Published: January 2018, Issue: Vol. 30/No.1, Download as PDF
Archive of articles published in the January 2018, Vol. 30/No.1 issue.
The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is the flagship invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community. A preliminary program is now available and will be updated on the CRA website as additional information becomes available.
CRA is pleased to announce the 2018 Election Committee’s slate of nominees for the CRA Board. CRA also encourages nominations by petition.
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2018 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 made presentations at major conferences, and some have produced software artifacts that were in widespread use. Click on the article for the full list of awardees, runners-up, finalists, and honorable mentions.
The CRA Education Committee is organizing a “Professional Development Workshop for Teaching-Track Faculty” on on February 21 in conjunction with SIGCSE 2018.
On December 12, 2017, CRA hosted the Summit on Technology and Jobs in Washington, DC. The day was packed with sessions that explored issues surrounding the impact of artificial intelligence and the future of work. Leading technologists, economists, and policy experts offered their views on where technology is headed and what its impact may be, and on policy issues raised by these projections and possible policy responses. Videos and slides from the event are now available.
Salary Survey
The salary report is available for academic units that completed the salary section of the survey. Taulbee users in responding academic units can download the report from within the CRA Taulbee system at https://taulbee.cra.org.
Main Survey
The deadline for the main Taulbee Survey, collecting student and faculty data, has been extended to January 16 for all academic units.
Teaching Position Survey
The one-time teaching position survey is collecting information about academic unit policies and practices concerning full time teaching faculty who are not on the traditional tenure track. The due date is January 22. Results from this survey will be made public later this year.
My research focuses on empowering individuals through computing technologies that more effectively match their knowledge, experience, abilities, and goals. The majority of my recent research has focused on accessibility-related issues. Working with my students, our research employs a broad definition of accessibility, seeking to empower individuals with disabilities as well as individuals who may experience challenges due to the environment in which they are using computing technologies.
The 2018 call for CCC Council member nominations.
The CCC Symposium was held on October 23-24, 2017 in Washington, DC. This article is focused on the Security and Privacy for Democracy Panel.
Microsoft Research Podcast recently interviewed Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member and CCC Intelligent Infrastructure (II) Task Force Co-Chair Ben Zorn, from Microsoft Research, on programming languages and how they are impacting the world.
In recent weeks, several sources have reported on two security design flaws in computer hardware that involve undesirable interactions between processor speculative execution and memory protection, but whose implications are still emerging.
