The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society dedicated to the advancement of science for societal good. Each year AAAS holds an 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. This year’s annual meeting is completely virtual and will be held online February 17th-20th. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and hosted sessions since 2013. This year we will host the following sessions: Robotics: Empowering not Replacing People– Feb 18th, 1-1:45 PM ET Intelligent Infrastructure For […]

AI for Good Global Summit is hosting a webinar on AI to Prevent Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Forced and Child Labour on Wednesday, February 24th from 10AMb – 11:30AM EST. This panel will bring together Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Execuitve Council member Nadya Bliss (ASU) along with other members of the CCC/Code 8.7 visioning workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery including Alice Eckstein (UNU-CPR), James Goulding (University Of Nottingham), and Anjali Mazumder (The Alan Turing Institute). The goal of the webinar is to discuss promising research avenues within AI and Computational Science as well as some specific cases in which application of these technologies are supporting […]

Significant contributions were provided by CCC Senior Program Associate, Khari Douglas.  The virtual AAAS 2021 meeting took place February 8th – 11th, 2021 and included a highly topical session titled Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Societal Impacts: An Inflection Point. The February 10th event included former Computing Research Association (CRA) board member Moshe Vardi (Rice University), Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Executive Council member Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah), Seny Kamara (Brown University), and Dan Reed (University of Utah) as speakers. This session aimed to show how the computing revolution has democratized access to information and disrupted entire economic sectors, with associated human effects, both positive and negative. Likewise, this computing revolution […]

Every February, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and the publisher of the Science family of journals — holds the AAAS Annual Meeting, which brings together scientists, engineers, and press to share and discuss their work with each other. The 2021 Annual Meeting will take place virtually next week, February 8-11. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Understanding Dynamic Ecosystems.”  The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has attended and hosted sessions at the AAAS Annual Meeting since 2013 — learn more about those past sessions here. This year, the CCC’s official podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is part of the Sci-Mic virtual […]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) just announced its 2020 Fellows! The honor recognizes diverse accomplishments, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of science.  Among the 2020 Fellows is Yolanda Gil from the University of Southern California. Gil, along with Bart Selman (Cornell University), chaired a year long effort by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) to produce a roadmap for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Over 100 members of the research community participated in three workshops. One of those workshops was chaired by another new fellow, Daniel S. Weld (University of Washington). The completed AI Roadmap, titled A […]

A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This episode of the podcast was recorded live at the “This Study Shows” Sci-Mic stage at the 2020 AAAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Khari Douglas interviews Dr. John Beieler, a former program manager at IARPA and currently the Director of Science and Technology in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In this episode they discuss working in national security and the technical challenges the intelligence community is facing. You can stream the episode in the embedded player below or find it on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | Blubrry | […]