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• CRA Elects New Board Members
  
  
• CRA Deputy Director Position
   
• March 2008, Vol. 20/No. 2 (in its entirety, in PDF, 356 KB)
  • Science Increases Abandoned in Final 08 Spending Bill [HTML]
  • Research Funding and Education: Stay the Course, Keep the Faith [HTML]
  • National Center for Supercomputing Applications Powers Scientific Breakthroughs, Technological Innovations [HTML]
  • Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing: 2007 Event Strongest Ever; Next Event Planned for April 2009 [HTML]
  • Data-Intensive Computing [HTML]
  • Enrollments and Degree Production at US CS Departments Drop Further in 2006-07 [HTML]
  • Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]
    
    
• Susan Graham and Jennifer Rexford presentation at the Grace Hopper Conference, October 18, 2007: "Introducing the Computing Community Consortium" (PDF)
   
• Recruiting and Retaining Women Graduate Students in Computer Science and Engineering
  
  
• CRA Undergraduate Awards 2008
  
  
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• Updated trend data and articles are available regarding computer science degree production, including information by gender, ethnicity, citizenship and post-graduation employment. For a summary, see the CRA Bulletin entry "Recent Trends in Degree Production", which mentions:
  • CS Degree Production Data from the NSF
  • Female Students and Faculty
  • Ph.D. Programs and Ethnicity 
  • Early Employment of Ph.D.s
  • Drop in CS Bachelor’s Degree Production 
    
    
• Source data for all of the tables in the Taulbee Survey have now been added to the report: 2005-2006 Taulbee Survey. The Survey is the principal source of information on the enrollment, production, and employment of Ph.D.s in computer science and computer engineering (CS & CE) and in providing salary and demographic data for faculty in CS & CE in North America. Statistics given include gender and ethnicity breakdowns.
   
• 2006 Annual Report (715 KB PDF)
  
  
• CRA Names 16 to First Computing Community Consortium Council.
  
  
• Slides are available for the CCC talks held at FCRC: there were five special talks focused on broad research visions for the field, presented by the NSF-sponsored Computing Community Consortium.
   
• CCC Creating Visions for Computing Research RFP. Under an agreement with the National Science Foundation, CRA has established a consortium of computing experts that will provide scientific leadership and vision on issues related to computing research and future large-scale computing research projects.
   
• CRA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored the CRA-NIH Computing Research Challenges in Biomedicine Workshop. The objective of the workshop was to develop a list of focused recommendations and action items that would guide the NIH and computing communities in addressing current impediments to fully realizing effective collaborations at the interface between computing and biomedical research. The workshop report is now available: CRA-NIH Computing Research Challenges in Biomedicine Workshop Recommendations (50 KB PDF).
   
• Dr. Edward Lazowska Appointed as Chair of the CCC Council.
   
• CRA Announces Three Service Award Winners.
   
• Grand Research Challenges report: Revitalizing Computer Architecture Research.
   
• The CRA GENI Community Advisory Board's Review of the GENI Research Plan, January 28, 2007 (40 KB PDF).
  
  
• CRA in the news.
   

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