The Computing Research Association, in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), today announced the membership of the first permanent Council for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC). The council will direct and oversee the operations of the CCC as it provides scientific leadership and vision to computing research and future large-scale computing research projects. CRA created the CCC under a $6 million, three-year agreement with NSF to identify major research opportunities and establish “grand challenges” for the computing field. The CCC will create venues for community participation in developing a vision for computing research and in launching new research activities. Today's announcement names 16 leaders of the computing research community from industry, government and academia to terms on the permanent CCC Council ranging from 1 to 3 years. Those named to the council are listed below. Three-year terms Bill Feiereisen, Los Alamos National Laboratory Susan Graham, University of California at Berkeley David Kaeli, Northeastern University John King, University of Michigan Peter Lee, Carnegie Mellon University Two-year terms Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology David Tennenhouse, New Venture Partners Dave Waltz, Columbia University One-year terms Greg Andrews, University of Arizona Anita Jones, University of Virginia Dick Karp, University of California at Berkeley Edward Lazowska, University of Washington, Chair Fred Schneider, Cornell University Bob Sproull, Sun Microsystems Karen Sutherland, Augsburg College “We're pleased to have assembled such a strong council with a broad range of interests and backgrounds,” said Daniel Reed, chair of the Computing Research Association and director of the Renaissance Computing Institute. “Having representatives from such a wide array of sub disciplines, from schools both large and small, and from industry and government research labs should provide the diversity of thought necessary to enhance our community's ability to envision and pursue long-term, audacious computing research goals.” Reed said key tasks for the council will be to help the CCC catalyze the computing research community to debate long-range research challenges, build consensus around research visions, and develop the most promising visions into clearly defined initiatives. The council members' terms begin July 1.