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2024 CRA Conference at Snowbird
The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is an invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community.
NSF LEVEL UP – Portland
The goal of NSF LEVEL UP is to build consensus around a united vision of inclusive undergraduate computing education. Through collaboration with a respected advisory board of computing educators and professionals from across the country, the NSF LEVEL UP project will develop an evidence-based report of best practices that computing departments should implement nationwide.
2024 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop
CRA’s biennial Career Mentoring Workshops (CMWs) provide valuable career advice and mentoring activities to people just beginning or in the early stages of their computing research careers.
Building on the success of more than two decades of workshops for starting a tenure-track position in academia, this year’s program is expanded to include a workshop on teaching.
CRA Leadership Academy for Faculty
The CRA Leadership Academy seeks to help inform and cultivate future leaders in computing and computing research through a one-day in-person workshop, and a few follow-up virtual meetings among the Leadership Academy cohort.
Accessible Technology for All
The purpose of this workshop was to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole.
BPCnet.org BPC Plan Workshop
As part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering’s (CISE) commitment to broaden participation in computing (BPC), several NSF CISE programs now require PIs to have a meaningful Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plan at the time of the award. Computing departments are encouraged to develop Departmental BPC Plans that faculty can use in their proposals for those NSF programs.
To support academic institutions in developing a Departmental BPC Plan, the Computing Research Association (CRA) is hosting an NSF-funded in-person workshop on August 3-5, 2022 in Denver, CO.
The workshop will present information on Departmental BPC Plans, hands-on activities and resources to develop Plans, and real-time feedback from BPC Plan consultants. Please check back later for details on how to sign up for these sessions. Participants are also encouraged to meet individually with BPC Consultants by making a free appointment on BPCnet.org.
2022 CRA Conference at Snowbird
The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is the flagship invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community.
Best Practices on using the Cloud for Computing Research Workshop
To discuss best practices on using the cloud for computing research and the resulting synergistic opportunities across industry, academia, and government.
2022 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop
The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was held by the Computing Research Association February 24 – 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. This exciting workshop provides advice and mentoring activities for those starting an academic computing research career. Most attendees are in their first or second year as assistant professors. The workshop, consisting of a series of panels, is interspersed with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from government agencies.
CRA-Industry Virtual Roundtable on Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research
A major focus in computing research across industry, academia, and government is to advance the frontiers of computing by experimenting with leading-edge compute platforms. This was initially at odds with early instances of cloud/warehouse computing that focused on deploying commodity rather than state-of-the-art systems. However, cloud computing platforms have advanced significantly during the last two decades to the point where there are now many notable examples of their use in research. Further, the cloud’s “pay as you go” model has proved attractive for research related to machine learning and data analytics that benefit from elastic provisioning of resources. It is noteworthy that NSF has extended its CloudBank portal with a CloudBank Catalog with links to commercial cloud services that can be paid from NSF grants. Hence, increased use of the cloud for computing research could offer new revenue opportunities to cloud providers, in addition to joint research across industry and academia. There will also likely be a crossover from the use of cloud computing for research to its use in teaching, thereby making future generations of computing professionals more accustomed to cloud platforms.
CRA Industry Roundtable: Corporate Responsibility and Computing Research
Today, more companies are deliberately extending their social responsibility initiatives at the behest of investors, customers, and employees. How should industry be viewing and factoring societal equity into its research agendas? This roundtable will explore the concept, principles, and best practices of socially responsible computing research. Ideally, participants will gain a sense of considerations that might apply to their strategic research planning by developing a broad framework for the concept of research equity that goes beyond recent examples in machine learning.
CRA Virtual Conference 2020
While the biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird will be postponed to next summer, we will be holding an online meeting this summer on Wednesday, July 22nd, and Thursday, July 23rd.
2020 Career Mentoring Workshop
The eleventh biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was held by the Computing Research Association on February 27 and 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. This exciting workshop provides advice and mentoring activities for those starting an academic computing research career. Most attendees are in their first or second year as assistant professors. The workshop, consisting of a series of panels, is interspersed with opportunities to network with senior researchers and representatives from government agencies.
2019 URMD Grad Cohort
At the CRA URMD Grad Cohort Workshop, participants will spend two days interacting with senior computing researchers and professionals, who will share pertinent information on graduate school survival skills, as well as more personal information and insights about their experiences. The workshop includes a mix of formal presentations and informal discussions and social events. By attending URMD Grad Cohort, participants will build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks that will form the basis for ongoing activities during their graduate career and beyond.
2018 Career Mentoring Workshop
The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was offered by the Computing Research Association on February 26-27, 2018, at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, V.A.
Summit on Technology and Jobs
The goal of the summit was to put the issue of technology and jobs on the national agenda in an informed and deliberate manner. The summit brought together leading technologists, economists, and policy experts who 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. The summit was hosted by the Computing Research Association, as part of its mission to engage the computing research community to provide trusted, non-partisan input to policy thinkers and makers.
2018 CRA Grad Cohort Workshop for Underrepresented Minorities + Persons with Disabilities (URMD)
At the CRA URMD Grad Cohort Workshop, participants spent two days interacting with senior computing researchers and professionals, who shared pertinent information on graduate school survival skills, as well as more personal information and insights about their experiences. The workshop included a mix of formal presentations and informal discussions and social events. By attending URMD Grad Cohort participants were able to build mentoring relationships and develop peer networks that will form the basis for ongoing activities during their graduate career and beyond.
2018 CRA Conference at Snowbird
The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is the flagship invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community.
2016 CRA Conference at Snowbird
The biennial CRA Conference at Snowbird is the flagship invitation-only conference for the leadership of the North American computing research community.
2016 CRA Career Mentoring Workshop
The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was offered by the Computing Research Association February 22-23, 2016, at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, V.A.
Career Mentoring Workshop 2012
Speaker presentations are available by clicking on the links below.
CRA Career Mentoring Workshop 2014
The biennial Career Mentoring Workshop was offered by the Computing Research Association on February 24 and 25, 2014, at the Westin Georgetown Hotel in Washington, DC.
Workshop 2: Advancing Data-Intensive Research in Education
Workshop with a focus on case studies of big data usage in education, building on insights from the first. Chris Dede from Harvard University is the intellectual lead for this effort.
Workshop 1: Advancing Data-Intensive Research in Education
This workshop is focused on case studies of effective partnerships outside of education between big data producers and consumers
