Mary Lou Maher, CRA’s Director of Research Community Initiatives and leader of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), will be concluding her tenure at CRA at the end of August. We thank Mary Lou for her leadership and contributions to the computing research community during her time at CRA. As the Director of CCC, Mary Lou provided strategic, administrative, and programmatic leadership. During her time in the role, CCC organized more than 20 community events, including two symposia and five visioning workshops, with two additional workshops currently in development. She also oversaw the publication of six visioning workshop reports, three Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Computing Research documents, and eight Quadrennial Papers. […]
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.
Posts Tagged ‘CCC Director’
CCC Seeks New Director as Mary Lou Maher Concludes Term
July 16th, 2025 / in Announcements, CCC / by Catherine GillMary Lou Maher to Join CRA as Director of Research Community Initiatives
January 22nd, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC, CRA / by Elora DanielsThe following originally appeared on the CRA Bulletin, written by Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is excited to announce the naming of Mary Lou Maher, PhD to the position of Director of Research Community Initiatives. An accomplished researcher with leadership experience that spans the settings of universities, large research projects, and the National Science Foundation (NSF), Dr. Maher joins CRA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she most recently served as a professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems and previously served as the Department Chair. In her new role, Dr. Maher will assume responsibility as the director of […]
