An interdisciplinary group of 50 researchers attended the third Artificial Intelligence/Operations Research (AI/OR) workshop in late March in Washington, DC. Presentations ranging from the opioid epidemic to integrating OR and AI through the optimization lens, discussing challenges that require collaboration between the two communities in Operations Research (OR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).  In 2021, the first AI/OR workshop was convened to establish the joint strategic vision. Researchers from the OR and AI communities presented on theories and applications and discussed ways to foster collaboration between the two communities and make it more widely accepted and promoted. “We needed to make sure that we get greater recognition for the researchers and […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) annual meeting brought together a community of leading scientists, educators, policymakers and journalists in February. Among those individuals were CCC council member Matthew Turk and former council member Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Turk, the president of the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and Venkatasubramanian, a professor of data science and computer science at Brown University, were featured in an article by the California Council on Science & Technology.  As AI experts, they were asked about the role of states in providing guardrails for the use of AI and generative AI. Their response in the article emphasized how different attempts by states to address […]

In 2023, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), an affiliated professional society member of CRA, commissioned a task force to craft a strategic vision for arising challenges in the future of computational science. Earlier this month, the task force released its report, titled The Future of Computational Science. CCC is excited to highlight the importance and timeliness of this report in which many themes are confirmed by our visioning activities and reports.  As cited in the report, the United States was the unquestioned leader in advanced computing and computational science. The task force states that in recent years that leadership has been challenged by strategic rivals. The Future […]