The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has announced that IBM has joined as one of the cloud resource providers for the Critical Techniques, Technologies, and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) program solicitation in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. From the news update: IBM joins Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure in providing cloud credits/resources to qualifying NSF-funded projects, thereby supporting researchers in their big data research and education activities, especially those focusing on large-scale experimentation and scalability studies. Following the introduction and success of the cloud option last year, CISE issued a call to encourage participation by […]

The 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) on October 8-12, 2018 in Monterey, CA is having a blue ideas paper track sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky ideas Conference track.  The blue sky ideas paper track solicits visionary ideas, long-term challenges, and opportunities in the semantic web research that are outside of the current topics in the field and are not mature or specific enough to be accepted in the regular research track. The contributions should find the right arguments to convince that the proposed topic is promising and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature from relevant fields, possibly also fields outside […]

The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed four new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory  David C. Parkes, Harvard University Ronitt Rubinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah Beginning July 1, the new members will each serve three-year terms. The CCC Council is comprised of 20 members who have expertise in diverse areas of computing. They are instrumental in leading CCC’s visioning programs, which help catalyze and enable ideas for future computing research. Members serve staggered three-year terms that rotate every July. The CCC and CRA thank those Council members whose terms end on June 30 for their […]

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Chair Beth Mynatt from Georgia Tech received the Strong Ally recognition yesterday at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2018 in Montréal, Canada. From the ACM CHI website: Strong Ally – Recognizes individuals who have leveraged their professional expertise and institutional privilege to be a reliable ally and strategic partner advocating for the rights and full inclusion of people of marginalized identities. During her acceptance speech, Beth talked about three important things that she has learned. Foster impatience. Impatience that drives you to create opportunities for those around you to do the work our community wants and needs to do to create an inclusive future. Second, create […]

The next WATCH talk, called The Hidden Multi-Billion Dollar International Trade in Our Medical Data, from Adam Tanner, Author of “Our Bodies, Our Data:  How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records,” is Tuesday, May 1st 2018, Noon-1PM EST. Adam Tanner is a leading expert on the business of personal data and privacy. He is the author of Our Bodies, Our Data: How Companies Make Billions Selling Our Medical Records (2017) and What Stays in Vegas: The World of Personal Data – Lifeblood of Big Business – and the End of Privacy as We Know It.  He is an associate at Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, where he has been a fellow, writer and associate since 2011. He […]

The following is from the ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today Blog by CCC Vice Chair Mark D. Hill, the John P. Morgridge Professor and Gene M. Amdahl Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ACM recently announced that computer scientists John Hennessy and David Patterson have shared the 2017 ACM Turing Award with the official citation, “For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.” The Turing Award is the highest award in computer science. It is given for “lasting and major technical importance to the computer field” and has been compared to a Nobel Prize, whose categories pre-date […]