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New ‘toolkit’ clarifies NSF OLPA resources; helps agency tell NSF-funded stories better
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New ‘toolkit’ clarifies NSF OLPA resources; helps agency tell NSF-funded stories better

  The following blog post is from the National Science Foundation Office of Legislative and Public Affairs on improving science communication.  A new interactive...

Maybe Robots Are Our Friends?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Maybe Robots Are Our Friends?

A few month ago we blogged about the on-going robotic debate, Are robots our friends?  This seems to be the question of the year, if not the decade, as digital...

WATCH Talk- Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

WATCH Talk- Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE)

The next WATCH Talk, called Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE), is Thursday, June 18, 12:00-1:00 PM EST. The presenter is Bret Hartman, the Vice...

CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on Submission Dates
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CISE AD Issues Letter to Community on Submission Dates

National Science Foundation (NSF) Assistant Director for the Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) James Kurose has issued the following...

White House OSTP- The Value of Basic Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

White House OSTP- The Value of Basic Research

The following is from the Office of Science and Technology Blog by Jo Handelsman, the Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology...

Great Innovative Idea- Known Unknowns: Testing in the Presence of Uncertainty
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea- Known Unknowns: Testing in the Presence of Uncertainty

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Sebastian Elbaum, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David S. Rosenblum...

NSF DCL: Announcement of Changes to Submission Windows for CISE Core Programs as well as the SaTC Program
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NSF DCL: Announcement of Changes to Submission Windows for CISE Core Programs as well as the SaTC Program

The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) by the Assistant Director for the Directorate for Computer & Information Science...

Futurists Make Predictions about the Next Decade
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Futurists Make Predictions about the Next Decade

Can you imagine a robot delivering your baby or downloading a file from your favorite designer to print clothes at home on your 3D printer? You might not have to...

NAS Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research
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NAS Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced the creation of the new Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, convergence research is...

CCC Human Computation Roadmap Summit Report
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Human Computation Roadmap Summit Report

The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Human Computation Roadmap Summit have released their workshop report. The visioning workshop...

Skin Biophysics Surgical Simulator: A Computing Research in Action Showcase
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Skin Biophysics Surgical Simulator: A Computing Research in Action Showcase

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is releasing its fifth segment in the Computing Research in Action Series.  Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

Exploring New Frontiers in Cyber-Physical Systems
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Exploring New Frontiers in Cyber-Physical Systems

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced two five-year, center-scale awards to advance the frontier in cyber-physical systems (CPS). With these two new projects...

ACM BuildSys 2015 Call for Papers
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

ACM BuildSys 2015 Call for Papers

The 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015) invites original contributions in the area of intelligent...

Global City Teams Challenge Expo
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge Expo

Join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite on June 1 in Washington, DC for the Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) at the...

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Kathy Yelick
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NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture Series – Kathy Yelick

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on...

CCC Community Report for a National Privacy Research Strategy
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Community Report for a National Privacy Research Strategy

In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic thinking...

NSF CAREER Program in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CAREER Program in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI)

The following is a letter to the community from Sushil K. Prasad in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Division of Advanced...

Nepal: CRICIS Computing is Needed
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Nepal: CRICIS Computing is Needed

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Faculty Fellow for Innovation in High-Impact...

CCC Announces New Council Members
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CCC Announces New Council Members

The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed five new members to the Computing Community...

Great Innovative Idea- Machine Teaching
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea- Machine Teaching

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Dr. Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Zhu’s paper Machine...
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