Last week the National Science Foundation celebrated the one year anniversary of their Directorate for Technology, Innovations and Partnerships (TIP). TIP was created to harness the nation’s vast and diverse talent pool to accelerate critical and emerging technologies and address pressing societal and economic challenges. TIP comprises three primary focus areas – fostering innovation and technology ecosystems, establishing translation pathways, and partnering across sectors to improve U.S. competitiveness, grow the U.S. economy and engage and train a diverse workforce for future, high-wage jobs. The following is a letter from Erwin Gianchandani (Assistant Director for TIP) and Gracie Narcho (Deputy Assistant Director for TIP) on TIP’s accomplishments over the last year. […]
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 Celebrates the TIP Directorate’s One-Year Anniversary
March 21st, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterThe Computing Community Consortium Hosts 6 Panels at the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting
March 15th, 2023 / in AAAS, Announcements, CCC, conferences / by Catherine GillOn March 2-5, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC. AAAS was founded in 1848 on the principle of supporting and highlighting scientific research at the national level, and was the first organization of its kind in the United States. The annual meeting featured hundreds of scientific sessions, plenary and topical lectures, workshops, and e-poster presentations, and was attended by researchers in all disciplines of science as well as members of the government and media organizations. The Computing Community Consortium attended and hosted 6 scientific sessions on a broad range of computing topics, which are listed below. We will release weekly […]
In Memoriam: Former CRA Board Member William Wulf
March 14th, 2023 / in Uncategorized / by Haley GriffinThe below post was originally published in the CRA Bulletin. Bill Wulf was a friend and supporter of the CCC during his many years in the computing research community. His wife, Anita Jones, was a Founding Member of the CCC and remained on the Council until 2014. She has continued to be an avid supporter of postdocs in the community, and was a key member of the Steering Committee for the recent CIFellows programs. CRA was sad to learn of the loss of former Board member William A. Wulf. He was an outstanding leader in the computing research community and will be greatly missed. Wulf served on the CRA Board […]
CCC Responds to RFI on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan
March 13th, 2023 / in CCC, NITRD, NSF, Privacy, resources / by Haley GriffinCCC submitted a response to a Request for Information (RFI) released by Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), National Coordination Office (NCO), and National Science Foundation (NSF) on the 2023 Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan. CCC previously released a blog about the importance of the RFI, and encouraged the computing community to respond. CCC’s response was written by: Nadya Bliss (Arizona State University) Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado-Boulder) Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins University) Thomas M. Conte (Georgia Institute of Technology) David Danks (University of California San Diego) Nathan Evans (Arizona State University) Kevin Fu (Northeastern University) Haley Griffin (Computing Community Consortium) William D. Gropp (University of […]
CRA Accessible Technology for All Workshop Summary
March 9th, 2023 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA-I / by Maddy HunterThis post was originally published by Helen Wright in the CRA-Industry Blog. On February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC, the Computing Research Association (CRA) held the Accessible Technology for All Workshop. The workshop was attended by over 40 participants from academia, industry, and government and 20 remote participants. The purpose of this workshop was to frame the state of the art of accessible technology, identify forces shaping the evolution of accessible technology, and develop an understanding of implications for the next wave of computer science research in accessibility. By the end of the workshop, important areas of future research were identified and the need for tech-informed policy were highlighted by the participants. A workshop report will […]
CCC Submits Response to the OSTP Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development
March 8th, 2023 / in CCC, NITRD, NSF, resources / by Catherine GillOn Friday of last week, the CCC submitted a response to the Request for Information on Digital Assets Research and Development, which was released in January by the OSTP and NSF’s interagency Fast Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Digital Assets Research and Development. The RFI aims to inform a holistic government approach to understanding and regulating digital assets and distributed ledger technology. The response was written by Hank Korth (Lehigh University), Rajmohan Rajaraman (Northeastern University), Catherine Gill (Computing Community Consortium), and Ann Schwartz (Computing Community Consortium). The term “digital assets” implies a financial application of the term, but digital assets actually have a much broader meaning. Digital assets refer […]
