November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 Archives

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Archive of articles published in the November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 issue.

New from CRA: Database of Candidates for Academic and Industrial/Government Laboratory Positions

In: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

CRA has started a new service intended to improve the recruiting process for academic and industrial/government laboratory research positions.

Candidates for these positions can upload their resumes, research and teaching statements, job objectives and other preferences, and a link to a presentation video. Recruiting officers with access are able to search this information and are encouraged to contact candidates.

The database can be accessed through https://cra.org/cv-database/. For further information, including an instructional video, visit: https://cra.org/cv-database/#Info.

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Midterm Election Impact: Mixed Results for Science and Research

By: Brian Mosley, CRA Policy AnalystIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

The long, long awaited 2018 Midterm elections have come and (mostly) gone. As you’ve probably heard, the Democrats have gained control of the House of Representatives, while the Republicans have increased their majority in the Senate. But what does this mean for science here in Washington? Find out more in this article.

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Expanding the Pipeline: CRA-W Expands Research Mentoring at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

By: A. J. Brush and Andrea DanylukIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

The 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) broke its attendance records again, with more than 20,000 participants gathering in Houston, Texas, from September 26th through September 28th, and CRA-W also broke its attendance records with a variety of programs for GHC attendees interested in research. From talks, panels, and mentoring circles to the CRA-W Research Scholars Program to poster presentations and sponsorship of other sessions, CRA-W played an important role at the conference.

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CRA Board Member Highlight: Rachel Pottinger

By: Rachel PottingerIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

Increasingly, jobs rely on the ability to use computers to interpret, understand, and trust data. For example, my students and I have worked with ornithologists who cannot understand the representations of their bird sightings, civil engineers who cannot easily use their own building data, finance experts who cannot trace money between companies and their subsidiaries, and an XML document company whose clients cannot understand data that appears outside of their reports. In each case, the data users have been hampered because their data is exceedingly difficult to understand and trust, even though the users are experts in their fields. One reason for this difficulty is that the organization of the data is often designed for computers, not for people (i.e., for storage, not accessibility). Another reason is that data often come from different sources, leaving users with the challenge of integrating data that they neither understand nor trust.

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CRA Board Member Highlight: Barbara G. Ryder

By: Barbara G. RyderIn: 2019, November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

My computer science research career started during my college internship at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, during the early 1970s in the center that later produced UNIX and the portable C compiler. This experience taught me that computing was broader than the introduction to scientific programming in my undergraduate studies in applied math. (There was no computer science undergraduate major at the time.) For most of my career, I was interested in deriving descriptions of program execution behaviors from code in order, for example, to optimize program time and/or memory performance, to validate desirable properties such as correctness or data security, or to refactor code for ease of maintenance.

Increasing diversity in computing has been my passion throughout my career, mostly through my informal mentoring of female CS students at Rutgers and Virginia Tech, participating in CRA-W mentoring workshops, and leading efforts in CS at Virginia Tech College of Engineering to join with NCWIT to increase the gender diversity of our CS students.

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CCC Response to NITRD “RFI on Update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan”

By: CCC StaffIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

The CCC responded to NITRD NCO’s “RFI on Update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.” Their response was then endorsed by a number of societies in a corresponding statement.

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CCC Robotic Materials Workshop Report

By: CCC StaffIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

CCC held a Robotic Materials workshop in Washington, DC. This workshop was the second in a series of interdisciplinary workshops aimed at transforming our notion of materials to become “robotic”, that is have the ability to sense and impact their environment. The workshop report has been published here.

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Quantum Computing Workshop Report

By: CCC StaffIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has recently released a workshop report from the May 2018 workshop Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role.

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NSF DCL- EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Society – Supported Jointly with the Partnership on AI

By: Jim Kurose, Assistant Director, CISE and Arthur Lupia, Assistant Director, SBEIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

The goal of this Dear Colleague Letter, which specifically mentions the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) AI Roadmap, is to encourage the submission of EAGERs on understanding the social challenges arising from AI technology and enable scientific contribute to overcoming them.

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Helping Others is the Highest Rated Career Value for Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students in Computing

By: Burçin Tamer, Director of CERPIn: November 2018, Vol. 30/No.10 /

Undergraduate and graduate students in computing fields were asked to rate how much importance they place on a list of 15 career values. Helping others was rated the highest by both groups of students.

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Former Board Member Sarita Adve Named Recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award

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Former CRA Board Member Sarita Adve (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) was recently named the 2018 recipient of the ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. She is being recognized “for research contributions and leadership in the development of memory consistency models for C++ and Java, for service to numerous computer science organizations, and for exceptional mentoring.”

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