The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT). SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. SMPT has two subtracks for submissions, which include summary talks and Blue Sky Ideas talks. The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting […]

In support of the Administration’s R&D priorities in strategic computing, National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Fast-Track Action Committee (FTAC) on Strategic Computing (SC), Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO) is requesting public input to the update for the Strategic Computing R&D goals and approaches. These goals and approaches will help ensure continued U.S. leadership and support the advanced networking and IT capabilities for America. Responders are asked to answer one or more of the following questions in the responses to the RFI: What are emerging and future scientific and technical challenges and opportunities that are central to ensuring American leadership in SC, and […]

I recently linked my child’s smart robot toy to the Internet. Did I feel a little strange about it? Yes. But was giving the robot the ability to play “Baby Shark” and dance to it while making my child laugh, worth it the risk? Yes, I thought, until I saw this… Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released an informational report called Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks (NISTIR 8228). This is the first in a planned series of documents NIST is developing to help IoT users protect themselves, their data and their networks from potential compromise. Developed by the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT […]

Khari Douglas, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Program Associate, was recently promoted to Senior Program Associate! Khari has worked on a number of projects while at CCC, including organizing and running visioning workshops, helping to write and edit workshop reports, co-sponsoring the Manoa Mini-Symposium on Physics of Adaptive Computation at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in January 2019, and creating, producing, and hosting a bimonthly podcast called Catalyzing Computing. Khari’s new role will focus on engagement. He will be responsible for interacting with the community and supporting council members to enable more bidirectional engagement, primarily through visits with the broader community and ensuring participation at regular CCC activities. He will continue […]

Today, July 1st, is the start of a new term at CCC! The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Mark Hill and Vice Chair Liz Bradley are staying in their respective roles for another year. They look forward to continuing the ongoing work, such as the AI Roadmap and the report on Evolving Academia / Industry Relations in Computing Research. Seven new CCC Council members have joined us for the start of their three year terms: Sujata Banerjee (VMware), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Tom Conte (Georgia Tech), Maria Gini (University of Minnesota), Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan), Melanie Mitchell (Portland State University), and Katie Siek (Indiana University). The CCC and CRA thank those council members whose terms ended […]

Contributions to this post were provided by Monica Lam and Jen King from Stanford University.  The New York Times recently published an article titled Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative. Professor Monica Lam and her students, Giovanni Campagna, Silei Xu, Michael Fischer, and Mehrad Moradshahi, have developed a virtual assistant called Almond that can avoid surrendering personal information to a centralized service and encourage open competition among companies. She is joined by Stanford computer science researchers Michael Bernstein, Dan Boneh,  Jen King, James Landay, Chris Manning, and David Mazières, Chris Re in a newly funded NSF research grant to expand the capabilities and privacy protection […]