The following Great Innovative Idea is from Bert Huang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science atVirginia Tech. Huang presented his poster, Weakly Supervised Cyberbullying Detection in Social Media, at the CCC Symposium on Computing Research, May 9-10, 2016. The Idea One of my research topics that I’m most passionate about is on developing machine learning algorithms that detect cyberbullying in social media. Cyberbullying is a serious public health threat that is detrimentally shaping the online experience. And while Internet technology is rapidly amplifying our ability to communicate, it’s important to develop complementary technology to help mitigate the harm of such detrimental communication. Computer programs that detect online harassment could allow automatic interventions, […]

Over the past two years, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has organized 19 visioning workshops on a wide range of topics, and also funded a number of other events to help serve the computing research community. Please help us determine the CCC’s current impact on the computing research community by completing this survey. The CCC strives to serve the computing research community, so your feedback is extremely valuable. This survey will take about 5-10 minutes.  Only aggregate responses will be reported; comments may be quoted in our internal evaluation report, but no individually identifiable information will be released. Please feel free to share this survey with others in the community who may have benefited from the CCC. […]

The next WATCH talk, called The Weakest Link is Thursday, September 15th, from Noon-1pm EDT. The presenter, Kelly Caine, is a researcher and professor working at the intersection of people and technology. She directs the Humans and Technology Lab at Clemson University where she and her students advocate for users and create easy to use, useful technology that meets people’s needs. Dr. Caine enjoys teaching students to become scientists, and has designed and taught courses on research methods for understanding people and their relationship with technology at universities and in industry. She also leads research in human factors, human-centered computing, privacy, usable security, health informatics and human-computer interaction. She is the co-author of […]

Contributions to this post were made by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.  In June, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a new Request for Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence (AI), to solicit feedback on how the United States can best prepare for the future of AI. According to the OSTP Blog, they “received 161 responses from a range of stakeholders, including individuals, academics and researchers, non-profit organizations, and industry.” All of the responses are now public and can be found here. The Computing Community Consoritum‘s (CCC) submitted a response, which can be found here, after […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program is pleased to announce The BD2K Guide to the fundamentals of Data Science, a series of online lectures given by experts from across the country covering a range of diverse topics in data science. This course is an introductory overview that assumes no prior knowledge or understanding of data science. The series starts Friday, September 9th and will run all year once per week at 12noon-1pm ET. If you would like to join the meeting, please go to the BD2K Guide web page for the most up-to-date computer or mobile logins.  This is a joint effort of the BD2K Training Coordinating Center (TCC), the BD2K Centers Coordination Center […]

The following is a guest blog post by Greg Hager, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Past Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University.  What do you think your field will look like in 100 years? Speculating about the world a century from now may be too challenging, so what if instead a community took it upon itself to periodically assess its progress and potential nearer-term futures over time? How might such reflections influence the rate of progress, the types of problems that the field focuses on, the public perception of the work, or the ability to anticipate and address thorny ethical or policy questions? Today, the […]