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CRA Welcomes Satoe Sakuma as its 2016 Eben Tisdale Fellow

June 8, 2016/In: People /by Shar Steed

By Satoe Sakuma, 2016 Eben Tisdale Fellow
I am currently a rising senior at Boston University, double majoring in computer science and international relations with a focus in East Asian economics. I am very interested in high tech public policy, especially areas of cybersecurity, because it allows me to utilize both my areas of studies. My two very different majors are finally coming together during my last year as an undergraduate student through my acceptance into the senior honors program, which requires a year-long research project culminating with a thesis and defense. My thesis will examine data privacy laws in East Asia.

NSF Funded Vision Assistance Technology Amazes at the 2016 CNSF Exhibition

May 5, 2016/In: Events, People, Research /by Brian Mosley

On April 26th, the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF), an alliance of over 140 professional organizations, universities, and businesses, held their 22nd Annual Capitol Hill Exhibition. CNSF supports the goal of increasing the federal investment in the National Science Foundation’s research and education programs, and the exhibition itself is a great way to show members of Congress and their staff what research the American people have funded.

Microsoft Research VP to Speak to Congress about Importance of Federal Research Funding

October 20, 2015/In: COMPETES, People /by Brian Mosley

Jeannette Wing, a corporate vice president at Microsoft Research overseeing the company’s core research labs and former CRA board member (and current member of CRA’s), has an excellent post on the importance of federally supported fundamental research.

News Catch-up: Congress Avoids Shutdown; Boehner Quits; Budget Still Unsettled

October 8, 2015/In: FY16 Appropriations, People, Policy /by Peter Harsha

[Update (10/8/15: 12:40 pm): Well, that was quick. McCarthy has apparently withdrawn from the Speaker race and the leadership election has been postponed… ] [From this month’s Computing Research News] A last-minute agreement hammered out September 30th between the House and Senate, just hours before the start of the new Federal fiscal year, averted a government […]

Deadline is Next Week for IEEE-CS Award Nominations

June 24, 2015/In: Misc., People /by Brian Mosley

IEEE 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

April 14, 2015/In: Diversity in Computing, Misc., People /by Brian Mosley

The 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!

March 17, 2015/In: Misc., People /by Brian Mosley

The 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

February 2, 2015/In: Misc., People, Policy /by Brian Mosley

On 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 […]

Sustained investment in research is needed to combat cyber threats, CISE AD tells Congress

January 29, 2015/In: Cybersecurity R&D Highlights, People, Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

On Tuesday January 27th, the Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, & Technology Committee held it’s first hearing of the 114th Congress. The topic was expanding cyber threats and cybersecurity, and the subcommittee heard from experts from both the private sector and government agencies. Assistant Director of CISE, Jim Kurose, testifying for […]

Reminder: LiSPI Deadline is this Friday the 23rd!

January 20, 2015/In: Computing Community Consortium (CCC), People /by Brian Mosley

We’re entering the final stretch for submitting nominations and applications for the 2015 Leadership in Science Policy workshop. The deadline is this Friday, January 23rd; we’ll be letting those who are selected know by February 2nd. If you know of someone who meets the qualifications and you would like to nominate them, or if you […]

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