CRA Academic Careers Workshop

February 10 - 12, 2002

Key Bridge Marriott
Arlington, Virginia (Washington, D.C. area)

CRA held another in its highly successful series of workshops for new faculty and advanced graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, computational science, and other computing-related disciplines. The workshop focused on practical methods for having a successful and fulfilling academic career.

>> Program and Slides

• Included talks by senior members of the two largest funding agencies for computing research, NSF and DARPA, providing overviews of the agencies' operations and funding programs. There also was a workshop led by NSF staff on how to write a good grant proposal.
  
  
• Collocated with the CRA Board of Directors' meeting and the CRA Computing Leadership Summit, the latter bringing together the presidents, executive directors, and other senior volunteers from AAAI, ACM, CACS/AIC, CRA, CSTB, IEEE Computer Society, SIAM, and USENIX. A joint reception was held with CRA board members and Summit attendees in order to give workshop participants an opportunity to meet informally with senior leaders from the computing community.
  
  
• The fee for students, professors, and researchers of CRA academic and lab/center member-organizations (including students/faculty of CACS/AIC departments) was $195. The fee for non-members was $255. This included two breaks, receptions on February 10th and 11th, breakfasts on the 11th and 12th, and lunch on the 11th.
  
  
• This year, CRA was able to provide funding assistance for U.S. graduate students to attend the workshop. The deadline for applications for assistance was November 23, 2001, and twenty-six graduate students were chosen to receive the funding.