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Sept 99 CRN.P65 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS More than 25 Years of Service to the Computing Research Community September 1999 Vol. 11/No. 4 Appropriators Cut FY 2000 Funding For IT2 By Lisa Thompson As a result of the impasse, the million request for development of comprehensive research program in Administration’s budget request for terascale computing systems was not this important field of computing and As Congress prepares to return to the Information Technology for the funded at all. The subcommittee information technologies.” business the second week of Septem- Twenty-First Century (IT2) initiative made clear, however, that the cuts The report says much the same ber, the overall budget picture is still has been cut by all the panels that were made “without prejudice,” that about the terascale computing cloudy. Although forecasts suggest have considered it so far (for differ- is, because money was not available program: “The Committee, however, that the federal budget surplus will ent reasons though). to provide the requested increases is not prepared at this time to commit reach $3 trillion over the next ten resources to the construction of a years, the White House and Congress single site, five teraflop computing disagree about how to use it. Both facility as requested in the budget sides agree that about two-thirds of it submission. The Committee has should be left in the Social Security The appropriations process is far from over and there is still a chance taken this action, without prejudice, Trust Fund. And Congressional of securing additional funds for IT. CRA is asking the computing due to budget constraints and other, Republicans have passed an $800 research community to redouble its efforts to promote Congressional higher priority pressures on available billion tax cut bill that would use support for the IT research initiative, in particular urging the Senate to financial resources. The Committee most of the rest of it. work toward a VA-HUD appropriations bill that makes up the NSF’s IT expects to consider this request in Although the White House and funding shortfalls in the House version of the bill. Please see http:// future year budget submissions and even many Republicans would like www.cra.org/Policy/advocacy.html for more information. would hope to have the benefit of to apply some of the surplus to any new IT research that may be discretionary spending, neither side is available to assist during those willing to be the first to suggest it forthcoming deliberations.” openly. So Congress is preparing the The Senate appropriations FY 2000 federal budget under tight subcommittee will mark up the NSF’s caps on discretionary spending The House appropriations and not because the subcommittee budget after the congressional recess. enacted several years ago. While subcommittee responsible for NSF opposes the idea of expanding The Department of Energy’s most appropriations panels have provided a $35 million increase support for IT research. The report proposed participation in IT2, the written their FY 2000 spending bills, above CISE’s current budget to begin accompanying the spending bill says: $70 million Scientific Simulation a few are waiting to see if more funding the IT initiative. This is “Budget constraints make it Initiative, was not funded by either money becomes available so they can well below CISE’s request for a $110 impossible for the Committee to the House or Senate Energy and avoid deep cuts in their programs. million increase. An additional $36 provide the funding level as pro- Water appropriations subcommittees. vided in ... the full budget request for The House panel explained that it this new initiative without adversely could not afford to fund the SSI Inside CRN disrupting funding in all other program in addition to DoE’s ongoing Expanding the Pipeline ................... 2 Policy News ..................................... 6-7 program areas. Nevertheless, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Seed Corn ....................................... 3-4 CRA Election Results ..................... 10-11 Committee believes $35,000,000 is a Initiative: Undergraduate Awards .................. 5 Professional Opportunities ............ 14-16 significant down-payment towards what it expects will be a long-term, Appropriators Continued on Page 6 1999 FCRC in Atlanta a Success! The Third Federated Computing ACM Symposium on Theory of Another highlight of FCRC ’99 Research Conference (FCRC) was Computing (STOC) was the widely-praised lineup of PAID held Friday, April 30 through IEEE Conference on Computa- plenary speakers, selected by a U.S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 993 NONPROFIT ORG. Thursday, May 6, 1999, at the tional Complexity (Complexity) committee headed by Rao Kosaraju, WASHINGTON, DC Atlanta Hilton and Towers, and was ACM Symposium on Principles Johns Hopkins University. On by all accounts a success, with some of Distributed Computing (PODC) Sunday, Shafi Goldwasser of MIT 1,450 people attending the various ACM/UMIACS Workshop on and the Weitzmann Institute spoke on events, many registering for more Parallel Algorithms (WOPA) “Testing Global Properties Using than one. Following on successful ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Random, Local Data: the Paleontolo- events in San Diego (FCRC ’93) and Computer Support for System gist Approach to Computer Science.” Philadelphia (FCRC ’96), FCRC ’99 Software (WCSSS) On Monday, John Hennessy of was composed of fourteen tutorials ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Stanford University gave a talk plus a record number of Symposia Languages, Compilers, and Tools for entitled “Back to the Future: Time to and Workshops (sixteen): Embedded Systems (LCTES) Return to Some Long Standing CRA Workshop on Academic ACM SIGARCH Workshop on Problems in Computer Systems?” On Careers for Women in Computing Scalable, Shared-Memory Multipro- Tuesday, 1998 Turing Award winner Science (CRA-W) cessors (WSSMM) Jim Gray of Microsoft gave his Turing ACM/IEEE International Sympo- ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop Lecture “What Next? A Few Remain- sium of Computer Architecture on Mathematical Performance ing Problems in Information Tech- (ISCA) Modelling and Analysis (MAMA) nology Problems.” On Wednesday, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop Ken Kennedy of Rice University Programming Language Design and on Internet Server Performance spoke on “Future Investment in Implementation (PLDI) (WISP) Information Technology Research: ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on The high number of events was Report of the President’s Information Principles and Practices of Parallel made possible by the flexibility of Technology Advisory Committee.” Programming (PPOPP) this year’s financial model for On Thursday, Charles Bennett of IBM ACM SIGMETRICS Symposium FCRC, in which most costs were Research spoke on “Quantum on Parallel and Distributed Tools bundled into an overall “FCRC Information.” (METRICS) fee” charged once to each attendee, The plenary talks were scheduled ACM Workshop on Parallel and thus allowing individual events to just before lunch instead of first thing Distributed Simulation (PADS) have relatively small budgets, and in the morning as in the past, and this ACM/IEEE Workshop on I/O in making it easy to add one-day proved a popular choice. This FCRC Parallel and Distributed Systems workshops to the schedule, even at (IOPADS) a late date. FCRC Continued on Page 6 CRA 1100 Seventeenth Street, NW Suite 507 Washington, DC 20036-4632 COMPUTING RESEARCH NEWS September 1999 Expanding the Pipeline Computing Research Association FCRC Provides CS Females Forum Board Officers The CRA Committee on the network that is critical to success. Serving as chair of this year’s Edward Lazowska Status of Women in Computing The seating arrangement for the workshop was University of Califor- Chair University of Washington Research (CRA-W) held a very lunch on May 1 was designed to nia at San Diego (UCSD) Professor of successful “Workshop on Research allow participants with common Computer Science and Engineering Mary Lou Soffa Vice Chair Careers for Women in Computer research interests to interact. Friday Francine Berman. She is also an University of Pittsburgh Science and Engineering” in night attendees participated in a SDSC senior fellow and NPACI Leah Jamieson conjunction with the Federated “Networking Practicum” specifically partner. The workshop’s vice chairs Secretary Computing Research Conference designed to enable young researchers were Nancy Leveson of the Massa- Purdue University April 30 - May 1 in Atlanta, to interact with senior researchers in chusetts Institute of Technology, James Foley Georgia. The goal of the workshop their specific fields. Anne Condon of the University of Treasurer was to provide computer science Also at this workshop, CRA Washington, and Joann Ordille of Mitsubishi Electric Research undergraduate and graduate stu- presented its annual awards for Bell Laboratories. Board Members dents, professors, and researchers Outstanding Undergraduates. This Congratulations go to the Frances E. Allen from industry and the national is a program that recognizes under- following for making the workshop a IBM T.J. Watson Research Center laboratories—especially females— graduate students who have shown success: Sandra Johnson Baylor an opportunity to share information outstanding research potential. This Francine Berman, UCSD [Confer- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center critical for achieving success in year’s awards went to April Rasala ence Chair] Anita Borg computer science. A summary of and Marsette Vena, both of Kim Peaks, CRA [Conference Xerox
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