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		<title>HASC Hearing on DOD Information Technology and Cybersecurity</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/02/hasc-hearing-on-dod-information-technology-and-cybersecurity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRA Board member and Government Affairs Committee Chair Fred Schneider will testify along with Phillip Bond of Tech America and David Bodenheimer of Crowell and Moring, LLP at a hearing of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, February 25 at 2:00 pm. The hearing will address [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bement to Step Down as NSF Director</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/02/bement-to-step-down-as-nsf-director/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2010/02/bement-to-step-down-as-nsf-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement will leave the agency June 1st to lead a new Global Institute at Purdue University, the agency and Purdue announced today. For much of his six year stewardship of the agency, Bement dealt with relatively flat or declining budgets granted the agency by Congress. However, priority for science grew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New DARPA Director Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/07/new-darpa-director-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regina Dugan will become the first woman to head the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in its 51-year history, the Department of Defense announced today. Dugan takes the reins from acting director, Robert Leheny, who has been running the agency since Tony Tether stepped down in February 2009.
From the official press release:
&#8220;Regina Dugan is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House S&amp;T Committee Focuses on IT at NITRD Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/04/house-st-committee-focuses-on-it-at-nitrd-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/04/house-st-committee-focuses-on-it-at-nitrd-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRA&#8217;s incoming Board Chair Peter Lee, Deborah Estrin of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Chris Greer of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordinating Office testified before the House Science and Technology Committee last week on the NITRD Act of 2009. The Act incorporates the findings and recommendations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holdren Confirmed as OSTP Director</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/holdren-confirmed-as-ostp-director/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/holdren-confirmed-as-ostp-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John P. Holdren was confirmed as the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy yesterday. The OSTP Director is the top White House science adviser and Holdren was approved by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee a week ago following a hold on his nomination. The reason for the hold has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turing Award Recipient Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/turing-award-recipient-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Liskov, a professor at MIT, has received the 2008 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her work in the design of computer programming languages. Liskov is only the second woman to receive the Turing Award and she was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD. The A.M. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tether Era at DARPA Coming to an End</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/tether-era-at-darpa-coming-to-an-end/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/tether-era-at-darpa-coming-to-an-end/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Tony Tether, the longest-tenured Director in DARPA&#8217;s 50+ year history and a target of frequent criticism from the computing community and the university community for the direction the agency has taken under his leadership, is apparently out as of February 20, 2009. Tether made the announcement in an email to DARPA staffers:
The Time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Ballmer Tells House Dems We Need STEM Ed, Research Investments</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/microsofts-ballmer-tells-house-dems-we-need-stem-ed-research-investments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/microsofts-ballmer-tells-house-dems-we-need-stem-ed-research-investments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke today at the House Democratic Caucus Retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, and urged the Members present to support investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and increase federal support for basic research. The STEM ed investments are really the government&#8217;s investments in human capital, he said, which are necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google CEO Speaks On Government and Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/11/google-ceo-speaks-on-government-and-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/11/google-ceo-speaks-on-government-and-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRA member Google Inc.&#8217;s CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech yesterday in DC regarding government and technology. Schmidt is a member of President-elect Obama&#8217;s transition team but he focused more on issues that the technology community (including CRA) has been talking about for years, including research funding. The Washington Times has all the details but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computerworld Articles on US Innovation, Technology, and the Next President</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/10/computerworld-articles-on-us-innovation-technology-and-the-next-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2008/10/computerworld-articles-on-us-innovation-technology-and-the-next-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computerworld has published a great couple of articles this week regarding the next Administration, technology, and US innovation. They feature a number of folks well-known in the CS community and are definitely worth checking out.
US Innovation: On the Skids
Dear Mr. President: Lets Talk Tech
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