How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to improve food production, processing, and distribution? These were the main topics at the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) scientific session on Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People that took place February 16th at the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting. The panelists for this session were Diane Wang (SUNY Buffalo), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research), and Abraham Stroock (Cornell), while Susan McCouch (Cornell) moderated the session. Diane Wang’s presentation on Coupling Nature and Nurture: Supercharging Predictions for […]

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). The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has published a number of reports related to the opportunities below, include most recently the Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role and the  20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the US Executive Summary.  Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community, We are pleased to share with you a number of recent funding opportunities that the NSF has issued in the last few months and are likely to be of significant interest to the CISE […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 33rd Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), January 27- February 1, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The purpose of this conference was to promote research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. The goal of this track was to present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies. First place: Pat Langley (Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise) Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency Second Place: Francesca Rossi (IBM Research & University of Padova) and Nicholas Mattei […]

This is a blog post by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  As readers on the CCC blog know, the Meltdown and Spectre microprocessor design flaws revealed in early 2018 made clear that many, if not most, computer systems can leak sensitive information via implementation timing “channel.” Fortuitously and concurrent with this revelation, the US National Science Foundation had commissioned a March 2018 workshop on “Side and Covert Channels in Computing Systems” led by Guru Prasadh Venkataramani of George Washington University and Patrick Schaumont of Virginia Tech. The report has just been issued. It provides too many research recommendations to summarize here, but let me whet […]

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Denny Vrandečić of Google. Denny was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at ISWC 2018 for his paper Capturing Meaning: Toward an Abstract Wikipedia. The Idea Currently, Wikipedia is available in almost 300 languages – but the content of all these languages is independently written and maintained. This leads to some language editions having great and up-to-date content on a broad variety of content, and other language editions with struggling having any information about the most core topics an encyclopedia should cover. Also, often knowledge about local ideas are often not available in larger language editions. This is generating and maintaining the imbalance between the different language communities on the […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019 Annual Meeting this weekend, February 14-17, 2019 in Washington, DC. CCC Executive Council member and Former CCC Chair Beth Mynatt will be speaking during a session called P7: A New Paradigm for Health Care in the 21st Century on February 15, 2019 from 3:30-5:00PM in Washington 3 of the Marriott Wardman Park. Speakers and Talk Titles: Amit Sheth, Wright State University kHealth: Semantic Multisensory Mobile Approach to Personalized Asthma Care Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology Personalized, Participatory and Pervasive Care for Breast Cancer Patients Vijay Chandru, Stand Life Sciences Affordable Excellence in Genomics […]