On behalf of the National Science and Technology Council’s Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office has released a Request for Information (RFI) on updates to the 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan. The 2016 National Artificial Intelligence Research & Development Strategic Plan focused on research areas that industry is considered unlikely to address and identified 7 strategies for Federally-funded AI research: Strategy 1: Make long-term investments in AI research. Prioritize investments in the next generation of AI that will drive discovery and insight and enable the United States to remain a world leader in AI. Strategy 2: Develop […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released a call for white papers to find prospective attendees to join the upcoming Thermodynamic Computing workshop in Honolulu, Hawaii. The CCC has extended the submission deadline to October 5th. Authors of informative and well-crafted white papers may be invited to the workshop. The full call with the application instructions can be found below.  Thermodynamic Computing Workshop, Call for White Papers The CCC will hold a workshop from January 3rd to 5th, 2019 in Hawaii to create a vision for thermodynamic computing, a statement of research needs, and a summary of the current state of understanding of this new area. Workshop attendance will be by […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a workshop from January 3rd to 5th, 2019 in Hawaii to create a vision for thermodynamic computing, a statement of research needs, and a summary of the current state of understanding of this new area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation only and travel expenses will be available for select participants. We seek short white papers to help create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. Thermodynamics has a long history in the engineering of computing systems due to its role in power consumption, scaling, and device performance [1],[2]. In a different context, thermodynamically motivated algorithmic techniques are prevalent and highly successful […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will hold a workshop from January 3rd to 5th, 2019 in Hawaii to create a vision for thermodynamic computing, a statement of research needs, and a summary of the current state of understanding of this new area. Workshop attendance will be by invitation only and travel expenses will be available for select participants. We seek short white papers to help create the agenda for the workshop and select attendees. Thermodynamics has a long history in the engineering of computing systems due to its role in power consumption, scaling, and device performance [1],[2]. In a different context, thermodynamically motivated algorithmic techniques are prevalent and highly successful […]

Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in their upcoming Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing co-located with the 9th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2018) taking place October 21-24 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. IGSC 2018 “provides a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference consists of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and special sessions on these topics.” The submission deadline is August 15th and the full call can be found below: CALL FOR […]

The following is a blog post from ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today that considers some potential flaws in emerging software mitigations of Spectre-V1 attacks. Earlier this year, Mark Hill, Chair of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) wrote a CCC blog post on the effects of Meltdown/Spectre, which is referenced in this piece. Mark will also be part of a joint keynote at Hot Chips titled, “ Spectre/Meltdown and What It Means for Future Chip Design.”  Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations   By Mark Silberstein, Oleksii Oleksenko, Christof Fetzer on Jul 2, 2018   Spectre and Meltdown opened the Pandora box of a new class of speculative execution attacks that defeat standard memory protection mechanisms. These attacks […]