Archive of articles published in the 2024 issue.
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications Last month, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) CSGrad4US Fellowship and Mentoring Program, administered by the Computing Research Association (CRA), took center stage at the “Empowering the AI Talent of Today and Tomorrow: NSF Investments in AI Education and Development” event, held at the Rayburn House Office Building on […]
By Matt Hazenbush, Director of Communications The Computing Research Association (CRA) is marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter as it launches data collection for the 2024 CRA Taulbee Survey. This annual survey, a cornerstone of the computing research community, tracks essential data on student enrollment, degree production, faculty salaries, and employment trends in […]
By Richard E. Ladner, Professor Emeritus, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington For the first time in 2021, the CRA Taulbee Survey reported on disability status for students.[1] The survey chose to report on the number of students who received disability accommodations from the disability services office at their […]
By Denys Poshyvanyk, CRA-E Board, College of William and Mary The CRA Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award (URFMA) recognizes individual faculty members who have provided exceptional mentorship, undergraduate research experiences and, in parallel, guidance on admission and matriculation of these students to research-focused graduate programs in computing. Eligible nominees are full-time faculty members at North […]
By Helen Wright, Manager, CRA-I CRA-Industry (CRA-I) is pleased to welcome Bruce Henrickson (LLNL) and Ronak Shah (NVIDIA) to the CRA-I Council. They join an expanding group of Council members, under the leadership of CRA-I Council Chair Ron Brachman (Cornell Tech), who will continue collaborating with the CRA-I Steering Committee. Together, they will focus on […]
By Sheila Khan, Program Associate, CRA-E The Computing Research Association Education Committee (CRA-E) will be accepting nominations for the CRA-E Graduate Fellows Selection Program from October 14, 2024 to November 18, 2024. Award decisions will be announced in February 2025. About Graduate Fellow Program: CRA-E aims to support the health of the computing research pipeline […]
By Alejandro Velasco Dimate (CRA-E Fellow, College of William & Mary) and Emma McDonald (CRA-E Fellow, University of Alberta) This Q&A highlight features Maryam Abuissa, an Honorable Mention in the 2024 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers award program. Maryam finished their undergrad in Math and Computer Science at Amherst College and is now pursuing their PhD […]
By Andres Purpuro, Program Assistant, CERP Join us for the next BPCnet.org BPC Community Forum on Friday, November 1, at noon EST, for a discussion led by Carla Brodley, Executive Director, and Catherine Gill, Program Director, of the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC). They will explore strategies to overcome institutional barriers in undergraduate computing programs. […]
By Kari George, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Persistent equity gaps in computing doctoral degree attainment motivated a new study that examined what influences students’ consideration of departure. As an important precursor to their decisions to stay or leave their programs, understanding what shapes students’ thoughts of leaving is critical to supporting […]
By Craig E. Wills, Worcester Polytechnic Institute The motivation for this work is a better understanding of the faculty educating Computer Science students in the United States. Most previous work has largely concentrated on research faculty at PhD-granting institutions. A broader look at faculty educating CS students is needed as CS PhD-granting “R1” institutions in […]
By Mihai Christodorescu (Visa Research), Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Rebecca Wright (Barnard College), John Mitchell (Stanford University), Matt Turek (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) We hosted a panel discussion on GenAI opportunities and risks at the 2024 CRA Conference at Snowbird, which we summarize below. We thank Divesh Srivastava for the invitation, Tracy Camp […]
