Dr. Fei-Fei Li, of Stanford University, is presenting a lecture titled “From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World” as a part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Distinguished Lecture Series. Li’s lecture will be on November 4th, 2021 from 12-1:30pm EDT. Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where she leads Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute as the Co-Director and served as the Director of the AI Lab from 2013 to 2018. She obtained her B.A. degree in physics from Princeton University and her PhD in electrical engineering from […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and ACM SIGAI sponsored a virtual workshop, entitled Artificial Intelligence / Operations Research Workshop to provide a space for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research (OR) to discuss a joint strategic vision for a strong and sustained collaboration between the two fields. Organized by Sanmay Das (George Mason University), John Dickerson (University of Maryland), Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech), Sven Koenig (University of Southern California), Ramayya Krishnan (Carnegie Mellon University), Radhika Kulkarni (SAS Institute, Inc. – retired), Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California) the workshop was held on September 24th – 25th, 2021. There […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently accepting proposals for their National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes program. By offering funding for AI Research Institutes the program seeks to strengthen the national AI research network and drive advancements in multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder research on large-scale, long-term research frontiers in AI.  Institutions of higher education (including community colleges) and non-profit, non-academic organizations are eligible to apply. Further details on eligibility and proposal requirements can be found on the NSF website. This round of institute proposals MUST focus on one of these high-priority themes:  Intelligent Agents for Next-Generation Cybersecurity  Neural and Cognitive Foundations of Artificial Intelligence  AI for Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry AI […]

Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor of Computer Science &  Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Shwetak Patel, was just anointed to the Georgia Tech College of Computing’s Hall of Fame and Business Insider’s list of “30 leaders under 40” who are changing healthcare. He is being recognized for a broad scope of work ranging from home energy monitoring (Zensi) to a mobile health company (Senosis Health). Along with being a professor and head of Ubicomp Lab, Patel holds the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professorship; is the Director of health technologies at Google Health and FitBit Research; was the recipient of […]

Melanie Mitchell, Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member and Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, was recently featured in a Scientific American article, ‘The Computer Scientist Training AI to Think with Analogies’. The article focused on explaining the importance of getting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recognize and use analogies and included an interview on the topic from Quanta.  If and how AI can reach the same level of intelligence and independence as humans is an interdisciplinary problem that has plagued the field for many decades. Mitchell believes the key to success is getting these machines to think with analogies. The greatest advances in AI have focused on training to succeed […]

On May 28th 2021, President Joe Biden released his $6 trillion request for the FY 2022 Federal Budget. A series of blogs analyzing the new budget was posted on the Computing Research Association’s Policy Blog. The budget reflects the new administration’s commitment to science with a 9% increase for Federal investments in government research and development including the following: nearly 20% increase for the National Science Foundation and the creation of a new Directorate of Technology Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) that would focus on technology development and transitioning federally funded research to the marketplace.  7% increase for funding to NASA 6% increase for DOE’s Office of Science  45% increase in […]