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Reports

2020

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Report on Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry
- In Fall 2020, the CCC released a series of Quadrennial Papers that explored areas and issues around computing research with potential to address national priorities. One of those areas was on the increasing amount of data being collected on individuals every day via the Internet and IoT systems.
  - The resulting report, on Modernizing Data Control: Making Personal Digital Data Mutually Beneficial for Citizens and Industry, dives into the big questions related to this phenomenon, such as who owns the data, the implications for using, controlling, and quantifying the data, and, most importantly, how to best protect citizens’ privacy.

2019

Computing Research Association Industry / Academia Committee Working Group Report
- In late 2019, a CRA ad hoc committee on Industry/Academia Interactions was created to study the relationships between academia and industry. These trends include increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia, as well as changes in the academic environment with increased industry interactions. A survey sent to 221 computing department chairs in January 2020 which resulted in 105 responses, indicating strong interest in this topic.
  - The resulting CRA Industry/Academia Committee Report, shows that significant industry engagement is underway between computing departments and industry, with an increasing trend.

2018

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Report on the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research
- In 2018, the CCC Industry Working Group released a new industry report called the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, which was organized by Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research. It included several important trends in computing research which had recently emerged.
  - The resulting report, Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, was the first step in engaging the broader computing research community, raising awareness of the opportunities, complexities and challenges.

2015

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Report on The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations
- In 2015, the CCC convened a 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. This survey was designed to provide some current information about the perceptions of the value of academic/industry interaction as well as trends and barriers.
  - The resulting report, The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations, touches on topics that were discussion during the round-table as well as in the survey.