Reports

• Best Practices on Using the Cloud for Computing Research

  • This report is the result of a September 2021 virtual roundtable and March 2022 hybrid workshop in which over 100 members of the computing research community came together to discuss, debate, and recommend best practices on using the cloud in computing research.

• Industry/Academia Report-Ad Hoc CRA Committee on Industry/Academia Interactions

  • In late 2019, CRA put up an Ad Hoc Committee on Industry/Academia Interactions, to study the increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia. The committee surveyed 221 computer science departments in January 2020 and this is the resulting report that showed significant industry engagement underway between computing departments and industry. It ultimately led to the creation of the CRA-Industry subcommittee of CRA.

• Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Report on Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry

  • This 2020 report dives into the big questions such as who owns the data, the implications for using, controlling, and quantifying the data, and, most importantly, how to best protect citizens’ privacy.

• CCC Report on the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research

  • In 2018, the CCC Industry Working Group released this report, which was organized by Ben Zorn (Microsoft Research) and included several important trends in computing research which had recently emerged.

• CCC Report on The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations

  • This report report touches on topics that were discussion during the 2015 round-table. The CCC convened this round-table of industry and academic participants to better understand the landscape of industry-academic interaction and to discuss possible actions that might be taken to enhance those interactions. This discussion was preceded by a survey sent to academics and industry representatives in Spring of 2015.