The Computing Community Consortium

该项目将创建计算社区联盟（CCC），一个计算研究社区的代理组织。 CCC将支持旨在确定潜在的主要机会、设定优先事项和确定计算领域重大挑战的愿景活动。这些远景规划活动将基于计算研究社区成员的建议以及CCC本身产生的想法。CCC将成为一种机制，通过提高计算研究社区追求长期计算研究目标的能力来促进持续创新。信息技术的创新是过去十年美国经济生产率提高的主要原因。这些创新的基础是过去几十年的计算研究投资，其中大部分由NSF和其他政府机构资助。CCC将与科学界合作制定研究计划，以实现大规模的共享研究设施，改变该领域的范围和性质。CCC将与NSF和其他供资机构合作，为具有特殊长期影响的倡议开辟新的资金来源，其程度将超过目前的供资机制所允许的范围。这一努力将为信息技术继续改善美国和全世界人民的生活质量和生活水平的新方法奠定基础。

This project will create the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), a proxy organization for the computing research community. The CCC will support visioning activities designed to identify potential major opportunities, set priorities, and establish grand challenges for the computing field. These visioning activities will be based upon proposals by members of the computing research community as well as ideas generated by the CCC itself. The CCC will be a mechanism to promote continued innovation by enhancing the ability of the computing research community to pursue long-term, computing research goals. Innovations in information technology are responsible for the majority of the gains in economic productivity in the U.S. over the past decade. Underlying those innovations is prior decades of computing research investments, much of it funded by NSF and other government agencies. The CCC will work with the scientific community to formulate research programs to realize large-scale, shared research facilities that change the scope and nature of the field. The CCC will partner with NSF and other funding agencies to open up new sources of funding for initiatives with exceptional long term impacts, to a greater extent than current funding mechanisms permit. This effort will lay the foundation for new ways in which information technology will continue to improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in the U.S. and worldwide.