Abstract

The Computing Research Association is the Washington-based non-profit looking out for the health of the computing research enterprise by focusing on the people and money necessary to conduct computing research. Since CRA pays my salary, I start with what CRA is doing in general to support the people doing computing research and how students and faculty can make use of these efforts. I then bring people up to date on what is going on with research funding at the federal level and what CRA is doing to improve the situation. This leads into a discussion of the new Computing Community Consortium effort.