The government affairs team here at CRA is headed to Orlando next week! I will be bringing you updates from the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing conference and Peter will let you know whats happening at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. The conferences are co-located this year, so it’ll be interesting to see how that affects the overall dynamic of both conferences. I’m guessing it’ll be a big positive, but we’ll see. Stayed tuned!
On October 11, 2007, In Diversity in Computing, Events, By MelissaNorr
On October 11, 2007, In Computing Community Consortium (CCC), By Peter Harsha
An announcement from your friends at the Computing Community Consortium:
October 11, 2007
Four Added to GENI Science Council
The Computing Community Consortium is pleased to announce the addition of four members to the Science Council for the Global Environment for Networking Innovations (GENI). The new members will join 15 current members of the council in providing scientific guidance for the GENI project — a proposed experimental facility to allow research on a wide variety of problems in communications, networking, and distributed systems.
The new members will expand the breadth of research expertise on the GENI Science Council, said Edward Lazowska, Chair of the CCC Council.
The new members:
- Joan Feigenbaum, Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science at Yale University
- James A. Hendler, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Michael Kearns, National Center Chair in Resource Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylavnia
- Larry Peterson, Chair of Computer Science at Princeton University.
The GENI Science Council was originally established in March 2007 by the CCC, in partnership with the National Science Foundation. The Science Council will produce a comprehensive research plan that describes the scientific and engineering research questions that GENI will make possible to address, the educational opportunities that GENI will afford, and the industrial collaborations the GENI will invite. Members of the GENI Science Council were selected from a pool of more than 100 individuals nominated by the computing community representing roughly 20 research areas.
Further information on the GENI program, including the composition of the Science Council, can be found on the web at http://geni.net.
About CCC: Formed in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the Computing Research Association, the Computing Community Consortium seeks to catalyze the computing research community to debate long-range research challenges, to build consensus around research visions, to articulate those visions, and to develop the most promising visions into clearly defined initiatives. On the web: http://cra.org/ccc
On October 5, 2007, In American Competitiveness Initiative, Funding, FY08 Appropriations, By MelissaNorr
The Senate began consideration of the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriation bill yesterday but put off further consideration of the bill until October 15. Despite the delay, President Bush has released a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) stating — no surprise — he will veto the bill if it is passed at the current funding levels.
The bill includes $5.156 billion for NSFs Research and Related Activities including $52 million for the Cyber Enabled Discovery and Innovation program, $244.6 million for Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction, and $850.6 million for Education and Human Resources Directorate – a $100 million increase over the Presidents request. During consideration, an amendment adding $1 billion to the funding of NASA was passed, bringing NASAs total to $18.5 billion within the bill. The bill includes $863 million for NIST including $110 million for the Manufacturing Extension Programs (MEP) and $100 million for the Advanced Technology Program (ATP).
The Administration has many concerns with this bill although they mostly are with the Commerce and Justice parts of the bill. The SAP does oppose the increase to NASA and the extra $100 million for NSFs EHR. The SAP also states opposition to the funding amounts for the MEP and ATP programs, as he has in recent budget years.
Related posts on this topic can be found here.
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