CCC Chair Beth Mynatt contributed to this post.  The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program, an interagency Federal-coordinating group, recently posted a draft Smart Cities and Communities Federal Strategic Plan for public comment. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) responded to the request and submitted a response to the draft strategic plan. From the CCC Response: While this plan lays out a comprehensive, multi-agency approach for smart cities and communities, bridging research to implementation to evaluation, this plan does not fully capture the transformative potential to reshape our lived environments, ranging from rural communities to dense urban environments. The research community can and should be engaged in articulating grand challenges that […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 31st Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), February 4-9, 2017 in San Francisco, CA. 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. Title: The AI Rebellion: Changing the Narrative David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory  Alexandra Coman, Naval Research Laboratory Title: Moral Decision Making Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence […]

The Global Initiative to Enhance @scale and Distributed Computing and Analysis Technologies (GECAT) project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has two exciting new funding opportunities. The GECAT project is part of the National Science Foundation’s Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) program and is an extension of the NSF-funded Blue Waters project, which provides access to one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers and enables investigators to conduct breakthrough computational and big data research. The first is to establish new International Virtual Research Organizations (IVRO) partnerships. NCSA is interested in soliciting proposals for new IVROs that will address and solve important challenges that either have been amplified or […]

CCC Director Ann Drobnis contributed to this blog post.  Last week we posted a blog about Health in Your Pocket: Diagnosing and Treating Disease with Smartphones, a press briefing that CCC members, Elizabeth (Beth) Mynatt, Shwetak Patel, and Gregory Hager presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advance of Science (AAAS) in early February. The focus of this post is on the Internet of Things (IoT). CCC Chair Beth Mynatt, CCC Executive Council Member Ben Zorn, and CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel were on a panel moderated by CCC Director Ann Drobnis on What Happens When Everyday Objects Become Internet Devices: A Science Policy Agenda. Mynatt began the presentation by asking […]

The following blog post is by CCC Director Ann Drobnis with contributions from Gregory Hager, Member of the CCC Healthcare task force and Director of the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University. The Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an opportunity for scientists across the spectrum to come together and communicate the importance and excitement of science to the general public. This year’s meeting, which took place in Boston on February 16-20, 2017, had the theme of Serving Science Through Science Policy, a natural fit for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC)[1]. This blog post is the first in a series discussing […]

The following is a guest blog post by Weisong Shi, a Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow and a Professor of Computer Science at Wayne State University. The organizing committee for the National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored Grand Challenges in Edge Computing has released their workshop report. The workshop, held in October 26, 2016, brought together experts from academia, government, and industry to assess the vision, recent trends, state-of-the-art research, and impending challenges of the edge computing. the objectives of the workshop include: Foster the edge computing community; Set the vision and identify grand challenges and open problems; Identify collaboration mechanisms among academia, industry and government. This report serves as […]