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July 22, 2015

INTRODUCTION TO THE CCC AND THE COUNCIL

WHAT WE’LL TRY TO COVER

• Brief history
• Role and mission of CCC
• Organizational Details
• CCC Stakeholders

COMPUTING TODAY AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY

Networking ¡ Data ¡ Compu2ng ¡

COMPUTING TODAY AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY

Networking ¡ Data ¡ Compu2ng ¡ Physical ¡ World ¡ People ¡

COMPUTING TODAY AND ITS ROLE IN SOCIETY

Health ¡ ¡ Smart ¡ infrastructure ¡ Robo2cs ¡ Scien2fic ¡ Discovery ¡ Transporta2on ¡ Security ¡ Networking ¡ Data ¡ Compu2ng ¡ Societal ¡Compu2ng ¡ Manufacturing ¡ Privacy ¡ Physical ¡ World ¡ People ¡

WHAT LED TO THE CCC?

• In the mid-2000’s, NSF CISE leaders and computing

research community leaders had concerns regarding:

– The Federal commitment to research in general, and to computing research in particular – Public and policymaker perception that computer science is “yesterday’s news” – Failure to articulate and coalesce around exciting research visions in computer science – research visions that would galvanize the public, policymakers, researchers, and students – Need to groom leadership for the field – Decrease in student interest – GENI Project direction

A BRIEF HISTORY

• Established in 2006 as a programmatic committee of the

Computing Research Association

• Initially funded under a cooperative agreement in

response to a call from NSF

– Second Award began in 2012, completed Reverse Site Visit in Spring, 2014

• Founding chair Ed Lazowska, co-chair Susan

Graham 2007-2013

• Council and leadership rotation initiated 2013
• Hager chair, Mynatt vice-chair since July 2014
• Drobnis Executive Director since March 2013

THE CCC MISSION

The ¡mission ¡of ¡Compu2ng ¡Research ¡Associa2on's ¡Compu2ng ¡Community ¡ ¡ Consor2um ¡(CCC) ¡is ¡to: ¡ catalyze ¡the ¡compu2ng ¡research ¡community ¡and ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡enable ¡the ¡pursuit ¡of ¡innova2ve, ¡high-­‑impact ¡research. ¡ ¡ ¡ CCC ¡communicates ¡the ¡importance ¡of ¡those ¡visions ¡to ¡policymakers, ¡ ¡ government ¡and ¡industry ¡stakeholders, ¡the ¡public, ¡and ¡the ¡research ¡ ¡ community ¡itself. ¡ ¡ CCC ¡conducts ¡ac2vi2es ¡that ¡ ¡ ¡strengthen ¡the ¡research ¡community, ¡ ¡ ¡ar6culate ¡compelling ¡research ¡visions, ¡and ¡ ¡ ¡align ¡those ¡visions ¡with ¡pressing ¡na6onal ¡and ¡global ¡challenges. ¡ ¡

CCC ACTIVITIES

Beth Mynatt

July 22, 2014

CCC ¡GOALS ¡ Visioning ¡ Connec6ng ¡ Leadership ¡ Communica6on ¡ Establish ¡the ¡CCC ¡as ¡a ¡widely ¡accepted ¡ catalyst ¡and ¡voice ¡for ¡the ¡compu2ng ¡ research ¡community. ¡ Workshops ¡and ¡ Blue ¡Sky ¡ Workshops ¡ LiSPI, ¡Postdocs ¡ Council ¡mem ¡ CCC ¡Blog, ¡ Compu2ng ¡Research ¡ in ¡Ac2on ¡ Bring ¡the ¡compu2ng ¡research ¡community ¡ together ¡to ¡envision ¡our ¡future ¡research ¡ needs ¡and ¡thrusts. ¡ Workshops ¡and ¡ Blue ¡Sky ¡ Workshops ¡ Communicate ¡these ¡challenges, ¡needs ¡ and ¡thrusts ¡to ¡the ¡broader ¡na2onal ¡

• community. ¡

White ¡papers ¡ and ¡workshop ¡ reports ¡ Council, ¡ visioning ¡ leadership ¡ CCC ¡Blog ¡ Create ¡within ¡the ¡compu2ng ¡research ¡ community ¡more ¡audacious ¡thinking. ¡ ¡ Workshops ¡and ¡ Blue ¡Sky ¡ Workshops ¡ See ¡the ¡ideas ¡developed ¡in ¡the ¡second ¡ and ¡fourth ¡points ¡above ¡turned ¡into ¡ funded ¡research ¡programs. ¡ Workshops ¡ Agency ¡ engagement ¡ Increase ¡the ¡excitement ¡within ¡ compu2ng ¡research ¡and ¡use ¡that ¡ excitement ¡to ¡aQract ¡students. ¡ CI ¡Fellows ¡ CCC ¡Blog, ¡ Compu2ng ¡Research ¡ in ¡Ac2on ¡ Inculcate ¡values ¡of ¡leadership ¡and ¡

• service. ¡

CommiQee ¡ memberships ¡ LiSPI ¡

RELATIONSHIP TO COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (CRA)

• NSF cooperative agreement is with CRA
• CCC is a programmatic committee of CRA

– Andy Bernat, CRA Executive Director, is an ex officio member of the CCC Executive Committee – Greg Hager, the CCC Chair is a member of the CRA Board of Directors – Susan B. Davidson, the CRA chair must consent to CCC Council appointments

MORE ON CRA

• CRA formed over 40 years ago to represent the computing research community

– Headquartered in DC – Members include nearly all research active academic departments, most industrial research laboratories, gov’t research laboratories and professional societies

• CRA's mission is to enhance innovation by joining with industry, government and

academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. CRA executes this mission by leading the computing research community, informing policymakers and the public, and facilitating the development of strong, diverse talent in the field.

• CRA works primarily through a committee structure with CRA Board oversight

– CCC, CRA-W, CRA-E – Surveys (Taulbee), Government Affairs, Awards – CERP – CRA Deans

• CRA provides support and a community foundation for CCC.

ACTIVITIES

• Visioning

– Workshops – Blue Sky Ideas Conference Tracks

• Outreach

– Outputs of Visioning Activities – Short Reports / White Papers – Task Forces

• Communicating

– CCC Blog (http://cccblog.org) – Great Innovative Ideas – Computing Research in Action Video Series – “The Impact of NITRD” Symposium

• Nurturing Next generation of leaders

– Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project – Leadership in Science Policy Institute

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

• 2025 Industry Roundtable

July 24th, 2015 – Beth Mynatt

• Engineering Privacy (PbD #3)

August 31-September 1st, 2015

• Congressional Fly-in (DC)

September 16-17th, 2015

• Inclusive Access

September 24-25th, 2015 – Liz Bradley

• Computer-Aided Personalized Ed

November 12-13th, 2015 – Debra Richardson

ACTIVITIES

• Visioning

– Workshops – Blue Sky Ideas Conference Tracks

• Outreach

– Outputs of Visioning Activities – Short Reports / White Papers – Task Forces

• Communicating

– CCC Blog (http://cccblog.org) – Great Innovative Ideas – Computing Research in Action Video Series – “The Impact of NITRD” Symposium

• Nurturing Next generation of leaders

– Computing Innovation Fellows (CIFellows) Project à Postdoc Best Practices – Leadership in Science Policy Institute

NSF INTERACTIONS

CISE ¡Office ¡of ¡the ¡Assistant ¡ Director ¡ AD: ¡James ¡Kurose ¡ Ac2ng ¡DAD: ¡Erwin ¡P. ¡ Gianchandani ¡ Advanced ¡Cyberinfrastructure ¡ (ACI) ¡ DD: ¡Irene ¡Qualters ¡ Data ¡ High ¡Performance ¡Compu2ng ¡ Networking ¡/ ¡Cybersecurity ¡ SoZware ¡ Compu2ng ¡and ¡ Communica2ons ¡Founda2ons ¡ (CCF) ¡ DD: ¡Rao ¡Kosajaru ¡ DDD: ¡James ¡J. ¡Donlon ¡ Algorithmic ¡Founda2ons ¡ Communica2ons ¡and ¡ Informa2on ¡Founda2ons ¡ SoZware ¡and ¡Hardware ¡ Founda2ons ¡ Computer ¡and ¡Network ¡ Systems ¡(CNS) ¡ Ac2ng ¡DD: ¡Peter ¡Arzberger ¡ ¡ Ac2ng ¡DDD: ¡Nina ¡Amla ¡ Computer ¡Systems ¡Research ¡ Networking ¡and ¡Technology ¡ Systems ¡ Informa2on ¡and ¡Intelligent ¡ Systems ¡(IIS) ¡ DD: ¡Lynne ¡E. ¡Parker ¡ DDD: ¡Debbie ¡Lockhart ¡ Human-­‑Centered ¡Compu2ng ¡ Informa2on ¡Integra2on ¡and ¡ Informa2cs ¡ Robust ¡Intelligence ¡

CCC ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Chair, Vice-chair

– 2 year non-staggered terms – Vice-chair is presumptive chair

Director, Senior Program Associate, Program Associate

– Full-time paid positions

Executive Committee

– Chair, Vice-chair, Director – 3 at large drawn from Council for 1-year terms – CRA Executive Director

Council

– 20 members – 3 year terms, at most 2 consecutive terms

WHAT DO COUNCIL MEMBERS DO?

• Shepherd visioning activities
• Participate in topical subcommittees

– Examples: Health IT, Sustainability, Robotics, Big Data

• Develop new activities

– Examples: CIFellows, LISPI, Post-doc Best Practices

• Engage with related groups (CISE AC, CSTB, ACM …)
• Other requests as needed

– Example: short turnaround white papers

• Bi-weekly teleconferences
• Three face-to-face meetings each year

WHAT DOES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DO?

• Each member has a major responsibility within the
• rganization
• Oversees the work of subcommittees and working

groups

• Guides the planning of new activities
• Oversees the execution of the Strategic Plan
• Meets weekly by teleconference
• Meets biweekly with NSF by teleconference

THE CCC COUNCIL – EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins Univ. (Chair)
• Beth Mynatt, Georgia Tech (Vice Chair)
• Liz Bradley, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Mark Hill, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

• Ann Drobnis, Director
• Andy Bernat, CRA Executive Director

THE CCC COUNCIL

• Terms ending June 2018
• Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research
• Kevin Fu, Univ. Michigan
• Daniel P. Lopresti, Lehigh University
• Shwetak Patel, Univ. Washington
• Katherine Yelick, UC Berkeley
• Terms ending June 2017
• Lorenzo Alvisi, UT Austin
• Vasant Honavar, Penn State
• Jennifer Rexford, Princeton
• Debra Richardson, UC Irvine
• Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC
• Ben Zorn, Microsoft Research
• Terms ending June 2016
• Liz Bradley, Univ. Colorado Boulder
• Mark Hill, Univ. Wisconsin Madison
• Randy Bryant, CMU
• Limor Fix, formerly Intel
• Tal Rabin, IBM
• Daniela Rus, MIT
• Ross Whitaker, Univ. Utah

THE CCC COUNCIL- PAST MEMBERS

– Greg Andrews, Univ. Arizona – Debra Crawford, Drexel – Susan Davidson, Univ. PA – Joseph Evans, Univ. KS – Bill Feiereisen, LANL – Stephanie Forrest, Univ. New Mexico – Lance Fortnow, Georgia Tech – Susan Graham, UC Berkeley – Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research – Chris Johnson, Univ. Utah – Anita Jones, UVA – Frans Kaashoek, MIT – Dave Kaeli, Northeastern – Dick Karp, UC Berkeley – John King, Univ. Michigan – Hank Korth, Lehigh – Ed Lazowska, Univ. of Washington, CCC Founding Chair – Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon – Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Harvey Mudd – Andrew McCallum, UMass – John Mitchell, Stanford – Robin Murphy, Texas A&M – Fred Schneider, Cornell – Margo Seltzer, Harvard – Shashi Shekhar, Univ. MN – Bob Sproull, Formally Oracle – Karen Sutherland, Augsburg College – David Tennenhouse, New Venture Partners – Josep Torrellas, UIUC – Dave Waltz, Columbia

CRA STAFF

• CCC Director: Ann Drobnis

– 100% CCC, responsible for day-to-day management of the Organization

• Senior Program Associate: Helen Wright

– 100% CCC, responsible for promoting the CCC mission through the website, blog, and social media

• Program Associate: Khari Douglas

– ~80% CCC

• CRA Executive Director: Andy Bernat

– 20% CCC, responsible for general oversight

• Other CRA Staff:

– Peter Harsha, Director of Government Affairs – Sandra Corbett – Sabrina Jacob

CCC AND ITS STAKEHOLDERS

ANOTHER STAKEHOLDER VIEW?

CCC ¡ Research ¡ ¡ Beneficiaries ¡

¡ CS ¡Research ¡ Community ¡ Research ¡ Funders ¡ ¡ ¡

Research ¡ Beneficiaries ¡

¡ CCC ¡

MAJOR STAKEHOLDERS

• CS research community

– CRA, CSTB (Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, part of National Research Council), professional societies, academic units, research labs

• Industry

– Computer industry, major users of IT

• Public
• Government

– See summary next

GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

– In White House Executive Office of the President – Our primary contacts are

• Director: John P. Holdren (Harvard)
• U.S. Chief Technology Officer: Megan Smith
• Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation: Tom Kalil
• Assistant Director, Information Technology Research and

Development: Randy Bryant (CMU)

• Assistant Director, Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems: Richard

Voyles (Purdue)

• Assistant Director, Advanced Manufacturing: Alex Slocum (MIT)
• Principal Assistant Director for Environment & Energy: Tamara

Dickinson

GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS 2

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

– Co-chaired by John Holdren and Eric Lander (MIT and Harvard) – Members with professional computing-related roles are

• Susan Graham (Berkeley, CCC)
• Eric Schmidt (Google)
• Mark Gorenberg (Zetta Venture Partners)
• Craig Mundie (Microsoft)
• Executive Director: Marjory Blumenthal

GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS 3

Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program

– Legislatively mandated coordination among Federal R&D agencies – National Coordinating Office (NCO) facilitates

• Interagency working groups
• Coordinating groups
• Senior steering groups
• Community of practice

– Director is Keith Marzullo

GOVERNMENT STAKEHOLDERS 4

Agencies important to us

• NSF – strong ties with CISE
• NIH – growing ties with folks interested in Health IT
• DARPA – ties come and go
• DoE – ties with ASCR; interest in ARPA-E

Others that are relevant

• NIST
• HHS/ONC

QUESTIONS?

VISIONING

CREATING VISIONS FOR COMPUTING RESEARCH

“The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) solicits proposals that will galvanize the community to define visions and agendas for exciting frontiers of computing research.”

• Create a new community of researchers.
• Justify a new funding initiative.
• Help an extant community define a new trajectory.

VISIONING PROCESSES

• Periodic RFP for Community Initiated Activities
• Historically 3-7 workshops per year
• Top-down (agency initiated)
• Bottom-up (open call)
• Sideways (council initiated, joint with other agencies,….)

Uncertainty ¡in ¡ Computa2on ¡ Privacy ¡R&D ¡ Online ¡ Educa2on ¡ Spa2al ¡ Compu2ng ¡ Robo2cs ¡

SUCCESSFUL VISIONING ACTIVITIES

• Engage the community and relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate broad thinking with compelling examples
• Create new avenues for (interdisciplinary) collaboration
• Prepare and energize the community for future opportunities
• Rapidly capture and synthesize ideas from the community.
• Present ideas and engage possible funders and stakeholders
• Articulate needs and barriers to research impact
• Produce tangible products to be used in dissemination efforts: vision

statement, summary of key findings, workshop report, slide deck

2015 VISIONING ACTIVITIES

• Extensible Distributed Systems
• Privacy by Design — State of Research and Practice
• Privacy by Design — Privacy Enabling Design
• Theoretical Foundations for Social Computing
• Industry Roundtable
• Privacy by Design — Engineering Privacy
• Promoting Strategic Research on Inclusive Access to Rich

Online Content and Services

• Computer-Aided Personalized Education
• Privacy by Design — Regulation as Catalyst

PAST VISIONING ACTIVITIES

2008

• Cyber-Physical Systems Summit
• From Internet to Robotics: The Next Transformative Technology
• Network Science and Engineering (NetSE)
• Theoretical Computer Science

2009

• Discovery and Innovation in Health Information Technology
• Cross-layer Reliability (RelXLayer)
• Global Development
• Learning Technologies
• Free/Open Source Software (FOSS)

2010

• Advancing Computer Architecture Reseach (ACAR)

2011

• Role of Information Sciences and Engineering in Sustainability (RISES)

PAST VISIONING ACTIVITIES, CONT.

2012 ¡

• Computing for Disaster Management
• Next Generational Financial Cyberinfrastructre Workshop
• From GPS and Virtual Globes to Spatial Computing – 2020
• Computing and Healthcare: New Opportunities and Directions

2013

• Convergence of Software Assurance Methodologies and Trustworthy Semiconductor Design and

Manufacture (SA+TS)

• Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education
• Privacy R&D Workshop (with ITIF)
• Extreme Scale Design Automation 2 (with ACM)
• Visions of Theory of Computing (with Simons Institute)
• Robotics, Automation, and Computer Science (with NSF, OSTP)

2014 ¡

• Extreme Scale Design Automation 3 (with ACM)
• Computing Visions 2025: Interacting with the Computers All Around Us (with CISE)
• Computing Visions 2025: The New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter and Things (with

CISE)

• Human Computation Roadmap Summit Workshop
• Aging in Place
• Uncertainty in Computation
• BRAIN

COMPUTING VISIONS 2025

• Joint Venture of NSF CISE Advisory Committee and CCC
• Articulate future trends and opportunities in computing research.

Envision evolution and growth over the next 10 to 15 years.

• 3 Initial Workshops:

– Interacting with the Computers All Around Us

• Looked at how technology could change how computers interface with

people and the world around them.

– The New Making Renaissance: Programmable Matter & Things

• Explored the way items are designed, programmed,

manufactured, and delivered/deployed.

– Visions 2025 Roundtable

• Looked at research themes that emerged from the first two 2025

workshops and pulled insights from a number of relevant CCC workshops.

WHAT CCC BRINGS TO THIS TABLE

• Speak with proposers who contact CCC before submitting a

proposal

• Once a proposal is submitted, the Visioning Committee works

with proposers to sharpen the idea

• Full Council reviews proposals, offering suggestions to further

strengthen the activity or determine that activity is not feasible (missing the WOW factor)

• CCC Liaison appointed for each workshop:

– Becomes part of Organizing Committee – Tracks logistics – Attends workshop (as an observer) – Provides feedback on outputs as they are being produced, and – Exerts pressure when outputs are not being produced.

THE WORKFLOW

• Visioning Chair (VC) or delegate iterates with PIs to produce a

plausible proposal.

• Proposal sent to entire CCC.

– All return short-fuse (i.e. 2 weeks) comments.

• VC synthesizes feedback and creates the case: yes/no/revise:

– Includes all reviews, but with identifying information deleted plus a short summary

• VC sends the case to CCC.
• VC leads a discussion by CCC of the case.
• VC sends response to PI’s, including

– anonymized reviews – discussion of required changes – name of CCC liaison for the case

BLUE SKY IDEAS CONFERENCE TRACKS

• Special “Blue Sky Ideas” tracks at leading conferences

– Reach beyond usual papers

• CCC provides prize money for top 3 papers

– Papers should be:

• open-ended
• “outrageous” or “wacky”
• Present new problems, new application domains or new

methodologies

• Relatively short (4 pages)
• Published after the conference

DETAILS

• Conference Organizers write a proposal, indicating how

papers will be solicited and reviewed

• Blue Sky Chair and Director read proposals and

determine viability

• Once Track is approved, a CCC liaison is assigned
• VC Chair or liaison may attend the Conference to

present information about the CCC and the awards

BLUE SKY IDEAS CONFERENCE TRACKS

• BuildSys 2012
• Computational Sustainability Track @ AAAI 2013
• Computational Sustainability Award @ CHI 2013
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2013
• Conference on Innovation Data Systems Research (CIDR-2013)
• Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS-2014)
• Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT 2014)
• Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15)
• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2015
• Upcoming:

– Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration BDM21 2015 – Advances in GIS (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015) – Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16)

OUTREACH

4 meetings during summer 2008 Roadmap published May 2009 Extensive discussions between visioning leaders & agencies

Henrik Chistensen Georgia Tech

OSTP issues directive to all agencies in summer 2010 to include robotics in FY 12 budgets National Robotics Initiative announced in summer 2011

OUTREACH: ROBOTICS

OUTREACH: BIG DATA

2008 2008 2010 2012

Josep Torrellas UIUC Mark Oskin Washington Mark Hill Wisconsin 2010 2010 2012 2013

OUTREACH: ARCHITECTURE

October 2009 Workshop

National Institute of Standards and Technology National Library

• f Medicine

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Computing Community Consortium American Medical Informatics Association National Science Foundation

Discovery and Innovation in Health IT

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology

OUTREACH: HEALTH IT

Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering

SMART HEALTH AND WELLBEING (SHW)

CONTACTS See program guidelines for contact information. SYNOPSIS Information and communications technologies are poised to transform ou

October ¡2012 ¡Workshop ¡

Smart and Connected Health (SCH)

PROGRAM SOLICITATION NSF 13-543 REPLACES DOCUMENT(S): NSF 12-512

National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering Division of Computing and Communication Foundations Division of Computer and Network Systems Division of Information & Intelligent Systems Directorate for Engineering Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences National Institutes of Health Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

OUTREACH: 2010 PCAST NITRD REPORT

• 1/3 of the PCAST NITRD Working

Group members were CCC Council Members

• The report drew extensively on

CCC White Papers

• An excellent roadmap for the field

OUTREACH: 2013 PCAST NITRD REPORT

• ¼ Contributing Members were CCC

Council Members

• An excellent review of progress from

2010 report

• The challenge now: continuing to

translate it into action

COMMUNICATING

CCC BLOG

Top 10 Posts in the Past Year

• What Computer Science Can Teach Us About Robotics
• Great Innovative Idea- Machine Teaching
• Accelerating the Big Data Innovation Ecosystem
• Capabilities Reincarnated: Compatibility and Better Memory Protection
• First Person: “Life as a NSF Program Director”
• Analysis of Current and Future Computer Science Needs via Advertised

Faculty Searches

• Obama Administration Unveils $200M Big Data R&D Initiative
• “The Algorithm That Runs the World”
• The Future of Computer Architecture Research
• Big Data and the 2012 Summer Olympics

COMPUTING RESEARCH IN ACTION

• Skin ¡Biophysics ¡Surgical ¡Simulator ¡@ ¡University ¡of ¡Wisconsin-­‑Madison ¡
• Ubiquitous ¡Compu2ng ¡Lab ¡at ¡the ¡University ¡of ¡Washington ¡
• SmartGeo ¡at ¡the ¡Colorado ¡School ¡of ¡Mines ¡
• Vehicle-­‑to-­‑Grid ¡at ¡the ¡University ¡of ¡Delaware ¡
• Integra2ng ¡Robots ¡with ¡Tac2cal ¡SWAT ¡Teams ¡at ¡Mississippi ¡State ¡University ¡

GREAT INNOVATIVE IDEAS

• Replaced “Highlight of the Week”
• Way to showcase Blue Sky Ideas
• Started April 2015
• Once a month
• Blog post- Highest number of hits

NITRD SYMPOSIUM (2/16/2012)

NURTURING FUTURE LEADERS

LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE (LISPI)

To educate a cadre of computing researchers on how science policy in the U.S. is formulated and how our government works November, ¡2011 ¡

• 34 attendees;
• 7 women
• 19 received financial aid
• 24 institutions represented
• 23 participants from public

institutions; 7 from private; 4 from industry;

April, ¡2013 ¡

• 53 attendees;
• 12 women
• 6 received financial aid
• 47 institutions represented
• 40 participants from public

institutions; 12 from private; 1 from industry

Milt ¡Corn, ¡NIH ¡ AQendees ¡ Henry ¡Kelly, ¡DoE ¡

April, ¡2015 ¡

• 32 ¡aQendees; ¡
• 5 ¡women ¡
• 4 ¡received ¡financial ¡aid ¡
• 27 ¡ins2tu2ons ¡represented ¡
• 22 ¡from ¡public; ¡6 ¡from ¡private; ¡3 ¡from ¡

industry ¡ ¡

CI FELLOWS

• Computing Innovation Fellows, to keep PhD graduates in the

research pipeline during the economic downturn – 2009: 60 Fellows, 50 have permanent research positions (33 academic, 16 industry, 1 government) – 2010: 47 Fellows, all have permanent positions in research (27 academic, 20 industry) – 2011: 20 Fellows, 19 have permanent research positions (15 academic, 3 industry, 1 government)

• CERP’s CI Fellows Evaluation Report – April 2014
• CI Fellows Workshop – May 22-23, 2014

CI FELLOWS EVALUATION – KEY FINDINGS

Compared to Non-fellow Postdocs, CI Fellows

• Experienced greater independence during their postdoc
• Were more satisfied with how their postdoc prepared them for balancing

work-life responsibilities

• Received higher postdoc salaries that made it easier to live and relocate
• Had higher salaries at the time of the survey

Postdoc programs in general:

• Were rated positively in terms of support, opportunities, and skills

preparation

• Could be improved to reduce negative impact of relocating
• Could be more accommodating of personal and family responsibilities

THE CHANGING COMPUTING COMMUNITY

0 ¡ 100 ¡ 200 ¡ 300 ¡ 400 ¡ 500 ¡ 600 ¡ 700 ¡ 800 ¡ 900 ¡ 1000 ¡ 1997 ¡ 1998 ¡ 1999 ¡ 2000 ¡ 2001 ¡ 2002 ¡ 2003 ¡ 2004 ¡ 2005 ¡ 2006 ¡ 2007 ¡ 2008 ¡ 2009 ¡ 2010 ¡ 2011 ¡ 2012 ¡ 2013 ¡

Employment ¡of ¡New ¡Ph.D.s ¡in ¡Tenure-­‑Track ¡Faculty, ¡ Industry, ¡and ¡Postdoc ¡Posi6ons ¡

Source: ¡CRA ¡Taulbee ¡Survey ¡

Tenure-­‑Track ¡Faculty ¡ Postdocs ¡ Industry ¡

COMPUTING INNOVATION FELLOWS PROJECT -> POSTDOC BEST PRACTICES

9/30/13 11:49 PM Request for Proposals | PostDoc Best Practices Search

Request for Proposals (RFP) Implementation of Best Practices for Supporting Postdocs

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In recent years, new PhD’s in the CS&E community have increasingly chosen postdoc training assignments in their pursuit of research careers. Large numbers of postdocs in CS&E are a new phenomenon for us. Our community has an opportunity, as a field, to institutionalize a set of best practices, drawn from our own experience and that of postdocs in other fields and to establish a culture that provides postdocs a superb enriching experience that launches their research careers.

POSTDOC BEST PRACTICES

• 3 Projects began in April, 2014 for 3 years

– ASCENT: Advancing computer Science Careers through Enhanced Networking and Training

• Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, NYU, Teacher’s College

– Taking Collective Responsibility for the Postdoc Experience

• University of Washington

– A Foundational Model for Postdoctoral Programs in Computer Science & Engineering at Large Universities

• Arizona State University, with University of Arizona and Northern

Arizona University

DISCUSSION, QUESTIONS, IDEAS

Research ¡Community ¡

RESEARCH “ECOSYSTEM”

“The ¡Public” ¡ Na2onal ¡ Labs ¡ Research ¡ ¡ Universi2es ¡ Industry ¡ Government ¡ Non-­‑US ¡ Ins2tu2ons ¡ Undergrads Masters ¡ 4 ¡year ¡ colleges ¡and ¡ universi2es ¡

PhDs, ¡ Postdocs, ¡ Papers ¡… ¡

Na2onal ¡ Labs ¡ Research ¡Community ¡

CCC ROLES (THUS FAR)

Research ¡ ¡ Universi2es ¡ “The ¡Public” ¡ Industry ¡ Government ¡ Non-­‑US ¡ Ins2tu2ons ¡ Undergrads Masters ¡ 4 ¡year ¡ colleges ¡and ¡ universi2es ¡ Events, ¡Web ¡Site ¡etc. ¡ Workshops ¡ White ¡Papers ¡ CS ¡Urge ¡

CI ¡Fellows ¡

PhDs, ¡ Postdocs, ¡ Papers ¡… ¡

CCC ¡Visioning ¡

YOUR IDEAS?

• What are we doing we might do better/differently?
• What aren’t we doing that we should?
• Are we missing big pieces of the picture entirely?