The following is a press release from the National Science Foundation about the newly announced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institutes. In 2018-2019, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) brought together over 100 members of the research community, led by Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California and Past President of AAAI) and Bart Selman (Cornell University and President of AAAI) to come up with a research roadmap for AI. The completed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Roadmap, A 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research in the US, was released in August 2019. One of the recommendations from the Roadmap was to create National AI Research Centers: multi-university centers with affiliated institutions that are focused on pivotal areas of […]

The following blog from Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Ph.D. from CMU HCII, was originally posted on Medium on August 23rd.  I recently submitted a NSF CAREER proposal — my first attempt [1]. In the process of putting my materials together, I was fortunate to be able to learn from successful proposals written by friends and colleagues [2]. I was also fortunate to get feedback from mentors [3]. Trends emerged, and I thought I’d distill and share here on the off-chance that someone might find it helpful [4]. Disclaimer: I submitted to the Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace program, and requested examples from others who I knew submitted to that […]

The following is a letter to the community from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director) and Erwin Gianchandani (Deputy Assistant Director) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE).  Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community: With this most out-of-the-ordinary summer coming to a close, we at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) CISE directorate wanted to reach out to inform you about a few specific news items. CISE Dear Colleague Letter on CAREER/CRII:  In NSF Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) 20-092, CISE offered clarification on CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program as well as the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards in CISE topic areas.  In a nutshell, we encourage […]

The following is a guest blog from John Langford (Microsoft Research) and Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington) on finding the right information architecture for digital contact tracing. The information architecture of a system defines who has access to which pieces of information. Contact Tracing is inherently a process of data collection — therefore, the choice of information architecture has a profound effect on who is willing to work with the system and how effective it may be. In order to rationally consider the information architecture, we must define a goal for the system. Clearly, the primary goal must be epidemiological effectiveness in suppressing the spread of disease, but how should […]

The following is an announcement of a joint solicitation between NSF/VMware on The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and VMware employee Sujata Banerjee is involved with this program but was not involved with CCC’s decision to reblog it. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is holding a webinar on Monday, August 31st from 1-2 PM EDT about the new The Next Generation of Sustainable Digital Infrastructure (NGSDI) Program. The goal of this joint solicitation between NSF and VMware is to foster novel, transformative research in fundamental and systematic approaches that bring dramatic increases in the environmental sustainability of the Digital Infrastructure leading to practical methodologies and tools. The Digital Infrastructure […]

The following is a blog from the Computing Research Association’s Bulletin, about the release of a new CRA committee report that was informed by a number of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) activities, such as the 2015 The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academia Collaboration report, the CCC Industry Working Group and resulting Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research white paper. Recent trends such as increasing industry demands for technical talent from academia, as well as changes in the academic environment with increased industry interactions have prompted the need for a fresh look at the relationships between academia and industry. In late 2019, a CRA ad hoc committee on Industry/Academia Interactions was created to study these trends and determine how CRA can […]