing Waves of Innovation.” Our basic messages – consistent with the position advocated by Microsoft and others: Use an aggressive definition of broadband – 100 mbps – in order to be […]
