CCC is happy to announce our sponsorship of another Blue Sky track. We’re supporting bold, out-of-the-box ideas at the 28th annual Association for Computing Machinery International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, taking place in Napoli, Italy in October 2026. Paper submissions are open until May 8, 2026. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please see the submission details below or check out the conference website for more information.   Call for Papers: ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction   Track: Blue Sky Ideas   Date: October 5-9, 2026   Location: Napoli, Italy   Website: https://icmi.acm.org/2026/call-for-papers-2/   Aims and Scope The Blue Sky Ideas Track at the ACM International Conference […]

The regular professional use of artificial intelligence (AI) has grown increasingly common in the past few years, and AI tools in the healthcare sector are no exception. The clinical use of AI has incredible potential, but it also requires a strong cognizance of the unique needs of patients and healthcare providers.  To that end, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), together with the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), recently put out a request for information (RFI) on the advancement of AI use in clinical care. It asked what HHS can do to foster public trust and […]

Last week, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) teamed up with the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) to host the AI-centered visioning workshop Beyond Code: Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems with AI at Scale. Held at The Westin hotel in San Francisco, CA from February 25-26, 2026, this workshop brought together dozens of experts who work with artificial intelligence in different capacities. The goal was to better understand the current impacts of AI and lay out a roadmap for transforming it — responsibly — into something that can craft not only individual pieces of code, but complex and interdependent computing systems. Working alongside CCC staff, the workshop was organized by an inspired team […]

In a new workshop report published by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research, experts across disciplines examine the ways in which computational science — including artificial intelligence (AI) — and citizen science can mutually enrich each other, fostering increased opportunity for advancement in numerous scientific fields. The report presents a roadmap for maximizing the potential of citizen science through the contributions of AI — and vice versa — while also demonstrating the broader applications of this union for challenges across ecological, infrastructural, clinical, and other domains. “We are entering a brave new world where we are renegotiating the relationship between […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas track at the upcoming international conference SEMANTiCS, taking place September 15-17, 2026 in Ghent, Belgium. We hope to award several winners with a travel grant to showcase their visions for the future of semantic web and knowledge graph research.   Call for Papers: SEMANTiCS 2026 Blue Sky Ideas Track   Event: SEMANTiCS 2026   Track: Blue Sky Ideas   Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 – Thursday, September 17, 2026   Location: Ghent, Belgium   Website: https://2026-eu.semantics.cc/   Aims and Scope   The Blue Sky Ideas Track at SEMANTiCS 2026 seeks visionary ideas addressing long-term challenges and […]

CRA’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in partnership with co-sponsor IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS), is excited to announce an upcoming two-day workshop designed to address the evolving future of artificial intelligence (AI) in software development. Beyond Code: Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems with AI at Scale brings together researchers across AI, software engineering, programming languages, cybersecurity, and systems engineering to address the evolving role of AI in developing not just isolated code, but complex and large-scale software systems. The workshop will take place from February 25-26, 2026 at The Westin hotel in San Francisco, CA. There, participants will engage in panels, breakout group discussions, and report-writing alongside fellow experts, ultimately crafting a […]