The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to enable the pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. The CCC welcomes proposals for visioning activities from the community to catalyze innovative research at the frontiers of computing. Successful activities will articulate new research visions, galvanize community interest in those visions, mobilize support for those visions from the computing research community, government leaders, and funding agencies, and encourage broader segments of society to participate in computing research and education. A well-formulated proposal should do the following: Describe the visioning topic area and its current state of development within the field, Explain […]

Yesterday, December 5, CCC submitted a response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Request for Comments (RFC) on Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence Draft Memorandum. The following CCC Council Members and CCC staff authored the response: David Danks (University of California, San Diego), Haley Griffin (Computing Community Consortium), David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Chandra Krintz (University of California Santa Barbara), Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University), Rajmohan Rajaraman (Northeastern University), Matthew Turk (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago), and Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts Lowell). OMB sought responses to many different specific questions regarding their proposed memorandum that would implement “new agency requirements […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with enabling the pursuit of innovative, high-impact computing research that aligns with pressing national and global challenges. Established in 2006 through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), the CCC provides a voice for the national computing research community, facilitating the development of a bold, multi-themed visions for computing research and communicating that vision to a wide range of stakeholders. To fulfill its mission, the CCC seeks visionary leaders — people with great ideas, sound judgment, and the willingness to work collaboratively to see things through to completion. The Council is composed of 20-24 […]

Earlier this month, the CCC, with support from the Knight Foundation, held a visioning workshop on, “The Future of Research on Social Technologies.” The workshop organizers were Motahhare Eslami (Carnegie Mellon University), Eric Gilbert (University of Michigan), and Sarita Schoenebeck (University of Michigan). David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst) supported the workshop as the CCC Council Liaison. The 52 workshop attendees gathered in-person at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC. This workshop focused on bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines to reflect on the field’s key findings and to create a roadmap for future research. The workshop centered on the question: What are the key future challenges for research on […]

CCC Council Members David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group, LLC), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas Austin), and Pamela Wisniewski (Vanderbilt University), wrote a white paper titled “Algorithmic Robustness,” that has just been published on the CCC Website. The group was part of the Socio-technical Resilience Task Force in 2022-23. Computational systems are pervasive throughout every sector of society, and the authors emphasize the need for such systems to be robust. Robustness is the “sustained performance of a computational system in the face of change in the nature of the environment in which that system operates or in the task that the system is meant to […]

On July 10, CCC responded to a Request for Feedback released by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Using AI and ML in the Development of Drug and Biological Products. The response was written by two CCC Council Members of CCC’s Computational Challenges in Health Task Force, David Danks (University of California, San Diego), and Mona Singh (Princeton University), and former Council Member Kevin Fu (Northeastern University). The FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), in collaboration with the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), including the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), released a discussion paper and […]