The Department of Transportation is holding a series of webinars developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s Safety Training and Analysis Center (STAC) for researchers as an introduction to the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data and the Roadway Information Database (RID).  The four webinars will discuss the following topics: November 30th, 2016 (1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST): This webinar will focus on the SHRP2 NDS data covering the driver and vehicle information. The topics covered include: Introduction to the  NDS Access to NDS data The InSight website NDS data analysis examples December 14th, 2016 (1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST): This webinar will focus on the SHRP2 Roadway Information Database (RID). Topics […]

The Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) and the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would like to invite you and your communities to attend the Open Data Science Symposium on December 1, 2016. The goal of the symposium is to engage the public with data science at NIH now, and in the future. The highlights of the meeting include: A dialogue on open science with NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins and former NIH director, Dr. Harold Varmus Demonstrations of the 6 prototypes for the Open Science Prize, a worldwide competition to leverage Open Data for biomedical discovery A keynote lecture from John Wilbanks, head commons […]

This blog post was co-authored by CCC Staff, Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, and Beth Mynatt, CCC Chair, Professor and Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology.  Last week the President hosted the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, an event that was co-hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University and attended by hundreds of scientific leaders in our community. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair and Director attended the event, which had many speakers from previous CCC events. The Frontiers Conference presentations and panel discussions were inspiring and thought provoking. I came away impressed with […]

This blog post was co-authored by CCC Staff and Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, with contributions from Beth Mynatt, CCC Chair, Professor and Director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology.  The Office of Science Technology Policy (OSTP) has just released a new report, “Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence.” In it, they examine the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the society and public policy perspective and make 23 policy recommendations. The topics address by the report include: Applications of AI for Public Good AI and Regulation Research and Workforce Economic Impacts of AI Fairness, Safety, and […]

This Thursday President Obama will host the White House Frontiers Conference, a national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to explore the future of innovation here and around the world. The Computing Community Consoritum (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt and Director Ann Drobnis and are excited to participate in the conference. It will focus on building U.S. capacity in science, technology, and innovation through a number of different tracks, including Personal, Local, National, Global, and Interplanetary. The CCC has done a lot of work in the Local track space, which is on smart inclusive communities. One of the presenters, Charlie Catlett from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, was one […]

The Open Source Application Development Portal (OSADP) is a web-based portal that provides access to and supports the collaboration, development, and use of open-source ITS-related applications. The OSADP has added a number of new ITS-related applications that are available free to the public. The following new applications are now available for download: Dynamic Intermodal Routing Environment for Control and Telematics – Analysis, Modeling and Simulation (DIRECTView-AMS) is a visualization application designed to visualize the performance measures generated during simulations using DIRECT software with options to turn on and off scenarios. This tool can be used for evaluating dynamic mobility applications and active transportation and demand management strategies, applications, and concepts. Intelligent […]