Archive of articles published in the 2023 issue.
by Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2024 Jefferson Science Fellowships (JSF). Established by the Secretary of State in 2003, these fellowships serve as an innovative model for engaging the American science, engineering, and medical communities in the […]
by Maddy Hunter, Program Associate, CCC Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set out to create four new algorithms capable of withstanding an attack by quantum computers. Last month, NIST released draft standards for three new algorithms, with a fourth planned to be released in about a year. CRYSTALS-Kyber, designed for […]
By Catherine Gill, Program Associate, CCC September 25, 2023 marked the first official day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and covered the HLF conference every year since 2018, with the exception of last year, 2022. This year we are back in action, and will be […]
By Julia Sepulveda Avalos, Program Associate, CRA-E In an effort to increase the number of women and other gender-marginalized students (especially those who identify as Black, Latinx, Native, and/or Indigenous) who pursue doctoral studies in computing, the Computing Research Association (CRA) launched the UR2PhD (pronounced “you are to PhD”) program this year. To achieve its […]
By Yasra Chandio (CRA-E Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) This Q&A highlight features Stephen Price, an Honorable Mention of the 2023 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Stephen finished his BS at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and is now pursuing an MS/PhD in […]
By Julia Sepulveda Avalos (Program Associate, CRA-E), Kelly Shaw (CRA-E Co-Chair), Lori Pollock (CRA-E Co-Chair), Janet Davis (CRA-E Board), Steven Swanson (CRA-E Board), and Amy Ko (CRA-E Board) The Computing Research Association’s Education Committee (CRA-E) recently launched a new website: Student Pathways into Research in Computing (SPARC). The SPARC website is a resource for people […]
By Denys Poshyvanyk (Selection Committee Co-Chair, College of William & Mary) and Gary Holness (Selection Committee Co-Chair, Clark University) The CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award recognizes individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing. […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs On September 20, 2023, twenty-two computing researchers from across the country visited Washington, D.C. to make the case for federally funded computing research. The volunteers, traveling from as near as Maryland and North Carolina, and as far away as Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Indiana, participated in over 55 […]
By Brian Mosley, Associate Director, Government Affairs Unless you’ve had your head in the sand, you’ve likely heard that artificial intelligence is a big deal right now. Nowhere is this more evident than in Congress, where there has been an almost constant drum beat to do something legislatively with regard to AI. But what is […]
By Helen Wright, Manager, CRA-I CRA-Industry will host a virtual roundtable on December 6th, from 3-4:30PM ET, centered around the critical theme of “Healthcare Data Sharing.” The event will be moderated by Tammy Toscos from Parkview Health and Divesh Srivastava from AT&T. Confirmed speakers include Margarita Gonzales (Digital Transformation Leader, Georgia Tech Research), Belinda Seto […]
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 […]
