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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.


Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ACM Hypertext 2018

July 31st, 2018 / in Announcements, CCC, Research News / by Helen Wright
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The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 29TH ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, July 9-12, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.

The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and new research opportunities. This track was designed to overcome the constraints of the traditional review process and served as an incubator for innovative approaches, risky and provocative ideas, and to propose challenges and opportunities in the near future.

First place:

Charlie Hargood, Fred Charles and David Millard- “Intelligent Generative Locative Hyperstructure

Second place:
Mark Bernstein and Clare Hooper- “A Villain’s Guide to Social Media and Web Science

Third place:
Mark Bernstein- “As We May Hear: Our Slaves of Steel II

CCC provides travel awards to authors of the winning papers. We encourage you to apply for a Blue Sky Ideas track at your conference!

Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track. For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Blue Sky Ideas track — visit our website.

Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at ACM Hypertext 2018