Recently, the White House posted a Request for Information (RFI) inviting suggestions for improvements to Federal data and models needed to accelerate AI R&D and testing. See below for more details. Your responses, and/or those of your organization, would be valuable and much appreciated. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2019 Trump Administration Takes Action to Improve Federal Data and Models for Artificial Intelligence R&D Recently, the Trump Administration continued efforts to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) with the announcement of a Request for Information (RFI) to improve Federal data and models for AI research and development (R&D) and testing. As called for by President Trump’s national AI strategy […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) council member Shwetak Patel, Director of the Ubicomp Lab at University of Washington, will be giving the next free ACM TechTalk on “The Emerging Role of Mobile Computing in Health” on Thursday, August 1 at 2:30 PM ET/11:30 AM PT.

The 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT 2019) was held in Minneapolis, June 3 to June 5, 2019. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored the 2019 NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2019.

The following is a letter to the community from James Kurose, 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, As many of you know, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has a long history of investing in education and workforce development across all areas of science and engineering, including CISE areas. For example, you may recall that last fall we highlighted one such opportunity – the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) – which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.  You […]

The following great innovative idea is from Ouri Wolfson, the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Ouri was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at ACM SIGSPATIAL ’18 for his paper called Understanding the Human Brain Via its Spatio-temporal Properties. The Idea The human brain is probably the most complex object in the universe, and also one of the least understood. For example, how the brain produces the mind and consciousness is a complete mystery. Nevertheless, the brain is amenable to measurements of various kinds that produce lots of data. It is […]

CCC Council member Ben Zorn provided contributions to this post. Recently, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a new industry report called the Evolving Academia/Industry Relations in Computing Research, which was organized by Ben Zorn from Microsoft Research and chair of the CCC Industry Working Group. The working group started in 2018 with a mission to see if the environment described by the 2015 CCC industry round table report called The Future of Computing Research: Industry-Academic Collaborations had changed at all. Turns out it has and a lot! Since then several important trends in computing research have emerged. This new report considers how these trends impact the interaction between academia […]