Are you a Ph.D. candidate or postdoctoral researcher in the field of artificial intelligence looking for a new opportunity? Do you want to connect with leading research groups and research institutions from Germany? The DAAD’s Postdoctoral Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence is your opportunity to get a unique insight into the German AI research landscape. During the one-week virtual tour, you will connect directly to leading researchers. Additionally, you will also be supported for customized on-site-visits as soon as COVID-19 restrictions allow to do so. The virtual tour with a focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence will take place from 26 to 30 April 2021. You should have: a […]

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Council member Holly Yanco (University of Massachusetts, Lowell).  In 2009, the CCC published a report, A Roadmap for US Robotics, From Internet to Robotics (a.k.a. the Robotics Roadmap), which explored the capacity of robotics to act as a key economic enabler, specifically in the areas of manufacturing, healthcare, and the service industry, 5, 10, and 15 years into the future. An updated version of the Robotics Roadmap was released in March 2013, November 2016, and now most recently in September 2020. See the CCC blog about the 2020 version here.  The original Robotics Roadmap was the basis for the 2011 National Robotics […]

The following is an announcement from Microsoft Research. We are currently accepting proposals for the 2021 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant through March 22, 2021. You can read more about the grant and find instructions to submit a proposal on our website: Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. We encourage you to share this announcement within your communities either directly with your student and faculty contacts, via topically relevant email lists, or on social media: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.   Broadening participation in computing is a core part of Microsoft’s values; accordingly, we are excited to continue the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant that aims to recognize and support diverse doctoral students as they complete their dissertation research […]

Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, will present “How to Represent Part-Whole Hierarchies in a Neural Net,” part of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series on February 11th, 2021, from 11:00AM to 12:300PM ET. Geoffrey Hinton received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978.  After five years as a faculty member at Carnegie-Mellon, he became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto where he is now an emeritus professor. He is also a VP of Engineering fellow at Google and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vector Institute. Geoffrey Hinton was […]

In response to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate’s recently announced CSGrad4US Fellowship program, the Computing Research Association’s Education (CRA-E) and Widening Participation (CRA-WP) committees are working to develop a CSGrad4US Mentoring Program for recipients of the CSGrad4US Fellowship. The goals of the mentoring program are (1) to guide returning students through the application process towards a successful CS Ph.D. admission and school selection and (2) mentor them through the transition to Ph.D. graduate study during the first year. The CSGrad4US Mentoring Program will include both a group mentoring component addressing general aspects of the graduate application process and an individual coaching component. […]

The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has also been working in this space and recently published a 2020 Quadrennial Paper on Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience.  The Directorates for Biological Sciences (BIO); Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE); Engineering (ENG); Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE); and the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) are jointly supporting a series of interdisciplinary workshops to engage research communities around the topic of Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention. This topic arises both from fundamental scientific questions and pressing societal needs.  Consequently, NSF is holding a series of virtual workshops that bring together interdisciplinary experts in the biological, engineering, computer, and social and […]