The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of the Computational Support for Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Detection, Treatment, and Recovery Workshop Report!   Chaired by Lana Yarosh from the University of Minnesota, the Computational Support for Substance Use Disorder Prevention, Detection, Treatment, and Recovery November 2019 workshop brought together an interdisciplinary group of leading researchers and practitioners to identify opportunities and challenges for enabling innovative computational support for prevention, detection, treatment, and long-term recovery from SUDs. The steering committee members were Suzanne Bakken (Columbia University), Alan Borning (University of Washington), Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cliff Lampe (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Tech), Stephen […]

Contributions to this post were provided by members of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Fairness, Accountability, Disinformation, and Explainability (FADE) Task Force.  The National Security Commision on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) published a report outlining their recommendations to address challenges arising out of the expanding AI landscape – most notably the awareness of an AI competition amongst the world powers and the need for the United States to win this AI race. The recommendations spell out what the NSCAI believes will accelerate U.S performance in AI and strengthen our national security and economy. The following is a look at some key points of the recommendation report from the perspective of the […]

While some in computing saw computing security as mostly a software issue, 2018’s Meltdown and Spectre publicized that security is a hardware issue as well. This recent post in Computer Architecture Today by Dmitry Ponomarev reminds us all that hardware security is not a one-off problem, but a recurring one.  In an earlier blog post, we argued that computer architects working on security problems should follow security conferences. In this post, we highlight some of the recent results from this year’s events that may be of interest to our community. While security conferences encompass many topics and typically accept more papers than architecture conferences, several sessions are usually dedicated to […]

The following is a guest blog from the BPCnet.org Steering Committee.  To the computing community, With this particularly challenging academic year coming to an end, and the upcoming NSF CISE program submissions, it is a good time to update everyone on the NSF CISE Pilot Program for Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Plans. All Medium and Large CISE Core Programs, Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) project proposals require an approved BPC Plan by the time of award. CRA and NCWIT have led an effort to develop the BPCnet.org portal as a resource for the community to assist in developing Departmental BPC Plans and Individual BPC Plans. New Resources on BPCnet.org: […]

By Thyagarajan Nandagopal, NSF  You are invited to participate in the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Proposal Writing Workshop, to be held as an interactive online meeting on Friday, September 18th from 1pm – 5pm EST. This event is intended for PIs working in CISE-relevant research areas planning on submitting an NRT proposal for the fiscal year 2021 competition. The NSF CISE Directorate would like to increase the number of NRT proposals that advance CISE research training focus of graduate students and CISE disciplines and support the aim of the NRT program. Since the NRT program is unique at NSF, the requirements of the program are often not fully understood by the submitting PIs. The workshop […]

The following is a guest blog from CCC Member Tom Conte of Georgia Tech. A recent article in SCIENCE, authored by Charles E. Leiserson, Neil Thompson, Joel Emer, Bradley Kuszmaul, Butler Lampson, Daniel Sanchez and Tao Schardl,  entitled “There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?” discusses the way forward after the end of technology scaling.  (The title is a play on Richard Feynman’s 1959 address to the American Physical Society, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,” wherein Feynman observed that miniaturization would lead to what we now call Moore’s Law.)  So, what comes after Moore’s Law?  The article discusses improvements in […]