http://www.cra.org/wp Computing Research Student and Faculty, Workforce, and R&D Information Copyright 2008 Thu, 07 May 2009 11:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.1 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=157 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=157#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:04:27 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey Women in CS http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=157 The New York Times has an article about the challenge computer science has had bringing women into the field. It mentions CRA's Taulbee Survey of doctorate-granting computing departments, which has reported that women have received a declining share of undergraduate degrees in CS since the mid-1980s, even as they have ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=157 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=155 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=155#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:51:59 +0000 Stay Rates of Foreign Doctorate Recipients Women in CS http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=155 The series of reports prepared for the NSF by Michael Finn at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education is one of the best sources of information on the share of foreigners who stayed in the U.S. after they received their science and engineering (S&E) doctorates. In his latest ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=155 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=154 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=154#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:35:20 +0000 Technology Company Founders http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=154 Immigrants are a critical part of U.S. higher education, providing over 60% of doctorate recipients in computer sciences and engineering. They also play a critical role in engineering and technology startups, according to a report by researchers at Duke University and University of California, Berkeley. Among successful tech companies founded ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=154 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=153 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=153#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:55:59 +0000 Postdocs http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=153 According to a recent NSF InfoBrief, postdoctoral appointments have become more common among science, engineering and health (SEH) fields. At the same time, the duration of a postdoc has been relatively consistent since the 1970s. Among SEH doctorates who received their degrees in the past several decades, 38% had held a ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=153 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=152 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=152#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:27:54 +0000 Technology Company Founders http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=152 According to a recent report sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation, founders of technology companies rarely fit the stereotype of being young and having little formal education. After surveying 500 engineering and technology companies established between 1995 and 2005, the authors found that the median age of U.S.-born tech founders was ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=152 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=151 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=151#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:33 +0000 PCAST http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=151 PCAST makes recommendations on science and technology policy to the President. Last August, it issued a review of the Federal government's $3.1 billion budget for Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD): http://ostp.gov/pdf/nitrd_review.pdf Yesterday, Dan Reed, CRA's Board Chair and a member of PCAST, discussed the report and other issues with the ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=151 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=150 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=150#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:51:10 +0000 High-Technology Employment STEM Workforce Salaries Salaries Baccalaureate and Beyond http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=150 There are few good sources of information about what happens to undergraduates after they receive their degrees. One is the NCES' Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B). B&B provides snapshots of work and life experiences in 1994, 1997 and 2003 for those who received undergraduate degrees in 1992-93. It divides majors ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=150 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=149 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=149#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:04:28 +0000 Computing Community Consortium Grand Challenges http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=149 The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=149 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=148 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=148#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:50:09 +0000 Graduate Enrollment CRA Taulbee Survey STEM Degree Production http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=148 This article reports on Ph.D. production and graduate enrollments among computer science (CS) departments in the United States. It draws on data collected by CRA’s Taulbee Survey of doctorate-granting departments. In the early- and mid-1990s, the number of doctorates granted annually by US CS departments peaked at between 1,000 and 1,100. ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=148 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=147 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=147#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:43:13 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey Women in CS http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=147 This article reports on the proportion of women who either have received degrees from or are on the faculty of computer science and engineering ("CS/CE") departments in the United States and Canada. It draws on data compiled from CRA’s Taulbee Survey of doctorate-granting CS/CE departments. Table 1 shows the percentage of ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=147