Last week we blogged about the Visioning Sessions at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher Symposium (ECR) but this week we will talk about our government sessions and subsequent discussions on day two. The ECR brought together 73 early career researchers and gave them the unique opportunity to meet agency representatives, hear presentations about the current science policy situation, and learn how they can reach out and get involved with the science policy community outside their institutions. Computing Research Association (CRA)’s Director of Government Affairs, Peter Harsha, gave an opening plenary on “Understanding Science Policy,” in which he stressed that even though we are in an administration that […]

As part of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher (ECR) Symposium, described in full here, we featured a number of visioning workshops CCC has held over the past year. CCC task force members and workshop organizers led the talks. The purpose of these sessions was to bring the community together, tell them what the CCC is doing, and then see if they could provide more insight. All the discussions that were generated from the sessions seemed to follow a general idea- computer science did X so now how do we move forward? See all the videos from the different sessions here. The sessions and their corresponding problems included: […]

In August, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) held the Early Career Researcher Symposium (ECR) as a capstone event for the CIFellows program. It brought together 73 former CIFellows, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers in computing. The speakers were CS faculty members well established in their careers, government representatives from agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Computing Research Association (CRA) and CCC council members and staff, and program managers from non-profits. The goal of the ECR was to provide the early career researchers advice at this juncture of their career, enable […]