The following blog is from the ACM Bulletin on March 18, 2020.  ACM has named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan have fundamentally influenced the field of computer graphics through conceptual innovation and contributions to both software and hardware. Their work has had a revolutionary impact on filmmaking, leading to a new genre of entirely computer-animated feature films beginning 25 years ago with Toy Story and continuing to the present day. Catmull is a computer […]

The following blog is from Ann Schwartz Drobnis, CCC Director.  Every February brings an exciting event for scientists – the AAAS Annual Meeting. AAAS is the American Association for the Advancement of Science, whose mission is to “advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.”  It is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and the publisher of the Science family of journals. This year’s Annual Meeting brought scientists, engineers, and press from around the world to Seattle, Washington for three days of scientific sessions, panels, press events, discussions, and plenary talks in many different disciplines of science. “Computer science touches almost every aspect of our society today so it […]

From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, researchers and leaders from the Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Microsoft, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health released the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) of scholarly literature about COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the coronavirus group. Requested by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the dataset represents the most extensive machine-readable coronavirus literature collection available for data and text mining to date, with over 29,000 articles, more than 13,000 of which have full text. Now, The White House joins […]

The following is a Dear Colleague Letter from National Science Foundation (NSF) Director France A. Córdova. It is critically important for the computing research community to respond to this opportunity insofar as possible and to hopefully help inform and educate about the science of virus transmission. Dear Colleague,  In light of the emergence and spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States and abroad, the National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 7-12, 2020 in New York, NY. The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations were aimed at presenting ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, e.g., new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. First Place- Back to the Future for Dialogue Research (Phil Cohen) Second Place– AI for Explaining Decisions in Multi-Agent Environments (Sarit Kraus, Amos Azaria, Jelena Fiosina, Maike Greve, Noam Hazon, Lutz Kolbe, Tim-Benjamin Lembcke, Joerg P. Mueller, Soeren Schleibaum and Mark Vollrath) Third Place– Unveiling Hidden […]

Dear Colleagues: The National Science Foundation announces the creation of the Foundational Research in Robotics (Robotics) program as a program jointly managed by the Directorates for Engineering (ENG) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). The Robotics program supports research on robotic systems that exhibit significant levels of both computational capability and physical complexity. For the purposes of this program, a robot is defined as intelligence embodied in an engineered construct, with the ability to process information, sense, and move within or substantially alter its working environment. Here intelligence includes a broad class of methods that enable a robot to solve problems or make contextually appropriate decisions. Research proposals […]