The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 28th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020), November 3-6th, 2020, online.
The emphasis of this track was on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities in research that are outside of the current mainstream topics of the field.
- First Place-Smartmedia: Locally & Contextually-Adapted Streaming Media
Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie Yip (AT&T Labs-Research), Eric Zavesky (AT&T Labs-Research) - Second Place-Leveraging geospatial data gateways to support the operational application of deep learning models (Vision Paper)
Aiman Soliman (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois), Jeffrey Terstriep (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois)
CCC provides travel awards to the winners. 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.
