The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society recently announced that former Computing Research Association (CRA) and Computing Research Association- Widening Participation (CRA-WP) Board Member and current National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Assistant Director Margaret Martonosi is the recipient of the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award. Martonosi is the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. In 2018, she led the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) effort to understand the next steps in Quantum Computing for computer science. The Eckert-Mauchly Award is known as the computer architecture community’s most prestigious award. Martonosi was cited […]
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.
Margaret Martonosi Receives the 2021 ACM/IEEE-CS Eckert-Mauchly Award
June 8th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA, NSF, Research News / by Helen WrightCRA Executive Director Job Description and Advertisement
June 3rd, 2021 / in Announcements, CRA / by Helen WrightLast week, we announced the retirement of Computing Research Association Executive Director Andrew Bernat. The description and advertisement for the Executive Director position, which we are hoping to fill this fall, can be found below. Please share. The Computing Research Association (CRA)—the nation’s premier member organization of academic departments, laboratories, and industry centers aimed at advancing computing research to change the world—seeks an inclusive, transparent, and enterprising leader to serve as its next Executive Director (ED). CRA counts among its members more than 200 North American organizations active in computing research: academic departments of computer science and computer engineering; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia; and affiliated professional […]
Read “A Vision to Compute Like Nature: Thermodynamically”
June 1st, 2021 / in Announcements, conference reports, workshop reports / by Khari DouglasThe June issue of the Communications of the ACM (CACM) features the Viewpoint article “A Vision to Compute Like Nature: Thermodynamically.” Based on the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Thermodynamic Computing workshop, this article advocates for a novel, physically grounded, computational paradigm centered on thermodynamics that the authors call “Thermodynamic Computing” (TC). This Viewpoint was written by workshop co-organizers, Todd Hylton (UC San Diego), Tom Conte (Georgia Tech), and Mark D. Hill (Microsoft & U. Wisconsin). In the article, they lay out the premise of TC: “…living systems evolve energy-efficient, universal, self-healing, and complex computational capabilities that dramatically transcend our current technologies. Animals, plants, bacteria, and proteins solve problems by spontaneously […]
CRA-Industry Committee Announces Virtual Roundtable Series
May 27th, 2021 / in Announcements / by Khari DouglasCreated in the fall of 2020, the CRA-Industry standing committee will convene industry partners on computing research topics and connect them with CRA’s academic and government constituents. CRA-Industry recently announced a virtual round table series. The announcement can be found below: By CRA-Industry Steering Committee CRA-Industry, a standing committee of the CRA, was created in the Fall of 2020 with the goal of reaching out to industry partners involved in computing research and giving them new opportunities to convene and connect on topics of mutual interest. As a part of the CRA, CRA-Industry also facilitates the interaction between industry partners and other organizations deeply involved in computing research including […]
Active Learning of Transferable Priors, Kernels and Latent Representations for Robotics
May 26th, 2021 / in CCC, CIFellows, CIFellows Spotlight, research horizons, robotics / by Maddy HunterRika Antonova began her CIFellowship in January 2021 after receiving her PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in December 2020. Antonova is at Stanford University working with Jeannette Bohg, Assistant Professor of Robotics at Stanford. Current Project Machine learning is transforming robotics: we can now solve high-dimensional problems that have been intractable before, if given large amounts of data and ample training time. However, to go beyond structured factory settings, it is important for robots to adapt to changes in the environment/task without lengthy re-training and data collection. A related problem is closing the simulation-to-reality gap: adapting to the real world after training in simulation. My goal […]
NSF CISE Celebrates Its 35th Anniversary
May 25th, 2021 / in Announcements, computer history, NSF / by Khari DouglasThis month marks the 35th anniversary of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. CISE was founded on May 1, 1986, and it continues to support “investigator-initiated research and education in all areas of computer and information science and engineering,” including the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), which CISE funds through a cooperative agreement with the Computing Research Association. Highlighted in their May newsletter, “One of CISE’s key early investments in information technology was the Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI). This initiative provided global, multilingual repositories of data, knowledge, sound, and images. Through the DLI, NSF supported a project that would ultimately result in the creation of Google.” The National […]
