In the previous entry, I mentioned that the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation (of which CRA is a member) was planning an event on November 16th to release its “Benchmarks II” report and press Congress to finish its good work on funding the President’s American Competitiveness Initiative. Well, we can now share […]
Steve Lohr has a great piece today in the NY Times on the state of CS, called “Computing, 2016: What Won’t be Possible?” The essay was apparently spurred by last week’s CSTB’s 20th Anniversary symposium, which I regret that I couldn’t attend. (Fortunately Cameron and David from ACM’s U.S. Public Policy Committee did and have […]
A few interesting pieces/tidbits to juxtapose this morning. Sam Liles helpfully forwarded this piece from The Tennessean on the declining interest in computer science as a major, which is apparently getting a fair bit of play on digg.com. The article asks the now familiar question: Computer science majors make some of the highest starting salaries […]
The Council on Competitiveness will unveil a “new study regarding public-private partnerships that leverage supercomputing resources funded by the federal government for greater industry strength” on September 7 during the Third High Performance Computing Users Conference. The announcement can be found on HPC Wire and we’ll post more details once the study is released.
Last June, CRA joined with over 300 other science and university groups in filing comments (pdf) opposing the Department of Commerce’s proposed change to so-called “deemed export” regulations that would seriously impact university research efforts. A deemed export occurs when a foreign national “uses” technology subject to export restrictions while in the United States. The […]
Sen. John Sununu (R-NH), known as one of the biggest budget hawks on the Hill (in fact, he’s the highest ranked “taxpayers’ friend” in the Senate, according to the National Taxpayers Union) has his take on the current push for competitiveness legislation in today’s Washington Times. While it’s not surprising that he sees lots of […]
Another quick pointer to some articles of potential interest of readers. FCW has three noteworthy pieces today. Michael Hardy has a good article on whether government and industry remain committed enough to research to keep the U.S. competitive in the years to come. At one time, the United States was the undisputed center of innovative […]
Just a quick pointer to an interesting Computerworld <a href=article featuring comments from Kenneth Berman, Randy Bryant, John Canny, Jaime Carbonell, Bernard Chazelle, and William Dally on the current state of computer science. Here’s a snippet: How can CS be made a more attractive choice for students? Bryant: We should stop scaring them away. Predicting […]
The Congressional Budget Resolution — the first real step in the annual appropriations process — has not gotten off to the smoothest of starts. The budget resolution is Congress’ response to the President’s budget request and, if passed, would set the total level of discretionary spending the appropriators would have to hand out over the […]
Citing ACM’s report on globalization the New York Times today editorializes on the mismatch between the perception of the high-tech industry job market and the reality. The Association for Computing Machinery, the professional organization that issued the report, says that there are more information technology jobs today than at the height of the dot-com boom. […]
