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Research Highlight: CRA Board Member Dan Grossman


Since I started graduate school in 1997, I have considered myself a member of the programming languages research community — and I continue to attend and publish in the annual conferences of this vibrant computing subfield. But over the last 5-10 years, I have also found myself increasingly passionate about opportunities for computing researchers to focus on ways to influence computing education beyond, for those of us who are academics, our own classrooms and independent studies. Let me share some of the projects I have enjoyed (seriously!) and others I wish I had more time to pursue.

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Research Highlight: CRA Board Member Brent Hailpern


My research is concerned with understanding and facilitating the lifecycle of cognitive software, which is substantially different than that of conventional software. This difference has profound implications for the methodology and tools required to build such software. Cognitive software includes at least one “cognitive” or “intelligent” component, such as a component implemented using machine learning, neural networks, or rules. Often multiple cognitive components will be involved in a cognitive application or service, but even just one is enough to impart special and challenging complications.