The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks a highly motivated individual to serve as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee. The program associate works closely with the CCC Director, Staff, and Council Members to ensure that CCC’s mission objectives are achieved in a timely and high-quality fashion. The program associate provides support for the CCC by handling administrative and logistical matters, such as planning for meetings, visioning workshops, outreach activities, committee support, etc. He or she also interacts with key constituents, including members of the research community, and policy makers, to further enrich the awareness of CRA, its committees, its mission, and its services. The position receives […]

The following is a Computing Research Association Government Affairs Blog post by CRA Policy Analyst, Brian Mosley. Mosley served as the co-chair of the report “Second Place America?” Major Report Detailing the Nation’s Declining Leadership in Research and Technology and helped organize a Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) report release event on Tuesday, May 14th. One of the speakers at the release was Computing Community Consortium (CCC) executive council member Nadya Bliss from Arizona State! On Tuesday May 14th, the Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI), an alliance of leading American companies and business associations, research university associations, and scientific societies, released a major report assessing the United States’ investment […]

The following is a guest blog post by CRA Government Affairs Director, Peter Harsha.  As part of its mission to develop a next generation of leaders in the computing research community, the Computing Research Association‘s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announces the fourth offering of the CCC Leadership in Science Policy Institute (LiSPI), intended to educate computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works. We seek nominations for participants. LiSPI will be centered around a two-day workshop to be held November 6 – 7, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Full details of LiSPI are available here.) LiSPI will feature presentations and discussions with science policy […]

The following is a Computing Research Policy Blog post by Brian Mosley, CRA Policy Analyst.  Just wanted to put up a quick post that due to extra availability we are extending the deadline for nominations and applications to the 2015 Leadership in Science Policy Institute workshop (aka: LiSPI) to January 23rd. We have also pushed back notifying selectees to February 2nd. If you know of someone who meets the qualifications and you would like to nominate them, or if you were nominated but missed the deadline to get in your application, now is your chance. For some more background, check out the LiSPI webpage and our original post on this year’s […]

The Computing Community Consortium was programmed as the closing plenary session at the 2008 CRA Conference at Snowbird — a once-every-two-years gathering of the heads of CRA’s member organizations. Interest was strong — more than 125 department chairs and lab directors attended the 90-minute session, more than 3X as many as have stuck around for any previous final session at Snowbird. Ed Lazowska, Susan Graham, Richard Ladner, Randy Bryant, and Chip Elliott presented. All presentation materials are on the web here. A 20-minute Q&A session followed the presentations. Several highlights for me: CCC’s “Data-Intensive Scalable Computing” initiative, led by Randy Bryant and Thomas Kwan, has really taken off:  two new […]