Congressional Innovation Fellowships Accepting Applications for 2025 Class; Deadline to Apply August 5
Tech Congress’ call for applications for its 2025 Congressional Innovation Fellowship.
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Congressional Innovation Fellowships Accepting Applications for 2024 Class; Deadline to Apply August 22
/In: General, Misc., People /by Brian MosleyTech Congress’ call for applications for its 2024 Congressional Innovation Fellowship.
White House Announces Awardees of Presidential Medal of Freedom; Multiple Computing Pioneers Among Recipients
/In: Misc., People /by Brian MosleyThe White House announced that President Obama named 21 recipients of the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Of note to our community, the group contained a number of computing pioneers; specifically, Grace Hopper (a posthumous awardee), Bill and Melinda Gates, and Margaret H. Hamilton.
Congressional Innovation Fellowships Accepting Applications for 2017 Class
/In: Misc., People /by Brian MosleyDo you have expertise in technological issues? Are you interested in how legislation impacts tech issues? There’s a Congressional fellowship for you!
Deadline is Next Week for IEEE-CS Award Nominations
/In: Misc., People /by Brian MosleyIEEE Computer Society, “the world’s leading membership organization dedicated to computer science and technology,” and a member of CRA, is looking for nominations for three prestigious annual awards. The deadline to submit nominations is next Wednesday, July 1st. The details on each award are below. If you would like to nominate someone, please go to […]
Call for Applications for ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program
/In: Diversity in Computing, Misc., People /by Brian MosleyThe Association for Computing Machinary (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society, two of the premiere organizations for computer and computing scientists, and members of CRA, are looking for exceptional PhD students in the high-performance computing field to apply for the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program. The details of the program, including application requirements and […]
Help the Marconi Society identify outstanding young scientists & engineers!
/In: Misc., People /by Brian MosleyThe prestigious Marconi Society, established in 1974 to honor Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel laureate who invented radio, is seeking nominations for its Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards. The award, “recognizes young scientists and engineers with the potential to make game-changing contributions in the field of communications and the Internet.” While this award is separate from […]
“If we want to out compete, we have to out compute,” witnesses tell Congressional Science Committee
/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian MosleyOn Wednesday January 28th, the Energy Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing on, “Supercomputing and American Technology Leadership.” The witnesses that were called, who spanned the public and private sectors in high performance computing (HPC), gave the simple message that in order to out compete other nations, America needs […]
AAAS is making the “CASE” for undergrads & grad students to be science advocates!
/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian MosleyIf you are an upper-class undergrad, or are in grad school, and you’ve always been interested in science policy, but didn’t know where to begin, then do we have a lead for you! The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has brought together for a second year, a coalition of scientific and engineering […]
Intel Announces Major Effort to Improve Diversity in the Computing Community
/In: Diversity in Computing, Misc., People /by Brian MosleyWhile the Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) has a reputation for announcing hot new products, once and awhile other really important news gets announced too. On January 6th, Intel announced at CES 2015 that they were making a major investment to improve representation of women and under-represented minorities both within their own company and the […]
