http://www.cra.org/wp Computing Research Student and Faculty, Workforce, and R&D Information Copyright 2008 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:06:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.2.1 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 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=146 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=146#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:43:34 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=146 This article concerns the employment of computer science and computer engineering (CS/CE) doctorates in the United States and Canada in the first year after they received their degrees. It draws on data compiled from CRA’s Taulbee Survey of doctorate-granting CS/CE departments. The Taulbee Survey, which is conducted each Fall, asks for ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=146 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=145 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=145#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:31:49 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=145 This article reports on the ethnicity of computer science and computer engineering ("CS/CE") Ph.D. recipients and students in the United States and Canada. It draws on data compiled from CRA's Taulbee Survey of doctorate-granting CS/CE departments. Due to changes in the Taulbee Survey, including the addition of new ethnic categories, it ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=145 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=142 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=142#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:13:00 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey Women in CS STEM Workforce Salaries Salaries http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=142 Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that in 2007, the earnings gap between men and women was narrower among several professional-level IT occupations than found in the overall workforce. Among all occupations, women earned about 80% of what men were paid. Within the (high paying) larger groupings that the ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=142 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=141 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=141#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:39:33 +0000 NSF InfoBrief Salaries of Science and Engineering Degree Recipients STEM Workforce Salaries Salaries http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=141 A recent NSF InfoBrief provides a snapshot of 2003, 2004 and 2005 bachelor's and master's degree recipients in April 2006. Compared to several other majors, computer and information sciences (CS) graduates were doing quite well. CS graduates were most likely to be employed in business and industry and to be working ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=141 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=139 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=139#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:50:14 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=139 CRA’s Taulbee Survey of Ph.D.-granting Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering departments in North America has been conducted annually since 1974. Results from the most recent survey will be provided to participants and CRA members this month. They will be published on CRA’s website (www.cra.org/statistics/) and in Computing Research News ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=139 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=140 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=140#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:58:49 +0000 Events Computing Community Consortium http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=140 Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) aims to understand the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of efficient computation. This subfield of computer science has a record of producing unexpected discoveries of high impact, such as public-key cryptography and quantum computation; and of raising deep scientific questions, such as the P vs. NP ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=140 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=137 http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=137#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:37:45 +0000 CRA Taulbee Survey Grand Challenges http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=137 The National Academy of Engineering has released its list of 14 Grand Challenges for Engineering for the 21st century. According to the report's press release: The final choices fall into four themes that are essential for humanity to flourish -- sustainability, health, reducing vulnerability, and joy of living. The committee did ... http://www.cra.org/wp/wp-commentsrss2.php?p=137