Climate change is a hot topic that has ongoing conversations in every field imaginable, computer science being no exception. Researchers and scientists are increasingly concerned about the negative impacts computing has on the environment. While car exhaust, carbon footprints from factories and other obvious forms of pollution take the forefront in people’s minds – everyday actions done on the computer such as downloading a movie, flipping through TikTok or streaming YouTube videos uses a considerable amount of energy. In addition, technology such as laptops and phones contain a lot of toxic chemicals and heavy metals that infiltrate the environments upon disposal. Computer scientists are starting to rethink the way we […]

Pete Beckman will give a talk “Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Continuum: The Future of Linking Scientific Instruments and Edge Computing to Advanced Computation” as a part of the National Science Foundation CISE Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will be held on May 19th, 2022 at 11AM ET. Current technology, particularly artificial intelligence, enables huge amounts of data to be immediately collected, processed and archived. Beckman’s lecture will dive into SAGE, a new edge computing programming framework, how it will transform the digital continuum and upcoming developments in intelligent scientific infrastructure. Talk Abstract: No longer does a chasm exist between scientific instrumentation and advanced computation. From the sensor to the […]

The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) 30th Anniversary Symposium is fast approaching. The in-person event will be held May 25th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. to honor NITRD’s contributions and investments in networking and information technology research and development. You can see more information about the event in our previous post. Beginning at 9am ET the event will feature five panels highlighting important topics in the research community. Each panel will have a brief introduction from speakers followed by a Q&A. The panels will be live streamed and virtual audience members will have the opportunity to submit questions by emailing 30@nitrd.gov. We are thrilled to announce these exciting […]

MIT News recently posted an article “An Easier Way to Teach Robots New Skills” that features a new technique for more efficient robotic programming. The research is being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and enables robots to learn new “pick-and-place” tasks and recognize unfamiliar objects with only a handful of human demonstrations. As it now stands, robots are only trained to handle narrow tasks and have to be reprogrammed for every slight deviation. Retraining can involve hours to weeks of human labor. For example, if a robot is placed in a warehouse and assigned the task of moving cups from the shelf to the a box for shipping, […]

Dr. Ayanna Howard, Dean of Engineering at The Ohio State University and Monte Ahuja Endowed Dean’s Chair will speak on “Socially Interactive Robots for Equitable Healthcare Outcomes” as a part of the NSF Distinguished Lecture Series. The event, to be held May 4th at 11 AM Eastern, will focus on how robots (particularly healthcare robots) and artificial intelligence can be positively integrated into everyday life and tasks. Research and development of helper robots exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to grow as people realize positive potential and impact these technologies can have on the healthcare field. Abstract Dr. Howard’s lecture will provide insights into how robots and artificial intelligence […]

Modern communication devices are becoming an increasingly vital part of society and everyday life. These technologies provide users with the ability to conveniently and instantaneously perform vital services and tasks. To meet this growing area of development, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new investment of over $37 million to catalyze research pertaining to the development of intelligent, resilient, and reliable next generation — or NextG — networks. The public-private investment, Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems (RINGS) seeks to increase the competitiveness of the U.S. NextG networking and computing technologies to ensure the security and resilience of our systems. Partnered with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense […]