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Nov. 3, 2021 -- In July 2021, the Computing Research Association’s (CRA) newly formed Industry Committee (CRA-I) launched a series of 75-minute virtual

Oct. 11, 2021 -- The National Science Foundation has awarded the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT an NSF Broadening Participation

CRA board approves Lyric Point Amid Other Efforts Two small businesses in Overtown will expand their operations in the historic district thanks to Board Chairman Jeffrey Watson and the Southeast Overtown / Parkwest Community Redevelopment Agency (“SEOPW”) (“CRA”) Board of Commissioners. The build-out has been approved for 7,000 square feet of leased and/or commercial space at Lyric Point. The development is a new two-story, 55,000 square foot commercial building located at 101 NW 8th Street in the heart of Overtown. Directly aligning with SEOPW CRA’s goal of creati...

News No Comments After traveling from Nigeria to earn a graduate degree at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Oluwaseun “Seun” Johnson is graduating this month with a master’s degree in information science and a new career at Intuit, Inc.  Johnson will begin his new job as a software engineer with Intuit in June and will be moving to Mountain View, California, where the company’s headquarters are located, later this year. “I feel happy that I am graduating,” Johnson said. “When I look back to when I first came to UA Little Rock, I feel like I’ve achieved a lot. I hav...

Date Time UO project finds communications risks in a Cascadia quake University of Oregon research inspired by an undergraduate has uncovered a communications hazard that could accompany earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone: Internet traffic and cell signaling facilities could be crippled. A project led by Juno Mayer, a computer science student, estimates that 65 percent of fiber links and cell towers, especially between Portland and Seattle, are at risk in the next 50 years. Scientists currently project about a 10 percent chance of a magnitude 9-plus earthquake in the Pacific Northw...