Planning Grant for a Federated Computing Research Conference

计算研究是一个非常年轻的研究领域。在过去的几年里，很明显，计算正在将实验和数学分析结合在一起，为如何完成科学提供了一个基本的新的科学范式。在这样一个新的、快速变化的领域，研究人员之间的交流尤为重要。但计算机科学和工程领域的会议结构高度分散，不利于这种交流。重要的新研究成果很少在基础广泛的国家会议上提出。因此，基础广泛的会议很少有活跃的研究人员参加。计划召开一次联合计算研究会议来解决这个问题。这次会议将保留规模较小的专门会议的优势，同时促进不同分领域的研究人员之间的交流。这次会议的其他好处包括：(1)规模经济，(2)为公众提供教育功能，(3)激发新的研究。这次会议的规划将包括在计算机研究社区内开展讨论和达成共识，以及仔细规划选址和其他安排。这项规划中的大部分行政工作将由一个由研究界杰出成员组成的指导委员会执行。

Computing Research is a very young research area. In the past few years it has become clear that computation is joining experimentation and mathematical analysis, providing a basic new scientific paradigm for how science gets done. In such a new and rapidly changing field, communication among researchers is particularly important. But the conference structure in computer science and engineering is highly fragmented and works against such communication. Important new research results are seldom presented at broad based national meetings. Consequently, broad based meetings are seldom attended by active researchers. A Federated Computing Research Conference is planned to address this problem. This conference will retain the advantages of smaller specialized meetings while at the same time facilitating communication among researchers in different subfields. Additional benefits of this meeting include: (1) economies of scale, (2) providing an educational function for the public, (3) stimulating new research. Planning for this conference will consist of developing discussions and consensus within the computing research community as well as careful planning of site selection and other arrangements. Most of the administrative effort in this planning will be carried out by a steering committee of prominent members of the research community.