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CSGrad4US: Second Year Call for NSF Fellowship Opportunity for CS Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree Holders to Return for PhD

April 4, 2022/In: For Students, Funding, Featured Announcements /

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has announced the second year of the CSGrad4US Graduate Fellowship program. Goal and Motivation To increase the number of diverse, domestic graduate students pursuing research and innovation careers in the CISE fields. The fellowship program, which will provide 3-year fellowship opportunities for […]

Faculty Startups and Corporate External Research

March 21, 2022/In: Industry, Featured Announcements /

Chris Ramming, Senior Director of Research and Innovation at VMware, CRA Board member, and Computing Research Association-Industry Steering Committee member, recently presented on Faculty Startups and Corporate External Research during Innov8rs Connect’s Startup Collaboration & Ecosystem Engagement February 15-17, 2022 event.

2022 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop

March 18, 2022/In: Career Mentoring Workshop, Featured Announcements /

CRA hosted the 2022 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop in person on February 24-25 in Washington, DC. More than 120 participants engaged in a variety of panels and mentoring activities with senior researchers, including several CRA board members, and representatives from government agencies.

Eugene Spafford Appointed to the CRA Board of Directors

March 17, 2022/In: CRA Board of Directors, People, Featured Announcements /

Eugene H. Spafford Appointed to the CRA Board of Directors

NSF CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop 2022

March 9, 2022/In: NSF, Funding, Featured Announcements /

The National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) will hold a virtual CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop on Zoom April 4-5, 2022. Register here.

Katherine Yelick Receives the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award

March 3, 2022/In: Distinguished Service, Awards, Featured Announcements /

The Computing Research Association today announced it has selected Katherine Yelick, the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, as the recipient of the 2022 CRA Distinguished Service Award for her outstanding and sustained service contributions to the computing research community.

CRA and CCC Welcome Program Associate Catherine Gill

February 24, 2022/In: CCC, Featured Announcements, CRA /

The Computing Research Association recently hired Catherine Gill as a Program Associate for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee.

CRA Education Committee Selects New Graduate Fellow – Yasra Chandio

February 23, 2022/In: CRA, Education, Featured Announcements /

CRA’s Education Committee (CRA-E) has recently selected its 2022 CRA-E Graduate Fellow – Yasra Chandio from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

CRA and CCC Welcome Program Associate Haley Griffin

February 17, 2022/In: CCC, People, Featured Announcements /

The Computing Research Association recently hired Haley Griffin as a Program Associate for the CCC subcommittee. In this role, she will support the CCC mission by facilitating workshops, completing administrative tasks, and assisting with communications deliverables.

Darko Marinov and Jelani Nelson Receive the 2022 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award

February 16, 2022/In: CRA-E Faculty Mentoring Award, Education, Awards, Mentoring, Featured Announcements /

The Education Committee of the Computing Research Association (CRA-E) is proud to announce two recipients of the 2022 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award: Darko Marinov from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Jelani Nelson from the University of California Berkeley.

These outstanding individuals are being recognized for providing exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences, and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of their students to research-focused graduate programs in computing.

CRA-Industry Launches New Website and Logo

February 15, 2022/In: Industry, Featured Announcements, CRA /

The Computing Research Association’s newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) is pleased to announce the release of our new logo and website.

CRA-I was created in the Fall of 2020 with the goal of reaching out to industry partners involved in computing research and giving them new opportunities to convene and connect on topics of mutual interest with academia and government.

Congratulations to New Members of the National Academy of Engineering

February 10, 2022/In: CRA Board of Directors, Featured Announcements /

Congratulations to all members of the computing community who were recognized.

2022 CRA Board of Directors Election Slate; Petition Nominees Sought

February 9, 2022/In: CRA Board of Directors, Featured Announcements /

CRA is pleased to announce the 2022 Election Committee’s slate of nominees for the CRA Board. CRA also encourages nominations by petition, which are due by February 28.

CRA Directors Erik Russell and Burçin Tamer featured on the Modern Figures Podcast

February 2, 2022/In: CRA-WP, CERP, Diversity, Taulbee, People, Featured Announcements /

CRA Directors Erik Russell and Burçin Tamer share inspiring stories of CRA broadening computing efforts on the Modern Figures Podcast.

Webinar on How to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in the Systems and Networking Community: February 2

January 28, 2022/In: Diversity, People, Featured Announcements /

On Wednesday, February 2 at 8 AM PST the Networking Channel will host a webinar titled, “How can we improve diversity and inclusion in the systems and networking community?”

Congratulations to Newly Elevated IEEE Fellows

January 27, 2022/In: People, Featured Announcements /

The IEEE recently announced the 2022 newly elevated Fellows. Among them are several individuals involved with CRA.

2021 AAAS Fellows Announced

January 27, 2022/In: People, Featured Announcements /

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently announced its 2021 Fellows. The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of science.

2022 CRA Conference at Snowbird Update

January 25, 2022/In: Conference at Snowbird, Featured Announcements, CRA /

This year’s CRA Conference at Snowbird will explore the tremendous opportunities for computing research to dramatically benefit the human condition, as well as the related responsibility for computing research to consider the risks inherent in the work we do. Ensuring socially responsible intentions and practices is critical to realizing the future potential of computing research.

Congratulations to the 2021 ACM Fellows!

January 20, 2022/In: ACM, People, Featured Announcements /

The ACM recently named 71 of its members as ACM Fellows for wide-ranging and fundamental contributions in areas including algorithms, computer science education, cryptography, data security and privacy, medical informatics, and mobile and networked systems ─ among many other areas. The accomplishments of the 2021 ACM Fellows underpin important innovations that shape the technologies we use every day.

Announcements from CRA-WP

January 20, 2022/In: People, CRA-WP, Awards, Featured Announcements /

Congratulations to both of the CRA-WP Co-Chairs!

CCC Program Associate Position Openings

January 12, 2022/In: CCC, Featured Announcements /

The Computing Research Association (CRA) seeks two highly-motivated individuals to join its staff as Program Associate or Senior Program Associate (depending on qualifications and experience). The positions involve work primarily with CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) subcommittee, which aims to catalyze the computing research community to pursue innovative, high-impact research. The CCC is run as a cooperative agreement between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and CRA.

CRA-E 2022 SIGCSE TS Pre‐Symposium Event for Teaching-Track Faculty

January 10, 2022/In: Education, Featured Announcements /

The CRA Education Committee, with support from NSF, is organizing a Pre-Symposium Event for Teaching-Track Faculty at SIGCSE 2022. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 from 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM EST. We are now accepting applications to the event! Click here for more information and a tentative agenda.

2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Recipients

January 4, 2022/In: Featured Announcements, Education, Outstanding Undergrad Researchers /

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. This year’s nominees are a very impressive group. A number of them were commended for making significant contributions to more than one research project, several are authors or coauthors on multiple papers, others have created papers for major conferences, as well as producing software, apps and algorithms.

Tracy Camp Named Computing Research Association Executive Director

December 17, 2021/In: Education, CRA-WP, CRA Board of Directors, Diversity, People, Featured Announcements /

The Computing Research Association recently announced Dr. Tracy Camp will become its next Executive Director starting July 1, 2022. Camp is currently the Department Head of Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines. She brings to the role strong experience as a leader in the computing research community at the national level, a history spearheading diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in computing, and a detailed vision for leading the organization into the future.

Nominations Open for the 2022 CRA-WP Early Career Awards

December 9, 2021/In: CRA-WP, Awards, Diversity, Featured Announcements /

CRA-WP welcomes your nominations for the Early Career Awards honoring Anita Borg and Clarence “Skip” Ellis. Nominations are due February 15, 2022, at 11:59 PM ET.

Learn more about the award eligibility and the nomination process: https://cra.org/cra-wp/early-career-awards

Technology Leaders Create Endowed Professorship Fund at University of Washington in Honor of Former CRA and CCC Chair Ed Lazowska

December 3, 2021/In: People, CCC, Featured Announcements, CRA /

The University of Washington (UW) Allen School recently shared the story behind the creation of a new professorship honoring Ed Lazowska in recognition of his incredible impact on the computing research community. The Endowed Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering in Honor of Edward D. Lazowska was the brainchild of Peter Lee of Microsoft and […]

Analysis of Current and Future Computer Science Needs via Advertised Faculty Searches for 2022

December 2, 2021/In: Featured Announcements, CRA /

This work uses the same methodology applied over eight years to study where Computer Science departments are choosing to invest faculty positions using data obtained from advertised tenure-track searches for the current hiring season. This work also provides an opportunity to continue to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on faculty hiring in Computer Science for hires starting in 2022.

We analyzed ads from 400 institutions seeking to fill hundreds of tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science. This number is a 70% increase from last year at this time (mid-November) and is a comparable number to the 394 institutions searching for 2020. The number of tenure-track positions sought is doubled from last year and up 6% from two years ago indicating a recovery in demand after a one-year drop due to the pandemic. The number of BS/BA institutions seeking faculty is at an eight-year high with top PhD and private PhD institutions at eight-year highs in the number of positions being sought.

NITRD 30th Anniversary Commemoration

November 18, 2021/In: CCC, Featured Announcements /

Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 12pm EST for a special virtual event marking the 30th anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. For three decades, the NITRD program has coordinated federal investment at the frontiers of computing, networking, data, and software, leading to many of the breakthrough information technologies that define our lives today, like the modern Internet as well as 4G, LTE, and 5G wireless networks, expanding access to broadband connectivity, information, and other resources; vehicle-to-vehicle communication, enhancing driver safety and reducing traffic congestion; and machine learning and predictive modeling, advancing understanding of human diseases like COVID-19 leading to therapeutics.

CRA-E Webinar Available: The Ph.D. in CS – Getting There and Being Successful

November 16, 2021/In: Education, For Students, Featured Announcements /

Members of the CRA-Education Committee hosted a webinar titled “The Ph.D. in CS: Getting There and Being Successful.” The webinar is designed to help undergraduates evaluate whether a Ph.D. program is right for them, and how to determine which program is a great fit.

Candidates Sought for CRA Board of Directors

November 15, 2021/In: CRA Board of Directors, Featured Announcements /

The Computing Research Association seeks your help in recruiting candidates for its Board of Directors. We want individuals who have time, energy, initiative, and resources to work on CRA issues on behalf of the entire CRA community. We have a working Board, and all members are expected to work on community issues. Candidates may nominate themselves by completing this form. The deadline for receipt of nominations is December 17, 2021.