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May 2007, Vol. 19/No. 3 (in its entirety, in PDF, 775 KB)

• CRA Announces Three Service Award Winners [website version]
• Scientific Computing at the Forefront – Los Alamos National Laboratory [HTML]
• Tapia Conference to Focus on Passion, Diversity, and Innovation [HTML]
• CRA Elects New Board Members; Re-Elects Officers [HTML]
• Musings from the Chair: Computing: It's Hip and It's Cool [HTML]
• The Computing Community Consortium-- The Way Forward [HTML]
• Congress on Track to Continue Increases for Science [HTML]
• 2005-2006 Taulbee Survey: Record Ph.D. Production Continues; Undergraduate Enrollments Turning the Corner [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

March 2007, Vol. 19/No. 2 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.2 MB)

• Congress Protects Science Funding in Final Appropriations [HTML]
• SDSC: Harnessing Data for Science and Society [HTML]
• Gender Differences: Recognizing and Developing Potential in Female Students [HTML]
• Musings from the Chair: Why We Go to the Woods [HTML]
• Continued Drop in CS Bachelor’s Degree Production and Enrollments as the Number of New Majors Stabilizes [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2007, Vol. 19/No. 1 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.1 MB)

• Congress Change Could Mean Slight Changes in Science Policy [HTML]
• Avaya Labs Research – Thriving In Pasteur’s Quadrant [HTML]
• CRA-W Cohort of Associate Professors [HTML]
• CRA Announces Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winners [website version]
• Inventing the Future [HTML]
• Musings from the Chair: Random Ramblings [HTML]
• Who Grants the most Bachelor's and Doctoral Degrees in CS? [website version]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

November 2006, Vol. 18/No. 5 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.3 MB)

• NSF Selects CRA to Create Computing Community Consortium: Effort Will Envision Major Research Opportunities [HTML]
• Research With Impact: The Computer Science Research Institute at Sandia National Laboratories [HTML]
• CRA-W/CDC Launch Discipline-Specific Mentoring Programs with Computer Architecture Summer Workshop [HTML]
• A Clarion Call within the Cacophony [HTML]
• Congress Delays Appropriations, Creating Uncertainty for Science Increases [HTML]
• Moving Forward Strategically [HTML]
• U.S. Computer Science Delegation Visits China [HTML]
• Good Service: A Surprising Secret to Academic Success [HTML]
• BLS Projects Strong Growth in IT Professions [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

September 2006, Vol. 18/No. 4 (in its entirety, in PDF, 370 KB)

• Congress on Track to Provide Big Boost to Physical Sciences, Computing [HTML]
• Argonne National Lab Celebrates 60th Anniversary [HTML]
• Systers: The Electronic Community for Women in Computing [HTML]
• Education: Research by Another Name [HTML]
• Another Year, More Dollars [HTML]
• Gail Murphy, UBC, Wins Anita Borg Award [current website version posted here]
• Sustained Fall in Share of Undergrad CS Degrees Granted to Women [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

May 2006, Vol. 18/No. 3 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1 MB)

• CRA Announces 2006 Service Award Winners [current website version posted here]
• Innovative, Competitiveness Plans Advance, But Hurdles Ahead [HTML]
• CRA-W and CDC Form an Alliance for NSF's New Program to Broaden Participation in Computing [HTML]
• CRA Welcomes New Board Members [HTML]
• Research: On Being the Right Size [HTML]
• Are Computer Scientists Timid? [HTML]
• Foreigners and Graduate-Level Computer Science in the U.S. [HTML]
• Computing Community Consortium (CCC) [HTML]
• 2004-2005 Taulbee Survey: Ph.D. Production at an All-Time High with More New Graduates Going Abroad; Undergraduate Enrollments Again Drop Significantly [HTML]
• CRA Conference at Snowbird 2006 Agenda [current website version posted here]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

March 2006, Vol. 18/No. 2 (in its entirety, in PDF, 670 KB)

• President’s Budget Includes Increases for Fundamental Research, Computing [HTML]
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Computational and Information Sciences [HTML]
• Geographic Shackles and the Academic Careers of Women [HTML]
• Industrial-Academic Agreement on Open Collaboration [HTML]
• The Future of American Innovation: The Gathering Storm [HTML]
• GENI and Your Research [HTML]
• Drop in CS Bachelor's Degree Production [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2006, Vol. 18/No. 1 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.6 MB)

• Congress Provides Symbolic Increase for NSF [HTML]
• Computing Research at SRI International [HTML]
• From the Inside, Out [HTML]
• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winners Announced [website version]
• An Analysis of CISE Funding in FY 2005 [HTML]
• Community Mourns Loss of Jerre D. Noe [HTML]
• Canadian CIS Enrollments and Degree Production [HTML]
• CRA Conference at Snowbird: Preliminary Program [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

November 2005, Vol. 17/No. 5 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.2 MB)

• Restrictions on Foreign Scientists Could Threaten U.S. Research [HTML]
• NSF/CISE Plans GENI Initiative [HTML]
• Ladner Recognized with Presidential Award [HTML]
• Results of CRA's 2004 Salary Survey of Computing Research Staff in Industrial Labs [HTML]
• Computing Education and Careers: Perceptions, Myth, and Reality [HTML]
• ACM SIGCSE Sponsors First International Computing Education Research (ICER2005) Workshop [HTML]
• CRA-W Announces New Co-Chairs [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

September 2005, Vol. 17/No. 4 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.9 MB)

• Computing Research Gains Congressional Focus [HTML]
• Computing: Our Role in the 21st Century Universities and the Knowledge Economy [HTML]
• Anywhere, Anytime-- or Just Where is Your Office Anyhow? [HTML]
• Issues for the CISE Community in the New Academic Year [HTML]
• CRA-W Receives National Science Board Award [HTML]
• Zhou Wins Anita Borg Award [CRA website version]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

May 2005, Vol. 17/No. 3 (in its entirety, in PDF, 574 KB)

• Despite Budget Climate, Industry/Academia Argue for Fundamental R&D [HTML]
• Lazowska and Margolis to Receive CRA Service Awards [HTML]
• In a More Balanced Computer Science Environment, Similarity is the Difference and Computer Science is the Winner [HTML]
• CRA Elects New Board Members [HTML]
• Computing, We Have a Problem... [HTML]
• CRA-Women Honored by National Science Board [HTML]
• Thanks to Retiring Board Members [HTML]
• Challenges for Computing Research [HTML]
• 2003-2004 Taulbee Survey: Record Ph.D. Production on the Horizon; Undergraduate Enrollments Continue in Decline [HTML]
• Interest in CS as a Major Drops Among Incoming Freshmen [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

March 2005, Vol. 17/No. 2 (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.4 MB)

• President's FY 2006 Budget Cuts IT R&D Funding Overall [HTML]
• CRA Elects Officers to Two-Year Terms [HTML]
• Want to Increase Retention of Your Female Students? [HTML]
• CS Bachelor's Degree Production Grows in 2004; Poised for Decline [HTML]
• NAE Announces New Members & Foreign Associates [HTML]
• New STEM Workforce Report [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2005, Vol. 17/No. 1 (in its entirety, in PDF, 946 KB)

• NSF Budget Takes Hit in Final Appropriations Bill [HTML]
• Common Ground: A Diverse CS Community Benefits All of Us [HTML]
• Support the Distributed Mentor Project [HTML]
• 2005 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winners Announced [CRA website version]
• CRA Taulbee Trends: U.S. CS Ph.D. Production and Graduate Enrollment [HTML]
• National Academy of Engineering New Member Induction [HTML]
• CRA Issues New Report [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

November 2004, Vol. 16/No. 5 (in its entirety, in PDF, 2 MB)

• Spending Bills Delayed, but NSF Numbers May Improve [HTML]
• CISE 1994-2004: A Decade in Review [HTML]
• Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) [HTML]
• ECEDHA News and Activities [HTML]
• CISE Update: Adjusting to the Increase in Proposals [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

September 2004, Vol. 16/No. 4 (in its entirety, in PDF, 315 KB)

• President Honors CRA-W for Mentoring Efforts [HTML]
• Old Challenges, New Opportunities [HTML]
• The UK Grand Challenges Exercise [HTML]
• Canadian News and Views [HTML]
• CISE -- Perspectives for the Coming Year [HTML]
• House Panel Votes to Cut NSF, NASA Budgets for FY05 [HTML]
• CRA Policy Blog Available as an RSS Channel [HTML]
• UBC Professor Wins CRA-W Award [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

May 2004, Vol. 16./No. 3 (in its entirety, in PDF, 479 KB)

• An Overview of Past and Projected Employment Changes in the Professional IT Occupations [HTML]
• CRA Announces 2004 Service Award Winners [website version]
• CRA-W's Graduate Cohort Workshop [HTML]
• CRA Elects New Board Members [HTML]
• Initial Signs Not Encouraging for Science Funding in FY 05 [HTML]
• NSF/CISE: Looking Back, Looking Forward [HTML]
• Outsourcing: Threat or Opportunity? [HTML]
• 2002-2003 Taulbee Survey: Undergraduate Enrollments Drop; Department Growth Expectations Moderate [HTML]
• The Incredibly Shrinking Pipeline Is Not Just for Women Anymore [HTML]
• Berkeley Computer Science Division Celebrates 30th Anniversary [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

• Administration Releases "Austere" FY05 Budget [HTML]
• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab [HTML]
• Plans to Expand the Distributed Mentor Project [HTML]
• NSF/CISE Plans for FY2005 [HTML]
• Recent Trends in Doctorates Awarded in the Computer Sciences [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2004, Vol. 16/No. 1 (in its entirety, in PDF, 324 KB)

• House Approves Modest Increase for IT R&D, NSF in FY 2004; Senate Still to Act [HTML]
• Accenture Technology Labs: Creating Business Opportunities from Technology Innovations [HTML]
• Waterloo Offers CS Seminar for High School Girls [HTML]
• CRA Outstanding Award Winners Announced [website version posted here]
• Science of Design [HTML]
• Bayh-Dole Act Bad for Computing Research? [HTML]
• NRC Assesses Doctoral Programs at Research Universities [HTML]
• CRA Hosts Second Grand Research Challenges Conference [HTML]
• President's IT Advisory Committee Has First Meeting [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

November 2003, Vol. 15/No. 5 (in its entirety, in PDF, 376 KB)

• Congress Acts to Increase Science Funding, Stop TIA [HTML]
• IBM Research: A Center of Innovation [HTML]
• Research Career Mentoring Déjà Vu... [HTML]
• Results of CRA Industrial Salary Survey of CS Research Labs [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

September 2003, Vol. 15/No. 4 (in its entirety, in PDF, 554 KB)

• Title IX and Women in Academics [HTML]
• IT Responsible for Most Productivity Gains [HTML]
• Change in Taulbee Survey Reporting [HTML]
• Best Practices Memo: University-Industry Sponsored Research Agreements [website]
• The Northern Report: Computer Science News from Canada [HTML]
• CISE FY2004 Update [HTML]
• Past is Prologue: View from the Chair [HTML]
• CRA Workshop on Research Related to National Security: Report and Recommendations [HTML] [24 KB PDF]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

May 2003, Vol. 15/No. 3 (in its entirety, in PDF, 2.7 MB)

• Congress Finishes FY2003 Funding, Sets to Work on FY2004 [HTML]
• Bajcsy and Rodriguez to Receive CRA Service Awards [website announcements for Bajcsy and Rodriguez]
• Are Student Evaluations of Teaching Fair? [HTML]
• Computer Science, Meet Learning Science [HTML]
• CRA Board Elections [HTML]
• Cyberinfrastructure: Challenges for Computer Science and Engineering Research [HTML]
• Federal Funding Agencies [HTML]
• Change in Taulbee Survey Reporting [HTML]
• CRA Welcomes New Staff Member [HTML]
• Remembering Anita Borg-- A Legacy of Achievement [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

March 2003, Vol. 15, No. 2  (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.1 MB)

• President Proposes Increases to IT R&D Physical Sciences [HTML]
• Cyberinfrastructure: The Critical Role of Computer Science and Engineering Research [HTML]
• Migrating out of Computer Science [HTML]
• CRA: 30 Years of Service to the Computing Research Community of North America [HTML]
• The State of CRA -- An Update [HTML]
• CRA Elects Officers to Two-Year Terms [HTML]
• 2001/2002 Taulbee Survey: Survey Results Show Better Balance in Supply and Demand [HTML] [PDF]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2003, Vol. 15, No. 1  (in its entirety, in PDF, 900 KB)

• NIBIB at NIH Promotes Collaboration in Research [HTML]
• Sun Microsystems Laboratories: License to Innovate [HTML]
• Grace Hopper Celebration of Women 2002 [HTML]
• Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winners Announced [website version posted here]
• 2001-2002 Preliminary Taulbee Data on Faculty Salaries [HTML]
• Shooting Inward [HTML]
• The Federal Budget Cycle-- A Primer [HTML]
• NSF and Cyber Security Bills Pass as Congress Adjourns [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

November 2002, Vol. 14, No. 5  (in its entirety, in PDF, 943 KB)

• DARPA's New Cognitive Systems Vision [HTML]
• The Intel Research Network: An Innovative Model of Industry-University Collaboration [HTML]
• Award Validates Berkeley's Diversity Programs [HTML]
• Results of CRA Industrial Salary Survey of CS Research Labs [HTML]
• The International Trading Agent Competition: Focus on RoxyBot [HTML]
• Historical Trends from Taulbee Surveys: Early Employment of Doctorates [HTML]
• The Federal Budget--a Primer [HTML]
• Homeland Security [HTML]
• CRA Forms Grand Challenges Steering Committee [HTML]
• More on Computing > Computer Science [website version posted here]
• CRA Comments on Proposed NRC Study of U.S. Ph.D. Programs [HTML]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

September 2002, Vol. 14, No. 4  (in its entirety, in PDF, 1.87 MB)

• CRA Welcomes New Executive Director [HTML]
• Appropriations Kick Off with Good News for Researchers [HTML]
• CREW Announces 2002 Awards [HTML]
• Students Receive CRA Awards at International Conference
• CRA Holds Grand Research Challenges Conference [HTML]
• Examples of Leadership - Are You Included? [HTML]
• Aspray Honored at Snowbird [HTML]
• Computer Science Research in Mexico [HTML]
• Fostering Community Within a CS&E Department: A Berkeley Perspective [HTML]
• Record Numbers Attend Snowbird Conference [HTML]
• Computing > Computer Science [HTML] [An updated version, with a response, also is available]
• 2001-02 Computing Research Association Members [current members also listed here]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

May 2002, Vol. 14, No. 3  (in its entirety, in PDF)

• President's Budget, House Budget Resolution Help Expose 'Lay of the Land' [HTML]
• Taylor and van Dam Win CRA Service Awards [website version posted here]
• A Summary of Results form the Survey of the Earned Doctorate: Women Earning Computer Science Doctorates [HTML]
• Computing is Changing-- and so is CRA [HTML]
• CRA Seeks New Executive Director [website version posted here]
• CRA Board Elections and Appointments [HTML]
• The Ph.D. Job Hunt-- Helping Students Find the Right Positions [HTML]
• Adventures in Computational Grids [HTML]
• CPHC-- The UK's Computing Research Organization [HTML]
• On Being a Part-Time IPA in NSF/CISE [HTML]
• Federal Funding Agencies
• CRA-W Holds Successful Career Mentoring Workshop at SIGCSE [HTML]
• CRA Conference at Snowbird Preliminary Program [updated here]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

March 2002, Vol. 14, No. 2  (in its entirety, in PDF)

• President Requests Slight Increase for IT R&D Funding [HTML]
• Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Redefines Itself [HTML]
• CRA-W Announces New Distributed Mentoring Project Affiliates Program [HTML]
• Service to the Community: Former CISE Director Comments [HTML]
• Freeman to Head CISE Directorate [HTML]
• 2000/2001 Taulbee Survey: Hope for More Balance in Supply and Demand [HTML, PDF]
• CRA Conference at Snowbird Preliminary Program [updated here]
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]

January 2002, Vol. 14, No. 1 (PDF)

• Congressional Support for Research Appears Strong, But Work Continues
• CRA Special Conference on Future "Grand Challenge" Problems in CSE
• Coalition to Diversify Computing Launches Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Series
• Outstanding Undergraduate Award Winners Announced
• Software Licensing: Stanford's Approach [HTML]
• 2000/2001 Preliminary Taulbee Data on Faculty Salaries
• Nominees Sought for CRA Board
• Using History to Improve Undergraduate CS Teaching Second Workshop
• Scholarship Fund Established for Families of Sept. 11th Victims
• Professional Opportunities [current website version posted here]
• CRA Conference at Snowbird, July 14-16, 2002, Preliminary Program

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