The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) just announced its 2019 Fellows! Fellows are elected each year by their peers serving on the Council of AAAS, the organization’s member-run governing body. 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 2019 Fellows is Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member Odest Chadwicke (Chad) Jenkins (University of Michigan), “for distinguished contributions to the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, particularly for robot learning from human demonstration, cloud robotics, and broadening participation in computing.” Chad joined the CCC this year and is a member […]

There’s less than two weeks left to apply for the 2020-2021 cohort of AAAS Leshner Leadership Fellows! This program convenes mid-career scientists who demonstrate leadership in their research careers and in promoting meaningful dialogue between science and society. Each year, 15 Leshner Fellows from disciplines at the nexus of important science-society issues convene for a week of public engagement and science communication training and public engagement plan development in Washington, DC, then continue their activities while at their home institutions during the fellowship year. The 2020-2021 cohort will be comprised of active researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, new and emerging technologies that seek to replicate, mimic or augment human […]

Am I safe sitting at home with my pacemaker? Am I safe shopping online? Am I safe when I am using my web-cam enabled computer? These are all real concerns brought up by audience members at the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) scientific session at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. This session called Cybersecurity: Transcending Physics, Technology, and Society was moderated by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill (University of Wisconsin-Madison). The speakers were Kevin Fu (University of Michigan), John Masters (Red Hat), and Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Kevin Fu started the session by asking the audience what happens if your […]

How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to improve food production, processing, and distribution? These were the main topics at the Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) scientific session on Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People that took place February 16th at the AAAS 2019 Annual Meeting. The panelists for this session were Diane Wang (SUNY Buffalo), Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research), and Abraham Stroock (Cornell), while Susan McCouch (Cornell) moderated the session. Diane Wang’s presentation on Coupling Nature and Nurture: Supercharging Predictions for […]

How does social science and government policy affect technology? That was the main question the Socio-technical Cybersecurity: It’s All About People scientific session attempted to answer at this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual meeting in Washington, DC. The session was moderated by Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Director Ann Drobnis, and CCC Council Member Keith Marzullo (University of Maryland, College Park) was the discussant for the panel, which included participating speakers: Brian LaMacchia (Microsoft Research) highlighted the challenges in cybersecurity in the age of cloud and edge computing in his presentation Cyberspace: Enabling Trustworthy and Autonomous Agency; David Mussington (University of Maryland, College Park) discussed the necessity of […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to be a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2019 Annual Meeting this weekend, February 14-17, 2019 in Washington, DC. CCC Executive Council member and Former CCC Chair Beth Mynatt will be speaking during a session called P7: A New Paradigm for Health Care in the 21st Century on February 15, 2019 from 3:30-5:00PM in Washington 3 of the Marriott Wardman Park. Speakers and Talk Titles: Amit Sheth, Wright State University kHealth: Semantic Multisensory Mobile Approach to Personalized Asthma Care Beth Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology Personalized, Participatory and Pervasive Care for Breast Cancer Patients Vijay Chandru, Stand Life Sciences Affordable Excellence in Genomics […]