The 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015) invites original contributions in the area of intelligent Systems for the Built Environment targeted particularly towards energy efficiency, improving performance, adding novel functionality, as well as deeply understanding infrastructure systems and the intercoupling between them. Over the past six years, BuildSys established itself first as the premier workshop for researchers, developers, and practitioners across interdisciplinary fields to present research results and exchange ideas in all information-driven aspects of the buildings. 2014 marked the first year for BuildSys as a full ACM conference. BuildSys this year will broaden its scope significantly to include all systems within the […]

Join the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite on June 1 in Washington, DC for the Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) at the National Building Museum to see the future of Smart City / Internet of Things technology.  US Ignite and NIST, with the help of their partners, will showcase new IoT technologies that are transforming decision making within a smart city / smart community environment here in the US and around the world. There will be 60+ teams exhibiting, keynotes from the US Secretary of Transportation, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a distinguished lecture on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 2:00 pm EST by Dr. Kathy Yelick titled CDL – More Data, More Science and……Moore’s Law?.  Kathy Yelick, a newly elected Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member who will start her term in July, studies programming languages, compilers, and algorithms for parallel machines. She currently leads the Computing Sciences directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), which includes National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Energy Sciences Network and a research division of scientists and engineers in applied math, computer science and computational science. She earned her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science […]

In April, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) commissioned members of the privacy research community to generate a short report to help guide strategic thinking in this space. The effort aimed to complement and synthesize other recent documents, including the White House BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values Report and the Report to the President on Big Data and Privacy: A Technological Perspective. Today, the CCC is releasing the resultant community report, Towards a Privacy Research Roadmap for the Computing Community: Great advances in computing and communication technology are bringing many benefits to society, with transformative changes and financial opportunities being created in health care, transportation, education, law enforcement, national security, […]

The following is a letter to the community from Sushil K. Prasad in the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to inform you of ACI’s emerging CAREER program for junior faculty members in the wider computational science and engineering disciplines (NSF 15-555).  Please see NSF’s Dear Colleague Letter about this program.  CAREER is the most prestigious NSF award supporting the junior faculty as a teacher-scholar with a minimum award of $400K over five years.  Top 20 of these awardees are nominated each year for the Presidential Early Career Awards.  The proposals are due on July 21, 2015. […]

The following is a guest blog post by Dr. Robin Murphy, Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Faculty Fellow for Innovation in High-Impact Learning Experiences at Texas A&M University.  The Nepal earthquake illustrates the need for critical real-time computing and information systems, dubbed “CRICIS computing” by a 2012 NSF/CCC visioning workshop. The findings from the CRICIS report still hold: that disasters require “fundamental new research in socio-technical systems that enable decision-making for
extreme scales under extreme conditions. This research cuts across physical and engineered artifacts, information technology, and human-computer collaboration. It is an example of the general shift in science and industry from physical devices and computational packages to socio-technical information systems […]