April was a big month for the Computing Community Consortium, releasing two workshop reports and one white paper on pressing topics within the computing research community. Overviews of each, as well as individual links to corresponding blog posts are listed below.
CCC Releases the Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research Workshop II Report Out
In August of 2022, the second AI/OR workshop was held in Atlanta, GA. The second workshop in a three-part series, also supported by INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, was organized by John Dickerson (University of Maryland), Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California), Yu Ding (Texas A&M), Swati Gupta (Georgia Institute of Technology), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sven Koenig (University of Southern California), Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), and Radhika Kulkarni (SAS Institute, Inc. (retired)). This workshop focused on the foundational elements of trustworthy AI and OR technology, and how to ensure all AI and OR systems implement these elements in their system designs. The Report Out summarizes the presentations, the challenge problems that were outlined and the discussions held during the workshop. Please view the final Report Out here.
CCC Releases Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Workshop Report
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to release the Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security Workshop Report. On August 24-25, 2022, the CCC held a visioning workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security in Washington, D.C. Led by Simha Sethumadhavan and Tim Sherwood, the workshop brought together experts in hardware and software security, economics, and government policy to investigate ways to improve the design and uptake of hardware security mechanisms. The report emphasizes how important hardware security is and outlines key recommendations and findings from the participant discussions at the workshop. Check out the report here.
The CCC Releases Mid-cycle Update to the US National Robotics Roadmap
In honor of National Robotics Week, the Computing Community Consortium is releasing a mid-cycle update to the US National Robotics Roadmap. The US National Robotics Roadmap is updated every four years. Since the last update in September 2020, the world has changed significantly. As a result, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is publishing a minor revision of the roadmap before the next regular update in 2024. Drawing from feedback from the community, this mid-cycle update to the US Robotics Roadmap identifies and explores recent megatrends and key research challenges in the robotics field, as well as, implementation considerations and recommendations to further robotics research and propel the US back to the forefront of robotics research. You can read the full report here.
You can read past white papers and workshop reports on the CCC website.
