Originally written by Helen Wright and posted in CRA’s Computing Research News (CRN): The Computing Research Association (CRA) is planning an Accessible Technology for All workshop co-hosted by CRA-Industry (CRA-I), Computing Community Consortium (CCC), and CRA-Widening Participation (CRA-WP) on February 22-23, 2023 in Washington, DC.  This workshop is one of the activities CRA is currently pursuing under the umbrella of Socially Responsible Computing, one of the topics identified in the recent CRA Strategic Planning Effort. The purpose of this workshop is to convene academic, industry, and government representatives to vision ways to make all technology accessible and why that is important and necessary for society as a whole. Technology should […]

Moshe Y. Vardi, Computer Science Professor at Rice University and Senior Editor of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), wrote an article in the November 2022 issue of the Communications of the ACM magazine, Accountability and Liability in Computing. The article articulates his concerns for the slow progress and lack of conclusive knowledge on how to build secure information systems. Vardi speculates the issue is not due to a lack of technical advancements but a lack of incentives encouraging hardware security developments and solutions. It is becoming vital to address this “market failure” as we become more reliant on technical systems and become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks.  Vardi […]

The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its 2022 MacArthur Fellows – 25 individuals whose achievements show “new modes of activism, artistic practice, and citizen science. They are excavators uncovering what has been overlooked, undervalued, or poorly understood. They are archivists reminding us of what should survive.” The MacArthur Fellows program grants each recipient a no-strings attached stipend of $800,000 in order to support his or her own creative and professional ambitions. The program features scientists, artists, historians, and writers. Among the new Fellows is Computer scientist Yejin Choi. Dr. Choi is currently the Brett Helsel Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington at Seattle, […]

On November 10, 2022 from 12:00-3:00pm EST, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is hosting a virtual workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program. This workshop will be the second of a two part workshop series titled, Building Resilience to Climate Driven Extreme Events with Computing Innovations: A Convergence Accelerator Workshop, the first of which will be held in late October. Through this two-part workshop series, we hope to identify the computing building blocks needed to facilitate and expedite technological innovation in multiple impact areas. The focus of the workshops will be on a subset of impact areas identified in the CCC white paper titled, Computing Research for […]

The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently released a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.” The goal of the AI Bill of Rights is to provide a set of policies and regulations to protect against potentially harmful consequences of artificial intelligence. The expectations set in the blueprint invite a plethora of research opportunities within the computer science community. Former CCC Council Member, Suresh Venkatasubramanian, was very involved in the initial groundwork of this initiative. You can read more about the blueprint in the article posted on the Computing Research Policy Blog below. Originally written by Brian Mosley and posted on the Computing Research Policy Blog The Biden […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a joint Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing the launch of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem of Services and Support (ACCESS) program. The program will provide services that ensure the continued access and availability of the cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem for the science and engineering research and education communities. This has the potential to grant communities access to resources such as cloud-data infrastructure, testbeds and high performance computing systems, connect supporting researchers with similar research goals, and predict the CI ecosytem’s needs. The following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from Margaret Martonosi (Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate) and Manish […]