What does CRA stand for?

She was the first woman on the board of the Computing Research Association.

Klawe was the first woman to serve on the board of the Computing Research Association.

Curiously absent from the hyperbolic discussions of flat worlds and global competitiveness ore concerns over statistics such as those from the Computing Research Association that show that the number of college freshmen who list computer science os a probable major has fallen by 70 percent since 2000, or that computer science remains a rarity in the K12 curriculum.

Jay Vegso, manager of membership and information services at the Computing Research Association (CRA), thinks it not only has to do with the perception that there are less CS-related jobs available, but also with the rise of other IT-heavy fields like Management Information Systems.

Members of the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation * Aligent Technologies * Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America * American Chemical Society * American Electronics Association * American Mathematical Society * American Physical Society * Association of American Universities * Computer Systems Policy Project * Computing Research Association * Council on Competitiveness * Hewlett Packard * IBM * IEEE-USA * Intel * Lucent Technologies * Materials Research Society * Microsoft * National Association of Manufacturers * Ntl.

Her award as the continent's top female computer science student from the Computing Research Association comes with a $1,000 award and a trip to Chicago in October for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.

21) SOURCE: COMPUTING RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 55 Age of former boxing champion and grill pitchman George Foreman, who is coming out of retirement to fight again.

The Computing Research Association stated that "the action by RIAA represents a clear and immediate threat to the healthy co nduct of computer systems research.