COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG

CNSF Science Exhibition on Hill

MelissaNorr — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

David Forsyth, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, ably represented CRA last night at the Coalition for National Science Funding Science Exhibition on Capitol Hill. Featuring a poster and computer slideshow of his research on inserting synthetic objects into legacy photographs, David spoke to Congressional and Senate staff members, National Science Foundation employees, students and lobbyists [...]

Members of Congress Defend “Frivolous-sounding” Research That Really Pays Off at “Golden Goose Awards”

Peter Harsha — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:18:03 +0000

The Washington Post has a great write-up of an event on April 25th put on by an alliance of academic and scientific societies and a bi-partisan group of Congressmen that sought to highlight the incredible payoff of research that “may once have been viewed as unusual, odd, or obscure.” The event, called the Golden Goose [...]

NSF, NIST Fare OK in First FY13 Spending Bill Drafts

Peter Harsha — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:09:01 +0000

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees have just released their drafts (House – Senate) of the FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, and the numbers look pretty decent for NSF and NIST. Short version: NSF would see an increase of 4.3 percent overall in FY13; NIST would see increases of $54-56 million to its core [...]

Undergrad Computer Science Enrollments Rise for Fourth Straight Year — CRA Taulbee Report

Peter Harsha — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:00:49 +0000

Enrollments in undergraduate computer science programs rose 9.6 percent in the 2011-12 school year, the fourth straight year of increase, according to new data released today by the Computing Research Association. The data, found in the CRA Taulbee Survey report Computing Degree and Enrollment Trends, 2010-2011, compares schools that responded to both this year’s survey [...]

DARPA Director Dugan to Leave Agency for Google

Peter Harsha — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:34:01 +0000

Wired News’ Noah Shactman has an exclusive today on DARPA Director Regina Dugan’s announcement that she will be leaving the agency she’s helmed for three years to take a senior executive level position at Google. Here’s a snippet: Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research [...]

Budget Drilldown FY13: National Science Foundation

Peter Harsha — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:57:14 +0000

As we noted yesterday, science agencies were among the winners in the President’s budget request. The National Science Foundation “fared very well,” according to Director Subra Suresh, garnering an increase in the President’s plan of $340 million or nearly 5 percent compared to FY 12 final levels. Computing research, in particular, did even better. The [...]

FY2013 Department of Energy Budget Request

MelissaNorr — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:44:48 +0000

As we noted earlier today, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science did fairly well in the President’s Budget Request considering the fiscal climate we remain mired in. Overall, the Office of Science request is for an increase of 2.4 percent over the FY12 enacted appropriations to a total of $5 billion. The Advanced Scientific [...]

Federal R&D Investments Up Overall in President’s FY13 Budget Request

Peter Harsha — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:02:05 +0000

The President’s budget request for FY 2013 is out and the White House has prepared a handy summary of the R&D portions. Some highlights: The National Science Foundation would increase 4.8 percent compared to FY 12, to $7.4 billion in FY13. (Research accounts up 3.9 percent) The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program [...]

STEM Education Initiatives Announced

MelissaNorr — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:29:25 +0000

Yesterday was STEM education day for the Administration. In the morning at a White House Science Fair, President Obama announced he will seek $80 million in the FY13 budget of the Department of Education to help train 100,000 more STEM teachers along with policies to recruit, retain, and reward STEM teachers. The full announcement can [...]

House Committee Passes IT Research Authorization

Peter Harsha — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:04:20 +0000

The House Science, Space and Technology Committee today first marked up, then passed unanimously a reauthorization of the Federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program. Called the Advancing America’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2012, (H.R. 3834) the bill sets policies for the 15 Federal agencies who participate [...]