The CCC will be holding a workshop on Mechanism Design for Improving Hardware Security in the summer of 2022 (most likely June in New York City). Organized by Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University) and Tim Sherwood (University of California Santa Barbara), the workshop will investigate ways to improve the design and uptake of hardware security mechanisms. In addition to looking at traditional technical solutions, the workshop will also consider new mechanisms to incentivize designers, system integrators, and users to create and maintain security of their systems. The workshop will bring together hardware and software security experts and economists and experts in devising and implementing governmental policies. For this workshop, we are requesting […]

Written by CRA-I Senior Program Associate Helen Wright The Computing Research Association-Industry Committee is delighted to announce an upcoming virtual Roundtable on Building Stronger Regional Academia-Industry-Government Computing Research Partnerships on Wednesday, April 27th from 3:00-4:30 PM ET.  Regional hotspots for innovative and high impact computing research, including the Boston area and Silicon Valley, are iconic. But how did these regions develop as they did and what are key elements in the collaboration between academia, industry, and government that make them successful? In this roundtable, CRA-Industry will convene computing research partners across academia, industry, and government from Atlanta, Georgia to understand elements of successful approaches and to discuss the value of […]

Originally posted on the CRA Bulletin by Shar Steed ACM has named Jack J. Dongarra recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades. From the announcement: Dongarra is a University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee. He also holds appointments with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Manchester. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, […]

The National Science Foundations (NSF) has a few deadlines coming up for research funding opportunities. You can see a full list of their solicitations on the NSF website here. Expeditions in Computing Due April 25, 2022 Created over a decade ago, the Expeditions in Computing project invites researchers to submit proposals outlining a creative, transformative research agenda that looks ahead at least a decade and promise “disruptive” innovations in computing and engineering. Now Now funded at levels up to $15,000,000 for seven years Expeditions projects represent some of the largest single investments currently made by the CISE directorate Research Coordination Networks: Fostering and Nurturing a Diverse Community of CI Professionals Due […]

After two years of being virtual, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is thrilled to announce the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in person March 2-5, 2023 in Washington D.C. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to the advancement of science for societal good and each year they hold a Annual Meeting featuring lectures, flash talk sessions, e-poster presentations and international exhibit hall to bring together experts form a broad range of disciplines to discuss new research and developments in science, technology and policy. The theme for next year is Science for Humanity and will aim to highlight groundbreaking multi-disciplinary research that […]

Euronews just posted an article about the recent “deep-fake” video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling on Ukrainian citizens to surrender. The fake video was viewed over 120,000 times on Twitter and is another example of how misinformation/disinformation is used to intentionally manipulate the public and can lead to extreme consequences. Deepfakes are videos edited using Artificial Intelligence and deep learning techniques to replicate the face and voice of a person to create a false narrative. Good deep fakes can be seemingly authentic and harder for the public to spot as false. “Videos made through such technologies are almost impossible to distinguish from the real ones,” the authority said in […]