When you hear supporting the research community and the peer review process, what do you think? Our recent CRA whitepaper published in July outlined key points for conferences to consider. Here’s what you should know. Encouraging good documentation practices and promoting the sharing of research materials, conferences can create a culture of transparency. This makes research more reliable and helps researchers collaborate to verify each other’s work. Commitment to reproducibility protects the credibility of individual studies and strengthens entire fields of research. Accurate documentation is crucial for ensuring reproducibility and replicability, which help maintain the accuracy and objectivity of research. Reproducibility refers to obtaining consistent results using the same data […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Supporting the Research Community and the Peer Review Process
November 6th, 2024 / in CCC, conferences / by Petruce Jean-CharlesCCC Weekly Computing News: NSF Game Maker Awards for K-12
November 1st, 2024 / in CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesIn this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing the exciting news of the The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Game Maker Awards to celebrate the organization’s 75th anniversary. K-12 student competition helps NSF mark 75 years of supporting science With the theme “Life in 2100,” this competition encourages students to design video games that envision life in the future, incorporating one or more of NSF’s focus areas. Themes can include exploring the universe, futuristic work and transportation, sustainable ecosystems, urban management, or advancements in medical technology. The initiative aims to foster curiosity and innovation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Participants can enter individually or as […]
CCC Q&A: Human-Centered Computer Scientist Shares Thoughts on Effective Voting Systems
October 31st, 2024 / in CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesIn light of a voter software glitch in Indiana, CCC spoke with Human-Centered Computer Scientist Juan Gilbert. Gilbert pioneered a universal voting system that makes voting more reliable and accessible for everyone and for increasing diversity in the computer science workforce. Here’s what he had to say. What are the major findings you have found in designing voting systems for people who are voting? For election poll workers? Juan: The system should have told them it was an invalid address and that they should do a provisional ballot. So, it’s all about communication. So if it’s valid then say, please proceed to voting. If it’s invalid, then, based on what […]
Call for Proposals: SAFE-AI: Safety Assurance through Fundamental Science in Emerging AI
October 31st, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider submitting a proposal to Schmidt Sciences SAFE-AI: Safety Assurance through Fundamental Science in Emerging AI program. The SAFE-AI: Safety Assurance through Fundamental Science in Emerging AI program seeks research proposals to advance the science of AI safety. According to the request, the goal of the program is to deepen our understanding of the safety properties of systems built with large language models (LLMs) and to develop well-founded, concrete, implementable technical methods for testing and evaluating LLMs. “The program will improve understanding of the relationships between and implications of various testing methodologies, grow the technical AI safety academic community, […]
Key Computing Takeaways on Voter Software Glitch
October 30th, 2024 / in CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesAn incident involving an Indiana University student who was turned away from the polls due to a software glitch has sparked significant conversation about the integrity and accessibility of the voting process. Here are the key computing takeaways from an article written in The Herald-Times. Networking Issues The main problem lies in our reliance on networked systems to manage voter information. If these systems don’t update quickly, voters might find themselves unable to prove their eligibility. This is particularly challenging for people who move around frequently and have to update their voting information, like students, who often move and might not be registered at their permanent address. Provisional Ballots When […]
CCC Council Members Discuss Upcoming SuperComputing Conference Panel
October 28th, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesCCC is pleased to announce that last week council members Michela Taufer and Chandra Krintz published an article in Inside AI News to discuss their upcoming panel at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference. As members of the Task Force on Sustainability and Climate Resilence, they are excited to be given a platform at the SC24 conference. Here is a sneak peek at one of the questions they would like leaders to consider before this panel discussion in November. How can AI continue to drive innovation while minimizing environmental harm? By now, we can all agree that AI has enormous potential, but we must ask ourselves whether the growing environmental cost of […]
