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Computing Research News a Publication of the Computing Research Association Computing Research news A Publication of the Computing Research Association January 2010 Vol. 22/No. 1 Congress Approves Increases for Science, Computing Research Final Budgets Still Fall Short of President’s Request By Peter Harsha Computing research programs at over concerns raised by Senate the President’s requested budget to FY 2009, plus an additional $77 the National Science Foundation and appropriators about management for the agency. Included in that million in congressionally directed the Department of Energy’s Office issues at the agency. increase is an even larger percentage spending. The appropriation includes of Science are among those slated for While these science agencies will increase for NSF’s Computer and funding for the Advanced Scientific increases in fiscal year 2010, thanks see budget increases in FY 2010, in Information Science and Engineering Computing Research (ASCR) to appropriations legislation that each case the approved increase falls (CISE) directorate. CISE will receive program, which will receive $394 would keep those agencies on a path short of the President’s requested $620 million in FY 2010—less than million in FY 2010, an increase of to double their budgets over the next budget for FY 2010 for that agency. the $633 million requested by the nearly 7 percent over FY 2009. six years. Congress approved the last Typically, congressional appropriators President. but 8.1 percent greater of twelve annual appropriations bills use the shortfall between what the than the FY 2009 budget. National Institute of necessary to fund the operations President requested and what they NSF’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure Standards and Technology of government on December 18, appropriate to pay for congressionally (OCI) also fared well in the final NIST will receive $603 million for providing a healthy increase to the directed projects (also known as appropriation, receiving $215 million its core research efforts in FY 2010, an NSF budget, a more modest increase “earmarks”) to provide increases in FY 2010. This represents an increase of 9.6 percent compared to to DOE’s Office of Science, and a Congress believes the Administration increase of 7.7 percent over FY 2009, FY 2009. Included in that funding is slight increase in real terms for the wrongly failed to request for other but below the President’s requested nearly $58 million in congressionally National Institute of Standards and agencies or programs. increase of 10 percent. directed programs. Removing that Technology. NSF’s Education and Human National Science Foundation earmarked spending results in a real Basic research at the Department of Resources directorate received $873 decrease of 1.0 percent compared Defense also will see an increase in FY Funding for NSF will grow million for FY 2010, an increase of 6 to FY 2009—a level below the 2010, though the Defense Advanced to $6.93 billion in FY 2010, an percent over FY 2009, and $15 million Administration’s requested funding Research Projects Agency (DARPA) increase of 6.7 percent over FY more than the President’s request. level of $637 million. will see a 4.5 percent decrease 20091, but $118 million lower than Department of Energy’s Department of Defense Office of Science The FY 2010 Defense Inside CRN On October 28, 2009 Congress Appropriations Bill includes funding finished work on the FY 2010 Energy for all DOD research, including Expanding the Pipeline.........................2 Discovery and Innovation in Health IT ..5 and Water Appropriations bill (P.L. DARPA and the Defense research Undergraduate Award Winners ............3 Professional Opportunities ...................8 111-85) containing funding for DOE’s labs. In the run-up to the final bill, Musings from the Chair ........................4 Snowbird Preliminary Program .... 23-24 Office of Science. The Office received just over $4.8 billion in core funding, Congress Approves Increases an increase of 3 percent compared Continued on Page 7 PAID U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 993 NONPROFIT ORG. WASHINGTON, DC Connecting Teachers with Computer Scientists By Jan Cuny Hands-on, discovery-based, true of many students’ hands-on responsibility to change this. National lab experiences are known to be experiences of computing, which too Lab Day gives us the opportunity. an essential part of middle and often are limited to keyboarding, National Lab Day is an high school students’ education word processing, and spreadsheets. unprecedented, national effort to in all STEM disciplines, including Some schools do a great job bring more high-quality, hands-on, computing. We tend to think of teaching computing, but many discovery-based lab experiences to “labs” as test tubes and beakers, more do not. Many of our students middle and high school students. ramps and levers, or frogs and bugs, are taught computer literacy but It is more than just a day. It’s a but in reality they can be defined not computational thinking, not nationwide movement to support much more broadly. A lab can STEM education in our schools. It’s be any place where students can teachers working with community explore, experiment, test, design, volunteers, and communities rallying and get their hands dirty and their “The quality of current around teachers to give kids access minds engaged. A lab could be to well-equipped labs and to the a mountaintop to a geologist, a lab experiences is poor for professional scientists, engineers, computer link to a distant particle most students.” and mathematicians who can inspire accelerator to a physicist, a factory them. Scientists and engineers in floor to an industrial engineer, or computing are certainly included; we a laptop to a software engineer. A are an integral, though often ignored, lab can be physical or virtual; it can the fundamentals of computer part of the STEM community. But we be anywhere that authentic lessons science. Many of our students can only be integral to Lab Day if we in science, technology, engineering, never experience the empowerment step up to the plate. math, and computer science can be that comes from being able to National Lab Day focuses on designed to happen. adapt and bend computation to the needs of participating teachers. The National Research Council’s their ends; they are users but not Teachers are the experts who best 2006 America’s Lab Report creators of technology. Too often know their students and their concluded that: “The quality of they do not understand what they CRA 1100 Seventeenth Street, NW Suite 507 Washington, DC 20036-4632 current lab experiences is poor for are using, or how it could be used Connecting Teachers most students.” That is certainly better. As a community, we have the Continued on Page 6 5881_CRN-Jan-5.indd 1 1/4/10 12:15 PM Computing Research news JanuaRy 2010 Computing Research Expanding the Pipeline Association Board Officers CRA-W Showcases Its Programs at the Grace Eric Grimson Chair Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Massachusetts Institute of Technology By Joann J. Ordille Laura Haas Vice Chair IBM Almaden Research Center On September 30, the Grace of tomorrow. Funding for this year’s several CRA-W and CDC programs Susanne Hambrusch Secretary Hopper Celebration of Women Robotics Track was provided by that provide research experience Purdue University in Computing opened at the J.W. CRA-W and CDC programs. The for undergraduates (www.craw. Philip Bernstein Marriott Conference Center in track was led by CRA-W Board org/UgradResearch). Work by Treasurer Tucson. The sold-out crowd totaled Members Professor Maria Gini undergraduates in these programs Microsoft Research 1,570 women and men including of the University of Minnesota was presented in eight posters Board Members 520 industry and government and Professor Manuela Veloso of during the conference. The posters Sarita Adve professionals, 213 academic faculty Carnegie Mellon. covered such wide-ranging topics as University of Illinois, and staff, and 678 students. The The Robotics Track included talks the computation of RNA structures, Urbana-Champaign conference attracted globe-spanning on “Engineering and Self-Organizing reduction of energy consumption, Annie I. Antón participation with attendees from 22 Systems,” by Professor Radhika rapid prototyping, and social North Carolina State University countries and all continents except Nagpal of Harvard; “Living Better network privacy. William Aspray University of Texas at Austin Antarctica. You could see leaders with Robotics,” by Professor Cynthia In the final undergraduate session, Carla Brodley from Africa, educators, executives Breazeal of MIT; and “Challenges Professor Eleni Stroulia (University of Tufts University from popular technology companies, and Results of Multi-Robot and Alberta), Professor Andrea Danyluk Andrew A. Chien students, prominent researchers, Multi-Human Systems” by Professor (Williams College), and PhD Intel Corporation presidents of universities, and social Manuela Veloso. Participants Candidate Ramya Raghavendra (UC Alva Couch change agents in excited conversation. discussed how the life of insects Santa Barbara), both entertained and Tufts University Combining excitement and fun with can inspire better robot design, informed with stories of overcoming Richard A. DeMillo Georgia Institute of Technology learning and mentoring is one of the how robots can be made invisible the hurdles and reaping the rewards Mary Fernández best ways to strengthen the computer to help people in everyday tasks, of graduate school. ATT Labs Research science pipeline. and how symbiotic relationships The undergraduate workshop Kathleen Fisher The Computing Research of robots and humans can achieve expanded on the CRA-W and CDC ATT Labs Research Association Committee on the Status even better results. The track also Distinguished Lecture Series (www. Mary Jean Harrold of Women in Computing Research included a panel on “Career Paths cra-w.org/dls) in which distinguished Georgia Institute of Technology (CRA-W) is a founding sponsor of in Robotics” chaired by Professor lecturers visit colleges, universities, Jeffrey Hollingsworth University of Maryland the Grace Hopper Conference, and Gini and including panelists Dr.
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