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Latest from CCC: Do you worry that the Bluetooth-enabled smart fork you just got for Christmas is trying to steal your passwords?

Microsoft Research Podcast recently interviewed CCC Executive Council member and CCC Intelligent Infrastructure (II) Task Force Co-Chair Ben Zorn, from Microsoft Research, on programming languages and how they are impacting the world.

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Exec member Ben Zorn. Do you worry that the Bluetooth-enabled smart fork you just got for Christmas is trying to steal your password? Do you wonder what software was used to implement your smart fork and when it was last updated? These are questions ....
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Latest from CCC: Interested in joining the CCC Council? We are looking for nominations for new members starting July 2018!

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research directions for the field. To do so, the CCC needs truly visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingne.....
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New from the CCC blog: Learn more about the Postdocs Best Practices program in the recent CACM Viewpoints Article, "Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do for You" http://www.cccblog.org/…/cacm-viewpoints-article-on-the-po…/

The Communications of the ACM (CACM), the print and online publication for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), has recently released a Viewpoints article titled, “Ask Not What Your Postdoc Can Do for You” from the leads of the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Postdoc Best Prac....
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Greg Byrd Joins the CRA Board of Directors

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Greg Byrd has been appointed the new IEEE-CS representative on the CRA board of directors. Byrd joins David Ebert and replaces Tom Conte on the board. CRA would like to thank Conte for his contribu…
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Latest from CCC: Check out December's Great Innovative Idea by Kenneth K. Fletcher, from the University of Massachusetts Boston, on Personalized Preference-based Service Selection and Recommendation!

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Kenneth K. Fletcher, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Fletcher presented his poster, A Method for Dealing with Data Sparsity and Cold-Start Limitations in Service Recommendation Using Personalized Pre...
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Apply for the Professional Development Workshop for Teaching-Track Faculty Held at #SIGCSE18

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2018 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Winners Announced

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This year’s nominees are a very impressive group. A number of them were commended for making significant contributions to more than one research project, several are authors or coauthors on multipl…
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Latest from CCC: Check out this NSF multi-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on Quantum Leap and Convergent Research, which are two of the 10 NSF Big Ideas for Future Investment.

The following is a National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-directorate Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) on Quantum Leap and Convergent Research, which are two of the 10 NSF Big Ideas for Future Investment. December 14, 2017 Dear Colleagues: In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) identified 1...
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UPDATE: Bloomberg, via The Chronicle on Higher Education, is reporting today that the proposed tax on graduate student tuition waivers appears to be dead. While celebrating should wait till it’s confirmed the provision is not in the conference bill, this is good news.

Today six leading organizations in computing — AAAI, ACM, CRA, IEEE-USA, SIAM, and USENIX — joined in issuing a statement opposing a provision in H.R. 1, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, that …
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Latest from CCC: Check out the most recent winners from the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017!

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 7- November 10, 2017 in Redondo Beach, California. The purpose was to bring together resear...
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Analysis of Current and Future Computer Science Needs via Advertised Faculty Searches for 2018

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This work uses the same methodology as work from previous years to study where Computer Science departments are choosing to invest faculty positions by examining data obtained from advertised facul…
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Latest from CCC: Congrats to all of the highly accomplished 2017 ACM fellows, especially former CCC Chair Gregory Hager and former CCC Council members Tal Rabin and Andrew McCallum!

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has released their annual list of ACM Fellows. The 2017 ACM Fellows list recognizes 54 ACM members for their significant contributions to the development and application of computing in key computing fields including artificial intelligence, big dat...
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