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NSF Funded Vision Assistance Technology Amazes at the 2016 CNSF Exhibition

May 5, 2016/In: Events, People, Research /by Brian Mosley

On April 26th, the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF), an alliance of over 140 professional organizations, universities, and businesses, held their 22nd Annual Capitol Hill Exhibition. CNSF supports the goal of increasing the federal investment in the National Science Foundation’s research and education programs, and the exhibition itself is a great way to show members of Congress and their staff what research the American people have funded.

AAU Announces New Tool to Highlight Cybersecurity Research at Universities

February 24, 2016/In: Cybersecurity R&D Highlights, R&D in the Press, Research /by Brian Mosley

The Association of American Universities (AAU) announced a new tool for highlighting cybersecurity research and breakthroughs occurring at their member institutions.

New Report Identifies Fundamental Research Needs for Advancing Internet of Things & Cutting-Edge Innovations

September 2, 2015/In: Cybersecurity R&D Highlights, Internet of Things Highlights, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

A new report, titled, “Rebooting the IT Revolution: A Call to Action,” produced by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), calls for, “a targeted and coordinated government initiative similar to that which sparked the semiconductor revolution fifty years ago.”

Obama Administration Announces Ambitious New High Performance Computing Strategy

July 30, 2015/In: Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative. This new initiative is to ensure the United States’ continued leadership position in High-Performance Computing in the coming decades.

Coalition for National Security Research Releases Statement on Senate Defense Appropriations Bill

July 6, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

The Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), a broad-based coalition of 74 members (of which CRA is a member) including industry, research universities and institutes, and scientific and professional associations committed to a strong Defense Science and Technology (S&T) Program, released a statement commending the Senate Appropriations Committee for their work on S. 1558, the […]

Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Approves NSF Funding; it’s definitely not great, but it could be worse

June 23, 2015/In: Funding, FY16 Appropriations, Research /by Brian Mosley

On June 10th, the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee approved their Fiscal Year 2016 funding bill, which funds, among other things, the budget for the National Science Foundation. The bill was passed on a bipartisan basis in the subcommittee, with only three votes (out of 30 total) against it. Unlike the House CJS […]

House Appropriations Committee Passes CJS Funding; Mixed News for NSF

June 2, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

On May 20th the full House Appropriations Committee passed the Commerce, Justice, Science funding bill; this is important to our community because it is the bill that contains the funding for the National Science Foundation, which funds 89 percent of all university-led fundamental computer science research in the U.S. First, the not-so-bad news: NSF doesn’t exactly get a budget cut in actual dollars; it in fact gets a small bump (though when inflation is considered, that bump may go away completely). The worse news: NSF gets some onerous language on how to spend the tax-dollars it’s allocated. Let’s get into the details.

Sustained investment in research is needed to combat cyber threats, CISE AD tells Congress

January 29, 2015/In: Cybersecurity R&D Highlights, People, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

On Tuesday January 27th, the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee held it’s first hearing of the 114th Congress. The topic was expanding cyber threats and cybersecurity, and the subcommittee heard from experts from both the private sector and government agencies. Assistant Director of CISE, Jim Kurose, testifying for […]

Computing Community Weighs in on “Truthy” Controversy

November 4, 2014/In: CRA, R&D in the Press, Research, Statements /by Peter Harsha

Five leading computing societies and associations today released a letter they’ve jointly sent to House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) and committee Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) expressing their concern over mischaracterizations of research on information diffusion in online social networks at Indiana University. The work has come under fire […]

The Closing of MSR Silicon Valley and MSR’s Letter to the Academic Community

October 21, 2014/In: People, R&D in the Press, Research /by Peter Harsha

By now, most in the computing community are no doubt aware that Microsoft in September announced the closing of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, one of 12 research labs (now 11) the company runs around the globe. The lab’s primary focus was on distributed computing and included research on privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, concurrency, computer architecture, […]

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