Jay Vegso’s got an interesting post on the CRA Bulletin with a look at the latest NSF data on graduate science and engineering enrollments. The news for computer science isn’t particularly good — it’s the only discipline out of the 37 or so listed that showed a decrease in enrollments in 2003. Read Jay’s post […]
The Washington Post’s Politics Columnist (and resident contrarian) Robert Samuelson has an interesting Op-Ed in yesterday’s edition dealing with the fact that the U.S. is producing “a shrinking share of the world’s technological talent.” After noting that there’s a pay disparity between science and engineering PhDs and other “elites” like MBAs, doctors and lawyers that […]
Interesting article today in the University of Texas’ The Daily Texan about efforts at the school to encourage the participation of women in computer science. The school runs a one-week summer camp for junior and senior high school girls to expose them to the world of computer science, which, as the article points out, is […]
InternetNews.com has coverage of the opening of Microsoft Research’s sixth annual Faculty Summit, a “a unique opportunity for faculty members and Microsoft researchers, architects, and executives to collectively discuss a vision for the future of computing.” Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates had some interesting comments to open the event (along with ACM past-President Maria […]
The Mercury News has another nice piece today relating to the history of computing (see yesterday’s post on the Merc’s coverage of the history of SRI). This time the focus is on Vint Cerf and his thoughts about the Internet he helped enable, in advance of ACM’s awarding of Cerf and his former research partner […]
First, there was Jay Vegso’s Computing Research News article: “Interest in CS as a Major Drops Among Incoming Freshmen” Then his blog post. Then C-Net picked it up. Then Techdirt. Now it’s hit Slashdot and the comments are pouring in.
Federal Computer Week has a depressing article today on the impact of recent and planned cuts to NASA’s IT programs. The agency’s IT R&D programs are due to decline $66 million in FY 2005, with a further cut of $89 million requested in the President’s FY 2006 budget — a figure that would represent a […]
CRA’s Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W) held its 2005 edition of the Grad Cohort Workshops over the weekend in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar with the program, it aims to increase the ranks of senior women in computing by building and mentoring nationwide cohorts of women through their graduate […]
Apologies for the lack of timely blogging, but things in CRA-ville are a little bit crazy as we prepare for our Spring Board Meeting, CRA’s Computing Leadership Summit, and our annual congressional visits day — all next week. But there is a story that is a little dated, but certainly worth a note here. CRA […]
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — a CRA-affiliated organization — has named Vint Cerf and CRA Board Member Bob Kahn the winners of the 2004 A.M. Turing Award for pioneering work on the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols. ACM President David Patterson said the collaboration of Cerf and Kahn in […]
