COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG

Thacker Awarded A.M. Turing Award

MelissaNorr — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:50 +0000

Charles P. Thacker has been named the recipient of the 2009 A.M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for his work in personal computing and networking. Thacker is currently a technical fellow at Microsoft Research, a Fellow of the ACM, has won several awards and citations, including the IEEE John von Neumann [...]

HASC Hearing on DOD Information Technology and Cybersecurity

MelissaNorr — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:22:14 +0000

CRA Board member and Government Affairs Committee Chair Fred Schneider will testify along with Phillip Bond of Tech America and David Bodenheimer of Crowell and Moring, LLP at a hearing of the Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, February 25 at 2:00 pm. The hearing will address [...]

Bement to Step Down as NSF Director

Peter Harsha — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:22:13 +0000

National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement will leave the agency June 1st to lead a new Global Institute at Purdue University, the agency and Purdue announced today. For much of his six year stewardship of the agency, Bement dealt with relatively flat or declining budgets granted the agency by Congress. However, priority for science grew [...]

NY Times Coverage of NSF/Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Agreement

Peter Harsha — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:55:05 +0000

John Markoff of the NY Times has coverage of today’s announcement of an agreement between the National Science Foundation and Microsoft that would enable NSF-sponsored researchers free access to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services. According to NSF CISE AD Jeannette Wing, NSF will commit $5 million in funding to enable researchers to study new techniques [...]

Cybersecurity Research on House Floor Today

Peter Harsha — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:06 +0000

The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 4061, the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, today. The bill, which originated in the House Science and Technology Committee, is designed to “improve the security of cyberspace by ensuring federal investments in cybersecurity are better focused, more effective, and that research into innovative, transformative technologies is supported.” It’s actually [...]

FY 11 Budget: National Science Foundation

Peter Harsha — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:32:25 +0000

As we noted yesterday, the National Science Foundation does very well in President’s Obama FY 11 Budget Request. The President’s plan would provide an 8 percent increase to the agency, $552 million more than the agency’s FY 10 budget. Of that $552 million, $455 million would go to the Foundation’s research accounts (also an 8 [...]

DOE FY2011 Budget Details

MelissaNorr — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:46:12 +0000

The President’s Budget Request (PBR) included a 6.8%increase in the overall budget of the Department of Energy for FY2011, for a total budget of $28.4 billion. Both President Obama in his recent State of the Union address and Secretary of Energy Chu at the budget briefing emphasized the necessity of funding research to fulfill our future [...]

FY 11 Budget: First Look Looks Good!

Peter Harsha — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:25 +0000

Despite some early concerns in the science community over some dicey reported funding levels for some key science agencies, the President's FY 2011 budget, released today, demonstrates a continued commitment to doubling the budgets of the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Here's some relevant bits. We'll have more as we plow through it and get briefed by the relevant agencies.

Quick Update: NSF and NIST Fare Well in FY 10 Final Approps Bill

Peter Harsha — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:19:01 +0000

The House and Senate Appropriators are in their end game on the FY 10 appropriations process and yesterday released the “conference agreement” for an omnibus appropriations bill they’ve created that bundles all the outstanding appropriations bills save one (Defense). Included in the conference bill are the agreed upon funding levels for several key science agencies. [...]

DARPA Challenge

MelissaNorr — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:23:31 +0000

DARPA will celebrate the 40th anniversary of ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, with a network challenge this Saturday, December 5. The challenge seeks to test social networking with 10 weather balloons launched across the country. Teams will have to spot the balloons and collect the longitude and latitude of as many as possible. The [...]