By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications CRA has received its largest-ever award, $42.1 million, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand its role in the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (CSGrad4US). Launched by NSF in 2021, CSGrad4US aims to boost the number and diversity of domestic graduate students […]
By Alex Aiken and Nancy M. Amato, co-chairs of the CRA Working Group on Research Integrity It is difficult to overstate the importance to computing research of integrity—the observation of formal rules and norms about what is acceptable in the preparation, submission, and peer review of research publications. Our computing research community relies on the […]
By the CRA Leadership Academy Program Committee CRA held its inaugural CRA Leadership Academy to inform and cultivate future leaders in computing and computing research in Chicago May 22-23, 2023. There were 36 attendees from institutions across the United States and Canada. All attendees were recently promoted to full professors or likely to be promoted […]
By Betsy Bizot, Senior Research Associate The 2023 CRA Taulbee Survey will be launching soon! As has been CRA’s recent practice, the survey will be split into two parts, salary and main (everything else). This allows us to set an earlier deadline for the salary section in order to produce a preliminary salary report […]
By Samir Khuller, CRA Board Member, and Janine Myszka, CRA Program Associate CRA’s CV Database is now accepting materials from graduating PhD students for the 2023-2024 recruitment season! Please encourage PhD students who are set to graduate this academic year to post their credentials to the CRA CV Database. Graduating students are encouraged to […]
By Catherine Gill, Program Associate, CCC The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be hosting the final workshop of a three-part series titled, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Operations Research (OR), in late February or early March 2024, to set a course for fundamental research that needs the partnership of both disciplines. Organized by Yu […]
By Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC An important role of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is responding to government requests for information. The CCC does this by recruiting various members of the computing research community to synthesize main points and incorporate a variety of opinions into a response. In the past couple of months alone, […]
By Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC Previous CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s research was recently featured in a ZME Science article “Can we screen the world? How smartphones and watches are revolutionizing global health (and just getting started)”. A new frontier of personalized medicine has arrived with the help of smart technologies such as smartphones […]
By Ama Nyame-Mensah, Senior Research Associate, CERP Are you a new or existing REU Principal Investigator? Do you need to fulfill your REU Site evaluation requirement? Sign up to participate in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) Comparative Evaluation of Undergraduate Research Opportunities on Student Interest in Research Careers in […]
By the CRA-E Committee The CRA Education Committee (CRA-E) is excited to announce that Renee Bryce, Dorian Arnold, and Stacy Branham joined as board members. The CRA-E board would also like to recognize and extend their gratitude to Emeritus member Amy Ko, who recently completed her service on the board. Amy was instrumental in […]
By Julia Sepulveda Avalos, Program Associate, CRA-E Each year, CRA celebrates and recognizes undergraduates who demonstrate outstanding potential in an area of computing research through the Undergraduate Research Awards (URA). We encourage faculty to nominate undergraduate researchers who demonstrate strong interest in and commitment to contributing to the field. Award recipients will receive financial […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs With Labor Day behind us, Congress has returned from its August Recess, and the legislative body has been met with some major, yet typical, items on its September to-do list. The most significant being passing a continuing resolution to keep the federal government running after the start of […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs In mid-August, the Biden Administration released a memo to the Federal research agencies outlining their research and development priorities for the Fiscal Year 2025 budget. The memo provides guidance to the agencies on how to prepare their budget request submissions for the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), […]
By Helen V. Wright, Manager, CRA-Industry Computing Research Association-Industry (CRA-I), whose mission is to convene industry partners on computing research topics of mutual interest, has an active Steering Committee (SC) that uses the following workflow to impact the computing research industry community. The SC has had over 30 conversations with those in […]
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CRA Update: NSF Selects CRA to Manage CSGrad4US Program That Will Award Over 220 3-Year Fellowships
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications CRA has received its largest-ever award, $42.1 million, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand its role in the NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (CSGrad4US). Launched by NSF in 2021, CSGrad4US aims to boost the number and diversity of domestic graduate students […]
New CRA Report Addresses Growing Integrity Concerns in Computing Research
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Alex Aiken and Nancy M. Amato, co-chairs of the CRA Working Group on Research Integrity It is difficult to overstate the importance to computing research of integrity—the observation of formal rules and norms about what is acceptable in the preparation, submission, and peer review of research publications. Our computing research community relies on the […]
CRA’s Inaugural Leadership Academy
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By the CRA Leadership Academy Program Committee CRA held its inaugural CRA Leadership Academy to inform and cultivate future leaders in computing and computing research in Chicago May 22-23, 2023. There were 36 attendees from institutions across the United States and Canada. All attendees were recently promoted to full professors or likely to be promoted […]
2023 CRA Taulbee Survey: Data Collection to Begin This Month
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Betsy Bizot, Senior Research Associate The 2023 CRA Taulbee Survey will be launching soon! As has been CRA’s recent practice, the survey will be split into two parts, salary and main (everything else). This allows us to set an earlier deadline for the salary section in order to produce a preliminary salary report […]
CRA’s CV Database Is Now Accepting Applications from Graduating PhD Students
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Samir Khuller, CRA Board Member, and Janine Myszka, CRA Program Associate CRA’s CV Database is now accepting materials from graduating PhD students for the 2023-2024 recruitment season! Please encourage PhD students who are set to graduate this academic year to post their credentials to the CRA CV Database. Graduating students are encouraged to […]
Call for Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Catherine Gill, Program Associate, CCC The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be hosting the final workshop of a three-part series titled, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Operations Research (OR), in late February or early March 2024, to set a course for fundamental research that needs the partnership of both disciplines. Organized by Yu […]
CCC’s Recent Responses to the Community Highlights
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC An important role of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is responding to government requests for information. The CCC does this by recruiting various members of the computing research community to synthesize main points and incorporate a variety of opinions into a response. In the past couple of months alone, […]
How Smartphones and Watches are Revolutionizing Global Health
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC Previous CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel’s research was recently featured in a ZME Science article “Can we screen the world? How smartphones and watches are revolutionizing global health (and just getting started)”. A new frontier of personalized medicine has arrived with the help of smart technologies such as smartphones […]
Need Evaluation for Your Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Project?
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Ama Nyame-Mensah, Senior Research Associate, CERP Are you a new or existing REU Principal Investigator? Do you need to fulfill your REU Site evaluation requirement? Sign up to participate in the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Center for Evaluating the Research Pipeline (CERP) Comparative Evaluation of Undergraduate Research Opportunities on Student Interest in Research Careers in […]
CRA-E Welcomes Three New Board Members
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By the CRA-E Committee The CRA Education Committee (CRA-E) is excited to announce that Renee Bryce, Dorian Arnold, and Stacy Branham joined as board members. The CRA-E board would also like to recognize and extend their gratitude to Emeritus member Amy Ko, who recently completed her service on the board. Amy was instrumental in […]
2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award: Nominations Open September 12
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Julia Sepulveda Avalos, Program Associate, CRA-E Each year, CRA celebrates and recognizes undergraduates who demonstrate outstanding potential in an area of computing research through the Undergraduate Research Awards (URA). We encourage faculty to nominate undergraduate researchers who demonstrate strong interest in and commitment to contributing to the field. Award recipients will receive financial […]
FY24 Appropriations Update: Congress’ September To-Do List is Short but Contentious
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs With Labor Day behind us, Congress has returned from its August Recess, and the legislative body has been met with some major, yet typical, items on its September to-do list. The most significant being passing a continuing resolution to keep the federal government running after the start of […]
Biden Administration Releases R&D Priorities Memo for Next Year’s Budget Request
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs In mid-August, the Biden Administration released a memo to the Federal research agencies outlining their research and development priorities for the Fiscal Year 2025 budget. The memo provides guidance to the agencies on how to prepare their budget request submissions for the Office of Management & Budget (OMB), […]
Subscribe to CRA-Industry Updates
In: September 2023, Vol. 35/No.8, Current Issue /By Helen V. Wright, Manager, CRA-Industry Computing Research Association-Industry (CRA-I), whose mission is to convene industry partners on computing research topics of mutual interest, has an active Steering Committee (SC) that uses the following workflow to impact the computing research industry community. The SC has had over 30 conversations with those in […]