In March 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) partnered with the Code 8.7 Initiative to bring together over fifty experts from the computing research community, along with anti-slavery practitioners and survivors. The mission was clear: to chart a research roadmap that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged in the fight against human trafficking. Building on the momentum from the 2019 Code 8.7 conference at the United Nations, this workshop aimed to align the bold objectives of the 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the U.S. with the crucial goal of eliminating modern slavery, as outlined in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7. Here are five critical […]
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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.
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Against Human Trafficking
September 10th, 2024 / in AI, CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesCCC Chair Daniel Lopresti Transitions to Chair Emeritus and Several Council Members Rotate Off
July 1st, 2024 / in Announcements, CCC / by Petruce Jean-CharlesThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wishes Dan Lopresti well as his 2-year term as Council Chair comes to a close. June 30th marks the end of Lopresti’s term and CCC is grateful for his leadership. He remains on the Council for another year as Chair Emeritus. Lopresti has been an active member of the CCC since 2015. His contributions to the community since the start are extensive, but we will share just a few here: In 2020, Lopresti co-organized and collaborated with partners including Delta 8.7 at United Nations University, the United Kingdom’s Alan Turing Institute and the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham for the Code 8.7 on […]
CCC Council Vice Chair, Nadya Bliss, Named One of The Top 50 Women Leaders of Arizona for 2023
July 31st, 2023 / in Announcements, awards, CCC, Uncategorized / by Maddy HunterDr. Nadya T. Bliss, CCC Council Vice Chair and Executive Director of the Global Security Initiative (GSI) at Arizona State University (ASU), was just recognized as a Top 50 Women Leaders of Arizona for 2023 by Women We Admire. In her current position at ASU Dr. Bliss leads research, education, and programming for national and global security. Additionally, she currently holds a Professor of Practice appointment at the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and is a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. With over 20 years of leadership experience in science, technology, defense, security, and higher education, Bliss has a deep understanding of […]
NSF Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) Program
July 7th, 2021 / in Announcements, NSF, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightThe following National Science Foundation (NSF) Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks (D-ISN) program has an upcoming deadline of July 28, 2021, and might be of interest to those in our computer science research community. This solicitation supports fundamental research to enable transformative change in our ability to detect, disrupt and disable illicit supply networks that traffic in persons, and tangible and virtual goods. These transformations will require well-coordinated, multi-disciplinary approaches that complement long-standing law-enforcement, victim-centric, and trafficking domain-focused research efforts with fundamental, innovative, and high-risk research that draws from multiple domains of engineering, computer and information science, and the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. Major goals of NSF’s D-ISN Solicitation […]
NSF DCL: Opportunities for Collaboration between CISE and SBE Researchers
June 29th, 2021 / in Announcements, CRA / by Helen WrightThe computer and information science and engineering (CISE) fields can benefit greatly from collaborations with the social, behavioral, and economic science (SBE) fields. Systems that make our lives easier—such as autonomous vehicles, wearables, intelligent agents, electronic health records, and telepresence robots—are all socio-technical systems. As stated in a recent National Science Foundation (NSF) report on Harnessing the Computational and Social Sciences to Solve Critical Societal Problems from a May 2020 roundtable, “Workplace relationships, media markets, health delivery systems, and criminal justice organizations are all increasingly characterized by a complex mixture of human actors and institutions on the one hand, and digital platforms and algorithms on the other hand. Efforts to […]
CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report Released
June 24th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, conference reports, research horizons, Research News, Security / by Helen WrightThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC), along with Code 8.7, is pleased to announce the release of the CCC / Code 8.7 Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery Workshop Report. This March 2020 workshop brought together over 50 members of the computing research community along with anti-slavery practitioners and survivors to lay out a research roadmap aimed at applying AI to the fight against human trafficking. The primary goal was to explore ways in which long-range research in artificial intelligence (AI) could be applied to the fight against human trafficking. Building on the kickoff Code 8.7 conference held at the headquarters of the United Nations in February 2019, the […]
