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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.

NSTC Subcommittee Report: Recommendations for Leveraging Cloud Computing Resources for Federally Funded Artificial Intelligence Research and Development

November 20th, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, Quad Paper, research horizons, Research News, resources / by Helen Wright

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence (AI) just released a new report that provides Recommendations for Leveraging Cloud Computing Resources for Federally Funded Artificial Intelligence Research and Development. The report provides recommendations on better enabling the use of cloud computing resources for federally funded AI Research and Development (R&D). See a summary of those recommendations below.

Recommendation 1: Launch and support pilot projects to identify and explore the advantages and challenges associated with the use of commercial clouds in conducting federally funded AI research.

Recommendation 2: Improve education and training opportunities to help researchers better leverage cloud resources for AI R&D.

Recommendation 3: Catalog best practices in identity management and single-sign-on strategies to enable more effective use of the variety of commercial cloud resources for AI R&D.

Recommendation 4: Establish and publish best practices for the seamless use of different cloud platforms for AI R&D.

Investing in “AI R&D and democratizing access to powerful computational resources… will expand the ability of academia, industry, and government to explore innovative ideas for advancing AI.” This notion is also stressed in the recently published Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Quadrennial Papers on AI, which include five papers covering a broad range of subjects: AI deployment at the edge of the network, cooperation between AI and humans, new approaches to understanding AI’s impact on society, AI-driven simulators, and the next generation of AI. Links to the recently released CCC papers are below.