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Best Practices in Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Best Practices in Evaluating Scholarship in Hiring, Tenure, and Promotion

A careful distinction between quality and quantity is key to promoting the future growth of the computing and information field. Toward that end, Batya Friedman...

CS Students will be Honored Guests at White House Science Fair
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CS Students will be Honored Guests at White House Science Fair

Be sure to tune into the White House Science Fair on Monday to see future computer science researchers like Sreya Atluri, Maureen “Reeny” Botros, and Sophia Sánchez...

NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG) and the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), have joined...

NSF CCC Postdoc Best Practices Arizona Conference April 10-11
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CCC Postdoc Best Practices Arizona Conference April 10-11

The Principal Investigators for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Postdoc Best Practices Arizona Program, Chitta Baral,...

It Just Got Harder to Hide
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

It Just Got Harder to Hide

Back in 2001, two computer scientists named Paul Viola and Michael Jones came up with a face detection algorithm called Detector Cascade. The algorithm was so simple...

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture –The Future of Computing-Mediated Research and Innovation
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture –The Future of Computing-Mediated Research and Innovation

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

Nominate Your Students for the Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Nominate Your Students for the Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards!

Please help the Marconi Society identify outstanding Young Scholars. The Marconi Society was established in 1974 to honor Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel laureate...

WATCH Talk- Cybersecurity and Privacy: Complementary– Not Mutually Exclusive– Concepts
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

WATCH Talk- Cybersecurity and Privacy: Complementary– Not Mutually Exclusive– Concepts

The next WATCH Talk is Thursday, March 19, 12:00-1:00PM EDT. Mary Ellen Callahan, will discuss Cybersecurity and Privacy: Complementary– Not Mutually Exclusive–...

You’d have to be irrational to not celebrate Pi Day at NIH!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

You’d have to be irrational to not celebrate Pi Day at NIH!

Due the advancement in computer science, π (Pi) has now been calculated to over one trillion digits past its decimal. Only 39 digits past the decimal are needed...

NIH-led Effort Launches Big Data Portal for Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH-led Effort Launches Big Data Portal for Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery

The National Institute of Health (NIH) is determined to reduce the cost and time it takes to discover viable therapeutic targets, which drive the changes in the...

White House Internship, PIF, and other Fellowship Opportunities
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

White House Internship, PIF, and other Fellowship Opportunities

Check out these upcoming internship and fellowship opportunities for students. White House OSTP Internship- Deadline: Sunday, March 15th The Office of Science and...

Capitol Hill Presentation on “Deconstructing Precision Agriculture”
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Capitol Hill Presentation on “Deconstructing Precision Agriculture”

Contributions to this post were made by Shashi Shekhar, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Distinguished University Professor at the University...

Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam Resources
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam Resources

The Global City Teams Challenge Tech Jam was a success! The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite initiative designed to advance the...

NSF Research Opportunities in Europe
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Research Opportunities in Europe

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released two Dear Colleague Letters (DCL) describing research opportunities in Europe. Dear Colleague Letter: Research...

The Future of Work in the Age of the Machine
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

The Future of Work in the Age of the Machine

The evolution of smart machines has transformed and will continue to transform our economy. As smart machines become more advanced, the human and the machine will...

CCC Aging in Place Workshop Report
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Aging in Place Workshop Report

The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the...

NIH Data Science wants to hear from YOU! 
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIH Data Science wants to hear from YOU! 

The new NIH Data Science blog needs your help to start a conversation about Computational and Quantitative Collaborative Projects. Excerpt from their blog: Many...

Are Robots Our Friends?
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Are Robots Our Friends?

There has been a tremendous amount of press on the astonishing advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and the negative impacts that it could have on our society...

2015 NSF Early-Career Investigators Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

2015 NSF Early-Career Investigators Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities

The 2015 NSF Early-Career Investigators Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities will be held in Seattle, WA on April 13-17, 2015. This year’s workshop...

Privacy by Design Workshop: Concepts and Connections
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Privacy by Design Workshop: Concepts and Connections

The following guest blog post is contributed by Ph.D. students Nick Doty and Richmond Wong working with Deirdre Mulligan from the University of California Berkeley...
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