COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG

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 [...]

Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States Report Released

MelissaNorr — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:09:46 +0000

The Department of Commerce and National Economic Council today released a new report on “The Competitiveness and Innovation Capacity of the United States” at an event featuring Secretary of Commerce John Bryson followed by a panel of speakers and small group breakout sessions. The report was a Congressional mandate in the COMPETES reauthorization last year. [...]

Join Computer Science Education Week!

MelissaNorr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:00:54 +0000

As noted over at the CCC blog as well as in CRN, the third annual Computer Science Education Week is December 4 -10, 2011 and you can join with the more than 1800 people who have pledged to participate! CSEdWeek 2011 is a call to action to raise awareness about computer science education and computing [...]

Somewhat Surprisingly, NSF Fares Well in FY12 Final Approps Agreement

Peter Harsha — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:18:06 +0000

Update (11/17/11): The minibus was approved in both the House and Senate and will head to the President for his signature! Original Post: Congressional appropriators tonight filed the final conference report for the so-called “minibus” FY12 appropriations bill, representing the final agreed-upon spending numbers for FY12 for the Agriculture; Commerce, Justice, Science; and Transportation, Housing [...]

Senate Minibus Cuts NSF, NASA and NIST

Peter Harsha — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:14:12 +0000

Yesterday the Senate managed passage of its first so-called “minibus” appropriation bill – a combination of FY12 Agriculture Appropriation; Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriation; and Transportation-HUD Appropriations bills — and retained the cuts to the FY12 budget of the National Science Foundation budget we covered back when the bill was first approved by the Senate Appropriations [...]

CCC Wants You!

MelissaNorr — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:45:32 +0000

From our colleague Erwin Gianchandani, at the blog of CRA’s Computing Community Consortium: Today the Computing Community Consortium is issuing a call for nominations for individuals to serve on the CCC Council for three years beginning January 2012. The deadline for nominations is 11:59pm EST on Nov. 15, 2011. The complete call appears below. The [...]

Richard Tapia Awarded Natl. Medal of Science

MelissaNorr — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:58:07 +0000

Computing’s own Richard Tapia, University Professor and Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering at Rice University, will receive the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony this fall. The National Medal of Science is the highest government honor the United States bestows on scientists and engineers. Six other scientists will also [...]

Computer Science Education Act Introduced

MelissaNorr — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:20:49 +0000

Following the theme of computing taking over the Hill this week, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) and Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Computer Science Education Act (CSEA) yesterday. In the House, the bill is co-sponsored by Representative Bob Filner (D-CA), Representative James Langevin (D-RI), and Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-TX). The bill is designed to ensure [...]

Computing Community Takes Case to Hill

Peter Harsha — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:41:32 +0000

It was a busy day on Capitol Hill yesterday for members of the computing research community as they worked to make the case to Congress of the importance of the federal investment in research from a couple of different angles. From one direction, a panel of current and former CRA board members joined the head [...]